When I got the DFT on my hunter, I respecced away from survival and into 5/31/15.. the DFT gave me the +hit I needed to go for the higher dps build.

It's as good of an item for a hunter as it is for any class that +hit is valuable for.

another thing to keep in mind is that the +hit from drake fang allows a hunter to alter his gear setup for specific fights without gimping his hit %. specifically, wearing resist gear for huhuran while not having to worry about missing with tranquilizing shot - i'm certainly not going to ZG libram my NR pants any time soon, and missing on tranq shot on that fight can be lethal for a tank.

It's not a matter of losing DPS, really. They can't miss due to the fact that missing a Tranq shot usually has disastrous consequences.

I can see where this benefits a hunter, but you're probably doing your raid a favor if you give priority to a rogue or fury warrior over a hunter for the initial drops. Clearly +hit matters when you're tranq shotting, but it's probably a bigger upgrade for a melee character.

It was easily 10dps over my dm trinket when I got it. DFT adds 4 dps to your mainhand white dmg and 3 dps for your offhand. It adds 2 dps to sinister strikes and 25 to a warrior's bloodthirst every 6 seconds (4ish dps). The +hit is a push vs the dm trinket for a rogue, but a big upgrade for most fury warriors. The dodge bonus matters more if you're actually in melee on a regular basis (random cleaves are quite common in endgame raiding, regardless of positioning). Unfortunately there are very few alternatives to this collection of stats for a melee character.

edit: math ftw.

So basically if a hunter gets another point of +hit and gets some extra decimal, then they can roll on http://www.thottbot.com/?i=48211 instead of rogue loot?

+hit on the DFT allows you to not have to wear +hit on your other gear - you can go crit on your rings (Quick Strike, Qiraji Fury), wear a barbed choker instead of prestors, keep the sniper scope on your bow instead of the +hit scope (which doesn't exist on my server anyway, at least I've never seen one) and up your other stats instead of having to focus on +hit.

I know it's a good trinket for rogues or fury warriors. It's also a good trinket for hunters. Deal with that.

How is master dragonslayers for hunters?

It is a good trinket for Hunters. But as a Hunter I am well aware that right now as things stand pre Naxx Blackhand's/DM/DFT are pretty much it. However I would rather keep my Blackhand's and DM trinket and let a Rogue or Fury Warrior have a DFT over me any day. They get much more use out of a +hit trinket than I would. Just take the slight dps hit from using a 3% hit scope. It's not worth it as far as the raid as a whole is concerned for you to take an item that boosts your ap slightly, and gives you hit and dodge you really don't need, while in the hands of a Rogue or Warrior it would be a huge bump in dps.

this is sort of a derail, but i keep seeing people commenting that dft should go to 'rogues or fury warriors' over hunters. we have no fury warriors in our guild, so i'm somewhat ignorant to their performance, but my understanding is that their damage output is limited far more by aggro than by gear. i can buy giving some degree of priority to rogues on DFT (thus my own passing on several of them before i took my own), even if i think people are wrong about the relative benefits hunters and rogues get from the item. but it seems to me that the raid benefit involved in giving a dft to a fury warrior coudn't possibly be higher than giving it to a hunter, if only because the relative value of the item (regardless of how good it is for fury - and yes, i know +hit is the most important stat for a fury warrior) is brick walled by aggro. sure, they can go nuts and put up insane numbers on aggroless fights, but is that realistically more beneficial to your raid progression than improving the performance of your hunters in every fight ?

We have one dedicated fury warrior and I know he wants DFT. It's obviously great for his DPS, but his DPS is already limited by aggro. When we were learning Vael we were never able to find a balance that let him do max damage without pulling aggro. This could be due to our tanks not holding aggro well, but I agree that it's probably more beneficial to the raid in the hands of a rogue or hunter.

We haven't seen a DFT yet, but I would definitely bid against DPS warriors and probably even rogues. It's the best trinket for all three classes from what I can tell, so I'm not sure there's an incentive to make it rogue only. If I could be convinced that it's a more significant upgrade to our rogues I'd happily pass.

Just wait till a druid in the guild takes one... I'll summarize with: Drama explosion

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I have a DFT as a hunter and I really feel I get great use out of it. It allowed me to drop surefooted and move those points into improved aspect of the hawk, nice DPS increase overall as well as greatly reducing my tranq misses for resist fights.