BRK Hunter Timer Addons Movie
The two addons we discuss in this movie are Khartus’s Hunter Timers and CooldownTimers2.
We continue to re-learn a very important lesson: capture more video than you’ll ever think you’ll need. We did that at the beginning and it worked great; we had plenty of time to talk about the addons. But we hit the stop-capture at the end much too soon and it almost ruined the whole thing. Breaking our trap by accident would’ve been great film but we honked that up. /sad panda
You can download the QuickTime video here.
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i have a question about KHT. Where did you go to fiddle with the settings when you wanted it to show both timers and is there anyway to make the bars smaller, i dont have a big screen and they take up lots of space. Thanks for the video
Mirshana and Grr
You can make the both addons’ bars much smaller, we just made them very big for the movie.
KHT should show both of its Freezing Trap timers when you select the Freezing Trap option in KHT’s Timers section.
Thanks for this, I was wondering how you did your timers.
What addon was he using at 1:05?
Don’t suppose these timers would work for other classes as well? Or are there other timers out there that do that?
Its been said, but i will say it again.
Your movies showing how to do the basics and funamentals are the best around bar none. Please make more and please get that next long lowbie one done for people in the teens and hitting 20
Thank you BRK, I feel much better now. I don’t know how many times while kiting and trapping I’ve broken my own trap via that lovely autoshot. I’ve taken to clicking off the mob once I have a new trap down so that I can’t do this, but I’ve been known to right-click the mob to select it again. /sigh
My only problem with CooldownTimers2 is that once I set it, I can’t change the settings. Or rather, like most mods, I can’t find the menu to change the settings! It’d be nice if you’d add something (maybe a link?) on how to work with the addons you’re suggesting. Something like what you did with Omen would be really cool, or even just mentioning the command to find the menu!
Thanks for the great vids, even in my 60s I’m learning from ‘em!
At 1:05 we are using CooldownTimers2 via Fubar. We had CooldownTimers2 disabled during the first part of the movie so we could focus on KHT, then we enabled CooldownTimers2 so we could see it in action.
One doesn’t need FuBar to control CooldownTimers2, but since CooldownTimers2 is Ace-based, it works very nicely with FuBar.
KHT, as its name implies, is strictly for hunters, but CooldownTimers2 will work with any class.
Thank you so much for doing these. They are awesome.
And my kids love watching them, just for the entertainment value. I wonder if they like them so much because we don’t have television.
BRK you’re movies are wonderful to watch and seeing that you are human…or dwarven, by breaking your own trap was even better than simply seeing the educational aspects. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done that and felt like I was such a perma-noob.
Keep the videos rolling, they really make a big impact on much of my playing style.
Fahr & Bacon
Cool Addons but I prefer something a little less spacey since I am not working wit ha wide screen monitor yet!
I use KHT but I also use an addon calle FloTotemBar. Yes I know it says Totem but it can also be used for Hunters trap. It has a time on the side that shows the duration of the trap and OmniCC shows the cooldown count on the icon itself for the amount of time I have until I can lay another trap.
Not as fancy as BRK’s but is does the same thing for me.
I tried Cooldown Timers, and it worked great, but getting it set up was a PITA…is there an easier way to resize, move and remove all the unused stuff? It glitched and now I have to set it up again.
I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to know that even the great BRK is capable of breaking his own traps!
Good one. I am going to look up those mods. I have just been guesstimating times.
Hey BRK, I have been a reader for a long time now and this is my first comment, just wanna say keep it up!
Nice video, I think I might be getting those addons very soon. I do have a question though; I noticed that the cool down on my traps seem to go by a lot quicker sometimes. Could this be to me putting a trap down and forgetting it is cooling down even before the trap is set off? Or is there something I don’t know?
Hey BRK, nice video on the trapping!
I was just wondering, as this was not mentioned anywhere that I’ve seen so far. (Given I’m relatively new to BRK) Have you ever double trapped? Since pre-2.3 and now 2.3.2 hunters are able to once again trap two mobs simultaneously by simply timing their traps… I know that when I was solo leveling, there were more than a few occasions when double trapping helped a great deal.
Its quite situational, and can also be considered an advanced trapping technique. It is also very useful for 5-man instance running. That extra mob trapped can be especially helpful to a MT that isn’t able to tank say… Shattered Halls’ Gladiator hallway.
-Yvii
This was another great lesson for Hunters of all levels. What I would like in addition to KHT and Cooldown Timers 2 is an addon that would announce “OK You can pull now!” at 25 or so secs (for a BM Hunter) when a second trap can be laid.
That was full of awesome. Thanks.
Scrolling Combat Text will let you know when your cooldowns are up also.
Sorry BRK, I have a quibble.
Let’s say I’m newbie hunter Noobsauce with my little piggie.. and I’ve been directed to watch BRK movies to learn how to not suck. So I watched movie #1 “Don’t melee you noob” and I watched #2 “Pet training FTW” and now I’ve watched #3 “BRK likes addons, oh and here’s how to trap things”. So I grab those (super cool) addons and run out in the wild to trap something.
Throw down my trap, watch the hunter timers. Get it all cooled down. Pull my mob (.. um.. BRK didn’t say what he used to pull.. I’ll use Arcane shot). Mob runs at me.. hits my trap and then almost immediately my auto shot pops the trap.. because BRK never mentioned how he pulled it.. or more importantly, how he did in such a way that also turned auto shot off.
It’s ok though.. I saw BRK do the same thing at the end of his movie. I must be doing it right.
Noobsauce and Prosciutto
Nibuca
http://warcraft.fibergeek.com/
So, Nibuca… are you saying that you want a Macros Movie? Or just a Hunter Pull Movie?
How about a combo Hunter Macro/Pull movie, hmm? Maybe?
/checks raw footage to see if that movie is ready yet
.. well.. Since I trust BRK for all the cool hunter info…
I wanna know:
– Pull macro BRK uses.. and how to use it.
– Which shot to use to pull and why… concussive, distracting, arcane.. arcane (rank 1).. which one…
– What about when I’m in a group.. and the Pally pulls by throwing her shield.. and the shield bounces off my trap mob.. what then? How do I get that bugger over into my trap? I mean that’s some serious mad aggro built up.. what should I do to pull then? (ok.. that might be a little advanced for the movie.. but I’m interested in BRK’s solution)(my solution: shoot the crap out of it with every aggro inducing shot until it’s either dead or runs over to get me)(my solution seems flawed… ’cause most of the time the mob’s 3/4 dead by the time it finally runs over to my trap)
– How does BRK juggle trapping mob A while sending pet and starting DPS on mob B without accidentally breaking the trap on mob A? (I use focus macros.. but I’m interested in seeing his solutions).
Nibuca
Noob advocate
http://warcraft.fibergeek.com/
@Nibuca
BRKs wisdom on pull macros and chain trapping has been pontificated on previously.
http://www.bigredkitty.net/2007/02/06/let-hunters-pull-part-iii-finally/
For your reading pleasure.
Enjoy
Petsareus – 70 BM Hunter
Shmilybug – 70 Holy Priest
@ Yvii
Double trapping is not too difficult. Keeping them trapped is a bit trickier.
Drop a trap, wait for the trap timer to indicate that you can drop a trap again, pull a mob into the trap on the ground.
Drop a second trap, pull another mob into the second trap.
This juggling can be maintained for a bit, but the trap duration timer will cause you to kite quite a bit to keep both mobs trapped for a long amount of time.
If you are in a party let them know your intentions, and make sure they don’t break traps with AoE attacks. If you don’t let them know what’s going on they are likely to think the second trap was a mistake, and worry quite a bit about trap number 1.
Nibuca asks: “- What about when I’m in a group.. and the Pally pulls by throwing her shield.. and the shield bounces off my trap mob.. what then? How do I get that bugger over into my trap?”
You don’t.
I work with a pally tank that’s like glue, and we’ve given up trying to CC around her. When she pulls mad aggro, the healers know they need to keep her up, but nothing is breaking away from her while she’s standing. This is where prearranged kill orders are handy, so that all DPS takes the mobs in order, to winnow them faster than if people are trying to pull some to traps. We’ll often set our traps in front of the healers as a safety meassure, in case something does break for them.
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Hi there could u help me make the talent points panal for my hunter could u make a movie ?? pls
I’ve been using KHT for the Trap Primed timer, but never found a way to get it to show Trap Effetcs. I combined it with NECB, since that one shows the time of my Trap Effect.
This movie clearly shows that it’s possible to get KHT to show the time of Trap Effect as well! So.. What am I missing.. I’ve gone over and over the settings menu and come up dry :S
P.S BRK is a lot of fun and I find a ton of info just browsing around, and the real kicker is the artwork on top, it’s profoundly hilarious!
Regards,
Doloxene