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<blockquote data-quote="DrSpunj" data-source="post: 4590153" data-attributes="member: 994">I'm throwing my vote behind WalterKovacs and Nail, FWIW.Generally speaking, if a monster has low Intelligence and low Wisdom they tend to focus on the closest foe and/or pay attention to who's marked them.With average or better Intelligence or Wisdom I have them try to be a bit more discerning in their choice of targets and respect the mark at least once, but if the Defender's AC is much more than 2 higher than the AC of their allies then the monster might just chance getting hit with a melee basic attack (Fighter/Swordmage) or radiant dmg (Paladin) to attack a target that's possibly easier to hit based on what's already been listed in the last couple posts.A Defender's goal is not really to avoid getting hit, it's to avoid getting hit too much while saving his squishier allies from those hits. There's a fine line with AC there, IMO. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DrSpunj, post: 4590153, member: 994"] I'm throwing my vote behind [b]WalterKovacs[/b] and [b]Nail[/b], FWIW. Generally speaking, if a monster has low Intelligence [i]and[/i] low Wisdom they tend to focus on the closest foe and/or pay attention to who's marked them. With average or better Intelligence or Wisdom I have them try to be a bit more discerning in their choice of targets and respect the mark at least once, but if the Defender's AC is much more than 2 higher than the AC of their allies then the monster might just chance getting hit with a melee basic attack (Fighter/Swordmage) or radiant dmg (Paladin) to attack a target that's possibly easier to hit based on what's already been listed in the last couple posts. A Defender's goal is not really to avoid getting hit, it's to avoid getting hit [i]too much[/i] while saving his squishier allies from those hits. There's a fine line with AC there, IMO. ;) [/QUOTE]

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