What’s going on with the tuning? Feels like they can’t balance pet aggro correctly. From this week’s reset:
Threatening Presence now increases the threat generation of your Voidwalker and Felguard by 950% (was 400%).
The gameplay loop is still:
Voidwalker taunt → I cast stuff → pull aggro in 2 chaos bolts → punched in the face until Voidwalker taunt ( → repeat)
It’s not holding threat off of me or other players. The only way Voidwalker even functions as a “tank” right now is because of Suffering (taunt).
I know this has been an issue for years, but it’s especially silly when they deliberately try to address it and nothing changes.
With VW it is tied to an ability not an aura like the fel guard. I did notice that when it taunts it is more effective at getting agro back but since it’s not a constant aura it will get pulled from player damage again.
Noticed a bigger difference with fel guard in that I can health funnel more without pulling. The fel guard feels more fragile this go around.
VW has both: Threatening Presence, which is the aura that increases threat generated by VW attacks (and also available on Felguard), and Suffering, the taunt. Suffering forces the enemy to attack the VW for 5 seconds every 10 seconds. If you can’t see Threatening Presence, it’s probably just not on your pet bar and buried in the spell book instead.
The main issue is that Blizzard is attempting to buff the aura Threatening Presence, but it has little effect. The Voidwalker should, at least in theory, be able to hold threat without needing to resorting to taunting on cooldown - similar to how player tanks or Brann hold aggro.
This might be the case - I need to do more testing. Health Funnel generates an insane amount of threat, especially with soul burn, and can result in me getting pummeled in T11 delves if I’m not being careful.
That likely has more to do with your gear. You basically have to rebuild your gear up to the new higher levels.
so basically my imp is still a better tank than the voidwalker lmao (yes ive had my imp body pull and survive longer than my voidwalker, its kinda pathetic really)