Whether this is inconsistent with vanilla or not I don't know, since I didn't play a hunter in vanilla. What I do know is that a lot of hunters having problems w/ feign+trap aren't using a macro that has /petfollow [combat] which is causing their pet to put them back in combat before they can trap due to the CD. Try this macro, and I think you'll find the results very predictable. Been using it since launch without any issue, in both pvp and pve.
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#showtooltip freezing trap
/stopattack [combat]
/petfollow [combat]
/cast freezing trap
/cast [combat] feign death
Should feign death precede freezing trap?
Mfw it turns out that one of the biggest hunter bugs is actually everyone just forgetting that you have to make a macro because all the pservers had that baked in.
Not sure what servers this was true for but I definitely used a similar macro to the one posted above for FD -> Trap on light’s hope servers (albeit different coding because classic has retail updated macro functions)
Blizzard provided an update to this with a fix: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/feign-death-trap-bug/278131/497
Hunters rejoice.
Should feign death precede freezing trap?
Meant to hit quote, not like. Having it before allows you to set trap on one key press & feign + trap on two. In reverse order you do the opposite. Other than that, it doesn't matter which is first or second.
Meant to hit quote, not like. Having it before allows you to set trap on one key press & feign + trap on two. In reverse order you do the opposite. Other than that, it doesn't matter which is first or second.
Yeh, I did wonder if it was a double tap macro with the order you listed. Does feign death trigger a GCD so that you will always need to wait 1.5sec between FD and dropping a trap? I thought I had seen hunters do FD/Trap without a GCD between the two, but maybe I was mistaken.
Yeh, I did wonder if it was a double tap macro with the order you listed. Does feign death trigger a GCD so that you will always need to wait 1.5sec between FD and dropping a trap? I thought I had seen hunters do FD/Trap without a GCD between the two, but maybe I was mistaken.
Feign death itself doesn't trigger gcd. A hidden gcd is somehow being applied to the wait period you have to go through before you can leave combat, and thus place a trap. Meaning every single time you feign death it's going to take 1.5 seconds before you're out of combat, and can place your trap. There has been some confusion about whether in classic there was a wait period or not. A lot of people seem to think there was no wait period. I'm not really sure, since I didn't play a hunter in classic.
Hello,
Hunters are currently suffering from a cripping bug.
The Feign Death ability used to make your characher get out of combat and thus be able to put traps while fighitng.
Currently, the ability is completely unreliable. Most of the times it doesn't work, and the times it work it take 1-2 seconds to get you out of combat.
(You can read more about why on the thread i posted down here on classic wow Forum)This ability is fundamental in PVP as it's our main source for getting away from melee attackers.
If any of you have spare time, please go to the classic wow forum on blizzard, bug section, and bump on the hunter Feign Death + Trap bug threads.
This is the most commented thread I found (it's on US forums): removed link "> removed linkBlizzard has not yet commented on the issue after quite some time.
This is a huge issue, the hunter class is broken to an extend it doens't make sense to play it in PVP.
Thanks.
The feign death ability
[was never crippling (or crippled)to me]
is one you need to know how to use 1ce a year
It will take your character out of combat - and put a restart
to all
combat ability.
The advice to setting traps
&countering attackers
is as so:
the traps I would (set)
as normal
As taking on a enemy
(Normal as a BM)
Use stampede
as the other alt
for taking damage
from re-entering combat.