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Ancient Hysteria

Ancient Hysteria

Instant	6 min cooldown

Requires Hunter
Requires level 20

Increases haste by 30% for all party and raid members within 100 yards. Lasts 40 sec.

Allies receiving this effect will become Sated and be unable to benefit from Bloodlust or Time Warp again for 10 min.

Buff

Ancient Hysteria

Haste increased by 30%.
40 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

40 seconds

School

Fire

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

6 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Decrease Attack Speed %
Value: 30%
Radius: 100 yards

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod Size %
Value: 30%
Radius: 100 yards

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Guides

Elementals in
Draenor: A Guide
to Elemental Shaman

Hunter DPS Guide
(Beast Mastery,
Marksmanship, Survival)

Preparing the 'Herald
of the Titans'

Raid and Class
cooldown list.

Warlords of Draenor
Hunter Changes

Comments

Comment by Musicman835

Caught me totally by surprise. Will be a nice buff. Hopefully BM will be worth using in raids to use this ability

Comment by Katch

omg now BM hunters get Bloodlust, i need a core hound

Comment by Eiskalt

OKAY, FLUFFY, BLOODLUST!

...oh, Fluffy died because he's still being controlled by a huntard. =(

Comment by DaGorthok

Nice to see hunter pets getting some good utility.

"What's that? we already have a mage AND a shaman? that's okay i'll pull out silithid and give everyone fortitude buff since we don't have a priest!"

let's hope hunters use their brains.

Comment by TAT0

Bloodlust for bm hunters? as it if wasn't enough with mage having it... you gotta be kidding...

Comment by Wildelark

Although it would be amazing, I don't think that they'd really give this to our pets, (I mean come on, not even a slightly nerfed version?) it seems a little far-fetched.
I'm not definite but I'm pretty sure this is a spell used by the Corehounds (Ancient Corehound) from Molten Core. It might be a beast skill, and since they're tameable be mistaken for a pet skill?
Just a guess. Would be kind of insane to have our pets give Bloodlust.

Comment by Wildelark

I can see what you mean, but one thing I'm having trouble with is making sense out of our pet giving Bloodlust.
I can understand why a Shaman can cast it, "Bloodlust requires a drop of blood mixed with earth to cast." (Source)
- it makes sense for a Shaman to be able to cast it, their class is connected to the elements including earth - but a pet? How does a pet cast Bloodlust on the whole raid? Also, why, if a pet can cast it, can't everyone else? If it's as simple as smelling blood and battle crying/roaring (which my first and only guess as to how a pet would give it) why can't everyone do it?
"Sorry Mr. Rogue but your vocals just aren't good enough for us to desire bloodshed when you scream."

Comment by Deathbang

Worthless ability.
You sir, are and idiot.

Comment by Demonhunter987

Umm missing the point the mechanic is inspiring or aiding your teammates to fight harder for a short time that is the only mechanic behind bloodlust/heroism, timewarp, ancient hysertia.

Comment by Ksw1005

Finally, I can actually use my corehound thats been sitting in my stables for like 2 years

Comment by cooespooh

'Cause I want it now!
I want it now!
Give me your heart and your soul!
And I'm breaking out!
I'm breaking out!
Last chance to lose control!

Comment by grievemourne

so i plan to be a worgen come cataclysm and a thought just struck me.
dark flight.
aspect of the fox
bestial wrath.
and this and every other useful cooldown you can think of. closest thing i can think of to the matrix, running circles around your enemy jumping around with disengage, and firing as many attacks as you damn well please with no crowd control being able to touch you until you reach a pillar in which case it stays out of sight. i'm getting ready to make a few people quite angry. and i'd also throw master's call in there just for good measure.

Comment by bkevol

i have a lvl 77 and a lvl 78 corehound and both dont have this ability, what do i have to do? is it because i tamed them before this 4.0patch and its bugged? or what

Comment by Dudeplessis17

With the new pet management system beastmaster hunter will be able to adapt their pet to the group/raid so this ability is good because it can be used in a group with no 70 shaman/or 85 mage and the only prerequise is LVL 69 to tame the pet so it will be in use in group without shaman for the leveling and might even be used endgame but as i said before if the skill isnt needed the hunter could easily switch to an other pet.

In short its a nice possible group buff and in the worst case you change pet so there is a gain and no lost.

Comment by Zarac

Spells that share the same effect: haste increased by 30%

Hunter
Core Hound - Nether Ray

Mage
Time Warp

Shaman
Bloodlust/Heroism

See all Warlords of Draenor Buffs and Debuffs here.

Comment by AveryZan

One man beast cleave. Epic

Comment by Cialbi

Don't get me wrong, I love this ability. I just wish Blizzard had used a better soundfile than "Wharflgarble!", which is best described as the sound you would hear if you were to muffle a very angry Murloc with a pillow. It's not exactly what comes to mind when one thinks of 'hysteria' - although it could be viewed as hysterical in another sense of the word.

Comment by ularel

I must point this out. For the first time, it is possible to bring this kind of buff into 60-69 Battlegrounds. /Dance for the twinks!

Comment by ysj93

This is a great ability in battleground, especially when you are carrying around four of them.

The debuff that this gives last 10 mintues, while the buff cool down is 5 min.

In battleground, people will be dying all the time, so the debuff is unlikely to last it's full duration. So, if you carry around 4 core hounds, you can have almost endless heroism for you team by dismissing the pet after using this ability and call a new one with fresh ancient hysteria to pop when there is a next battle.

Just did this in ab and i was able to use it for every skirmishes.

Try it, it's fun :D

Comment by Makkap

When all 3 haste buff classes are in raid or even pvp, with communication, I see Hunters get demanded to use it. Why?
Shamans and Mages buff costs 26% base mana...whereas Hunters costs nothing. (cost being BM spec and doing less overall dmg than other specs)
But right now I have yet to see a Hunter raiding with BM spec, half serious raiding. Besides that it could be fun to do heroics as BM.

Comment by Boarwood

Does your pet auto-cast this? I know you can turn it off, but that seems like it could be an issue.

Comment by gabrielalfaro

No longer usable in Arenas for the upcoming Patch (4.0.6)

Comment by Thundurrel

Runty's ancient hysteria: 0.1% haste buff.

Comment by kabookiejoe

suprised they dont have a seperate version for the curse u get in mC

Comment by connorvore

some thing amazing happened today. i dont know what i did, but i had my core hound in some BG's, i finished logged out. logged in today and it still had ancient hysteria. the time ancient hysteria had was 11 days! idk what i did, but any buff it gave it, stayed for 11 days. it was great. but as all good things go, i got mind controlled while farming ravenlord. i was carelessly watching it tear into random mobs, and an enemy threw a mind control totem, then my core hound got slightly smaller, and all its 11 day buffs were gone. wow hates me. toys with me and then crushed my heart.

please! anyone who had this please respond i want to control this and do it more often making the most amazing thing ever.

Comment by herenvardo

This is most probably a tooltip issue (so don't expect this to actually work), but reading it literally implies that an alliance hunter could pop this and afterwards a shamman could cast Heroism (as the debuff only mentions Bloodlust and Time Warp).

The glitch is obviously caused by reusing the (horde-only) Bloodlust's Sated debuff instead of having a separate one.

I'll try to test this and post the results, for purely informative purposes, when I have a chance (unless someone can check it sooner, of course) but, even if this works, I don't recommend relying on it, as it would be an obvious unintended exploit and put you at a risk of penalties (suspension or ban, depending on the magnitude of the abuse) against your account.

Comment by felhunter

as of WoD, this ability also became part of the nether ray family.
as a non exotic pet it's Bloodlust is avaible to all hunters.
and to make things even more interresting to tame a nether ray, they can be tamed before BM hunters can tame Core hounds since Exotic Beasts requires lvl 69 and the earliest nether ray you can tame is Blackbog the Fang at level 46 already!

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