Threat Macro?

Classes Paladin
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Hey all, back in wotlk we had an ability to taunt threat off of a target… So if someone in the group had a mob attacking them, we could click on the person in our group, and hit the ability, and it would taunt whatever was attacking that person. We obviously dont have that any more (correct??)… is there a way to accomplish this through a macro using our single target taunts? I tried searching google to no avail.

Thanks!

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No, but you can kind of mimic it.

/cast [@targettarget] Hand of Reckoning

This will taunt whatever that player is currently targeting. The catch is, there’s no guarantee the player is targeting the mob that is attacking them.

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Ya, bummer… I was trying to think if there was an @ for targeting based on the threat table for that person. That would work okay for a dps pulling threat I guess… I ended up in a string of heroics last night with a hunter that kept running and pulling 2-3 trash groups ahead of me, and bring them back to me… which was kind of nice, it made the heroics go super quick haha. But, the healer would grab threat on the trash groups as they came to us, and I was trying to think of a way to keep that from happening. The best way I found is to just not let DPS get bored, and start chain pulling to stay ahead of the dps in the dungeons lol

Another sort of related question… is theorycrafting a thing anymore? from my days in BC and WOTLK there were some damn good forum boards for theorycrafting… and I cant seem to find any now. Where is the best place currently for stuff like this where people can talk about the nerdy data side of game mechanics?

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  1. Use a good nameplate addon
    a. Plater - by far the best, but also the heaviest on resources
    b. Threatplates
    c. Multiple others
  2. Download a good profile for the nameplates. These will help highlight important abilities that need to be kicked as well as change nameplate colors based on threat.
  3. With groups where this is happening consistently, hold Avenger’s Shield to pick up those packs as they come in.
  4. Mousover macros could help with this too, but they will mean you need to be aware of your cursor position basically all of the time.
    /cast [@mouseover, exists, harm] Spell; Spell
    Useful for Rebuke, Avenger’s Shield, Hand of Reckoning, etc.
    Example:
    /cast [@mouseover, exists, harm] Rebuke; Rebuke
    Should cast Rebuke on your mouseover, if it exists and is hostile, otherwise it will cast on your target like normal. If you get errors, try dropping the “exists” condition.

As to theorycrafting, it happens mostly in class discords now. Paladin class discord:

My personal preference for a Plater profile:

Another great resource is wago.io
People upload weakauras, UIs, plater profiles, etc so you don’t have to do all the hard work.

The plater section of wago
https://wago.io/plater

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Good stuff man. Thank you! I will take a look through all of this! Things have changed a bit since wotlk HMs haha

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