How much aggro reduction can I get through talents and gear?
How much aggro reduction can I get through talents and gear?
At this time, there are five ways for a warlock to reduce or eliminate aggro:
- Talents: Master Demonologist (20%), Improved Drain Soul (5/10% Affliction), Destructive Reach (5/10% Destruction)
- Class Set: 8/8 Nemesis (20%)
- Other Classes' Abilities: Blessing of Salvation (30%, Paladin blessing) OR Tranquil Air Totem (20%, Shaman totem)
- Enchants: Subtlety cloak enchant (2%)
- Gear: Fetish of the Sand Reaver trinket (70% for 20 sec., 3 min cooldown); Grace of Earth trinket (-650 threat to enemies within 30 yards, 5 min. cooldown)
Aggro reduction is mutiplicative and not additive so the way to calculate how much threat reduction you have is to take your threat percentages and multiply them together.
Math
For example, with 8/8 Nemesis and Master Demonologist your threat would be .8 * .8 = .64 or 64% of what it would normally be. This is a 36% reduction in threat. With Blessing of Salvation on top of that, your threat would be .8 * .8 * .7 = .45 or 45%. Note, before Patch 1.11.2, some threat reduction items were additive. A few items were fixed and we believe they are all multiplicative now.
