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I always thought it would be interesting if players were tauntable. Of course they could just switch right back to their previous target, but it could buy some time/interrupt a cast if done at the right time.

I doubt such a change would ever be implemented though, in any form, and I can't really see Blizz ever making tanks "viable" for PvP.

Personally I don't really care if they ever do or not, as long as it doesn't affect PvE in a negative way. I don't PvP, and it's not just cause I'm a tank. I don't with any of my other toons either except sporadically. It's just one of those things imo that is the way it is and can't be "fixed" without drastically changing some other aspect of the game.

from the leaked footage i've seen on youtube, WAR is going to be using this quite a bit. PvP tanks that is. They are also going to have collision. An example of the way they will do this is with abilities that make the opponent cause significantly less damage to anyone other than the tank for X amount of time. They probably could do some damage redirection too.

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Until a couple mages come and polymorph all your tanks -- Hi sheepie sheepie :D

Taunt working in PvP is a nice idea, but Bliz has already said they pretty much hate it. Without an ability to force players to attack them tanks are pretty much relegated to the role of flag runner.

Not that this is at all relevant, but my mage just joined the Turtle club. YAY TURTLE!!!

Also, I think it's BS that taunt doesn't work in PvP, but no doubt there's a bunch of devout PvPers out there who could explain the reasons why it's right the way it is and another group with the exact opposite viewpoint...Either way, imo it sucks.

a player taunt would not be feasible with the game mechanics, IMO. as it stands now there is only one ability that directly controls a players actions: MC. this ability is equalized by making it a long cast, channelled, rooted, and loss of control of the caster. a taunt would just be amazingly annoying.

i have also juggled the idea of a reverse charge, similar to Shade sucking you in. but this would voilate the pvp law of 'controlling a players movement'. this is also why no players have a knockback ability(save AV snowballs). fear etc work in a way that a player is debuffed and then controlled by the game's mechanics...but never directly by a player.

a good example of this 'law' is pet taunting. you can taunt a player's pet all day long...unless that player is directly controlling the pet(see Hunter's Eye of the Beast).

Funny this topic came up. according to some info on the new Death Knight it will have a PvP taunt.

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/32704

Not only that, but they were talking about in the interview there that future PvP will allow knockbacks and pull-ins. From what I read there, it wasn't a taunt the DKs would have.. but a "COME OVER HERE" move ala Scorpion. So you can have your rogue buddies right there, pull the healer to you and have them go to town.