Game-Changing New Powers

[Legedi]

I ran tanked Shadow Lab for the first time a few days ago, and it was my first instance with Intervene. While I heard people say intervene wasn't so good, I liked it very much. It's not the most convient ability to use on it's own, but I found a macro that helps it out:

#showtooltip Intervene
/cast [help] Intervene; [target=targettarget, help] Intervene;
/startattack

You cast Intervene on a friendly target. With this mod I can just keep the mob targeted, and I'll Intervene on who has aggro. Intervene also stops auto attacks, so I think the /startattack at the end should make you keep attacking (didn't get to test that part out yet).

Anyways, back the the Shadow Lab run. There are those Felguard guys that like to fear, knockback, and deaggro. They are also immune to stun. Intercept always was annoying on moving mobs that are immune to stun. I would Intercept them, but they would be our of range by the time I got there. Intervene, on the other hand, takes me right to the person that has aggro. So some times I could get to the player that had aggro before the Felguard. I haven't noticed the "intercepting the next melee or ranged attack made against them" part yet, but it sure doesn't hurt.;)

I can see this ability being worked into bosses, where the boss will wind up a random-target ranged shot, that would one-shot a non-tank, and a warrior will have to Intervene it. Or a boss that does something like 2-3 quick hard hits that would kill any tank. But if 1-2 warriors Intervene it each would take one non-fatal hit. Seems like there are a lot of options.

And the fact that it doesn't require stance dancing is a nice plus also:).