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Comment by Falcore

These are great source of Fused Wiring (https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=7191). Just drop them, let them die and loot it. It is about a 15% chance on a Fused Wiring from my experiences.

Comment by 6998

These are also great for taking on multiple mobs or elite quests. I've had great experiences with target dummies while duo'ing stockades as two pallies.

Comment by Maed

To extend on what Falcore said, this is a very good way to get Fused Wiring, but be prepared to wait the cooldown of two minutes every time used. To help speed up the process try getting some friends or guild mates to help you out, as one of my friends did. Going through 200 of these is not too much fun. :)

Comment by 9250

In my experience, the drop rate of fused wiring on the cheap dummies is not different from the drop rate of the expensive ones, so this is the best thing to make if you're looking for wiring.

Comment by 40551

These will go yellow at Engineering skill 130.

Comment by Nivrax

After deployment these dummies makes some kind of taunt, quite strong one (considering level of dumies). I tryed using these on Jadefire mobs (50-54lvl range) while playing Hunter. My pet used twice Growl (r6) and I dropped the device. I was quite shocked, as mob instantly began to attack dummy. He stopped only when my pet used growl third time.

Edit: Now I allowed my pet to use Growl 5 times and still Dummy was able to get mob attention. They are VERY useful.

Comment by 96393

Orange 85-114
Yellow 115-129
Green 130-154
Grey 155-160

Comment by Xeolius

When one levels a Warrior, especially before such abilities as "Shield Wall", one problem always came to mind for me, "But mommy, what if I get a hundred adds?" This little sucker, at least for it's level, solves that question easily, and efficiently.

I had roughly 5 adds in Sludge Fen - Barrens, and you'd be surprised how wonderfully it worked. Normally, I probably would've had my Tauren face eating dirt by now, but look at me, alive, strong, and stuff like that. The power of the Taunt effect is amazing, and taunted a mob I almost had to 0 health. In addition, the HP (At least compared to lv15 DPS), was high, allowing me plenty of ample time to escape, and even finish the mob I was currently working with.

In addition, the posts above mention is getting Fused Wiring from them. However, take note that it's not the only thing they drop. I often get a good amount of Engineering mats back from them, usually enough to cover maybe 1/4 of another dummy. Every little bit counts.

Comment by 127719

Great for distracting adds/other mobs when killing a quest boss, or when u pull more mobs than u can handle, throw down a target dummy and run like hell.

Comment by Thottbot

Let my level 10 mage solo vargash!
Similar effect to Horde Stoneclaw totem.

Comment by Thottbot

With its clownish looks, drop one in the middle of a busy town, and it will soon attract a bunch of curious people :)

Comment by Thottbot

what's the chance on this thing dropping fused wiring?

Comment by Thottbot

I've made and harvested from about 25 Target Dummies so far, and have yielded Fused Wiring 3x so far.

Comment by Thottbot

Right click from inventory then place Green target area on the ground and left click.

Comment by Thottbot

Anyone know what the cooldown time rate is on these?

I know this much, devices all use the same timer but not the same time RATE, which means all other devices are disabled until this thing has cooled off after having used one.

Comment by Thottbot

I think that after about 3 minutes, it jumps toa 1 min timer, then good to go... funny as all get out to watch it scare bunny's...

Comment by Thottbot

The 'infinite' cool down your talking about doesn't exist. It takes 3 minutes for the target dummy to time out, and two minutes for the 'corpse' to decay. The 'infinite' cool down your referring to is the 2 minutes wait before the corpse expires.

The life of a target dummy:
3 minutes, or until destroyed
2 minutes decay
1 minute cool down
Repeat

1 dummy, 6 minutes or less

Comment by Thottbot

I finally had the cool down bug. It was because I was unable to loot the target dummy and it remained on the ground, therefore not initiating the cool down. After about 30 minutes, the target dummy remains, and its loot-ables, disappeared and restarted the countdown. The quickest way to solve this is to do what was said and log out.

GM Petitioned.

Also, the loot table of these might have been altered. I went though 25 of these before I hit a fused wiring. Might just have been a bad streek though.

Comment by Thottbot

i made 6 and all 6 dropped fused wiring. :D

Comment by Thottbot

I have used the dummy several times as a rogue very successfully as per posts above. It lets me do elite quests alone - kill bogeys around the elite, plant dummy in front of elite and hack away at the elite whilst he is busy destroying the dummy.

Fused wiring has dropped 50% of the time (along with modulators, etc).

Can these be used by non engineers?

Comment by Thottbot

I used to average about 2-4 fused wiring per stack of the standard target dummies. As of patch 1.9, three stacks later and no fused wiring. Can anyone confirm whether this has been nerfed?

I didn't see anything in the patch notes saying these would no longer drop them, and it'd REALLY tweak me if they WERE nerfed, as these are cheap to make, and it saves me from having to spend 5-10g in the AH or farm Gnomer for them.

Comment by Thottbot

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Report Reply Fused wiring drops
Score 2.7 Vote: by crimsonamazon, 22.1 hours ago I have been creating the simple targeting dummies and getting plenty of fused wiring. The trick for me is to not use them in combat. Just throw it out while standing around in the city and wait for it to self-destruct. On average, I get 3 fused wiring from each 5 dummies I throw out this way. I suspect that if the dummy is destroyed in combat it is much less likely to drop the better components.
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will check this when servers get up

Comment by Thottbot

Sience the pacth its 15sec Lif span

Comment by Thottbot

I'm about to drop 100 Target Dummies, I'll post my drop rate when I'm done.

Comment by Thottbot

10 target dummies got me 1 fused wiring
10 adv target dummies got me 3 fused wiring

I'm sticking with the adv, copper seems to have risen greatly in price

Comment by Thottbot

What you are refering to is a grounding totem, not stoneclaw, and it's completely different from a target dummy. Using abilities such as taunt, fade, stoneclaw or target dummies in PVP will only make people laugh at you.

Comment by Thottbot

Do they work on pets in PVP?

Comment by Thottbot

These were my drops:

22 Linen Cloth
1 Wool Cloth
29 Copper Bolts
18 Bronze Bars
11 Copper Modulators
10 Fused Wiring

Comment by Thottbot

What are the fused wiring for?

Comment by Thottbot

i think the fused wiring is actualy a rare drop... i used my first target dummy and looted fused wiring and it didint drop from the next 10 i used i got the next rank dummy so i never used it more than 10 times but i use the sheep alot XD they work great on a group of horde surrounding the banner for AB

Comment by Thottbot

Made 11 of these and zero fused of course. This is such an annoying crap, because there is a recipe for fused wiring and it requires 275 skill. Not only that of course, it also requires some very high skill components from other crafters. Didn't know this was such a bottleneck and I am not going to waste my time with this crap anymore, so no goblin jumper cables for me I guess.

Comment by Allakhazam

Does this thing actually work? When I've tried dropping one (and running) I don't usually have the chance to realy watch what happens, but it certainly doesn't seem like mobs (even recent adds that I haven't hit yet, and shouldn't have any threat vs. me) stop to target it... Same thing with the Stoneclaw Totem... =[

Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?

Comment by Allakhazam

I use it all the time.. put it down call a mob over it taunts it and i stand there and backstab it. Its rather fun actually cause its so silly lookin

Comment by Allakhazam

This thing's actually saved me in PVP, believe it or not. It doesn't MAKE the other person attack it, but who wouldn't attack this thing? It looks soooo freaking funny.
and if you don't use it in battle, do what I do.
-dances with dummy behind AH counter-

Comment by Allakhazam

I've played a little with this thing. It seems like if you start healing yourself or pounding on one of the mobs, everyone comes back to you. So, it's not much of a combat tool. It seems to be a tool for bailing out if you are overwhelmed. Hard to remember these suckers when it's looking grim for you and your party!

Comment by Allakhazam

What's the cooldown on this thing? I use it a lot, but it never displays a cooldown so I can know when it's ready.

Comment by Allakhazam

They work pretty well when you use em at the right level. The best part of these though has nothing to do with the effect, it's that they sometimes drop random engineering items. I actually got fused wiring off one of my own target dummies, nice little profit considering the mats to make em.

Comment by Vahdis

These seem to currently be unlootable by the person who summons them. It may be a Classic bug as a GM was not sure when asked and linked me to an existing bug report post on the forums.

Comment by ngInit

Dropped three of these today in Classic. They don't drop anything. If you're looking for fused wiring, this was a complete waste of time/money.

Comment by Fier11

are these consumed on use?

Comment by Bifitruc

Can someone else, not in the group of the owner, loot them ?
One of them was empty, but had sparkles around it, for a brief moment. And as i was in a crowded area...

Comment by eclipsespider

HOW MUCH HP DO THESE HAVE

Comment by etou11

So from my experience, this is how target dummies work. As soon as the dummy is spawned, it will use an AoE taunt affecting all nearby enemies (within around 10 yards).

This effect functions like mocking blow of a warrior, so enemies will attack the dummy regardless of previous threat, but it does NOT overwrite previous threat values. It lasts for around 5 seconds. After this effect runs off, the target dummy will cast an AoE growl (similar to a hunter pet) effect, that causes threat. However, this is NOT the same effect as the initial taunt. It will NOT force mobs to continue attacking the target dummy if the threat caused by the growl effect does not exceed previous threat values.

This means that previous threat tables are in effect as soon as the initial AoE taunt runs out. If you have caused too much threat to a mob, that mob will continuing attacking you instead of the dummy. Only mobs you have caused little to no threat will continue attacking the dummy after the initial effect runs out.

You can use a target dummy in two ways:
-At the start of a pull, to add another body to soak some damage for the whole duration of the dummy (time or HP)
-As a short term distraction tool during a fight to buy yourself some time or get distance between you and a mob

Advanced and Masterwork Dummies have more HP and their AoE growls effect cause more threat

Edit: Fixed some typos and clarified inaccurate information

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Target Dummy

Item Level 17

Requires Engineering (85)
Use: Drops a target dummy on the ground that attracts nearby monsters to attack it. Lasts for 15 seconds or until killed. (2 Min Cooldown)

Max Stack: 10

Sell Price: 75

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