Traps

[Side]

I've always had a hard time on my hunter alt, currently level 78, with traps. How do you manage your traps ?

I've tried everything, clicking, keybinding, making a separate spellbar for them etc. and I can't really get into it, whenever i wana lay down a trap i get confused when i have to click it, press the keybind and so on and it takes me like 3 seconds to set down the trap that i want.


So I just want to know, how do you other hunters manage your traps ? Are you using any addons ?
Thanks in return

[Renshe]

I've got F1 bound to Feign Death, and then F2-F6 bound to traps, works pretty well for me, although when I'm my pvp spec I have my frost aoe slow trap( freezing I think?) bound to my a button on my mouse, and snake trap shift the button my mouse ( think its button 5, on the side).

I don't really have any suggestions, just keep the keybindings the same and practice makes perfect? lol

[Uteric]

Dont really get you :P you dont know witch to use or you are confused witch is one you want? I am clicker so i click on what one i want that is not a big problem 1 are frost ones second is fire and then there is a snake trap .

[Deleted]

pvp: bound traps to easy to reach buttons with help of macros
pve: using explosive trap with mouseclick for trash and a key bind for freezing arrow

the only thing really important is to get used to actually use your traps, play and remember, dont try to think how to do so.

[Horrid Crow]

An addon? Like one that does the thinking for you in every situation possible?
It sounds to me like your problem isn't clicking or keybinding, but rather that you don't know what trap you need to lay down?

Reading the tooltip might work.

[Deleted]

Dont really get you :P you dont know witch to use or you are confused witch is one you want? I am clicker so i click on what one i want that is not a big problem 1 are frost ones second is fire and then there is a snake trap .

I just love hunters like this while BGing on my alts <3. The most easiest clickers to kill. And sad when I see any clickers in raid, they either stop all they were doing (delaying instants) and move or keyturn/backpedal slowly and die/take heavy dmg or better: die because they didn't notice the fire quickly - too much focus to click stuff.

OT, F5 F6 F7 F8 are my traps. Had to get used to press them, especially quickly but can't find for myself a better place for traps.

[Rianabi]

I have important traps bound to Shift+1, shift+2 etc, easy keys to reach fast and presing shift with your pinky aint exactly hard, works great for me... i need more binds now that i think about it, hunters have too damn many skills.

1: aimed.
2: steady shot.
3: Chimera:
4: serpent sting.
5: arcane shot.
6: Multi shot.
7: Daze.
Q: Silencing shot.
E: Wingclip.
R: Masters Call.
T: Mend Pet.
F: Arcane Torrent.
Caps: Disengage.
Scroll Wheel Click: Hunters Mark.
Shift+1 Freezing trap.
Shift+2: Frost trap.
Shift+3 Flare.
Shift+4 Deterrence.
Shift+5 Misdirect Macro.
CTRL+1: Raptor/Mongoose strike macro.
CTRL+2: Snake Trap.
CTRL+3 Viper Sting.
CTRL+4: Volley.
<: Mount.
Shift+< Flying mount.
G: Pet attack.
Shift+G: Pet Passive.
Shift+Q: Regular Misdirect in pve spec, Scatter shot in pvp spec.
Shift+E: Spider Web/Crab pin.
Side mouse Button 1: Kill shot.
Side mouse Button 2: DPS Macro, Rapid shot etc.
Shift+Side mouse button 1: Feign Death.
Shift+Side mouse button 2: Readiness.
Shift+Mouse scroll wheel up: Tranq Shot.
Shift+ Mouse scroll wheel down: Roar of Sacrifice.
F1: Aspect of the dragonhawk/Viper switching macro.
F2: Battlemaster trinket.
F3: Aspect of the Cheetah.
F4: PvP Trinket.
F5: Distracting Shot in pve spec, roar of recovery in pvp spec.

40 Damn binds and i still need more, bloody rediculous.

[FlawlessSoul]

Simply put mine on F1-F5, and Shift+5 is Freezing Arrow.

[Lysah]

Sounds like you simply need to practice more until you get comfortable with the way you use your traps. I would suggest a mod such a bartender so you can see all of your abilities at once, you can put your traps somewhere important so you remember where they are/etc.

Edit:
I'm going to start deleting posts that have keybind layouts. I don't really think the OP nor anyone else cares, you're spamming and severely lengthening the page. This thread is about how you manage traps, not where you put tame beast on your keyboard.

[Thereign]

I just have my traps on the right side of my bars, with a power aura set up for each one to let me see when they are off CD (pvp)

For pve, this, but the aura is smaller, and I only use the ones for explosive and frost.

If you pvp heavily, I strongly reccomend keybinding, it is one of the best improvements to your playing you can make.

[Antisocial]

An addon? Like one that does the thinking for you in every situation possible?
It sounds to me like your problem isn't clicking or keybinding, but rather that you don't know what trap you need to lay down?

Reading the tooltip might work.

I don't think you quite understand how addons work. Just because you have AVR doesn't mean the rest of the addons are bad...

[chaogen07]

if your looking for a nice addon to manage a bunch of abilities like traps, aspects or tracking then I'd suggest using Opie. Kind of hard to explain what it does in text so I'd say just take a look at it, definitely easier to use that than to try and keybind a bunch of extra stuff.

[Spl4sh3r]

I click my traps mostly, but I got them bound to Alt+1 to 5 :P With Alt+§ for Freezing Arrow

[Thundercougr]

I've always had a hard time on my hunter alt, currently level 78, with traps. How do you manage your traps ?

I've tried everything, clicking, keybinding, making a separate spellbar for them etc. and I can't really get into it, whenever i wana lay down a trap i get confused when i have to click it, press the keybind and so on and it takes me like 3 seconds to set down the trap that i want.


So I just want to know, how do you other hunters manage your traps ? Are you using any addons ?
Thanks in return

Bring otu all the bars you need? Personally, I use TukUI, but my bar placement and usage was very similar to it before I switched anyways. I don't have my traps bound, as I don't PvP much and they have relatively limited usage in PvE.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...310_172214.jpg

[Frigid]

It's a trap!

[Daginni]

Traps are useless in PvE (non-gimmick fights), unless you are AoEing.

Traps in PvP are useful with Entrapment, even if at times it feel like trap proc radius is too small, snake trap a total joke, and the feeling that I should drop everything when I pop deterrence just to be a annoyance.

[Lysah]

Snake trap can save you on professor putricide. It has its rare moments.

[Cyph3r]

As previously stated: Opie. In short it lets you put any number of spells on a single keybind, with a circular ui device to select the spell you want. Again, it's better to see it in action. I use it for traps (R), tracking (Q), and aspects (E). Saves a TON of room on my bars.

And yes, traps are far from useless in pve. Although Icey, I'm curious how exactly you use snaketrap on Put. I'm assuming on the adds.

[Atty]

As previously stated: Opie. In short it lets you put any number of spells on a single keybind, with a circular ui device to select the spell you want. Again, it's better to see it in action. I use it for traps (R), tracking (Q), and aspects (E). Saves a TON of room on my bars.

And yes, traps are far from useless in pve. Although Icey, I'm curious how exactly you use snaketrap on Put. I'm assuming on the adds.

Explosion on green add. The only trap that has no uses at all is immolation trap.

[Klokker]

Don't understand you, it's just traps click on them or make a macro to bind some of them idon't know xD