Tricks of The Trade QuestionFollow

Simply put, does it affect dots? Say for example, I TotT my tank, open up with a pair of mutilates and then rupture. Does the dot continue to tick hate for the tank? I'm inclined to say no, but I haven't really heard anything either way on it.




-Drgn

For the duration of Tricks yes the rupture will generate hate for the tank. Although the amount of hate rupture would generate wouldn't be that much and when tricks wears off the rupture would then generate threat for you, so if you're usuing Tricks at the intitial pull, the best bet would be to use another Mutilate.

On a boss fight with two rogues TotT is a great tool. Both rogues TotT the tank then when the CD is up both rogues TotT eachother, basically trading threat for the next 6 seconds and increasing both their damage by 15%. Of course make sure both rogues know to do this or one is going to be pulling 2 X a rogues threat on a boss, which would be interesting if you don't like the other rogue. :)



Edited spelling and boredom



Edited, Nov 25th 2008 11:29am by FinalMeat

Heh yeah, beware all you priests who laugh at us again. On another note, time to figure out how to make the right macro so i can TotT my focus target.

That's the same as the one I build yesterday... But while we're one it - there used to be this shackle macro I had for my priest that allowed me to pick a target as focus with my first cast, and then allowed me to recast the spell with a single click (without the need to deselect my current target).

Do you perhaps know how I'd get that set up? Modifying the shackle macro for TotT didn't seem to work for me. I'm scrolling trough the EJ thread as we speak, so I'll edit this post if I happen to come across it there.

Edit: Alright, I came after a couple of different macros for it in that EJ thread, but not quite what I'm after...

Edited, Nov 25th 2008 7:13pm by Mozared

Aye, that's what I've currently got set up.



I suppose that could be useful in some situations, but targettarget is really unreliable if you ask me. Besides, I generally use TotT to either pull or put a stray mob on the healer. In neither of these situations will the mob actually have the tank targetted.

Just hope you can work something out =)

/stopmacro [noexists][target=focus,noexists]
/target focus
/targetlasttarget
/focus
/targetlasttarget
#showtootip
/cast Tricks of The Trade
/stopmacro [noexists][target=focus,noexists]
/target focus
/targetlasttarget
/focus
/targetlasttarget


I'm really hesitant to post this one as I said earlier I'm not extremely good with macros, just basic ones that run off my focus.

This one should, if the tank is your focus, make the tank your primary target, put your primary target as your focus, cast Tricks on the tank, then switch them back so that the tank is your focus and you're back to attacking the mob.

Help me out with this one. I'm at work and I can't test this, and it being the biggest macro I've tried I'm not sure about it.

I'll try to get the TotT macro sorted tonight after work. That won't work too well as written Final, good effort though and I think your basic intention is good. It's generally easier to use targettarget rather than actually targeting the tank though (similar to the Paladin "taunt" macro for Righteous Defense).

Edit: Yeah, basically similar to that idea Moz. For raiders using MA-focus macros there might need to be another solution. I'm actually considering just not using focus to follow the MA anyhoo.

Edited, Nov 25th 2008 1:01pm by TherionSaysWhat