Guys, these posts are getting increasingly frequent and frankly ridiculous.
Let me tell you definitively that FD and trap works completely fine. The issue is you are used to the speed on unofficial servers. FD does not work the same on retail. If you do a couple things correctly you will have no problem. I use it all the time at level 60 against warriors and have multiple videos to prove this.
You need /petfollow macro
Do not macro frost trap into the feign death macro, keep them as two separate buttons. If you are fast enough, it still works. As one macro, this wasnât working for me either.
Donât move until feign death drops combat. If you move, you wonât drop combat at all.
Keep in mind, feign death is resisted frequently. If itâs resisted you obviously wonât drop combat.
A good player will automatically target you upon dropping feigning and put you back into combat. In this situation, it is indeed very hard to feign and trap. This is the same concept as hitting a rogue after he vanishes. Itâs not broken, itâs just good pvp tactic and you need to work around this.
I probably wonât be using focus much because we donât have silencing shot (I used focus every match in arenas back in the day tho). Iâll just build a viper sting macro like the scattershot macro to use on priests who come to assist in pvp as Iâm killing someone
Hunters really come into their own when we get silencing shot, the pet root/snare dispel you can use in yourself and teammates, and that hop backwards. That was hunters in their absolute prime, IMO. Too bad I believe thatâs all wotlk tho
NONE of this is like vanilla. you realize that, right? You basically just said that it isnât working as it did in vanilla wow. Yea, we are used to spells and macroâs working. You are right. No, I refuse to say it is okay. I will reroll and delete my hunter if Blizzard comes out and confirms that this clunky garbage feign death functionality is what they think is correct.
Anybody with 10 seconds, a brain, and youtube can see that vanilla hunters didnât act like this.
Mouseover macros are very good for pvp because otherwise when you are fighting someone and someone else comes in to help, you would normally have to tab target the second person, scattershot them, then tab back to your original target. This causes a loss of damage, possibly at least 1 auto shot worth (which could be a potentially big crit)
By using a mouseover macro for scattershot, you can pass your cursor over their character as they run up, scattershot them, all while still keeping your current target, including your next auto shot firing
Honestly, I donât think it has to do with the macroâs at all.
I know people are saying it does, but as clunky as it feelsâŚI believe it has a high chance in being linked to their awful iteration of spell batching. Spell batching was a solution to dial up internet connections 15 years ago, forcing it into Classic has brought upon so much unneeded pain and clunkiness.
Iâm not going to say my memory is flawless, but I will tell you that in original vanilla feign death was a seriously buggy ability. It got resisted and it didnât always work. There are elements of human error, and there is the ability itself. But the ability is not broken, it just isnât as OP as it was on unofficial servers and I think the discrepancy is causing people to assume there is a problem.
In the beginning of this video you can see this hunter feign death freeze trap. Tell me that live version of Classic is anywhere near that quick and seamless?
Heck, as I keep watching it, at 40 seconds he does it again with a melee on him. This is full proof to anybody playing a hunter that is honest right now that feign death is buggy.
Honestly, youâre right. It doesnât seem this fast. But I will tell you that it works for me 99% of the time. Iâm just not sure where you guys think the problem is. I have trapped warriors 3+ times in a single fight in melee range, so the result is the same as in this video.
When I get back from work I can look at the videos I captured earlier and see if I can find a good example.
Feel free to hit me up in game and I will try to help as best I can. I can even show you if that would help.
You are assuming people are comparing it to a private server. I am not. I am comparing it to vanilla, I never played a private server.
You are assuming people are having issues using a macro. I am not even using a macro. Feign and trap, and pet passive for that matter, are 3 different buttons.
You are assuming people are apparently too stupid to put their pet on passive. Like.? really?
Feign death does not get resisted versus players. Since patch 1.7. This is patch 1.12
You could move instantly after feigning in vanilla, you didnât need to sit on the ground waiting for combat drop
This is a video from vanilla wow, years and years and years ago, not a private server. You can see a prime example of how quickly you can feign trap.
https:// www. youtube. com / watch?v= QDDpNmPvXdw&t=3m13s
https:// www. youtube. com / watch?v= QDDpNmPvXdw&t=6m35s
https:// www. youtube. com / watch?v= QDDpNmPvXdw&t=8m47s
There is a distinct difference from what it should be, this is undeniable.
I am not saying it never works. But it hardly works at all against compitent players who are attacking you not keyboard turning around in circles or doing 1 action per minute. I got a rogue on me earlier today and had 0% success in 3-4 fights. This isnât the only time. You will experience this also.
The key to notice is that it is NOT functioning as it was and that is the cause for all this.
FD+trap pretty much only works in PVP now if youâre fighting a potato that takes 5 seconds or more to retarget you. Any player with normal human reaction times will be able to retarget you and keep you in combat before FD actually does what itâs supposed to. Thereâs a pretty significant delay for the combat drop from FD which is much longer than it was in vanilla. FD dropped combat practically instantly in vanilla.
To be fair, they clearly read the thread title. Are you implying that they should read the whole post before replying? Next youâll be saying that I should read the whole news article, and not just the headline? Read the whole book, and not just the cover? Forget thatâŚtoo much work!