Comments on: In The Blink of An Eye: The Lost Art of Trapping http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html We grok hunters Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:02:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Trinia http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html/comment-page-1#comment-6921 Trinia Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:55:47 +0000 http://www.aspectofthehare.net/?p=1545#comment-6921 Wow, this really made me think more about how I want to play my hunter. I'm leveling up my original hunter again because the main guild I raided with, decided to move to the server I had played before (Aman'thul - Oceanic) I made my main server Greymane-US. I played my hunter all day, and in times where I just wanted to read your blog I'd just sit there reading it, half the time getting pounded on by mobs, but what the hey. Hunter. <3 Yet, this really made me think of this Hunter I had played with in H UK just yesterday as I was tanking on my main, (Florelline 80 Feral Druid on Greymane) and she trapped one mob, and wyvern stung another, and I felt really bad when during the first pulls or so, (before I got into the groove of which mobs she would trap & sleep) I would swipe or glyph'd maul the mob (So it hits two mobs, not just one.) and it would wake up or get untrapped. I'd apologize and they would just say, "No worries. It makes me feel useful either way." Only one death the whole time, and that was from the warrior who kept bladestorming everything. So, I hold great respect now for hunters who chain CC like that, and would love if every hunter could do the skill, and would love to be one of those hunters now. :) - Trinia 49 NE Hunter Aman'Thul-Oceanic Wow, this really made me think more about how I want to play my hunter. I’m leveling up my original hunter again because the main guild I raided with, decided to move to the server I had played before (Aman’thul – Oceanic) I made my main server Greymane-US. I played my hunter all day, and in times where I just wanted to read your blog I’d just sit there reading it, half the time getting pounded on by mobs, but what the hey. Hunter. <3

Yet, this really made me think of this Hunter I had played with in H UK just yesterday as I was tanking on my main, (Florelline 80 Feral Druid on Greymane) and she trapped one mob, and wyvern stung another, and I felt really bad when during the first pulls or so, (before I got into the groove of which mobs she would trap & sleep) I would swipe or glyph’d maul the mob (So it hits two mobs, not just one.) and it would wake up or get untrapped. I’d apologize and they would just say, “No worries. It makes me feel useful either way.” Only one death the whole time, and that was from the warrior who kept bladestorming everything.

So, I hold great respect now for hunters who chain CC like that, and would love if every hunter could do the skill, and would love to be one of those hunters now. :)

- Trinia 49 NE Hunter Aman’Thul-Oceanic

]]> By: Zwingli http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html/comment-page-1#comment-6938 Zwingli Fri, 29 May 2009 04:08:04 +0000 http://www.aspectofthehare.net/?p=1545#comment-6938 That was great! That was great!

]]> By: Hunter 101: Focused Fire Means Faster Kills | The Hunting Lodge http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html/comment-page-1#comment-6937 Hunter 101: Focused Fire Means Faster Kills | The Hunting Lodge Thu, 28 May 2009 23:43:32 +0000 http://www.aspectofthehare.net/?p=1545#comment-6937 [...] Now the blue square?  Yeah.. that’s your trap usually.   Oh?  Don’t know about trapping? *sigh* I guess we’ll talk about that another time, in the mean time go check out Pike’s article. [...] [...] Now the blue square?  Yeah.. that’s your trap usually.   Oh?  Don’t know about trapping? *sigh* I guess we’ll talk about that another time, in the mean time go check out Pike’s article. [...]

]]> By: Hunter 101 - Hunters and Their Pets | The Hunting Lodge http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html/comment-page-1#comment-6936 Hunter 101 - Hunters and Their Pets | The Hunting Lodge Tue, 26 May 2009 23:23:15 +0000 http://www.aspectofthehare.net/?p=1545#comment-6936 [...] through my RSS feeds I noticed that Pike over at Aspect of the Hare had beat me to it with a great post.  And honestly?  She did a great job and has movies over there to [...] [...] through my RSS feeds I noticed that Pike over at Aspect of the Hare had beat me to it with a great post.  And honestly?  She did a great job and has movies over there to [...]

]]> By: Shagrat http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html/comment-page-1#comment-6914 Shagrat Tue, 26 May 2009 17:00:13 +0000 http://www.aspectofthehare.net/?p=1545#comment-6914 Ah chain trapping, a skill that separated the good hunters from the baddies in BC. My favorite memories where keeping the arms warrior (Daris I think his name was?) in the Moroes encounter trapped the entire fight. The most recent use of my chain trapping was our Vezax kill on Sunday. I picked up one of the warrior adds and just kept him trapped pretty much the entire time. The second pack...not so much. Picked one up and trapped it, I forgot about it, he defrosted and clocked me in the back of the head. Ah chain trapping, a skill that separated the good hunters from the baddies in BC. My favorite memories where keeping the arms warrior (Daris I think his name was?) in the Moroes encounter trapped the entire fight. The most recent use of my chain trapping was our Vezax kill on Sunday. I picked up one of the warrior adds and just kept him trapped pretty much the entire time. The second pack…not so much. Picked one up and trapped it, I forgot about it, he defrosted and clocked me in the back of the head.

]]> By: katzmania http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html/comment-page-1#comment-6920 katzmania Tue, 26 May 2009 16:08:32 +0000 http://www.aspectofthehare.net/?p=1545#comment-6920 I miss the blue square, I miss prot warriors they were always so appreciative of cc. Sometimes it seems like they're trying to take all the finesse out of instances. Sadly I almost never do instances on my hunter any more, its just depressing, all instances are being run on my little holy pally which is a lot more fun than i would have thought. lvld her holy did instances pretty much the entire way and am closing in on 80 now. My hunter just runs around doing achievements and fishing these days, occasionally though I do go back and solo instances and trap mobs just for kicks and giggles. I miss the blue square, I miss prot warriors they were always so appreciative of cc. Sometimes it seems like they’re trying to take all the finesse out of instances. Sadly I almost never do instances on my hunter any more, its just depressing, all instances are being run on my little holy pally which is a lot more fun than i would have thought. lvld her holy did instances pretty much the entire way and am closing in on 80 now. My hunter just runs around doing achievements and fishing these days, occasionally though I do go back and solo instances and trap mobs just for kicks and giggles.

]]> By: Qasjot http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html/comment-page-1#comment-6932 Qasjot Tue, 26 May 2009 12:03:31 +0000 http://www.aspectofthehare.net/?p=1545#comment-6932 Moroes encounter in Karazhan... Was there with a fairly lowgeared new group of guildies, one good tank and a healer raid leader that knew me well. It took for EVER for them to down three mobs, while I was chaintrapping the paladin back and forth behind them. On Ventrilo: "we take paladin now?" "Nah, let's get Moroes down, Tanks seems more in trouble then Qas" Made me proud.... Moroes encounter in Karazhan…
Was there with a fairly lowgeared new group of guildies, one good tank and a healer raid leader that knew me well.
It took for EVER for them to down three mobs, while I was chaintrapping the paladin back and forth behind them.
On Ventrilo:
“we take paladin now?”
“Nah, let’s get Moroes down, Tanks seems more in trouble then Qas”
Made me proud….

]]> By: Ærynn Lómëhtar http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html/comment-page-1#comment-6942 Ærynn Lómëhtar Tue, 26 May 2009 10:06:19 +0000 http://www.aspectofthehare.net/?p=1545#comment-6942 I, too, remember when page layout meant sharp scissors, rulers (in metric, imperial, cicero and pica), bits of tape or paste, and typeset copy—while it was possible to have limitless tries to get the columns and the page design right, it was the pride of any type-setter/lay-out artist to get it right... and how experience in such "old school" methods guaranteed better results when, during the era of WYSIWYG computing, we were measured up with those whose first experience was Banner and Print Shop. When dealing with Pagemaker and WordPerfect then it was "Hey! I used to do this with scraps of paper! What convenience!" and the Print Shop young 'uns would go "Gosh! This is so difficult! Give me back Print Shop!" I also miss the days when trapping and kiting abilities were seen as essential to being a good hunter. My only comfort is this: back in BC, there was a time when these skills were also forgotten... but only for a while. Those times will return; and when it does, I hope that I am ready. (^o^) I, too, remember when page layout meant sharp scissors, rulers (in metric, imperial, cicero and pica), bits of tape or paste, and typeset copy—while it was possible to have limitless tries to get the columns and the page design right, it was the pride of any type-setter/lay-out artist to get it right… and how experience in such “old school” methods guaranteed better results when, during the era of WYSIWYG computing, we were measured up with those whose first experience was Banner and Print Shop. When dealing with Pagemaker and WordPerfect then it was “Hey! I used to do this with scraps of paper! What convenience!” and the Print Shop young ‘uns would go “Gosh! This is so difficult! Give me back Print Shop!”

I also miss the days when trapping and kiting abilities were seen as essential to being a good hunter. My only comfort is this: back in BC, there was a time when these skills were also forgotten… but only for a while. Those times will return; and when it does, I hope that I am ready. (^o^)

]]> By: Hothfaroth http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html/comment-page-1#comment-6915 Hothfaroth Tue, 26 May 2009 02:00:35 +0000 http://www.aspectofthehare.net/?p=1545#comment-6915 Yes, yes, yes! I do so miss those days, on my hunter, for the trapping, and on my tanks when one had to plan the pulls and set them up taking the strengths and weaknesses of the group in to account... and yes, especially on my healer, when I am trying to heal a tank that is not quite ready for the tank 'em all and AOE them down mentality that is so the rage these days. I often got compliments on my trapping, and when I was grinding my CE rep on my druid, and running pugs in Steam Vaults, people always left happy because the run had gone so well due to my knowing how to set things up. And your real world analogy is spot on, I have had that sort of experience in two careers now, and learning the old "hands-on" way makes it so much easier to switch over to the digital way of doing things, because you understand the concepts so much better. Yes, yes, yes! I do so miss those days, on my hunter, for the trapping, and on my tanks when one had to plan the pulls and set them up taking the strengths and weaknesses of the group in to account… and yes, especially on my healer, when I am trying to heal a tank that is not quite ready for the tank ‘em all and AOE them down mentality that is so the rage these days. I often got compliments on my trapping, and when I was grinding my CE rep on my druid, and running pugs in Steam Vaults, people always left happy because the run had gone so well due to my knowing how to set things up. And your real world analogy is spot on, I have had that sort of experience in two careers now, and learning the old “hands-on” way makes it so much easier to switch over to the digital way of doing things, because you understand the concepts so much better.

]]> By: Klinderas http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2009/05/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-the-lost-art-of-trapping.html/comment-page-1#comment-6935 Klinderas Mon, 25 May 2009 16:31:56 +0000 http://www.aspectofthehare.net/?p=1545#comment-6935 I was lucky enough to be able to chain trap recently when we had an offspec healer who couldnt heal through all the AoE trash. I miss those days as it made me feel like a hero. I was lucky enough to be able to chain trap recently when we had an offspec healer who couldnt heal through all the AoE trash.

I miss those days as it made me feel like a hero.

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