I think our guild was full T3 at the time it first came out and mages had a hard time with staying above 50%. Its much different now from what i see. I recently did Archfiend, on my full T4 demo, with 18 or so people and was able to stay above 50% with 12K hp and 25% protection while doing 2.8K dps. Had to stop SW often to avoid getting raped by Demonic payment, but it was easier than i remember.
Well there are hardly any better protection accessories than T3 in game still. It's no problem to stay above 50% hp unless you get Brutal Force several times in a row and the healer gets knockbacked or slack. Flame Body and Quell the Ether makes it easy. And I do not believe that you did 2,8k dps without pulling it off the tank. The dps break when boss goes to center would screw that up for you since you would certainly take agro off tanks who then are unable to hit the boss. And the boss is also out of range from your agro dumps, only if you got Misdirection, but then you wouldn't get Brutal Force at all for a long, long time.
It doesn't screw it up because tanking dt is close to those numbers too and also has the hate buff running at times.We had a recent kill with necro at 3k and demo at 2,7-8 taking brutal force(yay necro pets generating less hate than the poor demo) ,tanking dt was at 2,5-6.
I thought the same last time, no way I can pull aggro but it actually happened right as I got over 4k dps. I never had aggro buff either... it happened at around 30% . The dt was around 2.7k as well.
And if you have proper build with necro you can eat brutal force alone without a healer.
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