I must not see the use of it. Someone please explain to me when it is even useful? It feels like a wasted ability to me.
My main use is when I’m watching the flag at the Lumber Mill and I want to check on the mine. It was a lot more generally useful when the game was slower paced, though.
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Don’t fall into the trap of thinking non-rotational side utilities should be removed because they are rarely used. That’s how we lost abilities like Distracting Shot which, in some situations, was really useful (including, funnily enough, the very last boss before the patch that removed it). Nothing is “wasted” because having those abilities around doesn’t cost us anything. Maybe an action bar spot, but it’s not like those are scarce…
As for Eagle Eye: as it suggests, it’s helpful when you have to see something far away. For example, in Arathi Basin to peek at other bases. The other day I was in an Ashran and used Eagle Eye to locate the Ancient Artifact before the match even started.
Tip: macro it like this so you can use Eagle Eye within Eagle Eye:
/cast !Eagle Eye
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I have all the Blizzard action bars in place and have long since run out of spots. However, Eagle Eye is useful enough to have a spot.
Lets be honest here, even if Eagle Eye had no mechanical use at all, it’s still cool to get views from places you otherwise couldn’t. I’ll gladly give up Eagle Eye if they give us back the ability to control our pet.
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Just watching other people fight in BGs while you are stuck defending a flag.
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At lower level, it might be useful. I found it very useful in Classic. I played the Beta Classic. In Classic, the map wont show you where the NPCs you need to kill from quest. What I did was climb on a hill and spam eagle eye on all directions to find the NPCs I need. Very useful.
In Retail, leveling is fast paced and the map shows you the NPCs you need to interact with… it would make eagle eye less usable. But in Classic, the game is very slow in pacing. Eagle eye would be very useful there.
As others indicated, it is useful in BGs like on Arathi Basin. If you are on Lumber Mill, you could use Eagle Eye to see how many opponents defending in Black Smith. You could also be on cliff to see how many opponents guarding the gold mine.
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It’s off topic but removing DS was a big nerf in term of utility to one of the class with the less utility in the game. I used it to save many wipes and it was randomly useful in other situation here and there.
Very few huntards used it though. It’s kind of like most retardin not using most of their utilities ever like freedom, bubble, etc
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It’s great for Scouting. You can look at what’s going on in other places as if you are standing there.
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I sit farm/stables if I’m turned into Alli on RBGs and it’s great to be able to watch LM or BS without having to move up the road. I can watch for non-stealthies and my own teammates.
It’s literally spammable even during cast… ive been using it as long as I have been playing hunter to essentially far travel explore new maps and zones. It takes a significant amount of jumps to max it out. I can literally explore zones from other zones with it.
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Yep. The example I alluded to in my post was Archimonde at the end of HFC. Hunters were really good at taunting the far-away infernals in p4 with Distracting Shot and positioning them correctly. We also had the glyphed Explosive Trap which was a big help. Come 7.0, we lose both of those. “Oh but we get Explosive Trap knockback as a PvP talent” - yeah, and we can’t use it in PvE because of that. Coupled with the GCD change of Legion (1.0 sec => 1.5 sec), the loss of Kill Shot, the loss of two charges of our immunity, and even the camera distance being nerfed (this really did matter a lot on Archimonde) and we were left feeling much weaker going into 7.0.
Obviously there have been tuning nerfs in the past but never in my WoW career have I felt so weakened going from one patch to another as the Legion prepatch. July 19th 2016 was legitimately the worst day of WoW ever for me. I remember looking forward to big class changes like the new signature abilities of 3.0 , focus in 4.0, and the new talent abilities in 5.0 but since then it’s basically been dreading what we are losing in each major patch. This class design team needs to stop making people dread each patch because it is strangling this game to death.
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As others have said, its primary use today is in node based games to call out potential incomings or visible enemy defenders.
It’s also fun to toy with node defenders as the effect mirrors the flag capping effect. So drop one ontop a flag and you bait the half-wittted defenders into thinkinh astealth/exploiter is capping.
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I use it to scout the territory in front of me. Back in Legion, when the Horde supposedly deserted us as we invaded? I could SEE what was really going on. In BfA i use it in Nagaland to scout trails and hunt caves.
Last time I used it was during early BfA. Had just done the WQ outside of Boralus to kill the shark.
Was done with everything and just wanted to do some fast exploration. Had the macro for a long time.
Just kept on re-positioning, and eventually, my character was stationed outside of Boralus but I was exploring the western coast of Drustvar. Along with the snowy peaks.
Now you have flying to get up there but then, it was a lot of fun.
i use it all the time actually.if im looking for quest items for example
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Eagle Eye is my favorite thing about Hunters.
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I’ve used it often when camping rare pets. For example, you can use it to watch both spawn points for Skarr and the crab in firelands. For Loque, you can sit at the apes and look at the spawn point in the trees a little further down. In hyjal, you can use it to sit at the cat spawn point and watch for the owl.
Edit: also, as horde, I used it to scout for the feather spawn in stormwind, sitting on a mountain just out of the guard patrol.
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I straight up quit the game.
I know! Patches were exciting up until WoD. Each time I was like a kid in a candy store (the Cata destruction of the world withstanding).
This has been the state of things for over 5 years now. How can they be so blind? They keep telling each other they are losing subs because its an old game, despite all the feedback telling them exactly why people are leaving. If the millions of people (literally) that came back for Classic doesn’t give them a clue, nothing will.
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Had a couple more Ashrans this week where I was able to locate the Artifact before the game started with Eagle Eye. One of them was even close to the Alliance base (Burial Grounds) and I still got it. It really allows us to stand out in that BG and the teammates are usually really impressed when you’re able to tell them the exact location of the AA literally right out of the gate.