I often use taunt just before i break any form of cc (except banish).
To be sure mob will go for me and not the hunter for example.

I’ve learned it once when shackled mob i’ve freed from shackles went directly for priest *crit* and the priest was dead.

Wait, Vene, actually i think you’ve posted something about it in the topic about securing crowd controlled mobs in case they break out to early…

#showtooltip Taunt
/startattack
/cast Taunt

I got tired of those trapped dudes making a B-line for the hunters in 5 mans so this Macro has replaced my regular Taunt button.

Here’s one thing I love to do: when a mob has an intimidating shout-mechanic, or a stun, or a gouge (something that CC’s you), you can ride a
taunt, berserker rage, mocking blow, taunt wave. You’re either immune to the stun/fear during BR, or the mob will stay on you and break his own CC. I use it in heroic arcatraz on the AOE gouge ladies, and in heroic shadow labs against the stupid gouge guys and the fearing demons.

The mocking blow front loading thing looks neat, but in t5 it seems to me that opening with bloodrage + autoblocker + shield slam on the pull coupled with the expertise tanking gear from badges, getting a big buffer early is fairly easy, especially if shield slam or revenge crit.

And in all fairness this is assuming that you’re running with consistent tanks :p Pure DPS classes all have either a full or 50% aggro drop of some sort, and most of the hybrids have an oh shit button to go to. They should use them or learn to use them while they feel out their tanks.

Simply put, not every fight is tank and spank.

I do not let the dps die, but i do get those smilies you speak of, time and time again.

I guess I’m one of those who persists on keeping the dps alive and trying to talk sense to them, instead of letting them die and then let them think about it a bit.

It happens some times of course by default, when a rogue for the tenth time despite continuous warnings over vent, insists on charging onto the naga (on vashj) before i tuck him into place. Cleave ftw.

You will often find anyhow, that out of the three difference roles, dps tend to be the most lazy ones (and yes only think of dps meters), as lazy tanks or healers soon find themselves alone or pugging. But dps will always get away with it, which is why some key boss fights, such as Vashj, Alar and Kael, whereby the dps need to use their head a little, are exponentially more difficult than other fights.

This is gold, definately something to keep in mind. This rocks for trapped mobs..wait till it gets in the trap, back up to it while working on the rest of the mobs, then taunt while it’s trapped. That way it’s likely your taunt will be back up by the time the trap breaks. Also great for shackles [healers QQ alot when mobs start beating on them]. Banished mobs can also be taunted. Now that I think about it, I might have to look into a mouseover taunt macro…though honestly I have enough problems taunting the right mob. Stupid Spirit Lynx…

Just like you love it when you don’t have to worry about the CC, CC love it when they don’t have to worry about the mob.

I am not expecting them to do my bidding and I am not punishing them for my own sadistic needs, I am doing it so that the raid as a whole gets better. The people I play with are very good but sometimes they were prone to getting tunnel vision and focusing on the damage meter to the detriment of the threat meters. Breaking them out of that tunnel vision is the first step to developing a situationally aware raider.

You have people who pull aggro in your raids. You can keep telling them to watch threat till you are blue in the face. I on the other hand never have to say a word because nobody ever pulls aggro anymore. They all learned 8 months ago that threat management is a raid-wide effort.

This is not the first time I have had this discussion so I am quite aware that it sounds elitist. In fact, I am pretty sure I prefaced my argument with precisely that…