Taunt

Taunted Brittle Corsairs

Taunts cause an affected enemy to focus aggro – spells, attacks and movement – on the character that inflicted it for 3 seconds. Taunted enemies deal 10% less damage to targets that aren't the source of the taunt (including in PvP). Taunt immediately expires when the character that applied it dies.

When multiple players are taunting the same enemy, the first person to taunt takes aggro. The targeted player can maintain aggro indefinitely as long as it maintains its taunt on the target.

Skills

All Warcry skills cause the user to taunt nearby enemies to attack them:

• Rallying Cry

There are also non-player characters that can taunt enemies:

• Decoy Totem
• Summon Stone Golem (slam attack)

Passive skills

These passive skills are related to taunt: Template:Ascendancy passive table

Unique items

The following unique items related to taunt: #invoke: Item table

Version history

Version	Changes
2.4.1	The Shaper can no longer be Taunted. The Guardians of the Void can no longer be permanently taunted. They can only be taunted every so often.
2.3.0	Taunted enemies now have an effect to indicate they are taunted. Enemies you Taunt deal 10% less damage to targets that aren't you (including in PVP). Your Taunt effects can't be overwritten by other taunt effects. You can replace your own taunts. Where multiple players are taunting, the first person to taunt gets the effect. Taunt effects no longer have a 9 second cooldown on act and map bosses.