WoW question...what does having a "increased threat" mean?

Question

Within your spells and abilities, what does it mean to have an "increased threat"? pls advise

Answer 1

WoW uses an archaic method of deciding which players an NPC will attack, the NPC has an "aggro" level towards each player (it could be part of the player object, but that's really not relevant here). The player with the highest aggro gets attacked, certain actions will raise aggro with individual players. It's really that simple, try not to be too disappointed.

Answer 2

To piggyback on some of the other comments, various abilties increase/decrease threat. The NPC (mob) you're fighting will head to the person with the highest threat (initially). In order to have the mob attack someone else, you need to exceed that threat by a certain percentage (10%?), at which point the mob will target the person with the higher threat.

Threat is normally caused by damage (or healing), and has a set amount, based on the amount of damage (or healing) done. If you have a talent or enchantment that increases the threat over the standard, it simply means that it's more effective at generating threat. Typically, you'll only see this on "tanks" - warriors or protection-specced paladins.

Answer 3

the best way i can describe it really is the more threat you have the more like the chance of the Creature/mob has of coming after you. For example people have a warrior to taunt (let's say it has causes 100 "Threat") to keep the enemy on him. if someone else, say a priest, was to use mind blast (130 "threat" since it is increased) instead of Holy fire (45 "Threat") the the enemy would get angry at you. so to more threat you cause the more the enemy will come after you. in real life terms, if you threaten it, it WILL come after you.

Answer 4

Threat is also known as Agro.

Say you have a tank (warrior) Attacking a target. His job is to hold threat/agro while you are able to do you damage from a distance.

So if you cast a spell and do a critical strike this causes alot of threat to the target. If your threat/agro exceeds that of the warriors then the mob will come to you.

So threat is really the attention the mob will give the person that is attacking it.

Answer 5

like say if you're fighting a mob right.. and you have a warrior tanking. if you produce more threat than the warrior the monster will aggro and start attacking you. its mostly a PvE term it has no effect in PvP.

thats why when you're in MC and you crit a lot you are producing a lot of threat and it can cause the main tank to lose aggro. so in mc if you crit twice in a row stop DPS for a few seconds then start again.

warriors taunt causes a lot of threat thats how they are able to tank. but sometimes other classes who have very high damage output can pull aggro.

Answer 6

Increased threat in simple terms just means how threatening you are to your enemies. Just like if you're a level 60, you can stand right beside a level 10 enemy and they won't even move. But if you're a level 10, a level 40 enemy can "see" you from like a mile away! lol.

Answer 7

you have a skill, weapon,spell that adds an increased threat to that or another skill,weapon or spell. i think that's right , i haven't played in a while.

Answer 8

Bush and the Republicans need more support for the war?
If they could do something they would have.
I don't believe these averted attacks.
a few guys caught us of guard with a box knife.
end of story. I personally know of a hundred terriorist attack things that would do more dammage than an airplane.
Those people are so stupid, they got lucky once that's it.
They are still riding camels. They don't have enough brains to do a terriorist attack.

Answer 9

say what ?!?!