Infraction for Phantasmique: 1. All posters are to make an effort to communicate clearly.

• bartolimu · 03/12/09, 11:29 AM

Post: The Survival Hunter in WotLK
User: Phantasmique
Infraction: 1. All posters are to make an effort to communicate clearly.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

You are not allowed to vote until you prove yourself smarter than the average special needs child. Capitalize properly, use apostrophes in words like "I'm" and "wasn't," and don't put spaces before end-of-sentence punctuation.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Zeuxis

To pile on here, getting sniper training's benefit on Patch is frequently a net dps loss due to loss of melee buffs. Patch has a big hit box. If the melee is on the opposite side of patch from you, and you're 30 yards out, you're almost certainly missing buffs. Myself and our other raid hunter tested this; one week, I stood at 30 and he was in close. I posted 4900, he posted 5300. The next week we swapped, and he posted 4800 and I posted 5500. We now both stand closer on patch (I actually trap dance in a desperate attempt to keep up with the felguard locks and FFB mages). DPS is now in the 5800 range and life is good.

Sniper training's benefit is the KS crit chance. The range-based benefit is almost never worth what you give up.

Im going to vote on this one

In the last few weeks my dps wasnt as high as supposed ( 5500+ ) and i was always missing a few hundreds . I thought that its the lag, or maybe i dont have the best rotation, but then i found out and it was the range . When i stood at closer range to get a better uptime of some melee buffs, my dps increased nicely and i was getting the number that i was expected to get ( 5500 - 5700 dps )

Stay at closer range and ignore the sniper training, its not worth in comparison with the rest of the missing buffs and their uptime

PS : The thingy with staying at 30 yards and getting both sniper training/melee buffs doesnt really work as the melee players are mostly further than patchwerk itself