Fun with Disengage

Last week, Frost put together a really great video tutorial demonstrating the jump-Disengage technique. If you haven’t yet seen it, I highly recommend spending a few minutes to view it. Being able to master this technique is a huge advantage for a hunter, both in PvE and PvP.

There’s also another little nifty use for Disengage that you may not be aware of. As long as you’re in combat when you do it, you can jump from ridiculous heights and land unscathed by way of Disengage.

Here… I’ll show you how.

Garwulf Cheats Death: Using Disengage to Avoid Fall Damage

If you can master this technique it will not only help you survive in a lot of situations, but it will no doubt get under your enemies’ skin, especially if they try to follow you down. Imagine the look on the person’s face as they stare at the corpse release button, while you’re busy mourning their death, teabagging their corpse, planting your flag in them, or w/e your thing is…

This trick is kinda gimmicky and not as practical as what frost discussed in his video, but here it is nonetheless. However, as far as a few recommended offensive uses for Disengage:

Raids and Dungeons

• Use to leap into/out of a pack of trash when you drop an Explosive Trap for ET+Volley AoE awesomeness.
• Use it to travel quickly when placing Frost Traps or repositioning during Saurfang.
• Use it to get to the spore during Festergut.
• use it to get to the disco balls during Blood Princes.
• In fact, just try to use it anytime you need to be on the move quickly.

PvP

• Blast past the enemy flag carrier in WSG to drop a Frost Trap.
• Use it to catch the enemy FC in WSG so that you can throw down a clutch Wing Clip.
• Use it to quickly LoS (line of sight) someone.
• Use it to quickly get into someone else’s LoS.
• Use it to quickly get in range for a Scatter Shot/Freezing Trap.

There are umpteen situations that don’t involve escaping and survivability, where Disengage can be useful. Just imagine it as your own personal short-range jet pack. Disengage is one of the greatest class abilities that hunters have. Learning how and when to use it will increase your huntering prowess ten-fold.

Happy Disengaging! Have fun out there people!

I slapped that video together today kinda spur-of-the-moment while I was out looking for the TLPD. I really enjoy when others create instructional videos, so it prompts me to wanna contribute some of my own. I just need to become a little more pro at it. But… the only way to get better is by doing, right? Well, that’s my thinking anyway. Hopefully my vids will eventually become less and less fail as I start to get the hang of things.

Tagged as: disengage, flag carrier, pve, pvp, warsong gulch