One strategy for fighting normal Magmaw involves having a single person kite the add packs while all other dps focus on the boss. Often enough, that single person is a hunter. What should you do if you get tasked with this job?
Posts Tagged ‘kiting’
Kiting Magmaw Adds as a Hunter
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged kiting, Lava Parasites, Magmaw, Parasite Evening on March 18, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Extreme Soloing Basics
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged agro, CC, crowd control, extreme soloing, hunter soloing, kiting, mend pet, pet, pet builds, pets, soloing, survivability, tenacity, tier 5 on April 30, 2010 | 11 Comments »
What is extreme soloing? It is soloing game content that was originally not meant to be done by one player, such as older instances and older raids. Typically, this content is challenging, otherwise it isn’t extreme. I realize that “extreme soloing” isn’t the coolest name for the activity, but it is the name already in use and I see [...]
Hunting Professor Putricide!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged dps, gas cloud, Hunter, kite, kiting, professor putricide, putricide, pve, ranged, strat, strategy, tips, volatile ooze on March 12, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Professor Putricide is the execution check your raid leader has nightmares about. All the 5% buffs in the world won’t save you from bad positioning on this fight. As hunters, we’ve got every opportunity to do top notch performance on this fight, and today we’re going to talk about how.
Hunting Deathbringer Saurfang!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged blood beasts, blood nova, blood power, Deathbringer Saurfang, how to kite, hunters, ICC, icecrown citadel, kite, kiting, kiting blood beasts, mark of the fallen champion, pve, raiding, strategy, tactics on December 29, 2009 | 41 Comments »
This encounter is the glock-block encounter designed to test your guilds’ hunters’ kiting skills, as well as your healers and tanks and everything else. Doing this fight feels like rolling a boulder up a ski jump- that last 3% takes more work than the first 20%. Haven’t kited in a while? Read on for the [...]
Ignis trash and kiting magma ragers!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged aspect of the pack, feign death, fire blast, flame herpes, ignis, kite, kiting, magma rager, sacrificial hunter, trash, unquenchable flames, whirlwind on June 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
An update and a couple of tips today on Ignis’s trash. First off, flame herpes has been taken out of the game. You no longer have to heal through a jumping dot while trying to clear the trash on the way to the pools. Also, they took out a few groups. The trash now have [...]
Kiting Boot-camp!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged auto-shot, concussive shot, disengage, firing angle, frost trap, how to kite, instant, instant abilities, instant shot, jump shot, kite, kiting, kiting macro, macro, raptor strike, slow, snare, wing clip on April 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Due to popular request, I’m writing up a guide on how to kite. I’ve written before about how to kite zombie chows on gluth, but this is going to be more general. Plus, the zombie chows is really more like range tanking than kiting ;)
Trapdancing! Part 3- Grobbulus, Gluth
Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged boss trapping, deadly boss mods, dps, frost trap, gluth, gluth kiting, grobbulus, kiting, lock and load, misdirect, pve, raiding, tranquilizing shot, trap dancing, trapping, zombie kiting on March 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The third in my series of posts about how to use traps on specific end game boss encounters will focus on the last half of the construct quarter. We’ve gone over Patchwerk, so today I’ll write about Grobbulus and Gluth. As a reminder for all the new readers sent here from WowInsider, the reason you [...]