“Dear BRK, my warlock has been part of our Kara Group A [but] I decided to bring Ahoni and Almandaragal this week instead. Despite being a little under geared, we performed splendidly. Going into the Attumen fight we were 4th on the damage meters. I wasn’t worried about that since I had been busy trapping. When Attumen was lying on the ground under his horse, I stood alone atop the meters. Not bad for a Hunter with unbuffed ~1550 RAP and 18.5% crit.

“Moroes was next and the AoE pulls on the way put me back down to 3rd on the meters. A priest and my trusty Freezing Trap were the CC for the night. Trap first, send Almandaragal to tank Skull and pop the BRK button, one dead shadow priest. I was nervous as can be since this was my first real trapping job where the fight depended on me, but we kept that sucker trapped ’till Moroes was dead. Had one problem with a trap breaking early, but we calmly announced in vent that the trap broke, got lovely heals and kited him till cooldown was up and had no more problems. Just kept switching ends of the room to give myself the time needed to retrap and used the handy BRK-approved pull shot macro - max rank Distracting Shot and /stopcasting - to keep his attention firmly on us.

“Everything [through] Curator one-shotted. We wiped once on one of those Valet guys who caught the healers napping but a solid run. No hunter-loot - d@mn you big bad wolf! - but we ended the evening #2 on the DamageMeters, slightly behind a Kara-geared mage.

“All in all it was a great evening for us despite not getting any loot. I feel great about my performance both on the meters, and more importantly, on trapping-duty. Just goes to remind us: Gear Isn’t Everything. DamageMeters aren’t everything. Yes, I want to rock the meters, but I want to be able to be relied upon for my CC’ing abilities as well.

“Thanks for everything you do at BRK. You have made me laugh. You have made me a better hunter. But more than that, you have made me a better player. Keep up the good work. Ahoni & Almandaragal”

A hunter’s primary responsibility is providing massive quantities of sustained, ranged DPS. But his ability to crowd-control just about any kind of mob can be equally critical to raid success. The Moroes is a perfect example.

If you don’t have a spare tank to hold that trapped mob and burn it down before engaging Moroes, the hunter could have to keep him trapped for the entire fight. Beastlord gear helps. Survival spec helps. But BRK has done it with no bonuses to traps and so can you. Pull-timing is critical and emergency heals may be necessary, but chain-trapping that add is more important than your DPS so make sure you do it properly.

And don’t think you can pull of chain-trapping a Moroes-add without having practiced chain-trapping for a long time beforehand. The sooner you start practicing, the better.