I know this isn’t the hunter forum but I didn’t want to post it there bc I feel like people here will know more / care more about PvP and might be able to figure out this issue for me.
I know that the stun/trap is the bread and butter of hunter PvP and without being able to execute this with a good amount of proficiency I’ll never be able to improve.
So I was at the target dummies last night practicing with one target my kill target and one on focus that was the “healer” that I would just throw stuns on and trap. I figure if I do this enough it will become second nature. I know it’s different with a live moving person but practice is practice.
When I first started it was going great I would hit my stun, my pets would prance over, stun and go back to my target and I would throw the trap and it was no issue.
After like 2-3 times I changed nothing as far as I could tell but my pets now were just staying on the focus target and not running back to the kill target after the stun. I would throw the trap and they wouldn’t break it but they would just run back to me.
So I would have to send them back with my /petattack keybind.
The only thing I changed that I can think of initially I had my pet attack macro messed up and it said
/petassist
/petattack
So everytime I sent my pets it was also putting them on assist which I didn’t really want. So I changed it to just /petattack which is mouse wheel up and /petfollow which is mouse wheel back. The pets stay on passive.
I feel like I’m doing everything correctly but obviously there’s something I’m missing.
Can someone please give me the rundown on how to get my pets to just run over and stun and get back on my initial target?
Am I going to have to hit my /petattack keybind after the stun?
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Yes pretty much, intim sends the pet to attack the target stunned
Kill commmanding right after works too to bring it back on your kill target, which is usually efficient anyways
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Its easiest to bind /petattack to something you always cast like Raptor or Barbed, or have stun bound to a mouseover/ focus so you don’t have to stop your damage output
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Ok cool I was hoping you were going to be the one to answer. Thanks! Wasn’t sure if there was something I was overlooking when it comes to pet control
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In addition to the previous replies another good place to practice is bgs. Just focus a healer or another player that is trying to stay at a comfortable distance in a team fight, and trap em. Practice the stun traps, some drive by traps, and mix it up with some focus conc shot traps and it will be really good practice for moving targets without worrying about sweaty partners.
Also eventually practice trapping without stopping. If you can chuck a trap accurately while still running it removes a common “tell” with trapping where hunters want the cursor to stop moving while they aim it.
Makes timing death, grounds, and intervenes harder for them.
Don’t be afraid to chase then around a bit and stop occasionally to see if they’ll do those prematurely in the heat of things. If you pressure them enough sometimes they’ll waste it before traps off cd.
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gotta add on those mid-disengage traps as well. as long as u dont miss, its usually enough to almost always catch a healer off guard and not have a chance to react to it
*pretty much does not work against rdruids or mws
Everyone likes a good flyby trap.
Ive been teying to land my non trap stuns and by god ppl are fidgety little thing.
I miss my freezing traps a LOT
I’m not a hunter by any stretch but when I alted surv hunter in legion I found @cursor freezing trap macro to be helpful
But I’ve heard more experienced hunters not liking it because it’s not as precise. It worked wonders for me, but I only played it to 2k for the elite set
@cursor comes down to preference
for me personally i actually land more dry traps with it than without, and its quicker to squeeze in between gcds against a priest
See I used to have my freezing trap @cursor but I kept missing. I have my explosive trap @cursor bc I’m usually throwing it either at my feet or just in a general area to yeet someone off an edge. I have my tar trap strictly @player bc I haven’t found a reason to throw it anywhere but my feet yet. Idk I just feel like I do better aiming the freezing but im a big fan of @cursor in general and use them for nearly everything else i can. DoS, Leap on my war, infernal leap on my dh, errythang