Tank addon tip: Taunmaster

[zenga]

I came across this addon (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/tauntmaster.aspx) earlier today and thought i"d share it. It lists your party/raid members in a configurable bar. When someone gets threat the color changes. With a left click on the respective name you taunt the mob instantly (it comes with a set of predefined 'taunt'ish spells for each class. I got healbot configured to do this more or less, but it's really overkill for me.

I find this extremely useful when i pull a pack of trash that i don't have to worry about some stubborn caster who targets my healer while i'm targeting another mob myself (as far as i know omen only displays the threat table for the target mob).

Edit: included a screenshot below: it's the bar above my jamba & omen frame.

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3025/wowscrnshot012410022106.th.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot012410022106.jpg/)

[shaeman]

Nice find. I'll definitely have to download it.

[warbringer]

vuhdo and Grid+Clique can do the same but nice that you'd share this with us.

[zenga]

never heard about clique but bookmarked it for future reference, seems interesting ... myself i only do hc's meaning that i prefer a lightweight addon over the more sophisticated combo's

[Jheusse]

One of the better feral blogs (recently shuttered) recommended an addon called caelNameplates, which apparently gives threat information on the mob's nameplate, even before aggro is lost. I haven't tinkered with it yet, but it's on my to do list.

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/index.php?cid=17

[Starbuck_Jones]

Ive been useing this for about a week now. Its quite good for pugs and raids. Being able to left or right click to taunt off the player whos name is red makes it very easy.