Beastlord Style Questions

[Tempus]

--Beastlord--

Spiritual Guardian
Pre-Reqs: Level 20
Stamina Usage: Moderate (Passive)
Effect: The Beastlord edges behind his Warder, using it for protection all the while remaining within melee range. Makes your pet able to take aggression off you, even if you are in melee range of the foe.

What if anything is this supposed to do? Because if you use this style when in melee range the mob just continues pounding on the beastlord and ignoring the pet, and if you use this style then try to back out of melee range the mob just follows you and continues to ignore the pet. I may just be clueless as to how to use this style but from my exp with it, it seems useless.

Flurry of Blows
Pre-Reqs: Level 40, Two-Handed Weapon not equipped.
Stamina Usage: High (Active)
Effect: The Beastlord's movements become a blur as he strikes the foe again and again. Doubles the Beastlord's attack speed, at the cost of a significant decrease in damage dealing.

What is a significant decrease in damage? If you are hitting twice as fast for half your normal damage then you would get a net gain of zero ... I haven't gotten high enough to test this myself just curious if any high level BST would comment on the damage reduction aspect of this.

 

[rab]

Pets don't take agro if a PC is in range. The lvl 20 style allows the beast pet to do so, if it has agro. You can't turn it on to give him agro, but if you send the pet, let him build agro, then step in with the style on you won't automatically get the mobs attention.

 

[Kasreyn]

Flurry of Blows
Pre-Reqs: Level 40, Two-Handed Weapon not equipped.
Stamina Usage: High (Active)
Effect: The Beastlord's movements become a blur as he strikes the foe again and again. Doubles the Beastlord's attack speed, at the cost of a significant decrease in damage dealing.

What is a significant decrease in damage? If you are hitting twice as fast for half your normal damage then you would get a net gain of zero ... I haven't gotten high enough to test this myself just curious if any high level BST would comment on the damage reduction aspect of this.

Normally exact percentages aren't given out for behind the scenes information. This styel will give you more dps than aggressive, at the cost of burning stamina. I like this little macro:

/style 5
/pause 300
/sytle 2

This allows you to go into flurry for a while and jump back out into aggressive before your stamina becomes an issue.

KAS

 

[gnogg]

I must say, /s 4 ROCKS! I wish I could let my warder tank on live like I can here. The trick is not to pull with slow. Pull with a low level dd or dot, get your pet on it, let him hit it a few rounds (or wait for him to proc) then /s 4 and get into the fight. As long as you don't out aggro him (something that I assume becomes easier to avoid once you hit 39 and can haste the warder) the pet will tank.

IT does drain your stamina, but I've found that if you turn it off after the fight (/s 1) and then don't hit it again till after you've pulled and gotten the mob off you and on your pet that you can pretty much use it every pull... just have to remember to turn it off while your pulling or 3 to 4 fights will leave you out of stamina