anyone try placate proc (fortunata hypnosis) with damage aura or confuse proc?

[tellania]

I assume placate only works until attacked or timed out.    So, if I have an fire/ice tank, frozen aura (with placate proc), does it automatically break placate and useless on damage auras (what about other auras like ice tank chilling embrace) or taunt auras?

 

Mostly taunt aura with placate, what do they do?  I dont want to placate from myself and go after team, but if you placate and taunt, what happens?

 

Similar question, placate with  confuse proc, do they only hit each other, in that case placate proc seems useless.

 

Suggestions or experience?

[ZemX]

Frozen Aura wouldn't break its own Placate same way it doesn't break its own Sleep.   The Placate would happen after the power's other effects.   It would last until you attack that target again some other way, such as with a damage aura or taunt aura.  So in that sense, yeah, it's not likely to do you any good.  And if it affects a target that Frozen Aura has already put to sleep, it's doubly pointless.

 

As for taunt THEN placate... placate "wins" because taunt isn't an override.  It's just a threat multiplier.  It means every attack you make after taunting will count more threat towards your tanker and thus help keep enemies focused on you. But placate prevents the target from attacking you, meaning it will attack someone else in your team if you don't follow up by attacking the placated target again.  But it maintains its high threat counter for you, so as soon as the placate ends or is broken, by anybody, it is likely to resume attacking you.

 

And Placate + Confuse is pointless, yes.  Confuse already prevents the target from attacking you OR any member of your team while at the same time making the target attack its allies.  The only thing you might do by adding a Placate proc to a Chance of Confuse power is increase the chance that any given target is affected by at least one of those two effects: confuse or placate.  e.g. If confuse misses its "chance of" roll, the placate might still fire on that target.  But again, any damage or taunt toggle aura you're running will spoil that very quickly.

[tellania]

Thanks ZemX,  what I suspected and appreciate the response