Intervene

One of the new BC warrior skills is Intervene.  Acquired at level 70, Intervene does this:

Run at high speed towards a party member, intercepting the next melee or ranged attack made against them.

Pretty straightforward, but damn near impossible to get to work right.  It basically stems from the fact that you need to be targetting the party member in order to use the skill.  So in the heat of battle this requires you to either A. press F in order to “assist” the mob you’re fighting in order to target the party member he’s about to kill and cast Intervene, or B. click on your target’s target and then cast Intervene.

These are both really twitchy and in terms of “holy shit he’s gonna die” reaction times, they’re quite time consuming.

I think (hope) I’ve found the answer.  I did a search and came across a couple of macros that allow you to easily use Intervene.  I hate macros.  I can’t figure out how to make them work, and I don’t see why they’re even necessary.  But in this case, I might make an exception.  For those who are wondering, here’s the macro command:

/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; [help] Intervene; [target=targettarget, help] Intervene

Apparently this macro will put you in Def Stance (why wouldn’t you be?), or do nothing if you’re already in Def Stance; then it will check to see if the target is friendly, and if so, it will Intervene; if the target is not friendly, it will target the target’s target (say that three times fast), check to see if he is friendly (which he should be) and Intervene.

Seems like a good idea to me.  Now, I’m at work, so I obviously haven’t had a chance to try this out yet.  But I intend to try it ASAP, and I will let you know how it turns out.

Any warriors out there have some input?