Chapter 552 - Controlling Aggro Through Damage (1/2)

Chapter 552 - Controlling Aggro Through Damage

Boss aggro?

At this moment and time, Crispy Bean had completely forgotten about it because he had also been aggroed by Unrivaled Super Hottie.

He suddenly woke up after hearing his argument. When he took a closer look, he realized Guardian Kaiwei’s aggro was still on him. Guardian Kaiwei’s huge axe hadn’t turned towards Unrivaled Super Hottie despite his attack! The huge axe was still swinging towards Crispy Bean.

Bang!

He immediately raised the s.h.i.+eld in his hands. It was a frequently used movement for tanks. The huge axe collided with Crispy Bean’s s.h.i.+eld.

The attack clearly wasn’t anything earthshaking. Crispy Bean’s equipment far surpa.s.sed the necessary threshold for this dungeon. He didn’t budge a single inch when he blocked the blow. Almost at the same time, he swung his sword and slashed at Guardian Kaiwei. Almost at the same time as him, Crispy Bean also saw Unrivaled Super Hottie swing his s.h.i.+eld at Guardian Kaiwei’s head.

s.h.i.+eld Attack!

This skill could induce a Dizzying effect, but all bosses had high resistances to status effects. Bosses couldn’t be controlled by players so easily, otherwise they would be too easy to beat. Guardian Kaiwei was a dragon guardian and natural had immunity to magic status effects. However, the Guardian did not have complete immunity to physical skills like s.h.i.+eld Attack. After taking the s.h.i.+eld Attack, the Guardian’s eyes went blurry and he became Dizzy.

But for bosses, status effects wouldn’t last long. Crispy Bean had to face the boss directly as the tank, so he knew the boss’s stats, skills, resistances, and patterns very clearly. He also had a good understanding of his own Knight cla.s.s, so he immediately calculated that with Unrivaled Super Hottie’s Strength stat, the Dizzy effect would only last for one second maximum.

However, at the same time, a lot of things happened during this one second window.

Crispy Bean took advantage of this one second window.

Previously, his mind had wandered away because of his enmity towards Unrivaled Super Hottie. After blocking with his s.h.i.+eld and striking back, he wasn’t sure what to do next.

This one second window gave Crispy Bean enough time to figure out his next moves. If he didn’t have this one second, he would have been hit by Guardian Kaiwei’s counterattack.

This was only the first mini-boss in the dungeon. Crispy Bean had exceptional equipment too, so eating the counterattack wouldn’t have been the end of the world, but what if this had been a difficult dungeon? What if it was a boss with extremely hard-hitting attacks? One second of rest was especially important.

Even though this one second was insignificant in this case, it gave him time to recover.

One second pa.s.sed by quickly. After recollecting his thoughts, Crispy Bean began pulling aggro like his usual self. Crispy Bean hadn’t noticed the importance of the one second though. He was even a bit angry at Unrivaled Super Hottie for his s.h.i.+eld Attack because of the same reason as before: he had yet to establish the boss’s aggro. Was this guy trying to kill himself by attacking the boss?

This guy didn’t know how to exercise constraint. Right now, he was actually fighting over the boss with Crispy Bean. The two were attacking Guardian Kaiwei at nearly the same time.

The others hadn’t moved yet. Teams usually waited for the tank to tell them to attack before attacking. Clove healed him from time to time. The healing wasn’t done immediately. After all, healing could also aggro the boss. If she healed him immediately, she might accidentally steal the boss’s aggro away from the tank.

Unrivaled Super Hottie…...

Clove already had the team interface out with her mouse hovering over his name. She was just about to kick him out of the team.

Then, she heard him say “Isn’t the aggro still on you?”, which made her hesitate.

If the aggro control hadn’t been messed up, then there was no need to kick him out of the team. Clove felt like she should teach the new member of the guild rules. She didn’t need to be so strict.

During her moment of hesitation, the two had gone back and forth attacking the Guardian Kaiwei several times already.

Everyone was watching in shock, including Crispy Bean.

Fl.u.s.tered and exasperated, he shouted “Kick him out of the team!” twice. Clove didn’t move though. She simply replied: “Good aggro control!”

Crispy Bean really wanted to shout, “He could steal away the boss’s aggro at any moment!” But he resisted. For a tank, especially the top tank in a guild with exceptional equipment, he felt too ashamed to say such words.

Both people were tanks. His equipment was better and the aggro was still on him. Why did he need to worry about a squishy tank stealing away the aggro?

Crispy Bean felt a bit regretful. He felt like he had lost too much face. Those “Kick him out of the team!” shouts were mostly done in anger at Unrivaled Super Hottie’s actions, but what if the others misunderstood it as being unable to manage the aggro? Wasn’t that what Clove’s reply meant?

He definitely didn’t want to be misunderstood!

Crispy Bean shouted inwardly. He didn’t want to think about whether or not his “Kick him out of the team!” shouts had shown his fear of losing control of the boss.