Disengage

Disengage will have its functionality changed in WotLK. It will cause the hunter to leap backwards up to 13 yards and has a 30 second cooldown. This should be handy for helping hunters avoid getting stuck in melee.

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pvp godsend if you're good enough to master this ability. Almost limitless potential.

1. Jump off the edge of a cliff or towards the target you're trying to catch up to, facing towards the target/area you're trying to get to. Jumping allows you to increase the distance you can possibly travel. Also make sure you're in combat first and that there's no hostile Non-Death Grip Cooldown Death Knights around (as they can pull you back to them mid-jump - THIS WILL SCREW YOU OVER).
3. Turn around while in mid-air so that your back is now facing the area/target you're trying to catch up to. The best way to do this is to firstly use your left hand mouse button, turn around with it, hold it down and tap your right hand mouse button at the same time.
4. Right after you've turned around, hit Disengage and watch as you soar over both friend and foe alike, leaving them stupefied as you either catch up or land in front of your enemy, Wing Clip him, Trap him, etc.etc. As far as I know, you can pop a few instant shots at any targets in front of you as you soar.

What happend to Step 2?

Hunter casts "Disengage." Death knight casts "Death Grip." Hunter casts "Readiness." Hunter casts "Disengage." I think I'll call it re-disengage.

Clearly you don't know the history of the mage's Blink. I never know where I'm going to end up. Same spot? Backwards a few steps? Hey, at least it's not through the world anymore...

Hunter casts "Disengage."
Death knight casts "Death Grip."

I think I'll call it re-engage.

Death knight casts "Death Grip." Hunter casts "Disengage." I think I'll call it dis-engage.

They should increase the actual height you jump when you use it. I've been in several circumstances where the slightest of incline in the ground features can cut your Disengage to almost nothing. Beware of using this when the ground behind you is slightly higher.

Works underwater.

Was changed recently ( Not sure which patch ). It no longer requires a target ( Which means you CAN use it as a backwards blink ), but you have to be in combat to use it.

Feign Death followed by Disengage won't work. FD will get you out of combat, and Disengage requires being in combat so.

in Cataclysm, Priest will have ability called Leap of Faith to "grip" friendly player to him/her Hunter casts "Disengage." Death knight casts "Death Grip." Priest cast "Leap of Faith" on Hunter I think I'll call it ping-pong disengage.

Also note that if you jump as you cast this (compensating for lag) you can get a significant boost to the distance that you jump backwards, very useful for PVP when you're in close with melee classes.

If you are an Engineer, this spell has unlimited potential.
If you are carrying a flag in Warsong Gulch, and enemies are coming, just Disengage+Parachute Cloak!
Works best if you are in top of the entrance to the tunnel. I've seen hunters leap almost halfway across the field.

In Arathi Basin, just jump off the Mill! Do various emotes at the attackers as you shoot across the sky and waft gently down on your cloak.

You can now get it down to a 16 second cooldown thanks to Survival Tactics and the Glyph of Disengage. Love this pvp spell a lot :)

How far this ability will throw you backwards is highly dependent on the terrain you are on. If you are on a hillside with your back facing up the hill (looking down it) then the ability throws you back a good 3 inches rendering it completely useless. However, if your back is facing down the hill and you use it you can be thrown out far enough to fly a good 50-60 yards which is super fun to do when getting ganked or in world PVP (you will take fall damage tho and that = durability hit if you die). The 10 yard range is on flat ground with no obstacles in the way. I do not believe you have to be facing an enemy to use this so it could be used in PVE when you need to group up on a boss or spread out quickly. This is a great ability... I laugh out loud every time i use it. Thank you Blizzard.

Extremely useful when combined with either slow fall or parachute cloak/flexweave underlay.
I would like to know the exact speed of this spell "shoots" you, but it is somewhere between 150-200% mount speed.
Tested in Arathi Basin, with parachute it was great escaping from Lumber mill. Landed almost at the Blacksmith's graveyard.

I wasn't able to add to one of the comments in my first post (as I thought I had passed 7.5K characters), but I was wondering - if a Hunter gets Slow Fall and uses Disengage, is it possible that he will go at the said "150%-200% Mount Speed" all the way, or will he slow down at some point?

Oh, and the last bit of my comment, by the way, should be put more specficially.

"I'd like to see a video where a Hunter (with High-Level Engineering) uses Rocket Boots to use the Hunter Double-Jump(See my first post) with Slow Fall cast on him over a really, really long and deep fall (I'd say top of Storm Peaks, perhaps), who also has a Flexweave Underlay attached to a Parachute Cloak (if a combination is possible) to use just in case if the Slow Fall wears off and see how far he gets."

Thank you. :D

Disengage from a cliff when ganked
+ Readiness
+ Disengage while about 15 yards from hitting the ground = The Hunter has escaped with style!

This is a very useful skill. Not only can you use it to gain distance on an opponent (as is its most obvious use), but can be used to close the distance between you and a fleeing opponent (as has been stated - for example, catching the flag runner in Warsong Gulch).

Something that hasn't been stated though, is that you can use this in conjunction with Readiness to use it twice in a row. Obviously this should only be used in situations where fleeing is an option and necessary (Warsong Gulch yet again, anyone?), as Readiness boasts other uses.

Since it can be used out of comat now, this ability will let you jump from big heights without taking fall damage.
All you need to do is use it a second or two before hitting the ground.
Beware though, there is slight delay when falling, so you need to be careful and not use it too late.

Hunter casts "disengage" Ghoul casts "leap" and "gnaw" Priest casts whatever its called DK casts "death grip" Hunter casts "readiness" and "disengage" The new form of combat in cataclysm, "Aerial Combat!"

Disengage isn't supposed to remove snares. We do want it to move you the same distance whether snared or not, but that takes new code, so it will take a little while. We did recently lower the mana cost from 14% (I think) to 5%. It is off the GCD now.

I used disengage on one of the cliffs in Thousand needles.

Ouch.

As it made things better, I had allready suffered a fall down death thanks to a duel vs a priest who mc'ed me off the cliff ;__;

+Turn on cool music +Get on glasses

That is not entirely true. If the you think that you require to see what's behind you, all you have to do is change the camera angle quickly or keep zoome dout far enough to see what's behind you. Also, leaping into an enemy player normally would confuse them, too. :::(directed to hannibalektr)::: Also this can be extremely useful in AB. I've used this on the lumber mill cliff to escape a mob of Horde and land in the water quite a few times.

Ok - I really cannot be the only person that twitches to use this spell as a hunter.. It's just too much fun! Jump backwards, scare kids, amaze midgets! I mean.. What are we all waiting for?

The range is indefinite, it just applies to the physics (Gravity and such) of the game. So really, there is a range, but it isn't a predetermined one. I imagine if some sort of falling impairment item was used, the hunter would be able to go much farther.

As patch 3.1.2, cooldown has been reduced by 5sec.

As a nightelf, you can also use this to buy you some time such as waiting on a short cool down and such during pvp. Simple just scatter shot a person really fast, and as you disengage right away man the shadowmeld racial which will likely shield you from the enemy's view of you for a few moment until you can reengage again.

Often time when you get far away enough and disengage you will be out of the screen already by the time the enemy is adjusting their screen to face you. If you're quick enough, a fast shadowmeld will cause the enemy to wander around a bit, buying you some time.

You can also abuse the hunter's lovely range to GET in combat as you fall. I've survived jumps from Freewind Post by shooting a Hyena on the ground and quickly pressing Disengage. This is harder with higher jumps, though!

Dusklight is right. engineering and disengage are a hunters dream come true, especially at lower level pvp. i have a 29 twink hunter and came up with this OP macro using http://www.wowhead.com/?item=10518. this is essentially an "o.O SH*T" button, but really its more like a "nice try" button. i usually jump then hit the macro for maximum effect. what mattrocks said was correct, you can pop off any instant shots while you are flying, as long as you are in range. if you arent an engineer, just take out the parachute cloak line. this works so well because disengage is now off the GCD. #showt

The level requirement has been changed to Lvl 14 on the Beta server in Cataclysm Beta Patch (Build 13277).

"Disengage: The spell level has changed from 78 to 14."

This should be an ability that also can be use "out of combat". Don't think it would be overpowering or anything since beeing OP only count for combatreasons. Have had a million times when i wanted to use it but i accually had to attack something, then do Disengage and then Feint to get out of combat...

Hoping for agreements

It won't slow down, this is the best thing in it :D

Blink for hunters.

Simply jump and use the mouse to twist your character in the air to disengage in any direction you'd like. Also ensures you don't clip the terrain and come to a screeching halt.

Any hunter worth his or her salt should find this an easy and obvious extention of their jump shot/kiting skills.

This is in the running for my favorite WoW spell to date.

Aside from being wildly useful to hunters, it's fun as hell. With the right terrain and a good angle, you can spring up onto ledges and continue sniping your enemies from your makeshift eagle's nest. Mob downhill, fast approaching your spot on top of said hill? whip around backwards and spring down the hill - bam! you're behind the mob and 25 yards away. And that goes double for PvP.

Fun and useful, the hallmark of a good spell.

While this ability can protect you from fall damage you'd normally take as a result of getting knocked off a cliff by a player or NPC's knockback, it can also keep you from getting knocked off a cliff in the first place, as it resets your momentum, meaning if you disengage quickly enough, you can move yourself back to safety.

It also allows you to safely pass over ground targeted AoEs.

And is also handy for pulling off some rather amazing aerobatics. http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=160903 Most incredible hunter video I've ever seen.

I was MC'd off of Lumbermill be a priest as well, as soon as the MC wore off I Disengaged and took no falling damage :D

Except in the case of a steep incline, this can most often be resolved by simply jumping before hitting Disengage. I've done it so often, that it's instinctual now, and I never Disengage without jumping.

@Zeebs The reason for that is that when you use Disengage, the game doesn't recognize your new position until you land. This is the same reason why using Disengage to get out of strong AoE is a bad idea; while you may be a good distance away on the screen, the game still considers you to be where you were when you disengaged until you land- meaning you'll still get ticked by the AoE until you've settled in your new location. To be honest, I hope it stays this way and isn't considered a bug or anything. The PvP uses of it far outweigh the annoyance of not being able to use it as a quick AoE

Have you noticed how ineffective disengage was? ~800 threat is an incredibly small amount to drop (about 1 steady shot worth of threat for me). This makes it a better skill for PvE. Wing Clip > Disengage > Concussive shot > Freezing trap. Should give enough time for: A) Tank's taunt CD to be up. B) FD's CD to be up.

Also this can be extremely useful in AB. I've used this on the lumber mill cliff to escape a mob of Horde and land in the water quite a few times.

Add to that, Slow Fall, and you've got yourself a Blacksmith aerial attack!

If theres any kind of slope behind you you will hit that, no matter how small it is.

Not with the flag you couldn't.

Anyone knowing about the new disengage?(i mean the one introdoucted in cataclysm instead of camouflage)

Otherwise known as the French Parry.

Looks like your wish was granted ;)