[Hunter] Aggro-free Volley

[phienomenal]

This is pretty useful when hunters are trying to AoE and not get aggro. If you cast Misdirect on the tank and cast volley you will not get aggro.

Another funny trick is if the you're a pally and is pissed off at a hunter. When the hunter is misdirect pulling you can BoP the tank and the mob would go straight to the hunter.

[damu]

MD (Misdirect) does not work on volley.

[King Protos]

and at what level do hunters get area of effect skillz?

[spawn66]

MD (Misdirect) does not work on volley.

Yeah it does actually, i do this all the time when the paladin needs to tank more then 2 to help him out, and when i'm killing more then one i do it to my pet and he holds aggro the whole fight. You should also note the fact that this works and it doesn't waste the 3 points of MD you get.

[damu]

Yeah it does actually, i do this all the time when the paladin needs to tank more then 2 to help him out, and when i'm killing more then one i do it to my pet and he holds aggro the whole fight. You should also note the fact that this works and it doesn't waste the 3 points of MD you get.

If Its not using the points to "Misdirect' the threat then it is not working.Because that is what the points are for and volly drops more then 3 arrows.

[Volcano]

Misdirection doesnt work with Volley, only (single) shots.

[Garmol]

and at what level do hunters get area of effect skillz?

They get Volley at 40 and Explosive Trap at 34

[Clovian]

How is it an exploit to say cast misdirection to not gain aggro?

[pandaman]

Pretty sure this is a bug they apparantly fixed, but still works, quite obvious it is a bug since it doesn't even eat a charge of MD

[JustAThought]

From Wowwiki:

Mechanics

These are some observations regarding how Misdirection works. For example, multi-shot does not count as "one shot" as such. Moreover, the mechanisms seem to be:

* Shots that were Immune to the mob do not count as one of your 3 misdirects, seen in Karazhan.
* When misdirection is active, ALL attacks that happen on a tick during which ANY attack happens, is Misdirected.
* On next tick, the buff counter is reduced with the number of attacks that happened.

What this means:

* You can misdirect more than three targets with Explosive Trap (Tested in Steam Vault with the yellow slave groups of four - all were misdirected, counter just went to zero).

* Note that only the initial explosion damage is misdirected; The damage on next tick counts against the hunter again.

* If you want "optimal" misdirectioning with multiple targets, save Multishot for last (eg. Aimed shot => Distracting Shot => Multishot). The first two shots reduce counter by one, and Multishot takes it to zero even though it's hitting multiple targets.

* If, against three or more targets, you use multishot first, Misdirection counts to zero after that first Multishot since three attacks occured.

[Shizka]

Cool I will try this out for sure

[Silhouette93]

Interesting I'll try it out.

[Brochkids]

the reason the pally held aggro is cause they got an aoe to hold aggro >.>

[jmp003]

idk ill try it out

[sonik]

volley does not use the charges on MD but gives aggro, i always use it in strat with the rats, FD MD-> pet and volley