I noticed a few things when trying this out today.
- Once you tricks a party or raid member and have the hour long buff, the redirect works even if they are mounted and they are hovering a bit over the ground. Enemies that are already flying will fly up to them in the air.
- When you have the hour long buff, the tricks STILL works when you leave the party or raid. I tacked down a guildie that helped kill a rare and then sent several spider guys to them while they went to grab food and were not grouped. I also tried this with someone who left party and logged out for 15 minutes and it still redirected threat to them when they came back on.
- You can change out of Trickster to Fatebound and you keep the buff. This could be exploited in dungeons perhaps?
- You can switch to assassination which doesn’t even have access to the trickster tree and it STILL redirects threat to that party member that left the group.
At least if I log out, the buff still stays there but no longer redirects threat.