In my opinion, overall Hunter DPS is better off with a rotation than what you suggest.

How so? If there is an opportunity cost to casting Scorpid Sting (and there is) wouldn't you want that to be the lowest cost possible?

We have the Survival Hunter keep it up, since his shots generally don't hit as hard as the BM's do. (He's geared strictly for max Agility.) I think your lowest DPS Hunter gives up the least raid damage using a GCD for Scorpid than any other Hunter, and there is no complexity in knowing your place (of having your turn come up when you are clicking cubes, etc.)

Ok, well shut my mouth >_>

I just did some *very* rough numbers. I'm assuming BM Hunters only. Three of them.

If we assume the use of the GCD once in between each autoshot for either a damage shot or the sting; assume firing an autoshot once approx every 2.5 secs (including lag); and assuming we fire the sting at 15>17.5 second interval to account for lag/flight time.

0-(1)-2.5-(2)-5-(3)-7.5-(4)-10-(5)-12.5-(6)-15-(7)-17.5-(8)-20

Let's say we fire the sting at gcd 7.

Assume our 3 Hunters do the following average damage:
1 - 700
2 - 800
3 - 600.

Lowest DPS hunter only stinging equals 145800 total damage from gcd use of three hunters.

Using a rotation between the three gives 144900 total damage.

Not much in it, and if the damage was alot closer a rotation *might* be better, but yeah, you convinced me that one hunter on sting duty simplifies things, and a rotation is not really beneficial, if at all.

I have my own rotation to incorparate stings, it does lower my DPS, but better then tank dying right?

Sapa has a good point, MM or Surv hunters can use Scorpid Sting better then BM even if they are lower dps.

MM rotation may be...

Auto, steady, Multi, auto, steady, auto, steady, arcane, auto, steady, auto steady, scorpid...(not too sure since arcane/multi are on conflicting cooldowns but the point is they sometimes use 2 specials per auto)

So they have dead time often compared to a BM who never has dead time of long enough length to fire a shot.

What's interesting is that with the shot rotation that I'm using from Cheeky's spreadsheet, there's certain times where I have a dead point where I'm really just waiting on auto shot, but everything else is down such as Arcane Shot and Multi-Shot. I'm thinking either, Serepent Sting for that extra DPS (which may not even be that much) vs Scorpid Sting. Any other opinions?

You got to same point as me it seems

I started shooting Serpent/Scorpid there - its "free" and easily afforded with SP in group.
Or i use that time for Mend Pet, Trinket, HM renew even if its not time to do it already. (mend at full health, mark at 1minute left...)

Oh and I have trinket menu and after using trinkets i change them during fight, FD-OOC so they swap and resume rotation. 4 trinkets per 2 minutes used.

I think ill need quite some time to manage all that nicely and then some time to figure it out what else can i do. Got Leo down so I'm already looking at Vashy Bow that will give me some more "slack" time.

I respeced back to BM for for 1 raid and i got feeling that I'm slacking.

Autoswitch (after i use trinket i queue next one)
http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/downloads/details/675/

I think this is normal but just to be sure, Feigning Death to put yourself out of combat to swap trinkets (I use Trinket Menu too which is great), only works if you pull your pet back first. To me at least, I never seem get OOC if my pet is still attacking a boss.

Yes normal stuff, same as FD+Drink... you need to pull pet back for second/two.

Just use it before the silence. Or if you loose people and he gets grow happy.

@ Teron, between snake traps and scorpid sting you can single handedly nullify a surprising amount of total damage.