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I honestly don't use it that much. I guess it could be used sort of in the same way that feign death is used, but mainly in PvE. I know it reduces some threat.

One way you used to use it though was to set traps. When traps could only be set out of combat, you would set one, attack, keep pet on passive, disengage, set trap, attack.

I believe that used to work, but now it is kind of obsolete because of in combat trap setting.

Maybe someone else might have a better example

Before I got Feign Death, I used it whenever I got hate instead of my pet. After Feign Death, it is mostly just taking up a barslot. I suppose it could work in a boss situation when your Feign Death resisted, and you have to drop just a little bit of threat.

Never actually gotten to a point where I have to try, though.

That never used to work, actually, because Disengage does not remove you from combat. It lowers your threat and cancels your auto-attacks.

Feign Death and Vanish are the only two abilities that actually remove the player from combat.

As for what it's good for? Just lowering threat. If your target comes into melee range, you can either Disengage or Wing Clip to get back to range. Most hunters go with Wing Clip, but if you pull a lot of aggro, Disengage may work better.

Thanks for all of the responses. I couldn't understand why it had such a short range before, but makes sense now.

I use this ability a lot in instances and regular PvE. If I get attacked I just disengage and the mob goes for my pet almost everytime saving me from using feign death for when I really need it. In instances where I trap mobs for awhile I use it then too. Disengage on a trapped mob so that when it releases it goes for the tank instead of me allowing me to be at a distance without having the entire group move to where I am because I still had aggro. Sure you can use feign death to completely wipe your aggro granted that it doesn't get resisted but I much prefer to try a quick disengage to save the feign death.

I find it pretty useful, especially when solo grinding hard mobs in an add-rich environment. Once in a while my pet loses aggro with both traps and FD on CD, pop disengage and start nuking again.
It's better than wing-clip since you won't have to run around like a headless chicken.

I don't do it right away. I am very good when it comes to trapping and retrapping mobs. I use disengage on the trapped mob when it's going to be the next killed. Didn't mean for it to sound like I did it right away or anything. From my experiences (assuming there aren't adds) the tank in our group usually kills off the ones needed then kills off the trapped one before any sapped or polymorphed ones. So once they are killed off I can disengage my trapped one and the tank can pick it up. Most of the time though the tank is enough to get aggro without me even using disengage. I still use it though just for the added threat reduction to be on the safe side.....my posts are getting way too long...need to stop posting just before and after sleep >_<

I use it all the time when I accidentally pull agro from my pet.