Distracting ShotFollow

I'm curious about our Distracting Shot. Is it supposed to cause us to gain aggro from a mob or does it reduce it?

I thought I could use it in situations where I need to get the aggro off my pet because he was going to die and I was full health, but that didn't work.

Then I tried using it after I had plunked a few arrows into a mob on a pull hoping to reduce my aggro so the pet could get it quicker, but that didn't work either.

What the heck is it for?

Thanks!

Zatx Distracting shot is supposed to gain you aggro from the mob struck. But you have to be careful in its application.

If you've allowed your pet to tank for you most of the fight using a equal level of growl, one distracting shot will not pull the hate off of your pet. Especially if right after your shot, your pet drops another growl at the monster. If you want to pull the hate off your pet, I suggest the follow Ranged attack combo.

Arcane shot
Concussive shot
Arcane shot

At a lower level that should do enough damage as long as your pet is no longer growling.

I'm currently level 35 hunter and am a pet specialist. With all the Ranged attack abilities granted by our class, I can usual find various methods of pulling the hate off as we have a whole ******* of special instant shot attacks.

Just right-click growl and the glowing bar around it should disappear

Well several levels after getting Distracting Shot I've finally find the niche' for it.

Keeping the healer alive in a group.

I've never been able to use it to pull the mob off a pet, but one shot will cause the mob beating on the healer to turn and attack me.

It's actually kind of funny when it happens. Priest yells out, "ON ME!", I turn, fire a Distracting Shot into the mob, it pauses and has that "who the hell hit me?" shocked look on it's face, turns and attacks me.

Works like a charm. =)

I've got a question.
I'm lvl 41 and my pet isn't being a tank anymore. I send my pet in first, then used aimed shot. But after an aimed shot concussive and serpant it is alrdy attacking me. My pet is still on lvl 1 growl because i was saving for mount. Does this mean I should learn higher growl, or not used aimed shot first.

Um..the higher growls are well worth the few silver you will spend to learn them.

I hunters mark, pull with concussion, hit with serpent, hit with arcane, and then aimed shot. By the time I've finished my last shot the mob is on me. I hit the mob with my raptor strike then immediately hit Disengage and back off to finish the mob with my bow. Normally I only get in a few shots at this point because the mob is just about dead.

If you don't have the armor or melee dps and don't want all of that aggro, pull with serpent and send in pet. Let auto-shot hit the mob a few times then slap arcane and aimed shot on them. Just don't use concussion shot at all, or save it for mobs that run at low health.

I use Distracting Shot in Blackfathom Deep. My pet is tanking an elite something or other, and when it turns to run in fear - I don't want it to 1: go get help, 2: have my pet follow it (I know hitting 'follow me' will cause the pet to not follow it and get aggro, but.. eh.).. I've found that using distracting shot on it when it turns to run away will usually cause it to stop running away and start back towards you, usually with your pet killing it before it gets anywhere close - but at least it doesn't run away. Or worse, run through the instance swirly zone thing and die in there where you can't loot it.