CmdrFoxDavion

I was in WSG today and noticed that the 1.90speed hunter Bow from PvP was dishing out 1.2K crits on Arcane and 2.5K crits on Aimed shot. This tells me has the game design of increased speed drops level of crit being nerfed?

BTW his gear was all the blue PvP gear and I have a mix of ZG/tier 1/tier 0 gear on me so out of interest I was going to spend some honour on either the gun or the crossbow but after what he told me I thought I get the Bow instead?

Do you guys have anything to say that may be useful to me in my decision?

 

Elendril

I can say that you should probably look at one of the many hunter threads already in this forum.

That being said, weapon speed still impacts hunter damage just as it did before the patch - however, Aimed Shot is no longer a cycled attack, so precise weapon speeds are less important for maintaining optimal shot cycles. Arcane Shot is not a weapon damage based attack, so it isn't impacted at all.

 

alienangel

The broken hunter thread actually did have quite a long investigation into what was happening to the GCD with haste effects. I think they decided that the GCD on steady was affected by haste, not sure about others. Best check the thread though, can't say I remember much about it.