Tell me now and I will reroll. If this iteration of hunter is the best you can do Blizzard then I am going to be forced to reroll another class.
I literally cannot feign death freeze trap in PvP. I just attempted to multiple times in world pvp with a rogue on me and it simply does not work. This isn’t the first or last time I am sure, but it is 100% a bug and not the way it is supposed to be.
In PvE it is clunky and weird, sometimes failing for unknown reasons. Before people tell me I am doing it wrong I have played a hunter to 60 in original vanilla and on private servers 3 times. I love hunters in Classic WoW — this version of hunter is busted.
Why is feign death so bad? How did this last this long? Why am I 56 levels into a character that has their core PvP utility broken?
Can someone explain what the issue is? I guess ignorance is bliss as my friend who has never played WoW rolled as a hunter for Classic and is having a blast.
Got to Rank 11 in vanilla on a hunter. It was great . Its different but massively viable. Practise and improve. Spam wing clip on the efc til your mates arrive and trap chasers, scatter shot heals and rogues and one shot casters with aimed shot.
Feign Death + Trap requires specific timing now and you cannot mess with your camera facing as well as requiring your pet to be on passive due to the 200ms(Ish) Spell batching. All this in effect means that Hunter cannot use the tried and true braindead macro they used to rely on to do combat traps and it actually requires some patience and skill to function.
It’s bugged, but honestly, those folks who act like its the end of the world should probably just continue with their reroll for now if they cant adapt. Sure it’s not identical to the way it was, that’s a bug, but it is still totally possible to pull off, you just can’t spam a macro and have it work 100% of the time anymore.
Hunters use a macro to feign death and freeze trap enemies while in combat. This is especially important when fighting warriors, rogues, enhance shaman, paladin, or anybody who gets in your face.
Hunters at the moment have a very difficult time actually feign death/trapping in combat. This makes it impossible to get away from melee classes such as rogues or warriors as you need to in order to have a chance in killing them. This ruins the class and destroys PvP.
it did not work this way in original vanilla, it wasn’t this busted or even hard to feign death trap - you can find vidoes where hunters are trapping in combat from a feign death and you can’t even see them feign death it happens so fast. On live, right now, it is clunky as can be and hardly works.
This should be a priority as it is a CORE mechanic to the entire class in PvP. Nothing is this busted of such importance in the game right now.
Are you playing it? Have you had dozens of world PvP experiences on Classic WoW to determine this from? I am literally playing the game everyday and I believe most hunters agree with me here.
Downplaying a gamebreaking bug is seriously awful of you. You play a shaman. What if 96% of the time you tried to drop grounding totem it didnt work? You would be on here making posts and wondering why people let this slide.
This macro makes you feign death if your not in combat.
I would have to try this out in pvp but im almost 100% positive it still wont work. You are level 30 - you may want to give it some time before you are so confident from your limited experience. There is a reason the community is unanimously saying it is busted.
I didn’t write it just used more than a few times and with spamming it gets a trap down even with people beating on me. Go try it and if you can’t make it work, then I’m sorry, but it seems good to me.
There’s nothing this macro has that other players who are also using macros with /petpassive and /stopattack have other than the weird cast sequence line
And other hunters have said it still does not work. I just dinged 30 last night and have yet to try, but not holding out much hope
Well I am willing to see if it fixes it but I am like you, heavily skeptical. The entire feel of feign death in PvE and PvP is wrong. It is a clunky mess. Not smooth. Not fluent. Feels like garbage.
There is between a 1.5-3s delay due to spell batching
Neither /petpassive, /stopattack, nor /cleartarget prevents this
This is why some hunters have tried a macro with /petpassive, /stopattack, and /cleartarget (variations of these) even with NO PET OUT, and still combat does not drop
Most likely if this hunter is saying it does, it is because they got lucky enough for the melee to be peeled or just have a slow enough weapon attacks for the 1.5+ seconds it took for combat to drop. Because 99% of hunters on these forums are saying it is not working with macros