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Barrage

Barrage

60 Focus	40 yd range

Channeled	20 sec cooldown

Requires Hunter
Requires level 90

Requires Ranged Weapon
Rapidly fires a spray of shots for 3 sec, dealing (Mainhand weapon min damage * 0.6 * 16) Physical damage to the enemy target and an average of (Mainhand weapon min damage * 0.6 * 8) Physical damage to each other enemy target in front of you. Usable while moving.

Spell Details

Duration

3 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

60 Focus

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Channeled

Cooldown

20 seconds

GCD

1 second

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Dummy
Server-side script

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Periodically trigger spell
Interval: 200 milliseconds

	Barrage

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Comment by w3maniak

Apply Aura: Periodically trigger spell
Interval: 200 milliseconds
Quite a lot of ticks, and with insane speed if this is affected by haste.

Comment by ingen2

This ability has the annoying habit of pulling anything within 180° and within ~~40 yards~~ ANYWHERE in front of you.
Consider yourself warned.

Comment by Plyspeter

Barrage + Misdirection = Kicking tanks butt

Comment by Lyya

Be extremely careful with this one. It has considerably greater range (distance and spread) than Multi-Shot, and will frequently target mobs that are not even in your field of vision. In dungeons, it's best to position yourself so the current pack is between you and the wall, and that the tank is not pulling your current target anywhere - as one stray bullet/arrow will make life very unpleasant.

Sometimes it feels like Blizz is actively trolling its player base when they design hunter abilities. At this point a derpy hunter will daze everyone (Aspect of the Pack), steal aggro from the tank (Growl), and chain-pull a room with Barrage and/or pet pathing (jumping down a ledge without dismissing). Oh, and we have an instant, uncancellable ranged attack bound to the same mouse button we loot with. Great times!

Comment by Liz7

As mentioned before, you have to be careful not to pull additional groups with Barrage's long 40 yd range and somewhat unpredictable direction.

Here's how I think it works:

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1) and
2) If you are directly facing your target, Barrage will be a cone of about 90°, meaning you will hit additional targets up to aproximately 45° to the left and 45° to the right.

3) if you are not directly facing your target (on picture 3, my target is on the right side), you will do a couple shots in a 90° cone in front of you. Then your character will turn and do a couple more shots in a 90° cone facing the target.

4) This is further illustrated in picture 4a and 4b: As you can see, at the beginning of barrage, I'm facing away from my target in the lower left corner and do some shots right in front of me (4a).
Then, suddenly my chacter turns around and now does a couple more shots facing my target (4b).

Btw, even if you keep your right mouse button pressed, it seems impossible to prevent this auto turn. This meens you can't "turn you character half away" to not accidentally hit another group, because after a couple of shots, your character will turn towards the target and hit additional targets which are up to 45° to the left or right.

Comment by Alteir

This + Raining Blood = Hilarity ensues.

Comment by Hestolemydog

Just thought I'd add that this is available to any Hunter spec upon reaching level 90.

They choose from Glaive Toss, Powershot and Barrage.

Comment by Bogdanov89

Seems that Barrage will not always attack ALL the targets in front of you that you are in combat with.
Sometimes i had like 5+ enemies in front of me (and within range) but only 2 or 3 of them would actually get shot at.

Comment by w3maniak

So far, I found it extremely useful on these MV fights:
-Garajal for spirits dues to its wide spread and long range
-Spirit kings for the one which makes everyone red until they receive X damage
-Elegon for sparks as it hits up to 3 with first ticks if you are on the middle one

Comment by Kaerfemagsh

Ms. Fortune (from lol)'s ult any1?

Comment by Reap148

If you swap your T6 talent alot, here is an macro that will help you out a fair bit.

#showtooltip
/cast Glaive Toss
/cast Powershot
/cast Barrage
/script local s1,s2,s3,gsi=117050,109259,120360,GetSpellInfo SetMacroSpell(GetRunningMacro(),gsi(gsi(s1))or gsi(gsi(s2))or gsi(gsi(s3)))

Comment by iceman8067

Here's what I love to do on my hunter: Walk up to a big group of enemy players in a battleground, throw an ice rink ( Ice Trap) down for them, get off a Multi-Shot to spread a little Serpent Spread around, and just unleash this one, and watch them start to drop like flies. It seriously feels like an orgasm. Okay no but it's pretty satisfying. :D

Comment by Trenithas

They should rename this to 'pull the room'

Comment by semlar

Currently does no damage if standing more than 40 yards away from a target with Mastery: Sniper Training.

Comment by kalibos2005

I wish they'd change this $%^&ing ability. I'm SO tired of meticulously positioning myself so that barrage doesn't pull another group, only for it to happen anyway because the cone isn't an exact science and sometimes it just hits things at right angles to your character. I've gone back and forth from GT to barrage, because barrage does terrific damage, but I'm dropping it until they fix this problem.

FFS, all it would take is a 20 yard range nerf.

Comment by Alekalen

For those times when you absolutely must pull everything...

Comment by noisedev

Great for pulling mobs out of nowhere.

Comment by Skullhawk13

Speaking as someone who primarily plays a tank, I hear "Sorry, Barrage" Anytime I group with a hunter with this talent at least once a pull. Please stop using it at every possible oppertunity, at least save it for when there isn't crowd control or something delicate in progress.

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