Comments on: Explosive Trap- Hunter Consecrate!

By: Bozanimal

Bozanimal — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:41:54 +0000

I’ll try it out on Saurfang 25 tomorrow, thanks!

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:02:03 +0000

Actually, it does. Give it a try :) Drop one without a BA ticking onto a mob. It won’t proc one if your internal cooldown from BA is still going, however if you can get one this way, it does not cause the internal cooldown to trigger, as far as I can tell.

By: Bozanimal

Bozanimal — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:59:45 +0000

Explosive Trap does not force a Lock n Load proc; it has the same proc rate as Black Arrow. If you want to force a proc you’re better off using Freezing Arrow or a Frost trap on top of an Explosive trap to get the benefit of both worlds.

I really enjoyed this entry otherwise; there are far too few Hunter articles about the appropriate use of traps, and I’d like to see more.

By: CapnSkillet

CapnSkillet — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:28:50 +0000

I’d like to see an immolation arrow that leaves a small AoE fire on the ground. For once, it would be nice to see raid bosses or other mobs stand in fire! Those who remember Diablo II remember the Amazon having this ability.

By: Nasthian

Nasthian — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:38:15 +0000

I don’t do many raids, but I’ve found it to be really handy for positionally-challenged fights like Halls of Reflection. Since I’m kissing the mobs for the first few seconds of that fight anyway, I drop some traps. The only hitch is that MD seems temperamental about whether or not it gets triggered, but that’s what FD is for.

By: Brigwyn

Brigwyn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:10:43 +0000

Great post Rip!

It’s pretty amazing I have to admit. Over at the Lodge we’ve been talking about how Explosive Trap coupled with Misdirection is an awesome way to help ramp up aggro.

Even mentioned it in a Hunter 101 post back in December and in previous podcasts. Good to see that it’s catching on elsewhere!

Again, great post Rip!

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:41:06 +0000

That’s not a bad idea :)

By: Ardor

Ardor — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:15:34 +0000

I have Explosive trap macroed to disengage as well. One key, drops trap, pops you back to range. Just watch your positioning.

By: Lenwe

Lenwe — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:41:30 +0000

It does trigger the MD.

By: Bowya

Bowya — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:56:38 +0000

surely it would be better to use the single target immo trap as it does more damage.

By: Rafeke

Rafeke — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:01:37 +0000

I’ve been doing this for a while now, and a few good places are heroic VH (Violet hold). Also ICC trash of course, among others!

Best technique imo…

self aspect to location (usually at or a tad in front of tank)

- drop trap (explosive or immolation)
- Disengage (while in movement, switch aspects to dps)
- Volley

- if you want, multi-shot =)
of course..just an imo!

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:38:49 +0000

ZOMG, want to buy!

By: Iceveiled

Iceveiled — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:16:18 +0000

I’m gonna have to play with this in my next pug and try to get the timing down. Now all we need is ‘flaming arrow’ ability to deploy these traps from range. :D

By: Lunaron

Lunaron — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:06:22 +0000

As an MM hunter, is it possible to place an explosive trap, use readiness, place another explosive trap, MD then start volleying? I’d imagine you could get insane DPS with 2 explosives active and a hasted/proc’d volley! (I’ve not currently got access to WoW to test this.)

Bowya – that’s awesome DPS. The largest I’ve had is 25k in 10man ICC so far without using explosive, so I’m looking forward to my next run!

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:44:26 +0000

Heh, that’s quite situational and I wouldn’t want to have that glyph active if I’m fighting festergut, but if you have access to a scribe, you could keep a stack of your normal glyph and explosive shot glyphs around and change them for add fights :P

By: Muron

Muron — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:02:34 +0000

I have found explosive trap very useful on putricide on the green and brown oozes.

Green – when your running in to absorb the explosion, drop an explosive trap then (since you will be in melee range and it is by far your best melee attack).

Brown – when you are kiting the brown slime and run out of instant shots drop an explosive, it doesn’t do much damage but better than none.

By: Bowya

Bowya — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:36:42 +0000

Ive been doing this alot and tbh never got aggro unless its on a fresh mob being pulled. Its simple as explosivetrap MD Volley. Check out some the the dps ive had. http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/1768/etftw.jpg

By: Alar

Alar — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:34:52 +0000

I was playing around with some glyphs in my offspec for the Saurafang/blood beast fight and ended up trying the glph that can make your explosive trap ticks crit that can help you get crazy dps on trash and in heroics

By: Kataron

Kataron — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:19:21 +0000

Interesting. I haven’t really used traps outside of pvp since we got black arrow a while back. I’ll definitely give this a shot tomorrow night when I’m back into ICC.

Also, have you been having much luck with gear drops? ’cause I’ve only gotten two upgrades from bosses so far. Not much hunter love, from what I’ve seen. Only gotten Wodin’s Lucky Necklace and the 264 bow, which has dropped so often that it’s now being DE’ed. There was a staff the other day that was pure sex, but a damn dirty druid got it. But at least it was one of our awesome tanking druids and not some scrub feral.

By: eidotrope

eidotrope — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:03:23 +0000

Are you sure about the trap not triggering MD, Euripides? It does for me.

By: catbeef

catbeef — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:56:39 +0000

Too bad an Explosive Trap on a single target is now more effective than an Immolation trap, show some trap love :(

Ps. Frost trap arrow would be delicious.

By: Neelyung

Neelyung — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:38:03 +0000

Lay the trap, , stand on it, start misdrect, prepare your volley. The moment trash is near/on you, start your volley. Once your MD is used up, Disengage, and pew pew. I did this last night in the Plagueworks when someone triggered the trap that pulls all the geists. Worked like a charm. Got something like 13K dps as SV.

By: eidotrope

eidotrope — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:00:29 +0000

I think the trash for the new Plague Wing in ICC offers some good examples for your last paragraph. The pull after the abominations might be very tempting for AoE, but single target is necessary for some of the mobs in that mess. However, with the later hallway traps, MD+Explosive Trap+Volley is more than okay. I was pulling 28k on one pack!