Okay so maybe 1001 is pushing it, but Intervene is such a potent and versatile tool that we have in our Warrior arsenal it’s a shame that 90% of the time, if they use it at all, you’ll only see tanks using it to peel a mob off of a DPSer or a healer who pulled aggro. There is a big problem with this mentality and that is that if you are running with a good group you’ll never ever use this ability.
Intervene is an extremely powerful ability when used in other ways, here are some examples:
- Pulls. Intervene is great for making those pulls that are too far away from your raid group, but need to be moved into another room either due to the pathing of other mobs or a bosses or because they have casters and you need to LOS them around a corner. Think back to Karazhan and the Arcane Anomalies directly before Curator. Since Curator paths right through the room that these mobs are in it is beneficial to have a raid member stand near the door way into the adjacent room, pull the mobs and Intervene back to your meatshie-errr, fellow raider. This will significantly reduce the amount of damage you take while getting back to your raid while also reducing the chance that you will put other raid members in unnecessary danger.
- Removing roots and stuns. With the addition of Warbringer to the game, Intervene is even more amazing since you can use it to break roots and snares just by Intervening to a party or raid member who’s nearby.
- Increased mobility. Imagine tanking the adds in phase one for Gothik the Harvester: you can charge a mob that’s far away, Shield Slam it then immediately Intervene back to a party member and grab another mob who just spawned. If you use some Heroic Throws you can handle an entire side by yourself and look like a total rock star while doing it, too.
- Corpse runs. There is nothing like annoying Rogues and Mages by being able to make your way from the back of the raid to the front of it after a wipe by using Intervene numerous times to get there. Throw in some Swiftness Potions and you can get some serious giggles out of it. Sometimes you have to just do little things to keep your spirits up after a series of crushing wipes and I find that this helps me. It’s self-prescribed therapy.
- Reducing aggro. What? Reducing aggro? Why would I want to do this? Well the last half of the tooltip reads, “as well as reducing their total threat by 10%” so why not use that to our advantage? Pretend for a second you’re tanking Malygos (arguably one of the only fights in the game where aggro matters at this point) and a Fury Warrior is right on your heels when Malygos begins to fly to the center of the platform to use Vortex. If you quickly Intervene to him you can knock his threat down by 10%.
Remember that lots of abilities can be used drastically differently then the way their tooltip states and the more of these uses you can find, the better tank you’ll be!
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That’s awesome stuff, Durnic. I woefully underuse Intervene since 3.0. I am hoping to get a G13 for my birthday so I can optimize my keybindings.
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Glad you liked it, Kadomi. I hope it helps you out.
[...] 1001 Uses for Intervene The title says it all: One of the most under-used abilities (I’m just as guilty of that as the next tank) is brought to the spotlight and proven to have it’s uses. If you’re the ”uhm, where did I put intervene?” kind of tank do yourself something good and read this post. [...]
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I confess…. I only use it for corpse runs. I’ll see if I can squeeze this into an easier to reach key-binding.
Great post! I learned something new, thank you very much.
You’re very welcome!
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