Melee boxing questions

[moosejaw]

The only problem with spamming IWT is the tendancy of slaves to 'run off'. I keep IWT on a seperate key and hit it once to get the melee going. I can back up the tank if I need to get closer.

Once you your melee run off like that you have to hit follow real fast to get them back. For some reason if they lose the location of the target to interact with striking the key again won't (always) get them back.

I was considering enabling walk on the melee in dungeons for just this reason. They can run out of follow range before you have a chance to react and then it is wipe recovery. Or perhaps set a keybind to toggle walk/run on melee.

[Khatovar]

Spamming it also always ends up with my slaves battlelooting instead of killing. And keeping it separate allows me to keep my melee pealed away from a mob if I need to reposistion or re-establish a lead on agro, very useful in situations like Devourer of Souls so I'm not dragging my slaves through the pools of death.

[Quilo]

Just a question.. is it a bug that they start to run in all directions when you spam the key or is it intended to do so just because your not suposed to be able to use it the way we whant?

A blizzard way to make it more difficult for boxers?

[Khatovar]

It's just the way it works sometimes. You'll see the same behavior if you do it while playing 1 character, though not as much.

[ghonosyph]

The error you are seeing has something to do with the pathing mechanics that blizzard uses. Sometimes when a mob is moving and you iwt on it the click to move is actually targetting a random pixel in the up and down axis. Since there is technically no way to path upwards when this happens they tend to run off toward that pixel but because its in the air they basically start autorunnin to a spot way off in the distance. When you spam iwt quickly with mobs moving you get this more often because the server has a hard time picking up where the click was. Can't be helped and I'll take it the way it is vs the way we used to have to melee box, that's for sure!