What are the Classes FOR?

[Kevin]

ObStrat: Because aggro has no range limit in instances, a hunter using Eyes of the Beast on their pet can body pull with the pet.  Even if the pet dies, aggro will transfer to the hunter and the mobs will aggro no matter what the distance, giving hunters an effective pulling range of several hundred yards.  Especially in raid instances, this means that you virtually never have to encounter a pull in unfavourable terrain.
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When Marn was the best tank option on Terenas I would use EotB pulls at some times to help split things as well. Though it looks like the they fixed the aggro radius of the pet to not be horribly small anymore though my tests were very limited. But, pulls that weren't specifically linked could be split with Eyes but not with a bow shot. This is part of how Treesh and I duo'd wailing caverns at L21 with just our shaman and hunter.

Pet pulls are also one of the reasons to put points into improved EotB and with 1.7 cats being able to stealth add another reason for it. Hunters will have stealth scout (though more limited) as well as rogues and druids.

Aggro bounce between a shaman, a hunter, and the pet is also part of the big success of the duo. All three of us can heal in some capacity (pet can spirit bond heal me, I can heal pet and shaman can heal anyone). All 3 of us have high aggro attacks. The pet and the hunter have good ways to drop aggro as well. Since the pet still has the highest armor, the shaman has the next highest with a shield, then the hunter who has the highest dodge, survivability is all about the same for the 3. So bouncing the aggro around increase the effective HP pool a lot and helps maximize the effectivenesss of the healing methods.

Even in Molten Core, aggro bounce can help the healers. We had a run where we got a little slow and picked up a Core hound. There was another one that we got confused on pathing so we went and picked that one up as well so we had 3 trash mobs being fought at once. Myself and Cybitar bounced aggro on one of the corehounds while the rest of the raid dealt with the other mobs (I had a face full of corehound don't know what else was there) and the healers loved us for it because of how they could use heals and the extra time it gave them to deal with us. So don't forgot about using planned aggro bounces, even in high end instances. At times it really helps to increase the effective HP of the tank (i.e. whatever is holding the mob).

A hunter would go to Geddon and place himself outside of his aggro range. Then a warlock would create a portal for the hunter inside of Garr's room. The hunter would not click on accept but instead fire a shot at Geddon and then click accept.

That is the theory. smile.gif We do not actually know if this would work, because we finally figured out how to get Geddon the boring way. smile.gif I think when the hunter portals he loses aggro. But I'm not sure of this... The idea is so crazy that it could actually work.

This is basically one of the early exploit strategies from months ago as I understand it though this might have been with rogues and General Drakk or something (it was a long time ago). Blizzard labeled it as an exploit becuase you were eliminating mobs from the encounter. I don't recall if aggro drops in a cross instance summons or not now.