BM Monk: Provoke

Classes Monk
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I am using below macro for the Black Ox Statue to help with threat generation in M+, but the Provoke seems to be glitchy. Below are my steps.

  1. Put down the Black Ox Statue near the pack
  2. Target one
  3. Use the alt mod and click Provoke.
  4. Keg Smash
    Sometimes it will taunt the pack, the when my group’s dpses attack, they all switch to dpses except the one I used Keg Smash on. Sometimes it won’t press. How are you supposed to use the Black Ox Statue?

#showtooltip Provoke
/cast [nomod,@mouseover,harm,nodead] Provoke
/cast [nomod] Provoke
/targetexact [mod:alt] Black Ox Statue
/cast [mod:alt] Provoke
/targetlasttarget [mod:alt,exists]

2

I can’t log in right now, but I’ll try to help. I presume you aren’t actually clicking Provoke.

I think that it’s not targetting your statue for some reason. I would try placing a /stopmacro [mod:alt, @target, noexists] after your /targetexact. You could then be sure it won’t accidentally cast Provoke.

To make sure it won’t accidentally cast Provoke, you could also change the /cast [mod:alt] Provoke line to /cast [mod:alt,help] Provoke so it won’t provoke a baddie.

I have some safeguards like these on my macro and I sometimes have to mash it until I can actually provoke all the mobs. You should be able to do the same.

If you have issues try removing the stopmacro bit and add just the safeguard for Provoke.

3

When you can, can you post your full macro?

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#showtooltip
/cast [nomod,@cursor] summon black ox statue
/target [mod:ctrl][mod:shift] Black Ox Statue
/cast [mod:ctrl,help][mod:shift,help]  Provoke
/targetlasttarget [mod:ctrl][mod:shift]

I put it on “T”. Pressing it spawns the statue at my cursor. Pressing T with CTRL or SHIFT taunts the statue.

I have a separate bind for standard Provoke.

5

The lengths we go to get AOE threat when a simple keg smash should suffice…

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6

I’ve started tanking on brew and been jumping ahead on keys above my ilvl so threat has been hard and I’ve tried relying on statue but the AOE taunt seems super buggy and unreliable and idk what’s up with it.

My macro is very simple and I’m 99% sure it’s working as intended.

/target black ox statue
/cast provoke
/targetlasttarget

When I test it in isolation it seems to work fine, but in practice in a key it always seems to miss some mobs or I’ll still lose threat even with provoke on their nameplate.

I’ve started to think maybe there’s a hidden target cap on it or something.

7

We wouldn’t be asking if Keg Smash snapped aggro to the BM tank as did in the DF expansion.

8

Most common issues

1 you provoked a monter instead of the statue
2 provoke was on cd and you didnt notice
3 statue was destroyed before you could cast provoke.

By 8s on fort weeks there are many packs that can delete statue nearly instantly. 10s or higher thete are a lot of packs that can do it.

9

I finally realized the taunt is actually 10yd and not 20yd and that’s been my issue lol