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Ice Trap

Ice Trap

Instant	30 sec cooldown

Requires Hunter
Requires level 46

Place a frost trap that creates an ice slick around itself for 30 sec when the first enemy approaches it. All enemies within 10 yards will be slowed by 50% while in the area of effect. Trap will exist for 1 min.

Enhanced Traps (Level 92+)
Reduces the cooldown on all your traps by 50%.

Spell Details

Duration

1 minute

School

Frost

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1 second

Effect

Create Area Trigger (1614)
Radius: 2 yards

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted

Guides

Elementals in
Draenor: A Guide
to Elemental Shaman

Hunter DPS Guide
(Beast Mastery,
Marksmanship, Survival)

Hunter Pet Tanking

Ranged DPS
Overview -
Tips and Specs

Comments

Comment by schmiggy

This is a great spell for wen u are being hunted down by mobs and are near death or u can't be bothered fighting, plant a Frost Trap so slow them down, distance urself and then activate aspect of the cheetah and high ho silver away! ur home free ;)

Comment by roflobster

As of 12/13/07 it is still bugged. The trap will remain in effect after the hunter dies. You will also still have the slow effect even if you leave the area of effect.

Comment by HaveyJoe

"Invisibility fades from you.
You are afflicted by Frost Trap Aura."

This happened to me after using an invisibility potion (not a lesser one, mind you) in AV. I can understand if I got Flared or stepped on (or walked into the radius of) some other trap that does damage, or if I stayed invisible but got slowed; that's one thing. But break the invisibility too? That's really retarded in my opinion (or really useful, depending on which end of it you're on). Mages using invisibility in PvP should probably beware of this too. Or maybe they can even attest to this.

Comment by Hemske

So, I was wondering about the range of this trap and then I mean the range were you actualy break the trap so that you get slowed. I was in an arena game recently and I was walking well, I guess about 5 yards away or lets say 4 wow characters from it and I broke it. (I am a rogue so I can see the traps) This is very lame, what's the point of seeing traps when there is no way to avoid them, and for god sake nerf hunters or take away Blade's edge arena, it's the lamest arena in game tbh.

Comment by danielsjoberg14

ive actually seen some really skilled hunters kiting meele classes so good that they never leave the ice-slick.
just a few intercepts from warriors but thats aight, just wing-clip that sucka^^

Comment by baracuda1337

Good ability for kiting mobs, great ability for kiting melee in PvP.

Comment by Klpire

Lay this down, multi-shot ( assuming you're survival with serpent spread ) and you've got yourself some quickly dying mobs.

Comment by JopoFirecrack

It's debatable, but I prefer Ice Trap over Freezing Trap in the majority of my PvP situations. Of course I'm talking about Ice Trap with the Entrapment talent. Undoubtedly, for full on CC on healers or ranged dps, Freezing Trap is way better. But Entrapment debuff of 4 seconds of immobilization is far more useful on Melee types (except Paladins).

This trap has ongoing effects whereas Freezing Trap doesn't. Freezing trap disables upon damage, when Entrapment doesn't (free hits). Ice Trap is an AoE Improved Hamstring with Entrapment, Freezing Trap is a single target 8 sec full CC. Now, this one is debatable: Most people (I included) trinket out of Freezing Trap, where for Entrapment, most people don't trinket out of it (for various reasons: no visual effect, no sound effect, and most people don't talent into Entrapment). There are other points of differences, and playstyles.
I just think that because the majority use Freezing Trap that the tenderfoot should do the same. Educate yourself before doing anything. Even in WoW, knowing is everything.

Comment by Yakeshi

Some more interesting uses of this ability include trapping Warlocks demonic gates, demonic circles, and Monks Transcendence spirit locations.

Comment by Shadowajohn

This seems(?) to be slightly bugged at the moment.
If a player of the opposing faction uses this and either a mob or something else triggers it and you try to run over the now existing ice patch, you will get slowed regardless if you or them had PvP on.

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