Tranquilizing ShotFollow

I really like the idea of this skill. One problem i do have though is it has a very limited number of uses. As far as i know these are the only mobs it works on:

Bosses:
-Magmadar
-Flamegor
-Chromaggus
-Maws
-Princess Huhuran
-Hakkar the Soulflayer (with the buff from High Priest Thekal)
-Gluth
-Aeonus

Trash Mobs:
-Death Talon Seether
-Qiraji Slayer

I really hope blizzard makes this skill more usefull. because to me this skill has the potential to be pretty awsome. Like maybe they could make it remove the enrage effect that alot of creatures like the naga in steam vaults or a few of the mobs in mech do. that would be pretty neat i think. As far as pvp goes i have never used it in pvp. but there are a couple of things i would think that this skill could remove. like blood fury.

anyways what do you guys think?

Edited, Nov 5th 2007 10:12am by Slammerofkooter

Edited, Nov 5th 2007 10:13am by Slammerofkooter

I really hope they don't implement this skill on any new encounter.
This skill was the excuse Blizz took to make hunters raid viable long before BC hit.
Hunters where somewhat weak on their DPS and there where few reasons to bring hunters to a 40man raid (there where guilds doing end game dungeons with 0-1 hunters in the raid. I believe on the world firsts of nearly every Naxx boss there where 0-1 hunters present).
To fix this issue there was always one boss encounter per end-game dungeon which required tranq-shot. Thus raids had to bring some hunters along for that skill alone.
With the implementation of steady-shot and the general revamp of the hunter class with the Burnuing Crusade Blizz finally managed to balance the hunter class somewhat for PvE and Tranq shot become obsolete.

The shot itself is somewhat strange. It would be very bad design of an encounter to require a certain amount of hunters so that it can be done. That won't work very well in 5mans, and it would be a bad idea for raids. I really like the current encounters which are way more balanced and challenging without requiring a too close raid setup.

Edit: Got the first sentences messed up a bit.

Edited, Nov 5th 2007 4:28pm by Mulgrin

Never used this shot before. I have it, never use it. It was my interpretation that it was to be used to remove fear off a target before it aggros something else.

I wish it worked like that other (priest?) spell that soothes the targets and lowers their aggro range. Call it a tranq dart... Could be very useful then.

Thanks Ebonspine... made me look at that shot in a totally different light. Can already think of other places to use it. Might have to move that icon a little closer to the more useful ones.

That is awesome i joined wow about in December of 06 so TBC was already out. To hear the back story of that one shot is pretty neat. are there any other cool backstorys to hunters skills or anything from pre bc?



Edited, Nov 5th 2007 8:37pm by Slammerofkooter

That would be interesting. I hope the quests are not as buggy know as they where at that time when those demons bugged out when you used the wrong rank of a spell (e.g. that winterspring demon which did not take extra damage from the new serpent sting spell rank from AQ20 and had to be killed with the 2nd highest rank and still resetted after not being hit for ~5 seconds which forced you to shot rank 1 arcane shot whenever it was up, while shooting serpent sting in between).
However some demons won't be a cakewalk at level 70 as you have to get the strategy right or you still won't kill the demon that easily.
But because of more damage, a bigger health pool and a ton more mana it'll be a lot easier than it was at level 60 with some pieces of tier 1 armor when you looted that leaf and could not wait for that really nice bow.
The hard thing about this quest chain never where the demons themselves. The hard thing was to see them around as they despawned for two or four hours after someone killed them or tried for 15mins. After the respawn timer was lowered to something like 30minutes after despawning, one could see many more hunter with Rhok and Lok in Ironforge.
It took my 2 weeks (~6-8 evenings) to get those guys down because nearly every time when I looked there was no demon to be found.
And that guy in Winterspring involved kiting at a certain range (30-41 yards) for ~2-4 minutes which was really hard with all the adds around there.
I hated this demon so much that I later took pleasure in killing it for fellow hunters who only had him left on their quest log. Killed him about 4-6 times for other hunters which all struggled with this one.
I think that one might still be the hardest demon and could at least require some tries to get him down at level 70.

I reckon very few will do the quest chain as it requires first a raid that can
(and will) clear Molten Core up to and kill the second last boss, in addition to
killing Onyxia and the required items (leaf and sinew) has to drop of course.

You don't get any skill or talent, however you get an epic bow and a staff
and you can also get a quiver if you kill Azuregos.
These items used to be trophies that displayed your skill at playing your class.
Since you can get better weapons within a few levels in outlands, my guess
is you wont be competing with pretty much anyone for the demon spawns.

Just to add to Kefas' post, you can also get the Blue Dragon Sinew from Dragonkin in Winterspring. Took me 3 months of farming those buggers to get it -_-.