does anyone ever seriously use the hyena strike health orb?

asking out of curiosity if there is a way to constuctively use it in fast gameplay. i personally cant find a good situation in tran/fauzt/dunc where the strategy pays of to stand in one spot for a long time, and i cant think of a situation other than very early on in the game where this would make sense. perhaps im missing something about its mechanics, and perhaps someone uses this orb thingy in a great way. if so, id be interested to learn about it

Haven't played on-attack spearzon but from what I figure isn't hyena strike mandatory? You only get aoe from great hunt and it has magic damage conversion, so hyena works like eagle stance with a different (duration boostable) mechanic.

yea thats the most logical use for it, with great hunt. especially considering that great hunt sends out orbs in a similar way like hyena strike. its effectiveness however is questionable, at face value it doesnt seem very good, especially on realm where there is constant desync. i suppose the only way to really find that out is to test it. great hunt is really quite strong this patch so it might turn out better than expected.

altho i was hoping for somebody who has already been there and done that hyena strike business with success

I liked the poison damage it did. Like you said though, sometimes the desync makes it tough to get the health orb.

Did you try it with pounce? If I remember correctly, you can pounce for a couple of seconds then use hyena strike and you'll get the health orb. At least last patch it was like that. Did they change it?

You can use pounce to gain fury. This causes the pounce's magic dmg to double, but this bonus also affects great hunt as whenever I stand still for 1 second with pounce and then use great hunt I get more spirits. I never tried it with hyena strike, though.