Editing Venomancer Tanking (section)

=== Reflect ===

Reflect works, basically, in the same way as your bramble buff.  When a monster hits the Herc, a big chunk of that damage is sent right back at that monster.

With the stupidly high amount of defense that the Herc has, it's often the case that monsters will kill themselves on the reflect before they can kill the Herc.

This reflected attack counts as your Herc hitting the monster, and generates [[Aggro]] as such.

Put together, this means that you can have your Herc concentrate on one monster whilst the others create plenty of hate even though the Herc is ignoring them.  So you can, amongst other things, heal the Herc ''before'' you have had it hit everything in the area.

The disadvantage of Reflect is that it only works on melee physical attacks.  It won't help you with ranged attacks, or magic attacks.  Though it will work on a few boss AoE attacks.

To get the most out of reflect, you want to have as many monsters as possible hitting it (obviously not so many that the Herc dies), so that the most total damage is done in the time.

For absolute maximum efficiency, switch the Herc and your own attacks between the monsters, and use AoE attacks.

As a note, technically there's nothing stopping you putting reflect on another pet.  Except that the scroll is only available in a high level dungeon and sells for tens of millions in the auction house.  Still, reflect will work the same way whatever you put it on.