Silencing Shot

Silencing Shot
Silencing Shot (1 rank) Hunter ability 8-35 yards yd range 6% of base Mana 20 sec cooldown Instant Instant shot that deals 50% of ranged weapon damage and Silences the target for 3 seconds.
Properties
Class	Hunter
School	Arcane
Cooldown	20 seconds
Talents
Talent tree	Marksmanship, Tier 9
Talent required	[Master Marksman] (5)
Improvements	[Hawk Eye], [Mortal Shots], Efficiency
Related debuff
Magic Silencing Shot Silenced. Duration: 3 sec.

[[Category:hunter abilities]][[Category:hunter abilities]]

Silencing Shot is a instant shot that deals 50% of ranged weapon damage and silences the target for 3 seconds.

Uses

• An excellent opening shot when fighting against casters in PvP or PvE.
• Good spellcasting disruption when combined with [Scatter Shot] properly.
• Great when pulling spellcasting mobs in instances; casters will run towards you when hit with this, allowing you to pull them without being out of their line of sight.
• Can be used to pull caster mobs into a [Freezing Trap] more easily .
• Can be an "extra shot" if other shots are on cooldown, although it only does 50% weapon damage.
• Can be used prevent healers from healing when low on health, allowing three seconds for you to strike a killing blow; works especially well against paladins, priests, and mages as it also disrupts their ability to use damage shields.

Notes

• Does not share a cooldown with any other hunter abilities.
• Does not trigger the GCD.
• Although it doesn't silence immune mobs and bosses, it does interrupt them.

Limitations

• Fairly long cooldown.
• Most bosses are immune.
• As this is an Arcane-based spell, mobs that are immune to Arcane will be immune to the silence effect. (NOT the physical damage.)

Upgrades

• [Hawk Eye] (Survival Talent): Increases the range of your ranged weapons by 2 yards per rank (3 ranks total).
• [Mortal Shots] (Marksmanship Talent): Increases your ranged weapon critical strike damage bonus by 6% per rank (5 ranks total).
• Efficiency (Marksmanship Talent): Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots and Stings by 2% per rank (5 ranks total).

Patch changes

• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): This ability will also apply a 3 second interrupt effect against non-player controlled targets, making it more versatile against creatures immune to silencing effects.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): This spell will now interrupt the current spell being cast on the target and lock out that school for 3 sec if the target is immune to silence effects.
  
• Patch 2.0.6 (2007-01-23): Silencing Shot now does only 50% of weapon damage instead of 75%.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB