The beast/easiest way to take aggro?Follow

Yeah, don't bother with distracting, and use high damage shots. Distracting shot actually does LESS threat than arcane/multi/etc (I think it was really designed for when there was no spammable shot, or there was but it requried 11 points in marks). Either way, just arcane shot and steady shot spam. But you should be pulling off to trap BEFORE the pally's built up threat, so idk why it's too big an issue...

It's the tank that's the issue, not you. A good pally tank will know not to use his huge multimob threat until the trap target is out of range. A good warrior tank will know not to do his Thunderclap (or whatever it's called) until the trap target is out of range.

Let them know they need to hold off just a few seconds before doing those things. If they refuse, politely leave the party, unless the pally/healer are good enough to do the whole instance without CC (which, when possible, is a ton of fun as everything just gets really easy).

BTW, I don't know much about how pallies hold threat; I just know I've only ever had an issue pulling mobs off of a paladin in one situation, and it was because the pally was being stubborn and refused to alter the way he was tanking. I could be mistaken about how much they're able to do to control that (and yet, I've never had a problem with pulling threat for a trap with any other paladin).

When in such situation, I simply add in arcane and some shots and mob comes anyway. I simply consider it sort of like more of a trap leevay since mob takes longer to get to trap, so I get more time to play with.

This dose only happen when we have another CC then me, because they always attack my mark with their " Captain America shield " (Hehe..). So i'll just stop try to take them off.

Thanks guys.

The problem with that(that I have, atleast), is one of two things. Either they don't like adapting, or I'm in a multi-hunter group.

The first is a pain to deal with. You get the stubborn people that don't like to adapt. This really only pertains to mages and warlocks. Not to say other classes don't have people that don't like to adapt, but these two classes are the only CC classes that I personally have to deal with in this particular problem(aside from other hunters, but that would fall into the multi-hunter group category). They basically go in, Skull is kill, X is second kill, Moon is sheep/banish(if aplicable), and Square is Freeze trap. That's all they see, their target is moon and be damned if it is easier for me to trap the moon since it wasn't hit with the captain america toss, because they are CCing moon, no if, ands, or buts.

They refuse to adapt to the circumstances and see that I have to get aggro to trap my mob, and since their target is only coming because of link, and the tank has no real theat, I could /poke them and get aggro and trap it, that it would be easier for us all if we switched CC targets. No sir, instead they are going to trap their marked mob and leave me to my devises thinking I'm the ****-up because I can't get aggro right away to trap my mob.

The second is multi-hunter parties, where someone is going to have to gain aggro to trap the mob. So it really doesn't matter what mob is hit with the shield toss, someone is going to have to pull it off the tank.

As far as how to do it. When I am grouped up with my paly friend, he makes it as hard as possible on me, and usually targets my mob to toss the shield just to be an ***, and make my life hard.

But I still get aggro. Instant shots are your friend, but and Aimed shot before hand can be a blessing. I usually start casting Aimed Shot while the paladin is trying to get within range of his shield. So I'm already casting when he begins casting his. Since his has a 1 second cast and Aimed is 2.5, the shield usually goes off first, hitting my target. If I'm lucky, Aimed will crit, and an arcane shot is enough to seal the deal even if the mob runs through consecration. If I'm not lucky enough to get a crit after the Aimed I will shoot and arcane then distracting, then an auto and if I need a steady. If I don't have it by the steady shot(which is extremely rare) I will just switch over to the kill target.

I won't ever use a multi-shot, but if you feel comfortable, use that instead of distracting shot. I have had some serious bad luck with multi-shot. I will fire and I don't care where the mob is, be it 20 yards away or 40, one arrow will find it's way to the sheeped/seduced mob, so that's a no for me on the multi-shot.

I wouldn't recommend that, because you are essentially splitting DPS. Which is never a good thing, you are also letting the tank get beat up by more mobs for a longer amount of time.

To totally exaggerate the same principal, and make up basic numbers to prove the point. Let's say you are in a group with 2 DPS and two mobs were hitting on the tank. One of those mobs was your CC target.

Ordinarily it would take 1 DPS 2 minutes to kill a mob. So you have 2 DPS attacking two seperate mobs, meanwhile for those 2 minutes it takes you both to down a mob, the tank is being beaten on by both mobs.

Now let's show you switch targets. Another exaggerated number is 30 seconds to do your shots to gain aggro for the trap, that failed. At this point both mobs are down 1/4 of their life. Switching to the main target you down the 1st mob in 45 more seconds, and then 45 seconds for the second mob. Now again you down both mobs in 2 minutes, but two mobs were hitting the tank for 1.25 minutes instead of the full 2 minutes.

Now of course these are exaggerated and made up numbers, but the basic principal can be applied to the real game. And in instances/raids(heroics especially), those 45 seconds(converted to real time in game), could be the difference between a victory and a wipe.