Blank lack of intrest

If another member agro's (pulls) you are not in combat so able to use Nerve Strike at will. If the mob incoming (say an add) agros on you before you strike then it won't land. But in general if you are not pulling and are waiting on incomming mobs, you can nerve strike.

Soulfyst
Undead Monk of the Drunken Fist

Regardless, Nerve Strike in it's current state is pretty lame.  I mean, we have to go thru the motions of using FD in position and then popping mob with Nerve Strike just to be useful?

Forget about Pulling as a Monk and handling adds.

Forget about trying to solo a group of 2 or more mobs using Nerve Strike.  Granted we aren't a stealth class, but there could be some combination of a Drunken move to riddle the mob followed by a Nerve Strike IN COMBAT to stun and run, or take one out of the fight.

I really hate the way it works now, so much so that I hardly use it.

Hmm never tried it with the Tank as my Defensive Target. I can believe that it might mess up and add you to agro as there is lots of bugs with defensive target. Such as a bard with group invis changes his defensive target it will uninvis the person that was. Maybe if your defensive target is the one thats pulling he is adding you to mob agro.

I do not keep the tank (usually the puller) as my defensive target simply because as a Drunken Monk the only thing I can give him is Goading slap (+800 Hate) that has too long a cool down timer to be useful, so I keep the Healer there where I can spam my neg hate attack if he gets agro.

I will check the next time I am grouped if this does indeed put me in combat.

That being said, I use nerve strike quite a bit on incoming mobs with no failures, so definatly you are not put in combat simply because you are grouped with someone in combat, if that was the case then it would never work in a group situation, after un-FD'ing your members are still in combat then so would you.

Soulfyst
45 Undead Monk of the Drunken Fist

Uh, you don't enter combat if someone in your group agros a mob.
Indeed, you wont even get a faction hit if you're not taking steps to get on the agrolist proper.

rofl he deleted all his posts and said "lack of interest."  Maybe he should of wrote "lack of knowing what the hell I'm talking about but still flaming Riot for trying to help anyway."