by Byron Mudry on Jun 04, 2008
Help your tank with threat and much more...
Byron "Messiah" Mudry passes on some critical information for Hunters that have reached level 70 in this new guide to Misdirection. This amazingly useful ability is unfortunately not understood or used by many players. However with just a little knowledge on how it works it can make a huge difference on how you play a Hunter or even group with a Hunter.
The last way misdirection is used is as a threat passing tool in long fights, such as raid boss fights. In these fights hunters can help the tank keep their threat higher than other players by using MD as often as they can. In a 25 player raid this can add up to a significant amount of extra threat for a tank. This threat allows the rest of the DPS classes to do more damage before having to slow down to keep below the tanks threat level. It is also used on bosses that have phases where they drop threat, to ensure that the boss returns to the tank.
You can find the whole guide here: Misdirection 101.