KermieD
11-09-2007, 05:47 PM
So, the easy one is down. You had one job to do and that's MD to help Attumen's tank get some aggro. Hopefully you worked it out with your other huntards so you sequentially helped build the aggro.
Kiddie time is over. This is your biggest challenge as a hunter you've ever faced. Seriously.
Here's where you get into the difference between a raid and a 5-man. You're going to have 2 jobs here:
1. You will be asked to CC one of the sub-bosses. This is job #1. Fail this job and the party will most likely wipe, unless over half the party is almost entirely decked out in purple and experienced enough to be able to drop another tank onto the sub-boss you failed on.
2. You need to help DPS the other bosses in order of the group killin'.
Hopefully, by this point, the raid has learned that reading up on strats is mandatory, not optional. Moroes is the first place this truly becomes true. If everyone doesn't know what they're doing, it's going to be a loooong night of nothing.
Back to #1. Hopefully, your raid leader knows enough to give you one of the melee classes to CC. If you have it, make SURE you have at least 2 pieces of Beast Lord armor on for the trap cooldown buff. If you don't have it, get it. That 5 seconds is huge here. You need to hold this sub-boss for a LONG time. It will be at least 4 traps and many times more until the party gets geared to where this becomes an easy fight.
Once you have your assignment, set your focus again. Try to get the leader to give a 20 sec warning or so so you can get the trap down on the ground and let most of the cooldown pass. You're going to want to start by doing this well off to the side. Take note of where the healers are. When the trap breaks, you don't want to lose you guy to the healers. Put your next trap between the mob and the healers then put yourself between the trap and the healers. Now, at this point, you have 2 good shots to take that will not break the trap. Those are Distrating Shot and Scorpid Sting. Use them. Oh, yeah. Don't forget, you can't let your Auto Shot go into him or you'll break the trap before the cooldown is done. One way to do that is to keep moving at all times. I have troubles with that sometimes, so I make sure that as soon as the shot goes off, I'm targeting something else. Macro time again!
Both will take the same form:
/cast [target=focus] Distracting Shot(rank x)
/stopcasting
/target pet
X of course is the highest rank you have (I forget what that is atm and I'm not logged in to check). The 2nd macro is the same, only substitute Scorpid Sting for Distracting Shot. This might be able to be done w/o the stopcasting command (stopcasting just keeps the global cooldown from interfering with other actions that aren't supposed to be tied to it--it shouldn't be necessary after 2.3 I'm told), but right now I wouldn't mess with it.
Note: You can always modify the "/target pet" command each encounter to read "/assist <maintankname>" so you can expedite returning to DPS, but I don't mess with it. There are only 5 guys on the field to start and you should be able to target the one you want anyway, as they should be spread out.
At some point in time, the sub-boss will most likely start breaking the trap quicker than you can reset it (unless you're survival and if you're not in mostly T4 stuff with over 800 agi, you probably shouldn't be survival specced in a raid), so you're going to need to kite. Make sure you're close to max range. As a BM hunter (I think most are), it's important to remember that you have 2 big tools and one last resort to help kite. First is obviously Concussive Shot. At max range, it may turn out that this will always keep you good to go on the next trap in time. Secondly, you have Intimidate with your pet. Make sure you send the pet, use Intimidate, then call the pet off. Your pet won't last long at all on these guys one-on-one and you'll want him to help with DPS on the main target of the raid.
Your last resort is, of course Wing Clip. Charge the mob, run through him and cast Wing Clip just as you're running through. It's risky, but you might get away.
Wash, rinse and repeat. Note that as you do this, you're going to probably be using the entire huge room, running back and forth the entire length, and the rest of the party is going to wonder what the hell you're smoking as you hop and skip all over the place. Keep a good eye on your guy and try not to use Distracting shot any more than you have to. You don't want to build too much aggro because sooner or later the tank will come along and break the trap and hopefully, your kiting/trapping job is done here. You still want the tank to be able to pull the mob off of you when it's your turn to take a break. When the tank does so, make sure he gets aggro and smack the snot out of this SOB that made you work so damn hard.
Good luck! This is tough, but it's doable.
Kiddie time is over. This is your biggest challenge as a hunter you've ever faced. Seriously.
Here's where you get into the difference between a raid and a 5-man. You're going to have 2 jobs here:
1. You will be asked to CC one of the sub-bosses. This is job #1. Fail this job and the party will most likely wipe, unless over half the party is almost entirely decked out in purple and experienced enough to be able to drop another tank onto the sub-boss you failed on.
2. You need to help DPS the other bosses in order of the group killin'.
Hopefully, by this point, the raid has learned that reading up on strats is mandatory, not optional. Moroes is the first place this truly becomes true. If everyone doesn't know what they're doing, it's going to be a loooong night of nothing.
Back to #1. Hopefully, your raid leader knows enough to give you one of the melee classes to CC. If you have it, make SURE you have at least 2 pieces of Beast Lord armor on for the trap cooldown buff. If you don't have it, get it. That 5 seconds is huge here. You need to hold this sub-boss for a LONG time. It will be at least 4 traps and many times more until the party gets geared to where this becomes an easy fight.
Once you have your assignment, set your focus again. Try to get the leader to give a 20 sec warning or so so you can get the trap down on the ground and let most of the cooldown pass. You're going to want to start by doing this well off to the side. Take note of where the healers are. When the trap breaks, you don't want to lose you guy to the healers. Put your next trap between the mob and the healers then put yourself between the trap and the healers. Now, at this point, you have 2 good shots to take that will not break the trap. Those are Distrating Shot and Scorpid Sting. Use them. Oh, yeah. Don't forget, you can't let your Auto Shot go into him or you'll break the trap before the cooldown is done. One way to do that is to keep moving at all times. I have troubles with that sometimes, so I make sure that as soon as the shot goes off, I'm targeting something else. Macro time again!
Both will take the same form:
/cast [target=focus] Distracting Shot(rank x)
/stopcasting
/target pet
X of course is the highest rank you have (I forget what that is atm and I'm not logged in to check). The 2nd macro is the same, only substitute Scorpid Sting for Distracting Shot. This might be able to be done w/o the stopcasting command (stopcasting just keeps the global cooldown from interfering with other actions that aren't supposed to be tied to it--it shouldn't be necessary after 2.3 I'm told), but right now I wouldn't mess with it.
Note: You can always modify the "/target pet" command each encounter to read "/assist <maintankname>" so you can expedite returning to DPS, but I don't mess with it. There are only 5 guys on the field to start and you should be able to target the one you want anyway, as they should be spread out.
At some point in time, the sub-boss will most likely start breaking the trap quicker than you can reset it (unless you're survival and if you're not in mostly T4 stuff with over 800 agi, you probably shouldn't be survival specced in a raid), so you're going to need to kite. Make sure you're close to max range. As a BM hunter (I think most are), it's important to remember that you have 2 big tools and one last resort to help kite. First is obviously Concussive Shot. At max range, it may turn out that this will always keep you good to go on the next trap in time. Secondly, you have Intimidate with your pet. Make sure you send the pet, use Intimidate, then call the pet off. Your pet won't last long at all on these guys one-on-one and you'll want him to help with DPS on the main target of the raid.
Your last resort is, of course Wing Clip. Charge the mob, run through him and cast Wing Clip just as you're running through. It's risky, but you might get away.
Wash, rinse and repeat. Note that as you do this, you're going to probably be using the entire huge room, running back and forth the entire length, and the rest of the party is going to wonder what the hell you're smoking as you hop and skip all over the place. Keep a good eye on your guy and try not to use Distracting shot any more than you have to. You don't want to build too much aggro because sooner or later the tank will come along and break the trap and hopefully, your kiting/trapping job is done here. You still want the tank to be able to pull the mob off of you when it's your turn to take a break. When the tank does so, make sure he gets aggro and smack the snot out of this SOB that made you work so damn hard.
Good luck! This is tough, but it's doable.