Arena pet trick for hunters

[niebezimienny]

Nearly everyone uses a targeting addon for arena nowadays, for example Proximo. If you name your pet after yourself, the addon will target the pet instead of you sometimes (when the pet is closer than you to the person targeting). Now this might not sound too useful, but believe me it will save your ass more than once. For example, many warlocks or mages set their poly/fear target via right clicking on proximo. You'll be surprised how many times you see your pet get randomly sheeped or feared, instead of you. Also, this is very annoying for the opposing team if they want to nuke you - as a mage I often need to sheep/CS someone and to do that I switch targets, and then continue nuking the hunter. Naming your pet like your character makes it harder to retarget you, so they have to click on you or tab-target you. Tab targeting wastes some time, especially if you drop down a snake trap or play with a shaman (targeting totems). And clicking not always works, since you can run behind a pillar or some other obstacle. It will always delay the attack for a few seconds, and those seconds can mean the difference between a loss and a win. Of course this might not help you in each arena game, but it's nice to have a little edge over the enemy.

Sorry if this has been posted before, I searched but didnt come up with anything. This might actually work with other classes, if you are making an alt or something. Some ideas include calling your shaman 'Grounding', a priest 'Shadowfiend', a mage 'Water' (what the hell :P) and so on.

[ChrisC]

Doesn't work on me, I had a hunter try this the other day, so I just clicked on him.

[niebezimienny]

Probably because you were standing closer to the hunter than you were to the pet, if there are two targets with the same name, doing /target 'name' will target the nearest one. And that's what proximo does, /target. I can assure you this works.

[ChrisC]

You must have misunderstood me, this happened to me by clicking in Proximo. I then clicked on the hunter and proceeded to kill him anyway, it didn't save him.

[niebezimienny]

Oh, sorry then, I indeed misunderstood you. But as I've stated, this is not meant to work 100% times granting you permament immunity. As you said, you had to retarget him, which alone consumed some time. It's just a small trick to gain a very small edge over the opponent, which sometimes might decide the game. Another story is, if you set your focus on proximo, it would, lets say, fear the pet, instead of the hunter. Again, I repeat, this is just a small advantage to have over the opponent, nothing major.

[prosbloom225]

It works, and it's kind of cheap. Generally looked down upon in high-level arena play. All you have to do is make a petition and the GM's will make the hunter change the pets name. Though it doesn't really help after you lose a match because of it.

[niebezimienny]

It works, and it's kind of cheap. Generally looked down upon in high-level arena play. All you have to do is make a petition and the GM's will make the hunter change the pets name. Though it doesn't really help after you lose a match because of it.

Every high rated hunter I know uses that and somehow noone looks down on them. And I cannot imagine why would a GM change a pets name just because it's the same as hunters. They would if someone called their pet '****' (true story), but if it's just named after them, it's not violating any policies