PTR, Deterrence, And You

[Kurasu]

I have never had luck with using Deterrence in tames. People insist it helps, but with a 0% parry while you're taming/channeling, it just doesn't do anything for me!

... until now.

In the PTR, the '100% miss' of Deterrence carries over into taming. Which is to say you can pop Deter, start taming, and get a good 4-5 seconds of absolute immunity from physical attacks while you're taming your special pet.

[Cialbi]

Nice! Taming Terrorpene and Ghostcrawler just became that much easier!

[Kurasu]

Well, Terrorpene's attack isn't physical. I'm not completely positive what it would do to that. Ghostcrawler, though, I'm pretty sure it'd help. I might head down to Vashj'ir and give it a try to test.

EDITED TO ADD: Found Ghostcrawler, tried the trick out. Unfortunately, Nerfbat isn't blocked by the physical attack 'miss', so it's probably not considered a physical attack. The basic swings were, though. So it helped a little!

[Carnifex]

Well, Terrorpene's attack isn't physical. I'm not completely positive what it would do to that.

I could be wrong as I haven't personally attempted taming Terrorpene yet, but since Deterrence is supposed to also give 100% chance for spells to be deflected, I'd expect that it should indeed be useful vs. Terrorpene's fire. It's classed as a spell, right?

[TygerDarkstorm]

Well, Terrorpene's attack isn't physical. I'm not completely positive what it would do to that.

I could be wrong as I haven't personally attempted taming Terrorpene yet, but since Deterrence is supposed to also give 100% chance for spells to be deflected, I'd expect that it should indeed be useful vs. Terrorpene's fire. It's classed as a spell, right?

I believe the new tooltip read says "100% chance for melee attacks to miss."
I'm not on the PTR though so I'm probably wrong.

[Kurasu]

It also grants a 100% chance to deflect spells. Mind you, I don't know whether a channeled magical attack is considered a 'spell' to it. May have to go tick off Terrorpene and see!

[TygerDarkstorm]

If it still works on spells, and Terropene's ability counts as a spell, that'd certainly. Make taming him at 81 easier.
Although, I enjoyed the challenge of taming him at 81 with no resist or haste prep and a freshly 85 holy pally. XD

[Cialbi]

Well, Terrorpene's attack isn't physical. I'm not completely positive what it would do to that. Ghostcrawler, though, I'm pretty sure it'd help. I might head down to Vashj'ir and give it a try to test.

EDITED TO ADD: Found Ghostcrawler, tried the trick out. Unfortunately, Nerfbat isn't blocked by the physical attack 'miss', so it's probably not considered a physical attack. The basic swings were, though. So it helped a little!

Hmm, I think that Nerfbat may be ignoring immunities, parries, dodges, etc. It would kind of make sense - how can a paladin's bubble possibly stand up against the might of the Nerfbat?

[Feath3r]

It also grants a 100% chance to deflect spells. Mind you, I don't know whether a channeled magical attack is considered a 'spell' to it. May have to go tick off Terrorpene and see!

I thought it only offered the spell reflect if you grabbed it from the... Survival Tree I believe?

EDIT

Survival Tree. "Mirrored Blades" 4 tiers down

[Cialbi]

It also grants a 100% chance to deflect spells. Mind you, I don't know whether a channeled magical attack is considered a 'spell' to it. May have to go tick off Terrorpene and see!

I thought it only offered the spell reflect if you grabbed it from the... Survival Tree I believe?

EDIT

Survival Tree. "Mirrored Blades" 4 tiers down

Deterrence has a 100% chance to deflect spells (spell bounces off you and into the ground). Mirrored Blades changes that to a 100% chance to reflect spells (spell bounces off of you and hits the caster). Last I heard, though, Mirrored Blades was bugged.

[Feath3r]

It also grants a 100% chance to deflect spells. Mind you, I don't know whether a channeled magical attack is considered a 'spell' to it. May have to go tick off Terrorpene and see!

I thought it only offered the spell reflect if you grabbed it from the... Survival Tree I believe?

EDIT

Survival Tree. "Mirrored Blades" 4 tiers down

Deterrence has a 100% chance to deflect spells (spell bounces off you and into the ground). Mirrored Blades changes that to a 100% chance to reflect spells (spell bounces off of you and hits the caster). Last I heard, though, Mirrored Blades was bugged.

Ah, small differences. Fun stuff.

I've actually been getting nailed through Deterrence with spells for a while so I didn't think anything about it because I misread Mirrored Blades, though that could just be lag on my end (spell hitting before I get deterrence up even though on my screen I see it up)