Confused about losing aggro here.

[odd finch]

Hey folks, just did a priory 17 that ended quite rapidly when my DK took two shoots to the head and exploded on the 1st pull. At first I figured cause it's Shoot and not Pot Shot, that he either ninja pulled a pack or ripped aggro off me while gathering by being an idiot. But looking at the log it seems pretty clear to me that I have aggro on the mob and he's done significantly less damage to it than me. In fact he taps it once with howling blast and it turns round with its buddy and murders him.

I didn't accidentally use the meld pot.

Here's the log: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/wVKPFgC9Jpa6Zy2z?fight=last&type=damage-taken&hostility=1&source=214&view=events

And you can see what I mean in the picture where i'm clearly top damage to the mob, but it's not targeting me with its main attack. Afaik it's only pot shot that should be going on non tanks, right? What's happening?

[lusty lodge]

I can't say I have an answer, but two seconds before dk is targeted by shoot shaman pops earth elemental. Even so it seems only the melee adds ever targeted it. The first sharpshooter does a pot shot on dh, leaps then targets dk at the same time as the second sharpshooter, who was shooting you the cast before. Very strange.

[native grove]

Yeah I've spent like 10 min looking at it, my best guess is the earthe le had smthn to do with it

[quiet harbor]

I had some dps die there and I theorized that I got knocked up and caught on the wall. When they couldn’t find a line of sight on me, they turned and killed my dps. I was not able to confirm this, but we did another two priories right after, I put my back against the wall with the stairs (the high wall where you won’t accidentally get knocked to the ledge above), and it did not happen again after that

[odd finch]

Thanks guys. Very weird, I guess I'll say don't earth ele and also try keeping my back to the high wall.

[hidden leaf]

He died because he is standing between you and the sharpshooters

thats a rough approximation but as you can see the sham and hunter were both behind them

the dh was out of range/next to you

so if theyre gonna pick a target, theyre gonna pick him

because hes standing between you and them

and when he died he was channeling idol -> no dodge or parry or mit

so because of where he was standing in context of everyone else, he had a nearly 100% chance of eating both shoots

couple that with the fact people are stunning the shit out of them syncing them, hes gonna eat two simultaneously and die

this is 100% on him for not understanding the nuance of positioning and how archer type mobs work

[quiet harbor]

So the sharpshooters “shoot” ability just targets the tank and hits whatever may be in the way first?

[hidden leaf]

Not exactly

[quiet harbor]

I’m confused why where the dps is standing relative to the tank has any effect on whether this ability hits them https://www.wowhead.com/spell=444449/shoot

I thought they only chose targets for pot shot, and shoot went on the tank (or player w/aggro)

[hidden leaf]

that is correct however most archer type mobs have a max range (in this case shoot is 30y) and they generally won't hit people behind them

I don't know the behavioral logic but I do know that if you are not in range and someone else is between you and them, they will tend to be the target

priory in particular is terrible for this however you also saw this in siege of boralus