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Comment by keroro12345

how to trap a caster in pve?
just Scatter Shot the caster and than run in and trap him

Comment by 40798

This spell can also be used in the Hunter's Dead Zone. Melee range is capped at 5m, ranged minimum is 8m. If anyone gets within this, the Hunter cannot attack.

This ability CAN be used in such a situation.

Comment by Knoxpwns

Scatter Shot may sound familiar, as its the name of one of the Transformers :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattershot

Comment by Rarehunter

Please note that Scatter Shot and The Beast Within cannot be talented together. The maximum amount of talent points for level 70 is 61 and both the talents mentioned above require 62.

Comment by 207930

Scatter Shot has been moved from tier 5 MM to tier 3 S...
Another "great" change for MM hunters :-L

Note that now you can have both Intimidation and Scatter Shot.

Comment by 233879

But with another downside is if you wanna get https://www.wowhead.com/mop-classic/spell=19559 Pathfinding you won't be able to get scatter shot so that sux.

Comment by Mmaster

The name Scatter Shot is derived from Dragonball Z. Piccolo uses an attack with the same name in episode 133; The Monster Is Coming.

Comment by 701590

Back in my day, this power used to be a hunter-wide power. still the same power, same stats, just all hunters could use it. then blizz did a patch (i cant remember which one) that made the shot only for survival. As of 4.0.1, my hunter is dual specced into Marksmanship, and Beast Mastery. I only get Scatter Shot when i'm in BM. Any thoughts?

BTW: for those Hunters out there wondering, you cannot make a player fall off a cliff to a fatal death with this shot. I know from experience.

Comment by 256633

I read somewhere else that this can be used as an interrupt. Seems obvious since if you daze them they'll stop casting, but has anyone done so and can confirm?

Comment by 843364

Scatter shot + Aimed shot in low level bgs = slaughter
combined with track hidden, and disengage, freezing trap, spider trap, I've slayed any 1 vs 1 encounter I met, as well as most 1 vs 2.

Comment by 843364

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Scatter Shot; Scatter Shot; Scatter Shot

while tracking hidden you can slay rogues and feral druids pretty easily.

Comment by 809458

This is a useful talent for PVP, but the long cooldown (30 sec) and lack of any talents/glyphs to reduce it mean that it's not a big enough advantage over talents in the MM tree (e.g. silencing shot).

Comment by Chiad

this is especially usefull to put someone into a Freezing Trap.
just Scatter Shot and throw the Freezing Trap with your Trap Launcher

Comment by hotchrisbfries

Scatter Shot is now dodgeable (PVP) and affected by expertise in 5.0+

Comment by Robobro

I find this incredibly useful for escaping melee classes in PVP, here's a handy macro I use as a means of escaping:

#showtooltip Scatter Shot
/cast Silencing Shot
/cast Scatter Shot
/cast Disengage
/stopcasting
/petfollow

Say if a Warrior is right in your face and you're getting low in health, just pop this for a quick escape. If you're talented in Posthaste, you can create a heck of a lot of ground between you and the melee player in the 4 seconds he's disorientate by Scatter Shot. You could probably add more to it, but this does me well enough, hope it helps someone else!

Comment by Metodi

Right now on the PTR scatter shot is on diminishing returns with freezing trap and wyvern sting.
Considering how difficult it is to trap somebody without scatter first... I don't like this change at all.

Comment by 1146516

Being removed as of 6.0 in the next expansion Warlords of Draenor

Comment by spinnerdh

Well here we are again,
it's always such a nuisance,
remember when you tried to nerf me twice?
Oh, how you laughed and laughed,
but me I wasn't laughing,
under the circumstances you haven't been very nice.

You want your scatter take it,
but it's what I counted on,
freezing won't hit a thing now,
now it might as well be gone.

It was like lullaby,
(maybe not quite as weak though),
now handy scatter shot is out of here of too,
they'd trink and wake up quick,
and stunlock me forever,
it's such a shame that that isn't deemed OP by you.

Its got a short duration,
but its what I counted on,
Traps will be soaked by pets now,
now they might as well be gone.

Goodbye all my CC,
oh, but freezings still there,
it might be useful if scatter shot I had,
but it has been removed,
I can't do anything now,
once you delete it maybe I'll stop playing this class.

How could you delete scatter,
it's what I counted on,
freezing won't hit a thing now,
now it might as well be gone,
now it might as well be gone,
now it might as well be gone.

Comment by Neplusultra

Well guys, use it while you still can. The staple of PVP spells for 10 years now is being removed.

GG Blizz...well, not really.

Comment by Allakhazam

There is no minimum range. You can use this while meleeing (very useful).

Comment by Allakhazam

I am lvl 29 and yet this cannot be trained to me.Why?

Comment by Allakhazam

It says this is a "short-range" shot. I see the max range is less. Does anyone know if this talent has the same minimum range as normal ranged shots?

Comment by Allakhazam

x doublepost error x

Edited, Mon Feb 7 18:27:07 2005

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Scatter Shot

Scatter Shot
20 yd range

Instant	30 sec cooldown

A short-range shot that deals 50% weapon damage [Glyph of Aimed Shot: removes all harmful damage over time effects] and disorients the target for 4 sec. Any damage caused will remove the effect. Turns off your attack when used.

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Spell Details

Duration

4 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

20 yards (Short)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

30 seconds

GCD

1 second

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect #1

Weapon Damage - %
Value: 50
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Confuse
Mechanic: Disoriented
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #3

Trigger Spell

	Scatter Shot

Flags

Requires a ranged weapon
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Stops auto-attack
Do Not Reset Combat Timers
No Proc Equip Requirement
Suppress Caster Procs
Can Proc From Procs
Suppress Weapon Procs
Aura Affects Not Just Req. Equipped Item
Do Not Auto Select Target with Initiates Combat
Can Proc From Suppressed Target Procs
Enable Procs from Suppressed Caster Procs
Can Proc from Suppressed Caster Procs

Scatter Shot

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