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Old 07/18/08, 3:01 PM   #41 (permalink)
Neruse
Von Kaiser
 
Night Elf Hunter
 
Sargeras
BM:

Master's Call is good pvp utility, but is it affected by dispel resist talents?
Cobra Strikes has excellent synergy with Invigoration, especially if the mana gain has no cooldown.
Aspect Mastery seems fairly good (the ap bonus from hawk is 150), and assuming one isn't stunned or incapacitated, switching to monkey to help negate a burst is good.
Longevity has potential, but it depends on how good the pet special abilities are.

PvE build like so.

Marks:

Wild Quiver is about 2% dps increase for 3 points.
Imp SS is about 1.5-2% dps increase for 3 points.
Piercing Shots, if assuming a 50% armor increase over SW bosses, seems to be solid.
Imp/Barrage are still poor dps investments.
Presumably Rapid Recuperation is bugged; if it caps at 60% reduced mana, it's hard to justify the points. If it really caps at 100% returned, it has good synergy with Rapid Killing.
Marked for Death is good, possibly about a 7-8% dps increase.
Chimera Shot is a mana hog and really only useful in pvp. Even so, the mana return from viper is only a net benefit if one has Imp Stings.

A PvE build likely would go something like this.

SV:

Improved Tracking is an excellent change, though there still exist some undefined mob types.
Improved Feign Death is more burst negation.
Deterrence would be quite handy against PMR teams.
Master Tactician is now a strong dps talent; somwhere around 7-8% average crit,
Potent Venom is complete and utter fail. Wyvern is not used for the damage and serpent sting only has a justifiable use for sticking on low hp players that may attempt to run.
Point of No Escape has potential, but for so deep into the survival tree it will likely end up a trash talent.
Sniper Training is about a 2% increase before 30%, but substantially better below.
Hunting Party seems pretty good, and with survival crit rates, one might not even have to go 5/5 to get a good return out of it. Assuming a hunter has 15k mana raidbuffed(guesstimate, obviously) this is about 187 mp/5 for himself.

Potential PvE build here.
 
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