Feign Death has been occasionally removing the nameplates of Hunters since day 1 of pre-patch.
Fix it.
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The real tragedy of Feign death is that it works AGAINST the Hunter.
It’s supposed to be a defensive tool to help him survive. But the fact is: it interrupts his healer’s casts, not just the enemy’s.
The mount of times my Hunter friends died because their FD interrupted my Soothing Mist is tragic.
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It can also work for them if they Feign, the target switches and the intended ability actually hits a pet instead.
There’s probably a macro or something to fix that though.
Yes of course, that’s how it’s supposed to work.
But the fact remains that a defensive spell shouldn’t prevent your healer from saving you.
The fact that it does goes against the very concept of defensive cooldowns.
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Then that’s how it’s supposed to work for healers, too 
It’s a defensive for the Hunter, not for the healer.
Yes, exactly.
And preventing the Hunter from being healed doesn’t, in fact, help defend the Hunter.
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You…don’t get it. Never mind, you tried.
It’s the other way around my dude bro.
I know what he means, but if it would not stop the cast of everyone it would be a broken ability.
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No it isn’t. It makes everybody lose the hunter as a target. If it works like that for DPS, it works like that for healers, too.
It would be absolutely broken if it didn’t for healers
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No it doesn’t. You don’t lose targeting as a healer, it just interrupts the cast.
As it should.
Not. As it should not.
Are you called Slapface because that’s what you make anyone that reads your comments want to do to themselves?
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I like to give my fans the freedom to come up with their own interpretations of my work.
Okay, you, as a hunter, are trying to fake your own death by pretending to fall down on the ground dead, probably when your HP is low to make it believable for a sec or two.
Now imagine if your healer isn’t interrupted. I’ve never seen a healer healing a corpse. There’s no logic for him to keep casting heals on you, especially the mist xD.
This glitch has existed for a while in regard to nameplates disappearing… Hope they fix this at some point. Also, sometimes the turtle animation doesn’t show up when it’s activated, anybody else get this or just me?
It wouldn’t really be broken, it’s not like it would make the hunter oneshot everyone if healers would still be casting into it.
But the difference lies in the game design gimmicks. It’s a feigned death. There have been times, not often but it has happened in the history throughout the lifespan of WoW, where the hunter’s enemies have been fooled by a feign death. If a green soothing mist would be flying into the hunter during it, then it’d make it even easier for people to notice it is, in fact, a feign death being used.
So that’s why it’s intended.
What’s broken is the nameplate bug though, that stuff needs to get fixed.
Also, any healer failing at healing because of feign death stopping the cast, needs to get better and faster at re-casting it.
You don’t have to take absolutely every single word seriously by its definition. He feigns, your cast is cancelled. It would be bonkers for healers to be an exception and be allowed to continue casting whatever ability on them when the Hunter feigns.
E.g. my next cast is one that would kill the Hunter, but the next cast of the healer might be a Divine Favour that saves him. My cast would be interrupted by FD but the heal wouldn’t. Thankfully, they both get interrupted anyway.
A proper healer would still just recast it instantly on the feign death, with the smallest delay for the eyes and brain to interpret and react. It’d still land before your cast.
You’re kinda exaggerating the impact of feign death on the hunter’s healer. It’s not really an issue.