How to deal with melee walking through mobs with IwT

MiRai, in one of his videos, first got me familiar with the problem of melee classes/specs walking through mobs sometimes, and continuing to walk forward, when given the Interact with Target instruction by the assigned hotkey. Then I got familiar with the problem first-hand as I started to 5-box dungeons. Every now and then, this problem becomes really annoying, specifically when the melee party member walks off a ledge!

I'd like to get some tips from more experienced users here on how to deal with this problem. What do you do, other than keeping an eye on melee in-combat all the time, which is yet another unnecessary added monitoring demand on a dungeon multiboxer? Are there any tricks or workarounds to avoid this problem? Are there any alternative ways to manage melee DPS party members’ combat when you're tanking?

Thanks to anyone taking the time to share tips and answers.

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Are there any tricks or workarounds to avoid this problem?

The best way to avoid it is to only hit IWT when absolutely necessary. If there was a workaround it would certainly be described on the IWT page where this problem is detailed (http://isboxer.com/wiki/WoW:Interact_with_Target)

Are there any alternative ways to manage melee DPS party members’ combat when you're tanking?

If you're on the same mob and playing with your tank, instead of using IWT at all just use auto-follow and run past the mob (or just to its side) and turn around. This also gives optimal positioning for most fights -- the mob faces your tank, and your melee DPS are behind or to the side. IWT is totally not necessary in this PVE scenario. If you're not fighting the same thing with your tank and DPS, then obviously it is different.

If your target is constantly moving (as in PVP) then IWT is more useful, but the "trick" in that case is to hit IWT as much as possible and hit auto-follow when your DPS runs off -- thus why many PVP players put IWT directly on their attack keys.

Hey Rok, I have also been working on a way to cope with this issue.

Maybe you are already on this path or maybe not.
First off I have a proConfig setup, so that no matter what toon/slot/class I have running in any of the 5 slots
#1 is always aoe rotation
#2 is always single target rotation
#3 is my melee only IWT key

Now some things That i found to help cut down on that running off issue is the TIMING at which I mash #3.

Because #1-#2 have assist commands tied to them, all of the slaves will auto pickup the target that my main is targeting and attacking.

After I see my main, be it the tank, dps, even heals make contact I just give my IWT button a bump, sometimes two when I am in the moment/excited.
For the most part the only time I see my melee running off anymore, is when I mash this key before starting rotation or making contact with a mob from my main.

Sometimes the slave if it does not have a target to assist will pick up its own, or even attempt to go to a previous down target "if it have loot still on the body" Or it i attempt to mash the IWT key at the same time I am spaming attacks, maybe something gets lost or jumbled in the logic to send them on a walk about, or off a cliff. haha

just because I started to lay it out I will finish my keys.
Currently lvl 91 on a 5 man druid team
Guardian 1
Ferals 3
Resto 1

It is a mean blender of dps

#4 is pvp burst rotations
#5 proc cd's
#0 Sneaky sneaky [basically cloak/camo/meld/stealth if you can]