The Burning Crusade Hunter Feign Death

6.4 Feign Death

FD is an important tool for any variety of situations.

FD can also be used to break opponents' lock on you. If a spellcaster is casting something with a long casting time, you can FD near the end to interrupt his spell. For example, if a mage has frost nova'd you and is preparing to frostbolt, you can feign death to break this. This is particularly useful if your scattershot is down. Even if your opponent knows you are still alive, he may not be able to readily retarget you. Using snake trap in conjunction with FD can in particular create a headache since your opponent may have trouble targetting you while you are lying amongst your snakes.

FD can be used to exit combat in order to change trinkets or eat/drink. Note that you will not regain health once you are back in combat, so you may want to put your pet on passive while you are eating.

Note that DOTs do NOT put you back into combat after you have FD. If someone casts a new DOT on you, then you will be put back into combat; but if a DOT ticks, it does not put you into combat.

FD+shadowmeld can be used by night elf hunters for any number of purposes, such as stopping a warrior from charging.