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Comment by Maliander

Some observations:

The damage of each turret is spread across three small attacks at the end of the round, making abilities like Shell Shield, Sandstorm and Emerald Presence hard counters and making damage-per-attack boosting abilities like Call Lightning and Corrosion extra effective.
2 Turrets can be up at the same, all shooting the active enemy pet at the end of the turn.
Since patch 5.1, no longer 100% hit chance and cannot hit unattackable pets like diving or burrowing pets.
Switching the active pet does not despawn the turrets, they stay active and functional. Since patch 5.1, if the Gnome building the turrets dies, the turrets still remain active.
If an enemy pet is killed before the end of the turn, causing a new pet to be switched in, the new pet is not attacked on that turn, but only from the next turn onwards.
The turret continues shooting pets on the turn they are trapped, but even if this kills it they are still succesfully captured.

Summary:
The major strength of this ability lies in its reliability. Even with the patch 5.1 fixes, it's almost guaranteed to do its maximum damage.

Comment by hankland

does anyone know if they're other abilities like this? Not entry traps but current traps.

Comment by 327825

Do not use this spell if your opponent has Brittle Webbing Brittle webbing will hit your pet for each of the turret's shots, making it deal a lot of damage to your pet, especially if you have multiple turrets spawned.

Comment by Nander

The turrets can be removed from the battlefield by using the following ability: Clean-Up. This ability can be used by Enchanted Broom.

Comment by zimmah

The turret does 3 small hits each round for 4 rounds, the turret hits even if the opponent used Burrow.

The damage for each hit seems to be about 3+(0,15*attackpower).

I am not certain if the hits also proc Lightning Storm, I suspect it does, and if it does, it would be a very powerful combination.

Comment by 969761

Has anyone noticed that sometimes this ability just seems to fail at random? Your character does the graphic like it's crying from losing a battle. I am having difficulty figuring out if this is due to an attribute of the enemy pet or of the ability itself.

Comment by Eillesthis

The tooltip says "each turret lasts 4 rounds," but that does not include the round you build it, and it fires as soon as you build it, so you get 5 rounds (15 shots) of sweet sweet turret action. The buff shows "4 rounds" the round you build it, and the next turn as well.

Unrelated, but also important: As of 5.1, the turrets miss pets who have used Burrow (or are similarly unattackable), which makes sense.

Comment by tarthur1

If the target pet is Mechanical and dies after one or two hits from this attack, the turret will stop MOMENTARILY while the Mechanical's passive activates. After the Mechanical is back to life with 20% health, the turret begins shooting again, hitting them for however many shots were not expended.

Ex:
Reaper Mechanical is hit with one turret shot and dies
Turret pauses
Reaper returns with 20% health
Turret fires last two shots
Turn ends

Comment by 1023410

This works ridiculously well with Wild Magic.

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Builds a turret that assaults the enemy team's front pet, dealing 9 Flying damage each round.

Each turret lasts 4 rounds.

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