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Old 07/10/06, 12:08 PM   #16
Tibor
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Originally Posted by Farstrider
Originally Posted by Grimmarg
and well... where else would you put those three points? Do you see any other place to put them that would beenfit you PvE wise? I surely can't. :o
well after having been an affirmed BM tree sceptic I'm now tempted to whack a few points in there to increase my pet's dps a little. Every little helps after all.
I think his point is you need two points in that first tier on the Survival tree, and Humanoid Slaying is a better PvE candidate than Deflection.


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Old 07/10/06, 12:35 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Bogart
Originally Posted by Farstrider
Originally Posted by Grimmarg
and well... where else would you put those three points? Do you see any other place to put them that would beenfit you PvE wise? I surely can't. :o
well after having been an affirmed BM tree sceptic I'm now tempted to whack a few points in there to increase my pet's dps a little. Every little helps after all.
I think his point is you need two points in that first tier on the Survival tree, and Humanoid Slaying is a better PvE candidate than Deflection.
Exactly - I was just trying to be a smartass, sorry. :)

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Old 07/10/06, 12:42 PM   #18
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Outside of ZG, I can't remember the last boss that I killed that was considered Humanoid. More of a PvP talent IMHO, and not a really great one at that.

I personally find that anything that increases my survivability is more valuable than one that gives me that last little edge on DPS. With bosses and trash hitting harder and harder, I am starting to prefer things like deflection's damage avoidance over the extra hp from Survivalist. This may change in Naxx, if the AoE dmg scales up tremendously, but currently 5% dmg avoidance is greater than the 400hp gain from Survivalist. It feels really nice to dodge/parry a special attack on the pull that you know would have hit for 3k+ . And FD>Explosive trapping with detterance and high dodge/parry can save your mages a significant amount of dmg while AoEing, at least for a little bit.

Course, I'm also Rank 10, and enjoy the pvp side of the game as well.

Current talent build for those who are curious. http://ctprofiles.net/403122


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Old 07/10/06, 1:19 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Farstrider
Originally Posted by Grimmarg
But anyway - for the best damage spec for PvE 31 MM and the slayertalents are a MUST.
Am I being really stupid - why do you need the humanoid one? Undead don't count as humanoids do they?

If you're never going to PvP, that's 3 wasted points straight away surely?
grand widow faerlina is humanoid.

lots of BWL trash mobs.

lots of naxx trash mobs.

etc.

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Old 07/10/06, 1:48 PM   #20
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I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned improved feign. Especially when you're learning new encounters, this has saved me more gold than I care to imagine. I had recently switched over to 5/31/15 to see the difference in damage from my old 21/30 build and even though I didn't notice a big damage difference, I did notice the numerous resisted feigns. I've since switched to 3/31/17 though I'm still considering going back to survival.

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Old 07/10/06, 2:20 PM   #21
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5/31/15 is what I'm currently at. You can check the exact build in my ctprofiles link in my sig.

I tend to like both 3/3 Monster and 3/3 Humanoid slaying. I like big numbers.

As stated, 31 marks is best for PvE, while 30 Survival (since who the hell gives up scatter shot for anything?) is probably best for PvP, but also does well in PvE. I generally think Entrapment is kind of a waste outside of PvP, but I enjoy stuff like Imp. Wing Clip (though not 5 points in it), Survivalist, and Deterrence (Deterrence is probably the single best talent in the survival tree, aside from LR).

I generally like the marksman tree, especially RWS. Barrage is quite nice, but the only real reason to get it is to get to TSA (and if you're that deep in the tree, why not?). RWS, is, I think, probably the best passive talent we get. It's definitely comparable to LR. What you lose in crit from not having LR, you gain in net damage dealt with everything else. Such an awesome talent, though it may not seem to be all that huge from the description.

How can you help?
I can shoot things and then make my pet move toward them.

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Old 07/10/06, 3:17 PM   #22
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Isn't there a point with buffed Agility where KI/LR (0/21/30) provides a larger pure RAP buff than TSA/RWS (0/31/20)? Something like 365 Agi. Then there's a later itemisation point where you have enough +hit in gear to dump Surefooted in favour of balls-out 5/31/15. Is that about right? I'm one Essence of Air from breaking that supposed Agi threshold (my raidgroup epitomises that head-in-hands ASCII), and I want to know if a respec is in my near future.


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Old 07/10/06, 3:21 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Elendril
my build is http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...110000000#none, which gets you every meaningful DPS talent along with max survivalist and 4/5 entrapment. i've considered losing 1 point in survivalist for deterrance, but i like having tons of health for environmental damage.
that one point in deterrence is going to save your life much more than 2% health


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Old 07/10/06, 3:26 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by Bogart
Isn't there a point with buffed Agility where KI/LR (0/21/30) provides a larger pure RAP buff than TSA/RWS (0/31/20)? Something like 365 Agi. Then there's a later itemisation point where you have enough +hit in gear to dump Surefooted in favour of balls-out 5/31/15. Is that about right? I'm one Essence of Air from breaking that supposed Agi threshold (my raidgroup epitomises that head-in-hands ASCII), and I want to know if a respec is in my near future.
As far as I know 31MM will always be superior.

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Old 07/10/06, 3:57 PM   #25
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Deterance is great for both PvE and PvP, definately worth the trade of 2% health.

The sartura fight is actually one of the fights that helped convince me that dmg avoidance is > than the extra hps from Survivalist. I run AoM untill all the adds are down, and usually pop detterance at some point as well.

The pre-Emps and pre-Cthun trash also makes me a big fan of it. When a tank gets feared on the MindSlayer packs, I almost always wind up tanking something that hits like a truck. Feigning is always an option, but it is usually best for you to keep the agro and deterance tank, rather than feigning early and letting it rampage through cloth.

And Fankriss' tunnel is a ton of fun with FD>Explosive trap and Monkey/Deterance. The dodge/parry spam from SCT is pretty rediculous.


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Old 07/10/06, 3:58 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Bogart
Isn't there a point with buffed Agility where KI/LR (0/21/30) provides a larger pure RAP buff than TSA/RWS (0/31/20)? Something like 365 Agi. Then there's a later itemisation point where you have enough +hit in gear to dump Surefooted in favour of balls-out 5/31/15. Is that about right? I'm one Essence of Air from breaking that supposed Agi threshold (my raidgroup epitomises that head-in-hands ASCII), and I want to know if a respec is in my near future.
LR can get your RAP above 31MM, but RWS + Barrage means that it never actually does more damage.

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Old 07/10/06, 4:03 PM   #27
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It has been discussed countless times that 450 unbuffed agi and the 21/30 talents is on par with a 5/31/15 build.

Many people have argued but im not down for theory craft. I personally think both builds are great depending on gear and what you are doing in game ie; raiding, pvp, ect.

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Old 07/10/06, 4:05 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by Rex
It has been discussed countless times that 450 unbuffed agi and the 21/30 talents is on par with a 5/31/15 build.
That's wrong, but I think that number is closer to when LR = TSA. With the gear attainable in the game atm it's more or less impossible to have 0/21/30 outdps 5/31/15.

It's been discussed already pretty thoroughly in this thread: http://forums.elitistjerks.com/viewtopic.php?id=6837

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Old 07/10/06, 4:09 PM   #29
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Do you guys just abandon the benefit of 5/5 Imp. Mark? Granted, it's a waste on multiple people, but is the raid cumulative from having it up so low that you don't even bother with having 'Joe the New Guy' have it?

I'll never understand why more people don't go for my patented WTF Was He Thinking? spec. :(

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Old 07/10/06, 4:31 PM   #30
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Hey Xeen. /wave

We don't abandon 5/5 imp mark, but IMHO its either 0/5 imp mark or 5/5 imp mark. Cause anything in between just causes problems when marking on the fly. Usually the guy that grabs 5/5 imp mark, sacrifices 3 points from the survival tree. Having 5/5 in Improved Arcane Shot, as well as 5/5 imp mark, would make me lose too many wayyyyy more valuable goodies. Course I've never been much of an arcane shot spammer.


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