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Blink Strikes

Blink Strikes
100 yd range
Requires Hunter
Requires level 75

Your pet's Basic Attacks deal 50% increased damage, can now be used from 30 yards away, and will instantly teleport them behind their target.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

100 yards (Vision)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 50%
Affected Spells:

	Smack		Bite		Claw

Effect #2

Dummy
Value: 30
Server-side script

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Modifies Range (5)
Value: 25
Affected Spells:

	Smack		Bite		Claw

Flags

Passive spell

Guides

Hunter DPS Guide
(Beast Mastery,
Marksmanship, Survival)

Hunter Pet Tanking

Comments

Comment by terrorlord15

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Dont know if anyone remembers but this used to be a little joke people used to spam in trade, it was basicly the first thing before people started linking things like Anal Anal and ect which tbh I dont really like but I liked when this was randomly linked by someone and everyone was like "oh nnnnnnnnoooooooooooooo oh here we go here it comes" then everyone started linking it, good times.

Comment by Dahork

I can already see this being sick in the right BM pvp spec.

BW, KC, Blink Strike and stacks of mastery. That should be some nice numbers...

can't wait to try it out!

Comment by Azavari

How to win at BM spec:

1. Stack mastery
2. Speck into Blink Strike
3. Get a cat/spirit beast for their Prowl opener buff
4. Run around 1-shotting stuff
5. ?
6. Profit!

Edit: this was before Mists of Pandaria content had come out, however the expansion was out, and so Pandaria talents had been implemented and at that time, you could go and basically instakill the weak cataclysm mobs. Now that Pandaria has been out for a long time, it's been changed.

Comment by PerfeCisolation

Does the threat apply to the pet or to the hunter? I assume this and Linx Rush generate threat for the pet.

Comment by Grubitsch

I knew making fun of all those hunters was gonna come back and bite me in the ass.

Comment by sakera

Interestingly enough, when used against a flying mob, your pet will hover above the ground. I used my pet (Terrorpene) to attack Cliff Kites for the quest, Mission: Aerial Threat and he hovered every time I used the ability. Screenshot submitted.

Comment by Thrakall

Since patch 5.3, Blink Strikes is now a passive ability.

Comment by Trenithas

Just to be clear, this is a PASSIVE ability now.

If you had the old Blink Strike on your action bar, the button will remain there, but won't work. You can remove the button - saving you a spot on your action bar.

I was severely buggered when I kept pressing the button and nothing happened....

: It may or may not have been a macro that was on my action bar... the actual ability should have disappeared from your action bar.

Comment by msquare

So questions I have about blink strikes:

Is this a buff on the player or the pet?

how long does the buff last? if I target switch multiple times when the buff is active will my pet port around from target to target?

Comment by chrth

A word of caution for those farming old mobs for any purpose:

The Blink Strikes ability gets your pet to the mob before your shot arrives. If your pet is strong enough to kill it, you will not be eligible to loot.

Comment by Gunnerb52

I noticed today that blink strike is not working properly. I log on and see the mob I am camping so I attack. My pet then runs up to the mob instead of teleporting to the back of it. It can't be a CD thing cause it is my first attack after logging on. Anyone else noticing this?

After trying it more I noticed that the first mob I attack after logging on blink strike does not work but all the other mobs after that it works fine. I submitted a bug. It is a minor annoyance since it is only the first attack

Comment by Melphius

I can't seem to figure out what the ICD on this is. Conflicts with Dash without me being able to tell. Does anyone know?

Comment by BMHunterMain

I don't get why this ability seems to be the least-favorite of virtually every hunter out there. Most feel Murder of Crows is best, followed by Lynx Strikes, with this coming in last. I mainly solo and having my pet's basic attacks do 150% normal damage all the time seems pretty decent to me...

Comment by herumor

I ran some tests on this and figured out a few basics about it. This is for the 5.3 version.

First, the increased damage component is always on. Every basic attack will get the bonus whether or not the pet used the blink. For this, I turned on the pet combat log and let the numbers run for a while. They were always consistent within a small margin, allowing for crits and/or above 50 focus, which means it is always on.

Second, the blink effect has an internal cooldown. It won't be used every time your pet can use its basic attack. It won't blink if it is within a short range of the target either (a guess: looks like melee range to 10 yards). I ran the stopwatch while running my "assist/passive" macro on a target dummy, and the pet could blink to the dummy every 20 seconds on the dot. So the ICD of this passive is 20 seconds.

tl;dr
50% bonus damage is always on for basic attack, blink or no blink.
Blink has greater than ~10 yard range, never under.
Blink has ICD of 20 seconds.

Comment by Skullhawk13

Formerly this was something unique to the warp stalker. For those who are curious where the idea of pet's teleporting came from.

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