Infraction for Therealthing: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.

• Aldriana · 11/03/09, 5:19 AM

Post: The Survival Hunter in WotLK
User: Therealthing
Infraction: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Do you have any idea how little we care about your personal anecdotes? If you have some evidence that indicates that the established theorycraft, by all means provide it. But we're not really interested in a rambling post asserting, basically, "this is what I think is good, and I'm not going to provide any data to back it up, you should just trust me"

Original Post:

I am not trying to reduce the importance of spreadsheets anyhow, especially regarding the optimal shot-rotation feedback the latter deliver, though I'd like to share my experience of the past 5 months on figuring out what the ideal shot rotation of a SV hunter should look like.

I have concluded, after many tries to apply different spreadsheet configurations in-game, the following:
Even though different shot rotation setups resulted in varying DPS output, according to the spreadsheet outcomes, their application during a patchwerk-style fight resulted in a difference in dps that was negligible.

So, after all this experimentation, I realised that the best and easier to follow shot rotation should be one that's based on a first-come-first-serve pattern. The only thing one has to keep in mind is pop DoTs (BA and SS) at the beginning of the fight and keep them up thereafter, giving priority to KS, ExpS and AimedS (or Multi), with this order, while keeping Steady strictly as a filler. The latter should always be held back when a higher-prio shot is coming off CD in less than 1 sec.

This might seem like an overly-simplified method though it has worked for me and, presumably, all the other hunters who don't rely on any timer addons and want to keep manual control of their shooting strategy. This has managed to keep my dps at ~6.2k in 10mans and at ~7.1k in 25mans (figures varying according to mana efficiency and raid configuration of course).

Bottomline is, to my experience, shot rotation output from spreadsheets should be consulted but applied only to the point they are in line with the player's individual playstyle.

Cheers