Snake Trap



Snake Trap is a hunter trap, learned at level 66 for.

Details
The snakes have 3 rogue-style poisons:


 * Crippling Poison: Enemy movement speed is reduced by 50%.
 * Mind-Numbing Poison: Enemy spell-casting speed is decreased by 50%.
 * Deadly Poison: Enemy gets 15 nature damage over 12 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.

Snakes apply poisons with spit, not a melee attack (about 2.6 yard range). Also, if there are unpoisoned targets nearby, snakes will not melee, but will instead spit more poisons on that target, making snakes an excellent AoE boost. For example, if the hunter knows where a mage's AoE will be, they can place a snake trap there and most mobs at this location will get poisoned.

When the trap is activated, snakes start to attack the nearest targets. It is possible that some snakes will attack one target and some will attack other. After the target is dead, snakes attacks next target (in close range).

Snakes at level 80 have 107 hp and 9729 armor.

The Vipers hit for 38-53. 4 of these appear.

The Venomous Snakes hit for 16-24. 4 of these appear.

Both types of snakes use all 3 of the different poisons (Crippling, Mind-Numbing, and Deadly).

The damage they do does not scale with attack power, 2p T7, or aspect of the beast.

Tips and tactics

 * It is possible to use the Snake Trap to gain distance while kiting. Place the trap as you are kiting a mob, then as the snakes release and begin to hit the mob, you can feign death. This allows you to gain distance from the mob as it kills your snakes. Be aware of the speed that the mob kills your snakes, since if you haven't landed a dot or damaging ability on the mob before the snakes all die, it will deaggro you completely.
 * Place trap where Mage or Warlock will do their AoE to add some damage and to slow targets (thanks to Crippling Poison).
 * If two or more targets are tanked at the same time, place trap under the tank.
 * Snake Trap can proc Entrapment.
 * During random aggro boss fights, such as Shade of Aran and Julianne from the Opera Event.
 * Snakes have their own aggro, therefore this trap has no effect on the hunter's aggro rating.