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For other use, see Taunt.
Taunt
Inv misc questionmark
  • Taunt
  • Warrior ability
  • 30 yards yd range
  • 8 sec cooldown
  • Instant
  • Taunts the target to attack you, but has no effect if the target is already attacking you.
Properties
Class Warrior
School Physical
Cooldown 8 seconds
Other information
Requirements Ability warrior defensivestance [Defensive Stance]
Improvements Spell nature reincarnation [Improved Taunt]
Related debuff
Inv misc questionmark
  • Taunt
  • Taunted.
  • Duration: 3 seconds

[[Category:warrior abilities]][[Category:warrior abilities]]

Taunt TCG

In World of Warcraft: Trading Card Game.

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Taunt is a single target debuff which forces the mob to attack the warrior for 3 seconds and also generates enough threat so that the warrior matches the current top entry in the mob's aggro list. Taunt is instant-cast, does not trigger the global cooldown, costs no rage and has an 8 second cooldown. Warriors learn it from the Defensive Stance quest at level 10.

Some mobs (most bosses in particular) are immune to taunt. Non-immune mobs must be hit by Taunt using standard melee hit mechanics. Taunt has no effect on enemy players in PvP and does not have any effect when the warrior already has aggro on the mob (except the mob is still forced to target the warrior for 3 seconds).

Available in Ability warrior defensivestance [Defensive Stance] only.

Glyphs

Inv glyph majorwarrior20
  • Glyph of Taunt
  • Major Glyph
  • Use: Increases the chance for your Taunt ability to succeed by 8%.
  • Classes: Warrior
  • Requires Level 15
  • Sell Price: 37s 50c

Glyph of Taunt was created with Inscription (385); taught by Inv inscription tradeskill01 [Northrend Inscription Research].

Materials required:
Inv inscription inkpurple01 1x [Ink of the Sea] Inv inscription certificate 1x [Resilient Parchment]

Patch changes

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Notes

Taunt is one of the signature moves of a tanking warrior. It may help aggro buildup greatly, and it may be a life-save in certain situations. On the other side it has a rather long cooldown, so it must be used with care and a good grasp of the overall situation (in multi-mob pulls in particular). It should also be well understood that after 3 seconds, the mob may immediately turn to another target, if the tanks aggro buildup was lower than that of the other player(s).

Example

A melee damage dealer has 1000 points of threat on a mob. A warrior taunts the mob, thereby immediately gaining a threat value of 1000, and forcing the mob to attack the warrior for three seconds. After that time, threat works normally for the mob, and if no one is at 130%/110% (ranged/melee) of the tank's threat, the warrior remains the mob's target.

Pulling

Normally, hunters can help a tanks initial aggro buildup with Ability hunter misdirection [Misdirection]. If that's on cooldown, it's possible to use a combination of Taunt and Ability rogue feigndeath [Feign Death] to achieve the same effect. The hunter pulls, using his most aggro intensive abilities. When the mob is about to hit the hunter, the warrior Taunts and the hunter Feigns Death. Misdirection is the safer method though, as both the Taunt and Feign Death can be resisted by the mob.

  • Taunt is treated as a spell. It can't be cast when silenced and it has a 17% chance to miss raid bosses (in contrast to the 8% chance to miss boss mobs for melee attacks). So even if you are melee hit capped (263 hit rating at level 80), Taunt's chance to miss is still 9%. This 9% gap can be mostly covered with Inv glyph majorwarrior [Glyph of Taunt].

Patch changes

  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Range increased to 30 yards, from 20 yards.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Range increased to 20 yards, from 5 yards.
  • {{Patch 2.3.0|note=The chance for this ability to land successfully on its target is now increased by hit rating.|comment=However, Taunt remained classified as a spell for the purposes of determining miss rate versus mobs. That means that against a mob 3 levels higher than the player, Taunt has a base chance of 17% to be resisted (a miss).[citation needed] 
  • Vanilla WoW: on release, Taunt did not create extra aggro for the warrior, it only forced the mob to attack the warrior for 3 seconds.

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