Comments on: BRK Hunter Guide Movie – The Jump Shot

By: Hunter A-Z « steady shot

Hunter A-Z « steady shot — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:07:05 +0000

[...] Jump Shot – the kiting move, whereby the hunter runs forward and while doing so jumps around and fires a shot at the chasing enemy, before continuing to run. Something I have never tried to master because of being (guilty secret here) a keyboard mover! Yes that’s right, I use the Q,E, and arrow keys to move and a laptop with a track pad I know, I know I should start using a mouse – but I usually play sitting in an armchair, with the laptop balanced on the arm, and a cat on my lap, so there is nowhere for a mouse, as well as a cat to go. In my defense I can strafe shot kite, I’ve never died on the Heigan Dance (except once when I D’cd but that doesn’t count) or frogger, so I can’t be doing that badly. Just don’t ask me to do fancy jumps. [...]

By: diego

diego — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:41:43 +0000

you had to learn this? really?

By: Kivshani

Kivshani — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:48 +0000

Sorry for the off-topic bit, but I wandered, which of your AddOns tells you when your CDs are done? There’s a nifty little graphics that jumps up and says “Concussion Shot Ready” and I have almost all of your AddOns anyways and I couldn’t find.

Help would be appreciated.

By: Dav’s bit o the web » A Hunters guide to Kael’thas Sunstrider

Dav’s bit o the web » A Hunters guide to Kael’thas Sunstrider — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:07:16 +0000

[...] If you haven’t learnt how to do damage whilst moving, this is the fight for you to learn. You could do a lot worse than starting with BRK’s jumpshot videos. [...]

By: saphia

saphia — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:08:29 +0000

BRK – you sound very much like Bob Ross from the old Joy Of Painting videos. I kept expecting to hear you say that there are only happy accidents and that every tree needed a friend. Love the videos.

By: Corwyn

Corwyn — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:17:06 +0000

Seems to have a bit of a disconnect to me. First half talks about moving with buttons. Second half talks about jump shotting with mouse movements. It would be nice to describe and show mouse movements in between. Otherwise, I think it will more confuse than enlighten a total newbie.

Thank You Kindly,

Corwyn

By: Tazbutane

Tazbutane — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:31:16 +0000

I agree with Alan. I appreciate seeing PRK performing the move on the screen, but it would be much more helpful to see how it is performed using the keyboard and mouse. How anyone could think a jumpshot is ‘intuitive’ for a hunter is beyond me. If that is the case every class with instant ranged damage should be doing it. Of course I have not done PVP yet, so maybe all other classes are doing a jumpshot as well. Anyway lots of good information from the movie and the comments. Thanks

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:12:01 +0000

The video plays nicely and is entertaining, but isn’t what I need as a jump-shot tutorial. I know what it means to jump and shoot in mid-air, and OK, there’s a video of BRK doing it, just like the hunters who kill me when I play. The video that would help ME learn to do it wouldn’t be a WoW video capture. It would be a home movie of a player that showed what they were doing with the mouse and keyboard, monitor visible as they jumped and turned, and with the voice-over describing what they were doing with their fingers rather than which shot was being fired.

By: BRK

BRK — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:53:44 +0000

The Jump Shot is important because hunters operate best “at range”. Getting away from your enemy is one action, shooting your enemy is a second. The Jump Shot is the implementation of both of these actions at the same time.

Yes, you can survive PvE without it. Going into PvP without it? You’re crippling yourself. We are trying to remember to record some of our PvP stuff so you can see it in action there.

Slurry? Maybe we need an external mic. /hmm

By: Róhirrim

Róhirrim — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:55:36 +0000

Oook, so everyone’s praising you for this little video clip…

Not saying I didn’t enjoy watching it, but WHY is the ‘jump shot’ so cool or important? What’s the deal?

No, seriously. I’d really like to know why you all think this seems to be so important to us hunters?
To me it looks as if it would be useful for kiting and kiting only. (And this can be done without using the jump shot.)

Another problem for me is that it’s sometimes veeery hard to hear what you’re saying. Perhaps it’s just your accent, but it’s really ’slurry’. :-/