There's More Than Just the Dead Roaming Around Dead Hills

Jolting Heel Kicks II (-7503 aggro) is actually generating positive aggro on these mobs, to the tune of 20% or so.

Not true. Only the person/group that does over 50% of damage to the mob is going to get the credit. So going in out of the group and tagging a mob won't get you anything.

Incorrect, all aggro is in fact negated. Watch the aggro meters and you will see that the mob memblurs every 10 seconds or so and seemingly sometimes only forgets the merc tank or the mage pet.

This means that:

a) any dot will almost certainly get you killed unless u can tank these mobs.
b) A single nuke will get u summoned and killed. Even if you time it, next memblur of the tank it will summon you and smear you.
c) You can only melee it if you can tank it.

Dropping all aggro every few seconds is only possible for FD classes, really only possible on bard.

There is no buff to avoid, like PoWar, that's easily done, just park your nukers out of range of the mobs. There is no message, no way that you can work around this. It's just memblur, it makes casters almost unuseable.

Ridiculous design, with no workaround

We're looking at this now.

Some conversation on this topic here: https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/...ond-the-barrier-and-pets.210808/#post-3088840

*dance* thanks for heads up. Tanking with a bard makes my hands sweat!

It's not blurring, I can aggro lock it at 100% as a ranger.