Taunt immunity?

[Deleted]

Explain everything about it please, I have no idea how it works.

[ltm]

Some mobs(mostly bosses) can't be taunted or become immune to taunts after several taunts. It was added in BC so people didn't ping pong bosses between tanks.

[Fitzbert]

Exactly what it says on the tin. It means the target is immune to the effects of Taunt.

[Kaga]

If you understand the way diminishing returns (DRs) in PvP works, it should make more sense.

So i'm facerolling about on my mage, i polymorph someone, lasts 8 seconds. I don't feel like destroying them *just* yet, so i poly them again, oh, lasts 4 seconds, lame. Buff mages pl0x. I'm still not quite ready to make this person feel the need to re-roll, so i chain up another poly, lasts 2 seconds. Hmm. Gonna need to engage at least 10% of my brain here and start fighting. But not quite yet. Another poly should do it, oh, only lasts 1 second, crap, quick, hit it again!, WHAT?! HE'S IMMUNE?!

LOL JK. I'm a frost mage, I'll just kill him now. Whats your game?


Where was i?

Oh yeh, taunt has a similar sort of DR effect on the target, overspam it, and the target will eventually become immune.
I would assume this immunity drops after 20 seconds like CCs in PvP, but i could be wrong there.

Oh, and some bosses are just straight up immune to taunt (see; Shannox), so have to manually build up threat, it's a mechanic thing usually, to make the fight interesting for tanks, who generally just sit about doing fuck all.

Hope this helped!