Tranquilizing Shot?-Hunter PvP Discussion-Hunter Forums-HuntsmansLodge.com

Does it really mater that much?

I mean, there's so much going on, that I can hardly follow such details , even with any given addon.

To keep it simple (relevantly harder for the target), I weave tranquilizing shot every 3-4 turns, because in most cases whether you are dispelling a self buff/shield, or a raid buff, or a temporary state buff, or a hot.

You never would be using it for nothing in practice .

..and the target will attempt to refresh hots/buffs/shields, so you don't give up weaving dispels.

Oonoes here, thanks for the plug!

Anyway, tranqing debuffs is a terribly important mechanic for hunters, and knowing what to tranq is key to finding success in both battlegrounds and in the arena.

There are a couple ways to track what sort of things you are able to tranq on a given target. What I've done on my user interface is moved the target frame to slightly below where my character stands on my screen using Xperl, and xperl's integrated enemy buff tracker highlights buffs that are able to be dispelled. (example http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f9DQ…..isplay.jpg) Its not always a great idea to tranq a target to no buffs before you start dpsing them though, because it requires a ton of focus to do it. Instead, try to identify buffs that are very bad for you based on their spell effects, and make an effort to get rid of those instead.

To a certain extent, you can anticipate when these buffs are coming and have the tranq already in the air when the enemy player is getting ready to cast it. For example, vs. ret paladins, if you have them in the middle of a freezing trap and you're building distance between you, he's almost certainly going to cast hand of freedom on himself. Look for the red circle at his feet, or if you're feeling cocky, wait about 2 seconds after the root from your trap has activated, then throw the tranq. The only real way to understand what sort of buffs are mandatory to get rid of is through experience, but as a general guide, damage shields (like priest/mage barriers), enrage effects (druid Savage roar, warrior damage cooldown), and hand of freedom type effects are the ones that need to be gotten rid of as soon as possible.

Of course, in the arena, its a bit of a different ballgame, but keep practicing and you'll figure it out.

Also, MSBT (miks scrolling battle text i think) gives a notification when you successfully dispel something, and theres a shaman purge mod that announces it in chat for what its worth.

Ha, this post is pretty good, I'm going to put it on my blog.

Anyway, good luck out there, thanks for the mention.

Ozolin, you can resize the focus bar in the options. The default was enormous! I just scaled it down a lot, but i'm fairly sure it took awhile to find that option lol. It's not as clean as the hunterfocusbar was, but the tranq shot notification AND the trap timer notification alone make it my new fav addon.

And it DOES indeed function in PvP. Joined my first Arena Team 3v3 last night, and I realized how invaluable Tranq is there! JS' makes it much easier to keep track of that.