I am lucky enough to have toons on both side of the ball .. healing and huntering and as you know it gives you some interesting prospective on what goes on. Now really I just need a tank, and would have one if I would get off my butt and get him out of the painful 50′s.

Oh…and…in the first sidebar, right near the top, are 4 Armory profiles. Third one down is a Hunter.

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I find it interesting that of all the ways for a hunter to not wipe a group, you pick that one. It has been my experience that Benedykt has been killed by more hunter’s FD resulting in the group wiping than ever by a trap.

They could have easily reacted the other way and and killed you instead. It is instinctual to drop a trap and do the least amount of damage possible to someone when they end up MC’d.

Agreed, there is only so much damage you can do while MC’d, but you are doing even less in that freezing trap.

Either way, fun blog … but may I suggest rolling a hunter and finding that it’s not as easy as we make it look before passing judgement on how badly they play?

You even state in retrospect that this is not a hunter wipe, but a group wipe as the first thing you did was cast the longest heal you have rather than renew and spam flash heal. It’s always easy to look backwards and decide what someone should have done, not always so easy in the moment.

(Although I agree that most hunters need to L2P lol)

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Also, mana is not generally a problem for me either: I’m a gnat’s whisker under 10K, buffed, and in 10 seconds, I can’t dump a lot off in offensive spells. I think during the time I was MC’d, I got off maybe 3 spells. (I also hadn’t called on my Fiend yet, so had that to fall back on as well.)

@ Loronar: You’re welcome! I figured a lot of more progressed healers (and hunters) know better, but I would like to make sure folks at my level avoid such things too.

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As someone else noted, one of the problems with a Mind Controlled healer is that she ends up burning all of her mana (not as much of a problem for me any more post-2.4 with the change to a Spirit-based mana regeneration system). The other problem is that they can heal the enemies and, in my case, you’re looking at a healer who can do around 8,000 a heal if the group is unlucky — not to mention Psychic Scream, Mana Burn, and Power Infusion or Pain Suppression if you’re a Discipline priest. All of those things you probably want to avoid if possible.

A little bit of foresight and the group could have recovered!

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@Lass: Excellent point! As I just did SL a week ago, and we employed exactly that tactic, I should have considered that possibility. And the MC in SL lasts longer, if I recall correctly.

I wasn’t sure which hunter dropped the trap, but I did mention (very nicely) that is created a pretty significant problem for me. I’m sure they understood, as they saw me trying to get the cast off before the tank went down.

Thank you both for stopping by!

When the second boss in SL would mind-control the entire party, it was common for healers to request that any hunter present drop a Freezing Trap at their feet, to help conserve mana (mana that would otherwise be used during the MC to deal damage to party members) for the rest of the fight. While in that particular case, the strategy often worked fairly well, in the case of the last boss in the Mechanar (heroic or otherwise), it’s probably not the best idea.

So, while the hunter(s) had the right idea, it was the wrong instance/circumstance, which is why it’s so important for hunters (indeed, all players) to have good situational awareness, an ability to adapt to happenstance and at least a base understanding of the other classes they work with.

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Now of course the survival hunter could have used wyvern sting sting, which only lasts 12 seconds, okay so you get dotted, but 1k damage to you is probably more tolerable than however much damage you would have done in the mind control and the mana loss you would have suffered.

Still generally unless theres someone spare to dispel it, don’t go CCing anyone who is mind controlled.