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Commento di 22443

Perfect for escaping near-death situations. Good in pvp to, they will actually think your dead :p

A perfect skill, like vanish but this is for hunters!

Commento di Mikezila

This doesn't work very well in PvP in the way that you may be thinking. It will never fool a player who has seen it used before into actually thinking you're dead. When a hostile player mouses over you, they still see the sword icon, and not the hand icon they would see if you were actually dead.

However, it will make whoever was casting against you lose their target, and stop their cast. It will also (so long as it doesn't get resisted) get Hunter and Warlock pets off your back.

Commento di 19498

whats the chance of npc's and actual players resisting it and not resisting it?

cause since u have a talent proc that gives u a 4% chance not to resist it and then u hav t4 with a 5% chance (with the set number required) of also not resisting.
so there has to be a procentage of people resisting it and not resisting it.
my guess is a 50-50% chance, but i dont know though thats y im asking.

Commento di 42924

Feign Death is a very usefull spell.Here are some of its uses:
1)To get aggro of you(especially usefull in instances if you get aggro from the tank)
2)Using Feign Death stops the enemy from spelcasting,something that is very usefull in PvP along with the rest of the Silence/Interrupt hunter mechanics
3)Using Feign Death will also make pets who attack you turn back,as they are considered NPC's and not players(some stupid players may also fall to this,since it turns their attack off ,especially if you do it when you have low hp-however the pet will still stay there ><)
4)Here is another not so known use of FD:with patch 2.1 your pet dissapears when you mount.So what you can do when get dazed is feign death,let the pet take the aggro and then mount again and continue.

Commento di Nicklaus32780

If you feign death with your pet out your pet will stay out.

Commento di 69947

Doesn't it remove you as your opponent target as well? PvP or PvE?

Commento di lukeaxx

a very useful spell for getting you out of sticky situations and helping you not die...

Commento di Knoxpwns

Yes, using this in PvP it causes anyone who has you targeted to untarget you. Of course, in almost all cases this is used in a BG, they will know you didn't really die, but them losing you as a target helps a lot in getting that split second jump on the enemy.
Also, if a caster is about to hit you with a timed cast, it will cancel their spellcasting when they lose the target.

Allthough i notice in PvE situations this resists a lot more when you're close to death....

EDIT: Feign Death was changed, and is no longer an aggro drop in PvP aside from losing the aggro of Non-player characters. (example would be Pets, elemental totems, etc...) so if you FD, the apposing player will no longer lose you as their target. Kinda made it pointless if you ask me....

Commento di MetalGenocide

You actually die if you Feign Death passes the 6min timer. I found out the hard way ^^

Commento di Blasterion

but they should let us die I mean we held our breath and tried little movement as possible how can we survive that? Doesn't sound very logical.

Commento di 64199

Cannot use while under the affects of global cooldown but does not trigger it.

Commento di 135007

I have my general chat-window and my combat log separated so I can see both at the same time.
So if my target dies I´ll see it directly.

Commento di childofnewlight

I love using this in Alterac in the midst of a mob. 9/10 feigning will cause the person targeting you to let you go. Unless they REALLY hate you. Even if they know you feigned death in the middle of an all out brawl they won't waste their time trying to retab you.

Alternatively, rather than using it to get away defensively you can use it offensively.

Feign + Aim Shot

It works wonders. Especially when you're about to get a pyro blast or an enemy hunter's aim shot in the face. It drops their target and by the time they retarget usually you have most of your aim shot off. A great way to clear damage to avoid interruption via damage.

EDIT: For Cataclysm. Although you can replace aim shot with your specs heavy hitting shot.

Commento di Rarehunter

If used correctly, this is invaluable for attacking. It forces every enemy targetting you to untarget you as well as interrupting their spellcasting. In duels, FD + Snake Trap gives you a big advantage as you shoot away while your enemy tab targets half your snakes and your pet before retargetting you.

Commento di Thottbot

Is this effective in PvP? Can you act like you died right before you die and thus live?

Commento di Thottbot

I tried it, but didnt work. These days with the honor system out when you get a honor kill form the opposing faction it usually notifies you. But what I noticed is that if you dont get credit for the kill the horde doesnt fall for it, so they kept attacking me till they got the honor kill :(.

Commento di Thottbot

Posted here by Seismics (Blizzard), FD resist rates:

The general resistance data is as follows for PVE:
Vs. +0 level mob (same level), old resist: 4% new resist: 4%
Vs. +1 level mob, old resist: 5% new resist: 5%
Vs. +2 level mob, old resist: 6% new resist: 6%
Vs. +3 level mob, old resist: 37% new resist: 17%
Vs. +4 level mob, old resist: 48% new resist: 28%
Vs. +5 level mob, old resist: 59% new resist: 39%
Vs. +6 level mob, old resist: 70% new resist: 50%
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And so on (+11% for each additional level)

For PVP:
Vs. +0 level player (same level), old resist: 4% new resist: 4%
Vs. +1 level player, old resist: 5% new resist: 5%
Vs. +2 level player, old resist: 6% new resist: 6%
Vs. +3 level player, old resist: 25% new resist: 13%
Vs. +4 level player, old resist: 32% new resist: 20%
Vs. +5 level player, old resist: 39% new resist: 27%
Vs. +6 level player, old resist: 46% new resist: 34%
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And so on (+7% for each additional level)

Basically this means that against higher level MOBs, feign death was more likely to fail in the past. If there is a high level MOB/player near when you feign death, there is a better chance that the feign death will be resisted.

From experience, it appears that anything nearby gets a chance to resist, and anything far away does not.

For example, I have seen FD resisted when used out of combat - because there were a number of mobs nearby. Conversely, I have never seen FD fail, no matter how many mobs are angry at the hunter, if all the mobs are far away (raid pulling).

Commento di Thottbot

It's great for AV. Pull some "aggro" from the enemies' ranged attackers? FD and run back into your lines. Good luck to the people who have to retarget you.

Commento di Thottbot

if u hav hunter mark on and use feign death do u lose the mark or does it still show on u

Commento di Thottbot

LOL... just so everybody is clear... you DONT lose exp by doing feign death, you DONT get ress sicknes when you do feign death...

and btw when an opponent mouse over you is says 0 hp and 0 mana... same in a party... is says you are dead, but there is a little icon under your health and mana showing your doing feign death...

hope you got it now :)

Commento di Thottbot

with this, you can "interrupt" someones spells :p

Commento di Thottbot

if u happen to feign death while ur dotted like say with moonfire or shadow word: pain will u stay in combat? or will it still bring u out of it? just curious..

Commento di Thottbot

Feign Death in PvP isn't that useful, that should be obvious with the HK pop-up and the fact that the hunter is still clickable; however, on an instance run, Feign Death makes Hunters one of the best Engineering classes in the game. If your healers pull too much aggro and slowly go down, along with the tank, Feign Death + Goblin Jumper Cables saves your party a complete wipe. It's not as useful on the larger raids where hopefully a Lock has the Priest/Pally's soul stored, or a druid can combat rez one, but in a 5-man instance run this can be very helpful.

Otherwise, the use of Feign Death is for crowd control pulls. The hunter should NEVER be the primary puller. As such, the Hunter stands off to the side, away from the party, sets a freezing trap, shoots a distracting shot at a pre-determined mob and waits for the freeze. Once frozen, feign death for a couple seconds, and you can set another freeze trap for when the mob is released. You've just earned your party an extra 20 seconds (26 with the survival talent if you're bold enough to have it) to pound away at the un-sapped/un-sheeped enemies in the pull.

Commento di Thottbot

Yea...my brain hurts now.

Commento di Thottbot

I don't like this move! Maybe it's cause hunters abuse it. In Booty Bay a stupid level 60 hunter was killing all the lower levels... Killed in in one hit with Aimed shot and when all the gaurds went after him he just FD... it went on for so long *cries*

Commento di Thottbot

Does FD release you from combat mode if your pet is still attacking the mobs?

If you pet loses aggro, is it best to dismiss him, FD, lay trap then call pet?

Commento di Thottbot

PVP -

I find it strange that no one has mentioned that best pvp combo in the game that used feign death. First of all, if you're PVPing (or PVEing) you should always have your pet on passive. The only time you want your pet on defensive is when you are solo grinding. If your pet is on defensive, you will not get out of combat if your pet is currently attacking something.
With your pet on passive, it will disengage all enemies once you use a scattershot. Scattershot will make your current attacker unable to draw you back into combat with an attack. So, to begin the combo you use scattershot, then feign death, then drop a trap as fast as possbile. I have all these buttons next to each other on my screen, and you can also make a macro if you want. If you are using this on an enemy that is currently attacking you at melee range, you can drop the trap right after feigning and it will catch them. You can also start a battle this way from distance. For instance, if you and a mage are running at each other, you'll want to get one shot off, and then when you get in range for scatter (before they are able to frost nova you) immediately scattershot them and then feign. Get up right away and run to where they are scattered and drop the trap in the middle of their path. Then run to ranged distance and hunter mark them as you have your back to them. Turn around, sick your pet on them, then aimed and multi shot them and then charge for a raptor strike. If two of those attacks crit them... they will be dead or close to it.

This combo is great vs almost all classes but hunters and warlocks, since your freeze trap may trap their pets, or if they are smart, while they are scattered, they will draw you back into combat by having their pet attack you quickly. It's still a useful combo vs these classes, but not great. If you have improved traps, you can wait a little while and have another trap ready to go shortly after you start attacking again.

NOTE: Tauren hunters have it especially good, since if you don't have scatter shot or it's on cooldown, you can warstomp, and while they are stunned you can feign and trap them.

PVE -

Many people underestimate the hunter's ability to crowd control, and with feign death, you can keep a mob immobilized as long as a mage can, as long as you have improved traps in the survival build. The only problem is that the mobs can come out of the trap a little to fast for you to feign death and lay another trap down. There is also the problem of getting out of combat. I am not sure exactly what things keep you in combat, since I don't PVE a lot, but I have noticed that sometimes I get out of combat when I feign, and sometimes not. Perhaps dot damage from serpent sting will keep you in combat, but I'm not sure. Your best bet if you want to crowd control is to not have your pet engaged in battle (or not even summoned) and don't attack multiple enemies at once or do dot damage. If the mob in your trap comes out of freeze and they attack you, try to scatter, feign, and trap again once you are able. If the mob attacks someone else, wait for your feign to cooldown and then feign/trap. Use distracting shot to pull the mob back into your trap and hope no one attacks it or has done dot damage to it.

Abuse of Feign Death-
I think feign death is essential to the hunter's survival, but some people abuse it's use. People who gank lowbies in neutral camps are jerks. They can aimed shot kill peopel and then feign before the guards come attack them. I'm just glad that I can do the same thing to them to prevent them from attacking my allies.

Anyway... i hope that explains some things that weren't covered yet. Lesson over.

Commento di Thottbot

this ability is very important for EVERY single hunter. PVE you can use it to place another trap to kite or CC another mob. Also for PVE you are the king of aggro even better than rogues and every class envy's you for your ability to wipe all aggro on you instantly and every 30 seconds.

For PVP you might get lucky and FD on a player and they might believe you... but 2-3 yrs into the game by now, players know what the hell this does and will not be fooled by it anymore. Im 5 months into the game and i laugh at enemy hunters that use this and slaughter their ass. You may still find the occasional noob tho.

But in PVP where this truly shines is either to stop your opponent from casting a long spell, make them lose target of you, and to place an additional trap at their feet.

In PVE I also found it VERY useful soloing with my hunter that i could walk anywhere i wanted, it just took time. walk in cave... FD shadowmeld.. wait 30 sec.... walk futher in. This will save you countless hours of grinding to get to where u need to go to kill a boss or loot something because you dont have to fight every single mob to get there.

I also have some questions about this ability. I am a seasoned ganker inside gadgetzan and everlook and BB and i was pissed when FD was overlooked by the guards with 1.11 I believe. But recently iv seen horde FD and guards stop attacking him and i tried it in everlook and it worked 5 times in a row but then failed for the next 3 times. WTF is going on? is it random now? either way, i just want it to go back to the old days when gadgetzan was fun and it was dangerous to walk around in there lower than lvl 50.

Commento di Thottbot

As a nightelf hunter you can stealth into instances very effectivly. Start out by running past mobs. Once you aggro a few feign death. All the mobs will run back to their original possition. Then hit shadowmeld. You will immidiately stand and stealth, even if a mob is standing right next to you they wont see you transition between feigning and the shadowmeld. Wait until feign's cooldown is up, run feign and repeat.

Commento di Thottbot

no one on here seems to understand the point of FD in PVP...

it's not to trick the opponent into think you're dead

it IS for dropping out of combat so that you can place down a trap (hint: freezing)

in duels:
you can FD, drop freezing, cheetah it away, drink and eat, and STILL have time for an aim shot before it breaks
nerf FD+freezing

Commento di Thottbot

Well in BC traps can be put out IN COMBAT!
But hey also have a 30s cooldown...

They will completely change hunters in BC, for example agility will only increase RAP by 1 instead of 2...

But they have done a WHOLE lot of other changes which will balance things out

check this page about the changes:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/bc-hunter/changes.html

Commento di Thottbot

I think this is the best skill we get. I play on a PVP server and as a previous post mentioned, you would be very surprised how well this works in PVP. I have had hunters even fall for it. It works extremely well in the BGs if there is a lot of action going on and your pet is off doing something else. I use this in almost every AB round at least once.

The trick is to think like the players. You need to do a little work to fool humans.

and of course it works well in pvp for trap dropping.

Commento di Thottbot

I think most in the PVP that there is usually so much going on that, people overlook- I use this all the time, and it rarely fails me.

Commento di Thottbot

Does anyone know if they fixed the side affect where if you feign for all 6 minutes you die? i did that once and it was annoying because i had to run a long way back.

Commento di Thottbot

all hunters who employ feign death against undead will be EATEN ALIVE!

Commento di Thottbot

You use it to cancel spells in PvP since they have no target it stops. Great for canceling a pyroblast or a longer cast if you are CCed.

Commento di Thottbot

The only reason i have ever used it in PvP situatons is to stop a powerful spell, or to get another hunters pet to retreat to its owner.

Commento di Thottbot

It seems like if u use it on the same mobs more than once, they ignore it and keep attacking.
I used it in Gnomer near some gnomes, waited till full HP, shadowmelded (yes, u can do it right after and no one notices unless they get too close) until cool down is over, then ran for it and re-feigned death in a safe spot only for ALL of them to continue to pummel me to death =(

Commento di Thottbot

when did they patch it so u dont die after 6 minutes, my kara got stuck in the nightbane place cause of a glitch and i really needed to die -_-

Commento di Thottbot

This ability has saved my hunter countless times who is now lvl 52 i often use it in BGs mostly to get me untargted when there is 3 or more enemies attcking me and i use this usually they'll fall for it at least for a few seconds until they get curious on why i haven't left my corpse.In Real PvP this has worked a couple of time against 70s when i use it right before i am really going to die and they are eager to get to their next target by the time they realize it was a fake ive mounted and ran as far i can.Another us is in quest when i need to retrieve a item that is surrouned by mobs for example a cave i will just run in as far as ican feign wait for hp to restore shadowmeld so my feign CD will shorten and repeat till iget to the item and instead of having to fight 15-20 mobs only 1 or 2 will fight me.

Commento di Thottbot

Feign death is a miracle for a skilled hunter.
For a Night Elf, this is just a gift from heaven.
Feign Death+ drink+eat+ Shadowmeld in the middle of a fight (be careful not to have your pet under attack while doing this), they will lose your target, will have to find you again, you regen health and mana, AND they will still be under attack from your pet, so they will be forced to attack a pet which will cost them dearly :)

Commento di Thottbot

Hunter version of Grounding Totem, BUT it works on every person at once.

Commento di Thottbot

I love doing this in PvP, just wait for somone to die neer you and it will say HK for the opposing fraction and they think they killled you :)

Commento di Thottbot

Too bad, that it doesn't work on the pet... It would be an ultimate skill then.

Commento di Allakhazam

For solo hunters this is a godsend. it can get you out of trouble or be used as a instant pet aggro. Also if you are pvp and someone higher lvl attacks ya if you get it off alot of times they dont understand what happened and leave you so you get off free but if they know what you did they can still attack ya =(.

anyway wanted to say a warning. THIS IS NOT A AFK SAFE FAIL like it was in EQ for monks and other classes with the FD spell. Once the 6 minute timer on your FD bar goes you actually DIE not stand up but DIE

Commento di Allakhazam

this does some good RPing.. (your so ugly it kills me)

Commento di Allakhazam

This thing works very nice if you are facing another hunter or warlock. Just lay your Ice trap (before they get to you) and get back a bit.
After they get out of it use this and pop back up quick. the pet will come back to them and that usually give you a few seconeds before they realize that there pet stoped attacking you.

This also puts you out of combat so lay another trap. and there pet will just about never tuch you.

Commento di Allakhazam

Hunters, are like specialists in aggro dumping. Disengage, Feign Death, hell even a pet to draw the aggro and let you run!

Commento di Allakhazam

This is so cool! But when I'm swarmed w/a bunch of monsters attacking, I dismiss pet and feign death. It's better than really dying. ^-^

Edited, Sat Mar 18 17:54:20 2006

Commento di Allakhazam

Funny to die from playing dead :D

Commento di Allakhazam

Heh, I've seen other Hunters report me to blizzard for hacking after using this ability.
"OMFG how u rez quik and how come pet still alive"

Commento di Allakhazam

i think this move is awsome. for all Hunter like me i love this move. If your doing an Instince and you pull mobs and your Warrior(s) dont taunt them then this is the best you move have

Commento di Allakhazam

If you're in a PVP instance however or in duel, the player knows you're faking and will kill you anyways.

However it does wonders for more than one player. I can't wait to get my hunter up to 60s and run him in outlands.

Edited, Aug 6th 2007 10:07pm by Waylo

Commento di Allakhazam

that sux

Commento di gamedisciple

In Classic this ability will not drop you out of combat if your pet is fighting. This means you cannot place a trap. This was changed in Burning Crusade.

However, the ability is useful for:

Removing aggro (to get a mob back to your tank)
Resetting a bad pull (too many mobs at once)
Going AFK (but only for <5 minutes as you will actually die if gone too long)

Commento di Hagiazo

Hardcore players: This will kill you if you let it run the full 6 minutes! They don't care if you didn't know. You will not get your character back.

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Feign Death

Feign Death
80 Mana

Istantaneo	30 s di recupero

Feign death which may trick enemies into ignoring you. Lasts up to 6 min.

Beneficio

Dettagli dell'incantesimo

Durata

6 minuti

Scuola

Fisico

Meccanica

n/d

Tipo di Dissipare

n/d

Categoria GCD

n/d

Costo

80 Mana

Portata

0 metri (Self)

Tempo di lancio

Istantaneo

Recupero

30 secondi

GCD

0 secondi

Effetto

Apply Aura: Feign Death
[PVP Multiplier: ]1

Variabili

Il tempo di lancio è nascosto
Non Può Essere Utilizzato Mentre Trasformare
[Do Not Sheath]
Ferma l'Auto-attacco
Comincare Timer Dopo Dissolvenze Aura
Genera Alcuna Minaccia
[No AutoCast (AI)]
[Prevents Anim]

Feign Death

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Dettagli dell'incantesimo

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