Since you dont like frost cc, please consider removing ice ring and all slow effects from mages to make up for the hunter nerf or revert the insane pve hunter nerf. Or leave the silly change on pvp realms and restore pve hunters to normal on the pve realms.
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What did hunters do before frost trap launcher?
Its not a pve nerf
complained that we were get the short end of the arrow.
Trap launcher was huge for the ranged hunter, it gave us the most fun way to rotate all our shots, you actually have to think instead of spamming auto fire.
I’m pretty sure this was most people on the forums, all the time. But I do see a significant amount of hunter ones.
It absolutely is though
Comparing Frost Trap to Imp. Blizzard is truly brainless behavior.
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Yeah, let’s bully the one mage that’s deep frost with orb rune. Sounds like a great idea.
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You mean the ranged AOE slow that allows you to kite and burn down multiple mobs at once? Yeah that sounds nothing like what trap launcher/frost trap is for hunters in PvE.
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The ranged aoe slow that costs a tremendous amount of mana to do mediocre damage, one you have to channel throughout the duration and cannot move or cast any other spells while channeling, can be interrupted and pushed back, can be fully resisted, and worthless against casters who will push it back to cancel it? There are multiple drawbacks to it and it can be shut down.
There are no drawbacks at all to Frost Trap w/ Trap Launcher, no cost, unresistable, unavoidable thanks to launcher, comes with an unbreakable root that doesn’t screw up your kiting (unlike Frostbite), and you can actually kite and deal your full damage because it lasts for so long.
They nerfed it because it was too powerful in BOTH PvP and PvE, even without Entrapment.
Cata is there though if you want your trap launcher so badly.
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For some types of play it absolutely IS a pve nerf
I campaigned for them to remove boomies for three weeks during PTR but no luck.
Good luck with mages.
Its not learn to play
Freezing Trap as a replacement to trigger the Ice portion of Lock and Load is under some conditions a dps loss compared to Frost Trap. If someone in your party (or yourself for some odd reason) is using a pet, the pet will stop attacking if the target is not immune to the Freezing Trap effect. This isn’t a problem for bosses, but absolutely is a problem in dungeons at times.
Additionally, the tank is going to likely pull smaller groups if there is not consistent frost traps to kite around, slowly down the speed the party clears through the dungeon. Also, in the event the hunter pulls threat, the enemies will have a much easier time running over to whack it…feign be damned.
It might not be a game breaking PvE nerf, but to say it is no nerf at all is simply ignorant.
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It def is though
Its not learn to play
If you’re a mage don’t forget that these filthy hunters immediately turned on you. Never forgive, never forget.
actually it was the mage that tossed the first snowball cry for hunter nerf’s a few days ago
here is the post:
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that’s the thing… it makes sense for mages to do that
not hunters 
Let’s be 100% honest, disabling Frost Trap from Trap Launcher was entirely PvP-related. All classes are OP in dungeons right now and the content is a joke because we are playing TBC+ characters in Vanilla.
As far as needing CC in dungeons, most 60 dungeons are tight-quartered with tank LOS. It’s very easy to drop a frost trap under the tank before he pulls. Entrapment still works with our Fire Trap too.