Tips for 4 frost dks and a holy pally

[Ualaa]

The videos are done by Mosg2, not myself.

If you spam IWT (and I usually do too), your toons will circle about the target.
You're essentially giving a whole bunch of follow commands.
Which your toons interpret as run past the unit and run back and run around.

That behavior is very nice for pvp, as you swarm a target and casters usually need to face you.
Melee too, but they generally have an easier time doing that.
You lose a bit of DPS compared to standing next to something with straight DPS.
But they cannot dodge, parry or block when you're behind them, so you hit more often and miss less often.

If you don't want to swarm about them, spam your IWT slower.
Or even press it once, send the DK's onto the target.
And don't press it again, unless you need to adjust their position because the target has moved.

Not sure what POF is.
But will assume Frost Strike, as I don't see that in your bar description, and Frost Strike is a large portion of our DPS.

[lokka's]

ill make a quick video on what i mean on looping

[Toned]

Pillar of Frost

[Feehza]

ill make a quick video on what i mean on looping

Everyone who use IWT/CTM have this issue ... ehm feature
It affords a bit concentration but its a strong advantage in PvP

[lokka's]

I know what it is and what it should do but my 4 dks are making 8 to 10 yard loops around the target not just running around the target

[lokka's]

http://youtu.be/zAc1catbKog

to show what the dks are doing

[Khatovar]

The looping is caused by the way IWT works with Click to Move. I explain it here. Your slaves are basically running away and eventually turning around and running back because they received a command to interact again. The longer it takes for them to receive the command, the longer it takes for them to interact again, thus the longer loops.

It looks like you are sending it enough at the start to get them to run around, but then you stop sending it for longer periods as you spam. Send your IWT command more often/consistantly to shorten the delay between runoffs and reacquiring. If that doesn't do it, it may be because you are at target dummies and they aren't actually ABLE to click a valid location until they get out from under the dummies, which I also address in that link. In which case, you'll have to futz with the camera angels.

[Toned]

Something that I suggest for everyone that solves the age old problem of your lead toon getting cc'd and having to retarget.
Not only does this make retargeting after CC, or keeping your slaves on the kill target while the controller is CC'd, but it allows for faster and smoother switches. A key bind is always faster than tab or clicking.


I have 5 macros/binds on my toons that do the following.

Healer + 3 Dks have this version:
Replace # with 1-5

 
/cleartarget
/target [@arena#]

The Main DK from who's POV I play from has this version.

/cleartarget
/cast [@arena#] Chains of Ice
/target [@arena#]