Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Anyone else find themselves chain-MDing their pets?

Like, I dunno about you, but even with Tenacity pets (Raymi, Kongsecrate), I find myself instinctively chain-MDing them.

Why? Because it's easy, it's rather cheap, and because I can do it basically every other fight or so. It's GREAT being able to unload in things' faces and not worry about aggro.

I've got a macro like such:

/target Kongsecrate
/cast Misdirection
/targetlasttarget

bound to my ` key, and I just flick it every time it's up on MSBT. It's making my farming nigh-effortless, which is delicious.

Am I alone?

5 comments:

Neggles said...

Hmm, have you tried a focus macro instead? Make your pet your focus (/focus), /cast Misdirection [target=focus] (or something similar - I can't look up the exact wording right now).

That way you don't have to change targets.

Rilgon Arcsinh said...

Well, the target shift happens in a split second - I rarely, if ever, notice it on my unit frames. If I were, say, a Rogue, I'd notice (due to the loss of combo points), but I don't even have my Auto Shot interrupted as it's near-instantaneous.

Michael said...

My hunter is only 68 but yeah, I'd figured on doing something similar when I get him to 70.

p.s. Hi from someone else in North TX. :) Found you via a comment you made on Pike's blog.

aerynn said...

You are not alone. I found it especially useful during the seasonal events and the scourge invasion.

This is the macro I use (from WoW Wiki):
#showtooltip Misdirection
/cast [target=focus,help][help][target=pet,exists,nodead] Misdirection

jb said...

I'm currently using the one from WoWWiki but this one looks nice too:


/focus [modifier:ctrl] target
/stopmacro [modifier:ctrl]
/cast [target=focus, raid] Misdirection; [target=focus, party] Misdirection; [modifier:alt, target=pet] Misdirection; [nogroup], target=pet] Misdirection

This should
(1) Set your Focus Target if you press Ctrl.
(2) Misdirect to your Focus Target, if that target is part of your party/raid.
(3) Misdirect to your pet if have Alt pressed (in case you want to try to have your pet grab for agro while grouped).
(4) Misdirect to your pet if you are not in a party/raid.

I've seen it posted on several sites. Google said i stole it from:
http://leftoversraiding.org/index.php/topic/19707/1/need-help-with-a-few-macros.html#post243327