Warrior threat generating macro

[Drommon]

Hello,

I am looking to create a high threat macro. I use a warrior as my tank and would like to create a macro that generates high threat across multiple mobs. I have broken down instance combat into 3 phases. There is the prep phase, the threat buildup phase and the dps phase.

Right now I have prep macros for all my toons (see signature). Currently my threat generating abilities for the warrior is mixed in with my tank macro. I am thinking of separating them out and making the phases a bit more discrete.

For example my prep macro for the tank excutes in order bloodrage, commanding shout, taunt.

My tanking macro looks like (it is a click sequence)

/castsequence reset=combat Shield Slam,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
/castsequence reset=combat Thunder Clap,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,
/castsequence reset=combat Shockwave,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
/cast Devastate

So what I am looking for any thoughts on building a pure threat generating macro or click sequence.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Drommon

[Drommon]

Did you read my macro sticky thread? I think there is a link in there to a long discussion about warrior macros as well.

Yes I did. It is also where I got inspiration for some of my click sequences. I believe I have posted in your thread as well. I am looking for something specific, but oddly I don't know what it is yet. So I am trying to brain pick the members of this site for anything on threat generation. In the end I will post what I come up with. I am at work now so studying the behavior of warrior abilities is beyond me at the moment. Maybe Elitist Jerks will have something. But they are more suited to soloing and gearing up beyond level 80.

Drommon

[Drommon]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=25164

Good stuff in there

I have read that thread and honestly it has left me looking for more. But it does have a gem in it. One of the posters uses a similar prep macro but before he !startattacks he uses heroic strike. So there is an upgrade to my prep macro already. I will be starting the battle with heroic strike. Something like this for a prep macro

/castsequence reset=combat/15 bloodrage,commanding shout, heroic strike, taunt

For threat generation across multiple mobs probably would have these abilites in the macro ->

Shield block to activate revenge, thunderclap for mutliple mobs maybe some others like shield bash. And of course shockwave for mini CC (stuns all the mobs). It also has to do with timing as well.

Last night while in Nexus I taunted a group of mobs. One of the mob went to the warrior, the other 2 went to the priest. Oddly this happened after the prep phase and before the DPS phase. The other 4 toons had not done anything yet. I generally wait to build aggro before I start the other toons click macros. I didn't wipe because I used a thunderclap followed by shockwave to stop that. But I had to do it manually. And of course there will be those situations, but I am looking to macro it in. I am looking for a high threat generating macro across multiple mobs.

Drommon

[Drommon]

Maybe I should start with Challenging Shout and then follow up with a combo from this list

High Threat: Sunder Armor, Heroic Strike, Shield Slam, Devastate, Revenge, Thunder Clap

hmmm, it will take some fine timing and tweaking to get a good clicker out of it.

Drommon

[Drommon]

I usually charge --> shockwave --> thunderclap before any of my other characters DO ANYTHING. (including heals)

I used to do exactly that, until I charged out of range of my casters and then wiped

Now I wait for them to come to me.

Just a different style thats all.

Drommon

[Conanette]

If i where you i would begin with adjusting your build and choise of glyphs, before considering adding HS or Cleave to your rotation, there is alot of threat to be gained from that.
Vigilance glyph alone gives you a 10% lead on TPS over your highest threat DPSer, and a >5% lead on the rest.

Talents like impale, improved revenge, shield mastery and incite should also give you a noticable threat boost.

Starting with challenging shout or taunt wont get you far, as taunts doses not give you threat, only makes you catch up with whoever it is that are leading on threat at the moment. When building AoE threat, its not much else to do then to use shockwave and TC as often as possible, unelss you want to more micromanagment then needed.

Also, make sure to use shield block each time its off cd, as its gives a good boost to Shield Slam threat, wich should be your main source of single target threat.

[Drommon]

@Conanette -

Thank you for your kind reply. You have given me much food for thought. I will definately take your advice into consideration.

Drommon

[Drommon]

Besides the Omen addon are there any other *good* TPS addons?

[Conanette]

Omen is the only i use, i think they are pretty dominant and cover most peoples needs, so i cant recall seing any compeeting mods since the vanilla wow days.

[Multibocks]

I used to do exactly that, until I charged out of range of my casters and then wiped

Now I wait for them to come to me.

Just a different style thats all.

Drommon

You could intercept back to your group after the first sequence. Should get you enough time for a heal to land.