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Comment by 27639

is this ability only useable on pets, and players in parties/raids only?

im thinking the next time someone kill steals me or jacks a vein/chest from me i shoot this on em and aggro mobs onto them to kill em lol

Comment by Kargg

Easy macro to use with this ability:

#showtooltip Misdirection
/focus target
/stopmacro
/target focus
/cast Misdirection
/targetlasttarget
/script local u=UnitName("focus");if u then SendChatMessage("Misdirecting to "..u, "PARTY") end

Basically you set your focus (select your tank and type in /focus) at the beginning of a raid and you can just use this macro from here on to target your tank.

Comment by 70650

can you misdirect a person of the opposite faction?
like if he jumps you, you misdirect him and smack the nearest mob.elite mob where possible.

Comment by 83921

Little Ganking Note :

You can cast MD on a mindcontrolled opposite faction player... but the best part is... if you don't use the 3 charges during the mindcontrol, when MC wears off / is dispelled, the MD still works perfectly on your next 3 shots (within 30sec ofc)...

Now think about doing it on elemental plateau, on someone you just nuked down to 10-15%... Once you have MCed and MDed him, get a few yards away, give him some time to unzoom and start thinking of an extra smart strategy, and the second he attempts that smart move send 3 raging fire souls on him... coupled with a hit of gobelin rocket launcher and 3g repair because he died of a mob... EVIL!!! and very, very good laugh irl that is!

PS: Do it naked with your favorite ridiculous helm and an enchanted fishing pole

Comment by tlanwarrior

The best thing to do with MD...

A friend of mine last night, decided after I suicide Curator (Just finished Opera, and was bored); He decided to MD to the MT (Who we were having very big issues with), and then pulled Curator, and then immediately FD'd.

Comment by xdirtyboots

Could you use Misdirection to pull, say, a city boss like Sylvanas out of her thrown room and into the sewers?

My friend and I had a plan to MD the tank, make it to the throne room in 30 seconds, then pull. Just wondering if a mob would go that far or if you could accomplish this by having multiple misdirects.

Comment by 238959

I'm a confused noob. I had someone ask me about this on a raid this week. I don't see that I have it, though i'm lvl 67 and buy every training item i see. When do you get it, how do you get it and, if I have it, where's it hiding in the spell book?

Comment by Onijitsu

One of the hunters in our guild played a trick in ICC the other night... Redirected to the Priest. ;-)

(The Priest didn't know he could click on the "buff" to make it go away)

Once in awhile, we dink around, just to see just how badly and comically we can wipe each other. (Hey, it can't ALL be seriousness, all the time, right?)

Comment by Sykora

Will MD work if the first and only thing I do is lay an Explosive Decoy?

Comment by elitearthas

Hunters rejoice! We now have a wonderful and reliable (cannot be resisted):
Our new wonderful glyph of MD Glyph of Misdirection
just hope our pets' aggro isnt too high seeing as there isnt any aggro dump for them (Cower Cower only reduces dmg taken now)

Comment by Rkane

How god damn far does this need to be blizzard? :/

First you make it 70, now it's 76...

I mean, it would be insanely useful at say level 15 when i actually NEED it to keep aggro on the tank, instead of level 76 when the tanks can just grab all the aoe threat in the world with no problems at all...

:/ sometimes I'm confused by blizzard...

Comment by maticoco

Today I noticed something interesting while raiding.
Misdirect now lasts for only 20 seconds, not 30, so look out cause I know I used to misdirect so that combat would start like 5 seconds before it ran out.

Comment by 767104

What is the max range aggro will be transferred AFTER misdirect has been cast?

For example, I cast MD on the tank, then the tank runs far away, then I shoot something. Is there a risk the targets will immediately come after me?

Comment by 762398

Funnest thing to do with this ability. While everyone is waiting around to take out that final BG boss, Misdirect on a teammate and then Feign Death. LMAO.

Comment by 448060

The mechanics behind misdirection changed in Cataclysm. Before Misdirection threat was a permanent transfer of threat. Now it's temporary and the transferred threat fades away over time. Same thing with Tricks of the Trade.

Why is this change a big deal?

Most of the time it's not a big deal. But in the specific case where there is a Misdirection plus a tank swap PLUS another tank swap -back- to the first tank (aka a double tank swap) it ends up being a misdirection of doom. This is due to the Tank2 grabbing the threat of Tank1 plus the temporary threat of the hunter and making that threat permanent to Tank2. However Tank1 continues to have their threat decay because it was temporary hunter threat.

If Tank1 taunts back during this decay period then Tank1 gets Tank2's threat permanently BUT with a big catch! The catch is that as Tank1 is trying to generate aggro to stay above Tank2 while they are slowly losing 4 sec of a hunter's burst threat. Another way of thinking about it is if you use a Misdirect during a double tank swap it's just like misdirecting the wrong tank during a normal tank swap.

So if you know there's a double tank swap* within 30 seconds it's a bad idea to use misdirection on the tanks. You might be able to put it onto a non-tank target but the tanks don't want it. Same thing applies to Tricks of the Trade.

*Definition of a double tank swap: Situation where a tank purposely loses aggro and then that same tank regains aggro shortly after.

Comment by 745200

ok i need to ask, does MD works on human player ?

Comment by 448060

If there is a tank swap, then by that time the two tanks have plenty of threat over anyone else, rendering the misdirect essentially useless

Yes, the two tanks have plenty of threat over anyone else EXCEPT EACH OTHER.

The tanks will skyrocket their threat past the rest of the raid as they use burst threat abilities when it's their turn. However they will still have very similar threat to each other. Any disparities in threat tend to get evened out as they taunt. So one tank ends up having about 90% or more of the other's threat at any given time.

Fast forward 30 seconds after that hunter cast misdirect. "Transferred threat is not permanent, and will fade after 30 sec." Now you have the burst threat of a hunter fading off the tank. If you are at 100% threat, and the next highest threat is at 90% (another tank) and you suddenly lose a huge chunk of threat then the other tank is going pull when he's not supposed to which is exceedingly bad on these types of fights. (Yes, Chimaeron but it's a very common mechanic used in every tier of content.) Two tanks swapping a single target back and forth generally have a good reason for doing so. Typically it's a very bad thing if the wrong tank pulls aggro... that's the reason for 2 tanks on 1 target. Even 1 second of the wrong tank with aggro often means a complete raid wipe.

While it's bad to misdirect/ tricks of the trade the tanks in these cases, the tanks should have a big threat lead over everyone who's not a tank. So it will be safe to ToT up a dps without fear of pulling aggro.

BTW it amuses me greatly that I was downranked on the Misdirect page and ranked up on the Tricks of the Trade page. Guess it says that rogues are smarter than huntards.

Comment by Hotice2104

Personally, I am a little upset at the current situation regarding ToT vs Misdirection. Not only does Tricks last twice as long, but it has a damage increase modifier. Poor hunters got dumped by the side of the road. IMO they should at least make Hunter misdirection permanent, or give it some sort of buff; the idea of hunters transferring threat makes much more sense lore-wise to me than rogues doing it anyway.

Just a reference note to the past. The concepts that are today misdirection and Tricks of the Trade were originally theory crafted by Rogues on the Rogue forums during classic era WoW with a great deal of time invested. There were a Very Great Many Rogues that were extremely upset to see Misdirection finally take shape in the form of a Hunter ability. (I'd love to link to the old forum posts but by this date they no longer exist as far as I can find).

As for 1 vs the other in functionality I think it is still much more practical and possible for a Hunter to MD pull from afar than a Rogue to TotT pull. Also with the Glyph of Misdirection your pet you can split your own threat on a given boss encounter to keep your own personal threat levels much lower than your typical DPS class (read: Chimaeron). Yes this costs your GCD's but you can maintain the uptime on this to the point you wish. Equally of note this costs you no Focus at all where as a Rogue without the Glyph do lose 15 energy.

As an aside to your lore comment: Ever had someone tap you on the wrong shoulder to make you look the wrong way before?

Comment by 833185

does this ability usefull at pvp?

Comment by 35640

After some testing, it seems that the threat does NOT fade when cast on your pet.

Comment by 876781

I was being such a tool today. I was inviting random people in org to my group for no reason, MD'ing them and then aimed shotting gamon. I was rofling so hard...

Comment by SpareSimian

Macro taken from forums:

#showtooltip Misdirection
/focus
/stopmacro
/use Misdirection

How it works: When you get in a group, target the tank and then right click the macro, this sets the tank as your MD target. When you want to MD the tank, left click the macro. If you don't have a focus target it will MD your pet, if you have a friendly player targeted it will MD to them instead of your pet.

Comment by Azavari

I know there are already a lot of macros on this page, but here's the one I use:

/target Pet
/cast Misdirection
/targetlasttarget

It automatically casts Misdirection on your pet. It changes target so fast you don't even notice.
Works well for soloing, and I find it easier to use seeing as there's no modifiers because I have all of my bars set to shift/ctrl/alt+a number so those macros probably wouldn't work very well.
You could also add /petattack at the end if you want to send your pet in to attack the target.

Comment by Gyrwym

A useful macro i found on wowwiki:
#showtooltip
/cast Misdirection

This will misdirect to your focus target, if that is friendly. If not, it will cast on a friendly selected target instead. If that doesn't exist either, it will misdirect on your pet. That way, the macro works as intended in any situation, without the need of pressing qualifier keys or choosing between different buttons.

Comment by 807948

Seems to be off the GCD with 5.04.

Comment by Whoisthiscook

How this practically works: You shoot someone in the back, point at the target you MD to and yell "IT WAS HIM!"

EDIT: Takes a darn long time to learn to do so..

Comment by Pzypro

Noob time: is there a way to cancel misdirection after you cast it...?

In one of the dungeons, I accidentally misdirected the healer instead of the tank while he was pulling. Upon realizing it, I just stood there for like 20 seconds not sure what to do because I didn't want to get the healer killed lol.

Comment by Qoko

As main rogue, learning Misdirection last night on my alt hunter was a godsend. If I have to give my say into comparing Misdirect & Tricks, I fairly think Misdirection is the more logical ability and the best in practice. In my opinion, they should give similar abilities to all non-hybrid dps (in what way they can implement it logically, is beyond that), and milder versions for hybrid classes whilst in dps spec.

Dps should not be punished for maximizing and therefore overthreating at the pull. Rogues should not be punished for upping other's dps, due sometimes screwing up our own rotation (if Tricks is on cooldown, it can grave us of more energy). Misdirection does all this exactly right, but well, for Hunters only.

I really hope they'll convert Tricks into a similar ability again, free and definitely not into tier bonuses anymore. And give mages and locks one too, at least.

Comment by 1346615

Here's an incredibly broken macro (or rather, a collection of macros) for any hunter with Glyph of Misdirection (which I personally recommend for any hunter either leveling up, soloing content, or has a pet that is tanking anything).

Since misdirection is off of the GCD, you can spam it whenever it is available and it wont interrupt your shots. Use these types of macros and watch as your threat for fights is damn near zero:
#showtooltip Arcane Shot
/cast Misdirection
/cast Arcane Shot
Simply change "Arcane Shot" to any other shot of your choice - explosive shot, chimera shot, serpent sting, black arrow, multi shot, etc. This does work for steady/cobra shot as well. The only ability this doesn't mesh well with is Barrage. Sometimes casting misdirection will cancel the channel as soon as it starts, although it doesn't happen unless you mash your keybind and the cooldown for Misdirection doesn't line up properly.

Comment by Allakhazam

Does anybody know if this affects only the target you're shooting or all NPCs in the area?

Comment by Allakhazam

Does anybody know if this affects only the target you're shooting or all NPCs in the area?

i.e. Could you pull with this and have the tank get all aggro, including initial sight aggro or only from the damage?

Comment by Allakhazam

Could someone tell me which trainer teaches this. And if there is any special tallent build required.

Comment by Allakhazam

Be pretty funny if you cast misdirection "accidentally" on the priest wipe the raid. Wasn't me.... =D

Comment by Allakhazam

Here is my new response to beggars in Org:

Annoying Newb: "Hai run me thru Gnomer plz plz"

/invite Annoying Newb

Toggle "at war" with Cenarion Circle

/target annoying newb
/cast misdirect
/target Cenarion Circle Emissary
/cast Arcane Shot

Proceed to roflmao at annoying Newb as the cenarion circle emissary kicks the crap out of him. /ignore Annoying Newb.

Comment by Allakhazam

Two things to say:

1) Wars will never lose aggro again ie: Multishot, Arcane Shot, Distrating Shot!

2) Anybody who is a newb will now die :D

Comment by Allakhazam

This might be nerfed Hunters could replace all DPS classes, IE 20 hunters cast miderection and do like 10k dmg total, thats 10k worth of aggro to Tanks, and they could use Distracting shot, which gives tanks extra taunts, after they use this, all of the hunters could unleash hell without worry!

Comment by Allakhazam

I want to see how this works.. - justgot it

Edited, Mar 8th 2007 4:31am by OGpfunk

Comment by Allakhazam

This is going to make hunters a great opener for any group. Tank runs in and gains aggro. Hunter casts Misdirection then hammers out 3 high dps shots. They will be sitting pretty for the end of the fight. Huge aggro boost for tanks.

People will <3 hunters at 70.

Comment by Allakhazam

In raids, do like Endgame blms did in ffxi, they had a stun spell that lasted like one second, which was used to stop hurty spells and abilities.

Use this macro

/target Maintank
/cast misdirection
/target Bigbadbossofhurting
/castsequence Arcane Shot,Distracting shot,Steady Shot;
/raid Missdirection>>Maintank. Otherhunter is next!

Not sure if it works though, hope an addon maker will see this and make an addon that would work like this :P like tell other people in raid that use the addon that they are next(with a big splash text)

Edited, Jan 1st 2008 6:06pm by CyrexBismarck

Comment by Allakhazam

broken ! will this even be released ! as a hunter, i am all smiles, but this COULD possibly undabance hunter (besides killing fellow party members)

Comment by Thottbot

i wonder if a multiple shot woulc consume the 3 charges it has... does some1 know?

Comment by Thottbot

This is sweet! You can give your MT so much threat with this! Just open up with an Aimed shot followed by a Distracting shot and an Auto Shot you have a boat load of threat immediately given to the MT! Like SUPER SUPER glue to the tank.

Comment by Thottbot

will this work on ur pet?

Comment by Thottbot

"Volley is for CC not pulling"

how exactly is an AoE used for crowd control?

Comment by Thottbot

For best usage and aggro gain avoid any autoshots while MD is active. i prefer to start with an Aimed shot, immideatly followed by a Steady shot, then a multishot or a distraction shot, whatever u feel is best. if ur gear is good and ur critchance thereafter the threat gained to ur target (hopefully your MT) will be increased with a *!@#load enough to make it a walk in the park.

Comment by Thottbot

You guys DO realise that the person can just cancel the effect on himself, right? We have loads of fun in my guild - unfortunately, its on my expense ;)

"Alaha, go pull the next mob"

"Alaha, you can tank this one".

"Guys, im a priest, dammit!"

"Np, here, ill help you!"
*hunter casts Misdirection*

Unless people are playing in first person mode or really not paying attention to his screen, its really hard to miss the big flashing icon above your character, and it shouldnt be too hard to cancel the effect ;)

Comment by Thottbot

How badass would this be if you could target the opposite faction with this! (I know you can't....so don't call me a moron but damn this would make WOW so much more fun) Throw on MD on an unsuspecting horde/alliance, fire at a mob or couple mobs behind his back and watch him not know what hit him! Maybe blizz will put this up for review for the next patch haha.

Comment by Thottbot

seems hunters were made to be hated first using pet 2 distract while mining, then freeze trap and now this.
Oh well all the more fun for those in the club!
XD

Comment by Thottbot

This is actually useful for crowd control as well, especially in heroics where a lot of mobs are immune to certain types of CC, like the Defenders in Underbog.

What you do is park your pet up WAY back up the path you came, pop misdirection on him and then pull the mob. Have a freeze trap in the way to catch one, and another will run all the way to your pet, kill him, and run all the way back. Works well with Curse of exhaustion and/or Slow as well. By the time he gets back, you should've kill one so your tank can pick him up to be killed.

Comment by Thottbot

Caverns of Time

Misdirect Someone near meeting Stone

Pull Anacharos/The Drakes Around him...

Comment by Thottbot

I was in gadgetzan killing alli with my friends and i MD'd my friend and shot an alli and then gaurds owned him. They also killed me but it was HILARIOUS

Comment by Thottbot

note: this doesnt work with volley.

Comment by Thottbot

i use it on tank

Comment by Thottbot

-Get invited in a group
-Aspect of Pack
-Misdirection on clothie
-./point
-./laugh

Comment by Thottbot

1) people are saying to use distracting shot while this is active (eg. Aimed, Steady, DS). Rank 7 DS does 900 threat. I'm wondering if anyone has in game experience with DS vs something else. Is DS better to use than something else?

2)I know it says "Threat caused by your next 3 attacks", but I was wondering if hunter DoTs are part of an attack? To be clear, if on the 3rd attack a hunter used Serpent Sting, would the DoT damage be part of the third attack or is each tick the 4rth, 5th, 6th, (etc) attacks?

Comment by Thottbot

Answer to the DoT effect, Yes, it does. Also, for serious players that use this ability for what is meant to be used for, you macro it to your main tank, Example:

#showtooltip Misdirection
/cast Misdirection

Or for folks that use /focus targeting along with xperl addons or what not, the better choice for you would be...

#showtooltip Misdirection
/cast Misdirection

Or for the soloist's, this one would be for you.

#showtooltip Misdirection
/cast Misdirection

The bad part of the first one would be you have to change macros every time you regroup, or are with a different tank. Bad part to focus ones is, I usually like to focus on DPS targets rather than the tank, and i have my Distract Shot macrod to switch my target to focus right after i use it so i avoid breaking my own traps. Which one is better? Depends on your playing style, the first macro is my first of choices, you just have to remember each raid to switch it or youll find yourself clicking misdirect and it having no effect, and your raid wondering wtf you are doing. For those wondering what macro code you use for distract. Is as follows

Comment by Thottbot

#showtooltip distracting shot
/cast Distracting Shot
/stopcasting
/stopattack
/target focus
/petattack focus
/cast autoshot

This is my macro for distracting shot, assuming you know how to use /focus macros and what not. This will prevent you from losing precious dps from trapping.

Comment by Thottbot

Is there a range limit to this bad boy? i dont mean the casting range. i mean the range of the tank and the mob.

Comment by Thottbot

^.^

Comment by Thottbot

I LOVE HUNTERS BECAUSE THEY ROCK

Comment by Thottbot

Can't wait till i get MD on my hunter, 64 atm will be my second 70.

BUT AV will actually be fun, can MD noobs are vanndar,multi shot FD so the watchmen don't get me and lol as they die.

Comment by Thottbot

blizzard should add an auto-kick that also destroy the hunter's ranged weapon when they misdirection on a clothie.

Comment by Thottbot

This is nice when pulling to tank for some extra dps in start.
Also at Maggy when you got a few tanks tanking the casters.

Comment by Hoop

If a tank is LoS, and the hunter already has MD on you. Will it still pull threat to you or is it true "tanks not in sight of hunter don't gain threat"

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Misdirection

Misdirection
100 yd range

Instant	30 sec cooldown

The current party or raid member targeted will receive the threat caused by your next damaging attack and all actions taken for 4 sec afterwards. Transferred threat is not permanent, and will fade after 30 sec. [Glyph of Misdirection: When you use Misdirection on your pet, the cooldown on your Misdirection is reset]

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

20 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

100 yards (Vision)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

30 seconds

GCD

0 seconds

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect #1

Transfer Threat Done % (30000)
Value: 100
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: -1
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Size %
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Is Ability
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Starts cooldown after aura fades
Aura cannot be cancelled
Generates no threat
Exclude Caster
Require All Targets
Allow Low Level Buff
Include in Advanced Combat Log
PvP Enabling
Can Proc From Procs
Vehicle Immunity Category

Misdirection

Buff

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