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Eliirion · 09/08/09, 3:25 PM

Post: Hunter: Simple Questions/Simple Answers
User: alienangel
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Originally Posted by saillaw

Is the above statement correct? I thought that the Serpent Sting ticks were based on the AP you have when you first apply them, chimerra refreshes the original strength of the Serpent Sting ticks. So for example:

If you start a fight in AotV and do not have hunter's mark on your target you will have a weak Serpent sting that will continually get refreshed as a weak serpent sting with every chimerra shot (even if you have put a hunter's mark on the target and gone to dragon hawk after the initial application).

Likewise, if in the middle of the encounter you get an AP increase (a trinket proc, a boss specific AP buff zone, etc) and you apply a new serpent sting over your current one, the new more powerful sting is what will continue to get refreshed by Chimerra shot.

This is similar to the way scorpid stacks were calculated (before the nerf) in TBC.

Which is right, my understanding or Pijn's above? Have I been wasting a GCD whenever I get an AP proc to apply a new serpent sting?

*feels like stabbing someone*

We've been over this a few dozen times in the past couple weeks, no the person you quoted is correct. Chimera refreshes serpent to your current AP and has since early wrath (or even since the start of wrath - the last time I remember using the persistent AP refresh was sunwell).

What chimera DOES NOT do is refresh to your current % damage modifier - you will maintain any % damage buffs or debuffs to your serpent sting that were active when you first cast it. If you want a listing of the various things this means, please read through the various threads, just about every one has it explained in explicit detail.