Target Call in RBGS

[God_Luis]

Hello I want to share my experience target calling with our community, hopefully help some people out in their own RBGS. Would like to also get some constructive criticism on anything I may not be doing, or may be doing wrong.

Recommended Target Callers
1. Death Knight - Death Grip, makes them the best target caller along with other abilities such as improved chains and silences.
2. Rogue - While not as good as a DK a good rogue can def land a kill if he calls targets in unison with a well timed smoke bomb.
3. Windwalker Monk - While this class is fresh and new, I have personally successfully used a windwalker to target call up to 1800 rating, they have multiple stuns, disarms and the ability to roll make them a highly effective target caller.
4. Any other melee
5. Casters

MUST have Add-Ons
Battle Ground Targets
TUKui or ELVui I highly recommend either of these, since they provide a great way to track important debuffs and buffs on your targets.


What not to do..
- Do not tunnel a target
- Do not go on the enemy flag carrier if he has no stacks & the whole raid there peeling for him
- Don't be shy

What to do!
- Switch Often, just because you called the rsham 10 seconds ago do not be scared to call for a hard switch.
- Speak up, you have to be louder then everyone else. Your voice has to be commanding.
- REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT, the targets class and name. Do this cointunously until 1 of two things happens; 1. the target is dead or 2. you switch to a different target.
- Enable, "Target Count" in your BGT add-on. This will allow you to see how many targets are assisting your target, don't be scared to yell at the mage trying to solo the holy paladin while your all on the warrior at 20%.
- Call for CC, and be specific. "Mage, Sheep X target" or "Lock, Fear X target". Most of the time they are tunneling the target you call aswell, coordinating CC is highly effective.
- Give countdowns, for example. I say 5 seconds I am going to AOE grip (via gorefriends grasp), your lock can be ready to Shadow Fury.. mage drop a Ring,, druid Beam.
- Grip overextended targets even further away, and call the kill for them.
- If you get juked by a healer, call it out. So a caster or another melee can help out on the next heal.
- Call for peels on your healers, and be very specific because people will just ignore it and assume someone else will do it.

[TheQt]

An addon I'd say everyone in your raid should have, is Icicle. Or something of the sort, it tracks the enemy cooldowns on the bar above their heads if you use Healthbars, aswell, for your Target caller, get ORA3. It can track your raids cooldowns, i.e Hex, Tranq, Gorefiends, R Winter, Etc. It's extremely good to know exactly what is up and what is not. Icicle may be a bit glitchy so you can easily find a replacement, but I still use it. Thanks for the little guide, You beat me to the punch! xD

[Discipline]

nice roundup, thanks

[God_Luis]

Yea I had to just claw my way through BGS and get yelled at by different people by not doing this or that.. I could not find a single target calling guide lol

[malkal]

Sorry bud, you took this from MMO-Champion.

MOP RBGS Target Calling Guide

[Unscrupulous]

and he decided to share it here Whats the problem?

[soto]

Going to copy-paste the comment I made on mmo-champ here, just incase this guy is the real owner of this guide.
Maybe another really nice addon is icicle, it shows what targets have certain immunity cooldowns up, so you know not to target them.
Also get an addon that shows DR on stuns/silences on your target, it is a good idea to swap to a target which doesn't have to many DR's
Also for me (I lead RBG at hoth/2400+ level) your targetcalling would be much to agresive, because I (as the leader) really want to be able to make myself heard.
Also calling out when you get juked is just skype clutter, people should be focussing on controling/interupting the other healers rather then the one your targeting, which wont be getting many casts of anyways.
It also helps to have people call out suggestions for targets who may be out of position or better then your own, as long as its clear your the one making the descisions, because it is often hard to keep a full overview of things.
Another recommendation would be to have a pretty big BattlegroundTargets with responsive health (or w/e its called) enabled so you can see things going low.
Also if your going to switch for a FC, make sure you let people know abit before that so they can save up cooldowns.
Also if your going to do aoe grip-->ursols vortex-->ring-->(Solarbeam)-->Chaos Waves, ask your warlocks/mages/druids if they have their cooldowns up before calling, if they dont (within 10 secs) keep of the call untill they can actually burst with you.
As a DK, you can also doublegrip, so if you grip a target in and want to grip it further, just run back abit and tell people not to root it for maximum efficiency.
Also, why are you so fond of melees calling targets? some of the best groups in the world have ranged calling targets, just as long as they keep in mind that the melee has a maximum reach.
Also rogues really shouldn't use bombs on anything other then FC's on WSG/TP, generally I dont like playing with rogues since they are so squishy and are easily trained

This guide would also be better if there was actually a list of viable/nonviable targets in it, the rest of what you say is prettymuch common sense

[God_Luis]

Going to copy-paste the comment I made on mmo-champ here, just incase this guy is the real owner of this guide.
Maybe another really nice addon is icicle, it shows what targets have certain immunity cooldowns up, so you know not to target them.
Also get an addon that shows DR on stuns/silences on your target, it is a good idea to swap to a target which doesn't have to many DR's
Also for me (I lead RBG at hoth/2400+ level) your targetcalling would be much to agresive, because I (as the leader) really want to be able to make myself heard.
Also calling out when you get juked is just skype clutter, people should be focussing on controling/interupting the other healers rather then the one your targeting, which wont be getting many casts of anyways.
It also helps to have people call out suggestions for targets who may be out of position or better then your own, as long as its clear your the one making the descisions, because it is often hard to keep a full overview of things.
Another recommendation would be to have a pretty big BattlegroundTargets with responsive health (or w/e its called) enabled so you can see things going low.
Also if your going to switch for a FC, make sure you let people know abit before that so they can save up cooldowns.
Also if your going to do aoe grip-->ursols vortex-->ring-->(Solarbeam)-->Chaos Waves, ask your warlocks/mages/druids if they have their cooldowns up before calling, if they dont (within 10 secs) keep of the call untill they can actually burst with you.
As a DK, you can also doublegrip, so if you grip a target in and want to grip it further, just run back abit and tell people not to root it for maximum efficiency.
Also, why are you so fond of melees calling targets? some of the best groups in the world have ranged calling targets, just as long as they keep in mind that the melee has a maximum reach.
Also rogues really shouldn't use bombs on anything other then FC's on WSG/TP, generally I dont like playing with rogues since they are so squishy and are easily trained

This guide would also be better if there was actually a list of viable/nonviable targets in it, the rest of what you say is prettymuch common sense

And I will copy paste my reply, just in case your the same guy that replied on mmo!

I think your post was unnecessary, and really does not give an constructiveness towards the goal of this post; Which is to educate people who are new to being a Target Caller, or want to help out their existing target caller improve. While I could go point by point tearing down your post im not going to do that because it would be a waste of my time. I will say this, just because something is obvious to you it does not mean its obvious to everyone else. Using that logic, the only mistake I made was assuming that a person would know to make sure to have mage/lock cd's available to combine the AOE Grip.