Ask Jeeves...about IWT

[hannibal]

I was brainstorming about ways to regain control of my 8 dk / 2 healer team during world pvp and other stressful situations where I lose control of my team due to them being out of follow range and wondered if Jeeves, the engineering repair bot would work with IWT and Click-to-Move. I was finally able to test it with a friend who has Jeeves and it appears to work perfectly. I took my slaves off a good distance and had them target and IWT with him. They all ran to Jeeves.

I would still like to test it more, but if this works like I think it will this would be very useful in a number of situations. When you start to lose control of you team due to the target dying, or multiple fears, or whatever, you just drop Jeeves and spam a macro that targets/IWT him and everyone runs to a central spot where Jeeves is planted. It could also be used in BGs, world pvp or pve when you might strategically place Jeeves in order to have a predetermined rally point. Need to get melee away from Boss AoE? Have them run to Jeeves, who was already positioned in a corner of the room.

Jeeves last 10 minutes when deployed and has a 1 hour cooldown.

www.wowhead.com/item=49050#dropped-by

I am going to work on my engineer tomorrow, who is lvl 200ish, so that I can do some further testing. I have read that getting the pattern can be a bit of a grind.

Some questions I would like to answer are:
Do all of the repair bots work or just Jeeves?
Can he be deployed while in combat?
Can he be deployed in arena?
Are there any other items in game that would work the same way....maybe TGC items like the Soul Trader?

[JohnGabriel]

I think a much cheaper method would be the "target dummy" that engineers can make early on.

[Waxo]

http://www.wowhead.com/item=28455

This is a free option that works in most places in the world. It does have some limitations. For example, it cannot be used in arena, but it can be used in random BGs.

[Homer]

Some questions I would like to answer are:
Do all of the repair bots work or just Jeeves?
Can he be deployed while in combat?
Can he be deployed in arena?
Are there any other items in game that would work the same way....maybe TGC items like the Soul Trader?

1. All repair bots will work
2. Yes
3. No
4. Dozens some of the better choices already linked