Any Shred Addons?Follow

Specifically, I am looking for some sort of an addon, or a feature of another addon entirely, that will tell me when I am sufficiently behind a target to use Shred as often as possible. I find in certain hectic raid situations it's difficult to see which direction the target mob is facing. Any tips would be appreciated.

LOL

AureliusSir you funny.

But seriously, the rare times I DPS I find it annoying when tanks move mobs around for no good reason. Just keep them in one place makes life easier for everyone.

In all fairness, sometimes it can be tough to make a transition from one mob to a next. I find that in a lot of raids, when I'm trying to find the back of a new target through a hail of AoE, it can be a difficult thing to do sometimes. Also, as a tank I know that unless Blizzard goes live with the Borean Burrito for some serious bear AoE threat generation (undead say the smell reminds them of home so they flock to it, everyone else just wants to kill the source of it...***** you Consecrate), I'm always going to have to be mobile and adjusting position for swipe or to pick up runners.

That being said, what I normally do is watch the middle of the screen for the "You must be behind your target." message and if I see it, I run forward a few paces and then spin. If that doesn't put me behind the mob, I know that I'm at the side of it and if I still can't see the tank through the hurricane/blizzard fiasco, I'm pretty much screwed on the damage meter for that fight.

I haven't tried this myself, but couldn't you just make a macro along the lines of:

/cast shred
/cast mangle()

That should shred whenever possible and mangle in case shred isn't possible. It may spam some error messages over your screen in the process, but that would be for some more hardcore macro writers to handle :)