Monk feign death

[StephenD]

I was in Paineel with my monk and found feign death didn't work against the skelly guards. Is that normal? It works with my necro there.

[GinnasP99]

Perhaps you forgot to turn off attack before FDing ?

[Baler]

What's your FD skill? How many times did you test it? What level is your monk? (level should be irrelevant just checking though)

Or maybe you just failed every time. heh

[StephenD]

OK, I just popped in to test the "turn off attack" and it worked. Thanks. I've never had to do that before with fd. It worked and I am happy. Thanks.
The monk is lvl 24 with fd maxed out. I tried it at least a dozen times with failure each time.

[Kesselring]

OK, I just popped in to test the "turn off attack" and it worked. Thanks. I've never had to do that before with fd. It worked and I am happy. Thanks.
The monk is lvl 24 with fd maxed out. I tried it at least a dozen times with failure each time.

you always have to turn off attack and then do it. Was like that on live too. I suggest making a macro

/autoattack off
/pause 1
/doability (# that FD is at)

[Spyder73]

you always have to turn off attack and then do it. Was like that on live too. I suggest making a macro

/autoattack off
/pause 1
/doability (# that FD is at)

this is the best macro you will ever make

[StephenD]

Thanks. That is gona be a game changer.

[Jimjam]

Throw a sense heading and a /loc in there and you sorted!

[jolanar]

In my opinion don't use a macro. There is a delay involved. Just practice hitting attack off before you feign death. Both should be bound to keys. I had Q for attack and F for Feign Death.

[Rygar]

I would suggest using the macro, the time it takes you to hit 2 keys is basically equivalent of the delay on the macro, you don't even notice a difference. Also less risk of a fat finger on 1 key stroke instead of 2.

In addition, I always put sneak on after I FD in my macro. I know it is less useful with the nerf, but it still can help and I also flop crawl a lot of dungeons.

[LiQuid]

Never used a macro for FD in my life. 90% of the time I use FD I'm not even auto attacking in the first place, and the other 10% it's such a minor thing to hit my attack button first. I don't ever fail due to not having attack off. Having a 1 second delay every time I hit my FD key would trigger the hell out of me. How fat are your guys' fingers that this is required?

[Ortnit]

"/pause 1" is 0.1s delay, 1s would be awful indeed.

[Rygar]

Exactly, 0.1 sec is hardly noticeable and I'm willing to bet it is faster than manually doing it. Guessing those that turn auto attack of manually have more like a 0.2 - 0.4 second delay.

I can see taking pride in not relying on a macro, but it really isn't any major advantage, possibly a niche thing when pulling a bunch of casters while you aren't attacking. If you are DPSing and draw agro you will definitely want the macro no question.

[Jimjam]

In my opinion don't use a macro. There is a delay involved. Just practice hitting attack off before you feign death. Both should be bound to keys. I had Q for attack and F for Feign Death.

Not good idea. Often you will make a last round of swings after auto attack has been turned off, which can result in you attempting to swing while FD, cancelling FD. Sometimes My SK turns of attack and casts FD but the lag results in a broken FD. I can only imagine this is worse for monks. Don't risk it!

[Lojik]

Exactly, 0.1 sec is hardly noticeable and I'm willing to bet it is faster than manually doing it. Guessing those that turn auto attack of manually have more like a 0.2 - 0.4 second delay.

I can see taking pride in not relying on a macro, but it really isn't any major advantage, possibly a niche thing when pulling a bunch of casters while you aren't attacking. If you are DPSing and draw agro you will definitely want the macro no question.

I think the problem with the macro is if there's a bit of lag it can mess up the macro order, or at least that's what I remember.

[Caiu]

In my opinion don't use a macro. There is a delay involved. Just practice hitting attack off before you feign death. Both should be bound to keys. I had Q for attack and F for Feign Death.

Ignore this trashcan advice. /attack off /doability x is all you need and never had an issue.

[Spyder73]

during my several years playing a monk I have died 0 times from the delay in my FD macro. Alternatively, I died gobs of times before I had the macro and hit FD w/o turning attack off.