Untaunted enemy targeting is not random; just obfuscated. It is a bug that has existed since forever. Run with the same group on the same characters with the same comp in the same dungeon, and you will be targeted almost every time.

Only solution? Kick the fake tank.

An enemy that is untaunted and undamaged will tend to target the back of the group, which is usually where the healer is.

Yes, that is normal. My understanding on aggro is that it’ll target either the healer because of their healing or the DPS with the most damage. I’m not sure on the math as to how much healing makes aggro go to the healer. When I was a healer main, I tended to feel very targeted by dungeons haha (once even had a moongrave fane cube land on me, but that’s coincidence).

Healers have to be the default target or something bc this always happens to me too. Maybe it has something to do with the most casts or dots.

It seems like the default aggro order is, taunt > healer > highest DPS.

I'm not sure if this game has any mechanic as "high dps pulls aggro" but what I have seen is that if the boss is not aggroed, the first one to do direct damage gets the aggro, but if it aggroes by other means it goes for the one farthest away.

But even that doesn't seem to apply every time. So I am not certain if there is any such thing. Might be just random since the tank is supposed to use a taunt ability to keep the aggro. It is not like in some games where you do damage with taunt ability and as long as your dps with those abilities is high enough the taunt remains.

ESO has a threat mechanic with hard taunts and "soft" taunts (pulls, some scribed skills) having the highest priority. High healing and high DPS both generate threat as well, and this is why the highest DPS or one of the healers becomes the target if for example the tank dies.

DigiAngel wrote: »

I recently had the misfortune to be in Castle Thorn today with a true fake tank...no taunt, no nothing (honestly a rare thing, for me at least). I noticed that every boss had me, the healer, as their target, even though I'd not attacked. Is this..normal? Anyone else experience this?

Healer main here, I've never seen any official confirmation from ZoS but healers seem to be the default boss aggro magnet if there's no tank. It's why I refuse to run DLC dungeons with a fake tank. If I phase in and see a fake tank I ask him if he wants me to pop an armory assistant to put on his tank spec. If he refuses or doesn't answer I either leave the group and take the time penalty or I try to vote kick him and if it works I pull out a tank spec companion and they always work better than a fake tank. I have no time for fake tanks that want to waster other's time to skip the DPS queue.