Hunter Pet PVP Exploit

[Shadow_Pako]

Here’s a new Hunter PVP exploit that involves the use of a pet.

1. Acquire a pet in the “Worm” category.
Worms - Pet Family | Petopia - Hunter Pets in the World of Warcraft

2. Have your pet “Move” to a PVP node, like a Base Flag in Arathi Basin.
You’re going to want to take your pet off of “Follow” for this. Switch to “Move to” and click on the ground around the flag.
Move To - Wowpedia - Your wiki guide to the World of Warcraft

3. Go Feign Death in some corner or somewhere out of sight, while your pet remains at the base. For this to work, you cannot let yourself die.

4. Spam the Worm pet ability “Burrow Attack.”
Burrow Attack - Spell - World of Warcraft

Congratulations, the Worm is now unkillable! On top of that, whatever base the Worm is defending is now UNABLE to be capped by the opposing team. “Burrow Attack” prevents the pet from dying (burrowing underground), while allowing it to do constant damage to anyone trying to cap the flag.

Now get out there and enjoy your new BG cheese, fellow hunters!

[WoWSecretsYT]

Great definition of this interaction, but sadly I've been told many of times this is not an exploit. You also forgot to mention that you need the "Kindred Beasts honor talent". This is how the ability was meant to interact with the talent in battlegrounds so they probably won't touch it until the end of the season. There are a handful of counters to it, and as this is the first ownedcore thread documenting it I'll share em here:


Death Knight:
• Grippy Hands (Necrolord covenant ability)
• /cast [@WormName] Death Grip (spam this ability and it can grip the pet for the small ms window (like 5-10 ms) that it's attackable. Can be countered by putting a weird alt-code in the Worms name so people can't put it in a macro.


Rogue:
• Mark for Death + Kidney shot I've seen done on pets. This requires the hunter to have a little bit of lag(80+ms) / maybe not doing it fully optimally.
• If a non-Night Elf hunter, they have a good chance at 1v1'ing the hunter. A BM hunter can't win a 1v1 without their pets. A good rogue can also track where you shadowmeld / feign death and still find you.


Demon Hunter:
• Hit the Hunter's base, especially good against Night Elves. Use Spectral Sight and find the hunter either Camouflaged or Shadowmeld.


Shaman:
Static Field Totem can move the pet. (Theory)

[advanta]

Amazingly this strategy is actually 9 years old, though I only just found out about it myself. Great info guys.

[Strath]

Just wanted to chime in that this is considered "Clever use of game mechanics" and not an exploit, you will not get banned, and I've been running this strat in rbgs, as well as most other teams. Good post tho.