Hunter misdirect exploit

[Schmeckle]

So normally, Misdirection will only transfer the threat you generate for 4 seconds after your first damaging ability, but with this, you can transfer all threat for up to 30 seconds. I haven't tested this on players, but it definitely works on pets.

Step one: Cast misdirect on your pet
Step two: "equip" the major glyph, Glyph of Misdirection
Step three: Cancel your Misdirection buff
Step four: Cast it again. From here on, all your attacks will generate threat toward your pet instead of yourself. Make sure to cancel your Misdirection before it reaches the end of its 30 second lifetime and then cast it again, or you'll have to repeat everything.

[Augury13]

will rep on confirm.

[Soliinari]

So normally, Misdirection will only transfer the threat you generate for 4 seconds after your first damaging ability, but with this, you can transfer all threat for up to 30 seconds. I haven't tested this on players, but it definitely works on pets.

Step one: Cast misdirect on your pet
Step two: "equip" the major glyph, Glyph of Misdirection
Step three: Cancel your Misdirection buff
Step four: Cast it again. From here on, all your attacks will generate threat toward your pet instead of yourself. Make sure to cancel your Misdirection before it reaches the end of its 30 second lifetime and then cast it again, or you'll have to repeat everything.

It doesn't work on players, as MD does not have an instant CD on players. With the glyph, the CD works as intended on pets, resetting it the moment any threat is misdirected to your pet.
As for "all threat for 30 secs", this would need to be tested with addon like Omen active, and with the pet growl ability off auto cast.

[gippy]

If you have the glyph, why not just misdirect every few seconds anyway? As sol said above, its working as intended, thats the whole point in the glyph.

[Schmeckle]

If you have the glyph, why not just misdirect every few seconds anyway? As sol said above, its working as intended, thats the whole point in the glyph.

Not even close. This allows you to bypass wasting a global on Misdirection every 4 seconds.

It doesn't work on players, as MD does not have an instant CD on players. With the glyph, the CD works as intended on pets, resetting it the moment any threat is misdirected to your pet.
As for "all threat for 30 secs", this would need to be tested with addon like Omen active, and with the pet growl ability off auto cast.

I've tested this by setting my pet to passive to ensure he generates no threat, then attacking mobs. They're always directed to my pet, for the full 30 seconds, with 0% threat generation on my part.

[kishke]

Not even close. This allows you to bypass wasting a global on Misdirection every 4 seconds.

MD is out of global, I just macroed it to my shots and while farming everything threat goes straight to pet, even in raids, that way if the tanks dies the boss will go on my pet before he one shots me and ill get the time to fd.

[Soliinari]

MD is out of global, I just macroed it to my shots and while farming everything threat goes straight to pet, even in raids, that way if the tanks dies the boss will go on my pet before he one shots me and ill get the time to fd.

Kishke is right. MD is not on global CD. Thus if you make a macro, you could MD to your pet for as long as you'd like. It is much easier than tracking the 30sec CD and trying to cancel it manually, then reapplying it. Thus this exploit actually makes it a little more inconvenient.

[temp123]

It is the same for me did multiple times, must be fixed

[typ0]

I've experienced something similiar with my hunter but I don't think I'm using the glyph and I'm not cancelling the buff. What I do is simply before I pull the mob I MD my pet and attack the target and what seems to happen is he uses Growl as his first attack and after that just produces a TON of treat towards the target, without me having to cast MD again. There seems to be some strange behaviour with MD and Growl as the pets first attack.

[Schmeckle]

After more extensive testing, this DOES work on players. Not sure if you need the glyph or not, but it definitely works with it. Just cast misdirect on your player of choice, cancel the buff, then cast it again, and you have 30 seconds of threat redirection.

[Snowee]

Its an exploit. A not very usefull exploit but still, have some +rep.