Skill Mastery: Master's Call
First appearing as an 11-point Beastmastery talent, Master's Call is now a new baseline skill for Hunters in the Wrath Beta. With this skill, your pet will rush to your target and remove all existing movement impairing effects or stuns on the target, and cause them to be immune to them for 4 seconds. It can be used while you are stunned.
This is certainly a handy ability to have. In PvP, this should be awesome for getting away from Warriors and Rogues. In PvE, there's bound to be bosses and mobs with slow and stun effects, and this little skill could in theory, save a wipe.
One of the biggest secrets to using this skill effectively is probably going to be realizing that it can be used on your allies. If you find yourself not the center of attention, or if you have The Beast Within, you may very well find that it is a better use of your time to send your pet after your teammate. A mouseover macro'd Master's Call may be the perfect thing to save your healer from obliteration in Arena play.
The downside, of course, is that your pet needs to be alive and able to charge to your target to get off the effect. That means that you have one more reason to make sure your pet is properly protected or bolstered, be it via talents like Blood of the Rhino or Heart of the Phoenix, or a healer who isn't adverse to keeping an extra eye on it.
This spell, overall is still definitely a great addition to the Hunter's arsenal, and may go a long way to shoring up their dismal arena numbers. We'll be looking forward to playing around with it come Wrath of the Lich King.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-29-2008 @ 4:35PM
Anaughtybear said...
The line for rogue complaints is on the right, the line for warrior complaints forms on the left. Please have your whine in shortest possible form for ease of processing. Thank you for shopping QQMart
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8-31-2008 @ 4:52AM
Minidrake said...
Wait, you mean my pet hunter can hit me with a Cloak of Skills whilst I focus on burning you down? Hell yeah.
What's the opposite of QQ?
8-29-2008 @ 4:35PM
Squiggs said...
Daddy liek
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8-29-2008 @ 4:40PM
Joe said...
Sounds like some nice changes are being made to Hunters in WotLK. Increasing value to Hunters and other classes in end-game is great.
I'm especially looking forward to the millions of Death Knights running around. Hunter's will no longer be the only 'tard class in the game.
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8-29-2008 @ 4:44PM
Jewbanks said...
while likely apt to many of them..
death knightard doesnt have the same ring.. tard knights? no i dunno
8-29-2008 @ 5:25PM
lawl said...
deathtard sounds epic.
8-29-2008 @ 5:45PM
browncreeper said...
Duh Knight?
8-29-2008 @ 5:00PM
jrb said...
can this be used on yourself proactively...
if you sense a stealthed rogue coming up behind you can you use master's call to grant 4sec immunity to stun effects?
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8-29-2008 @ 6:28PM
Zep said...
"Can be used while stunned"
And why would you do that? He'll just wait for it to wear off and then CS you. Use it AFTER he cheap-shots (or KS's).
8-29-2008 @ 5:49PM
Liche said...
my warlock just let off some gas
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8-29-2008 @ 6:05PM
Umrtvovac said...
This is exactly the pig I had from lvl 26 to 70 on my hunter, Rotting Agam'ar ( http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=4512 ), before my account got stolen... I have good memories about this pig...
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8-29-2008 @ 7:52PM
Lobe said...
Good adittion.
With Disengage and these hunters will have a lot of options to run now.
Hopefully it will make them more capable in small group combat, and they have always been great in big group combat.
It will help in 1vs1 combat too.
I guess it will make things more dynamic, other classes should have more anti-kite now too so combat wont be a pure perfect kite like before or just a horrible hunter masacre .
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8-29-2008 @ 9:59PM
David Bowers said...
Have you been able to test this? Do ypu know from experience that it has that charging element to get to you or your teammate instantly, or do we have to take travel time between the pet and the target into account when using it?
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8-31-2008 @ 6:31AM
Leandar said...
Great changes, means rogues and warriors will have to work. IIm surprised no one has said "hunterz fine l2p, theres a whole 1 in top 100 arena teams just shows its possible for everyone"
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