Mudflap

I'll be doing my first raid as a hunter this weekend (10 man Naxx) and have a few questions:

1. I know my gear isn't top notch yet, but I feel like I'm ready. I'm pulling 1800-2000 dps in heroics primarly self buffed, with over 2000 with either battle shout or BoM. With 10 man buffs I'm thinking this will be more like 3500 dps?

B. How much ammo should I plan on bringing? I've noticed I empty about 2000-2800 ammo during a typical heroic run. Would 5k be enough or should I look more towards 10k?

3. Assuming I'm misdirecting, I should be able to go full bore dps (popping cooldowns, etc) immediately on most bosses, correct?

D. I've done Naxx-40 before as a mage, but obviously never as a hunter. I know boss mods will tell me when to kite Anub, but is there also a visual cue?

5. I'm hit capped using 2/3 FA, but the dps spreadsheet is showing a fairly substantial dps increase if I drop those points and put them in Cobra Strikes. I only have about 15% crit rate unbuffed. I'm confused here.

Thanks!

 

Gozardina

Only 1 scorpid's poison can be up at a time. Since they don't stack, one of the scorpids would be doing significantly less dps thus making it not viable to bring more than 1 to a raid.

 

Roman

Pretty sure this has been asked MULTIPLE times. It does have to be your own sting on the target.

1. If you're pulling 2k by yourself, I think you could be easily doing 3k, 3.5 may be pushing it(in a 10 man). Just a rough estimate. Best suggesting is to plug it into the spreadsheet .

2. Get yourself a new 28 slot quiver/ammo pouch, and just fill it up. It's usually enough. If not just hearth out real quick and get a summon back, shouldn't be a big deal. I used to have to do this in BT all the time, I used to run out right after RoS and the hunters would go stock up again. Took all of 60 seconds.

3. Threat generation for tanks is pretty easy now it seems like. I wait about 1-2 seconds and can start going full out without pulling. My suggestion- try it, your a hunter, FD FD FD!!!!

4. No idea =X. I haven't gotten to do a few encounters because of the recent AT&T connection issues. I'll be all caught up next week hopefully.

5. CS is a very amazing talent, I'd put 3/3 into it until your crit starts getting higher(25%+?), then you can start shifting a few points around. If you want to keep your spec pretty similar to what it already is I'd suggest going something like this build or something similar. Personally I think invigoration isn't worth the two talent points that could be going in much more dps-oriented talents.

 

Jaffi

I was remembering something from the past (might be wrong) which said that /cast macros would "ignore" latency.
So now in times of wotlk, where it is not really needed to use those macros anymore, as you can just spam steady shot (as a bm) most of the time, do you think it is still recommended to use a /cast macro due to latency?

 

Buffalo

You could always check Hunter - WotLK Loot for a list of hunter trinkets. The DMF trinks are quite good starter ones as well. And ToBA will be good too once it is fixed to proc off ranged crits.

 

dragoonvengance

because it's a posion and works like rogue posions only one application can be up. So only one hunter will be able to have his pet stacking the poison

 

dragoonvengance

Has anyone fiqured out why Aspect of The Beast is giving pets 21% AP?

 

◊ arison

It double dips from your 10%. Apparently pets get your melee AP not ranged AP (are there any items that give separate AP these days?). So, if before, your pet gained 22% of your AP (standard forumla):

Pet_AP = 0.22 * Your_Melee_AP

Now it is

Pet_AP = 1.1 * (0.22 * 1.1 * Your_Melee_AP)

Which ends up being 1.21 * 0.22 * Your_Melee_AP, or, a 21% bonus.

 

dragoonvengance

If you use it, it kicks off the global cooldown meaning u could of jsut used a steady shot.
Steady shot should hit harder and should cost less mana.. go check

 

Terp

That's a huge assumption considering not only do pets get AP from the Hawks, they get AP from the gladiator weapons, which are only ranged ap. It's prolly just AotB being bugged.

 

elandriel

Hello
When wotlk came i decided to reroll hunter (ex rogue)
Problem i am facing atm is mana management in 10man and heroics (in 25man mana is no issue)
I am BM specced
So for raid dps: is a cunning pet like dragonhawk worth anything? Mana battery talent (less to no aotv downtime), execute talent, zero focus talent offset the loss in dps compared to a ferocity pet or a scorpid? Would love some more experienced eyes on the issue
Thanks in advance

 

dragoonvengance

Do you have Cobra Strikes and Invigoration? You should have enough mana by drinking a mana pot on top of those 2 talents.

If your into most of the 25mans I would just ignore your mana issue in 10mans and heroics and spec for the highest in 25mans.

 

Nakaya_kilrogg

I'm trying to maximize my dps for raiding.

Right now, I have a Devilsaur. I've been reading about many of the specs here, and notice they all lack Focused Aim.

I'm more than willing to try a spec that doesn't involve an Exotic pet, but I'd like to be hit capped. If anyone could give some suggestions, I'd appreciate it.

What I'd like to know is: What would be a really good raiding BM spec that allows me to do massive amounts of damage, while keeping my hit cap without having EVERY gem a +hit gem? +crit gems or +agi gems?

Also.. armor penetration. How much is good? How much is too much?

 

Salacar

Cat is more or less at the same level of DPS as the Devilsaur is, plus the cat also benefits from feral druids in raid.

The reason why you see so few having specs with Focused Aim is most likely that the people using those specs are already hit capped through gear, therefore not needing FA and throwing points in something else instead.

The 50/21 Readiness spec is commonly thought to be the highest DPS spec out there atm, the 51 point BM talent doesn't have quite the DPS capability as two TBWs in a row and Rapid Fire every 3 min.

Armor Penetration is near useless now, it was insanely good in TBC, was nerfed badly though.

 

eviln1

The hit thread proved that hit gained from FA doesn't transfer to your pet. That means that, as a BM, capping your hit through gear is allways the better option.

 

Mattaos

This is hardly the case, in fact, ArP became much more valuable after Devs bumped the armor value of bosses for WotLK. What happened to ArP from TBC to WotLK is A.) it switched to rating so scaling was invloved vs. the old flat armor amount reduced B.) armor vlaue of bosses jumped by 10% requiring even more ArP% to even be effective C.) most of the armor available in the early stages of WotLK raiding do not have a lot of ArP.

ArP is not worth stacking currently because it would require taking away from other much more valuable stats. And, the little bit of budgeted ArP on some items atm is a fairly insignificant amount. We could see more ArP rating cropping up on the higher ilevel items with future patches, which would be an advantage for BM hunters right away.

EDIT: Fixed Wording

 

Elendril

The major impact of the change in APen between TBC and WotLK was the fact that because APen is now a % reduction rather than X armor ignored it is drastically less effective against low armor targets. Because APen is applied as a % armor reduction after any sort of debuffs on the mob like Sunder Armor and Faerie Fire, its value in a raid situation is minimal. APen is a fine stat in an environment without Sunder or Expose (like PVP), but very much overcosted when those debuffs are available.

 

mortix

Haven't seen anyone else address this issue I seem to be experiencing related to serpent sting failing to refresh and error messages.

I've been noticing that during different boss fights, serpent sting will stall and fail to cast despite multiple attempts when refreshing a sting against the boss. *A more powerful spell is already active* GCD reset, press again, *A more powerful spell is already active*, GCD. I believe auto is still cranking away during that time.

It is consistently happening on fights such as Sartharion and seems to come always at the end of the 3rd serpent sting refresh cycle just after the pull.

I have not been able reproduce this condition against a target dummy or trash mobs.

As I understand the serpent sting ability gains and loses power related to the character's AP and is affected by which aspect is currently up, raidwide buffs, trinkets... etc., however isn't it also understood that should you choose to refresh the ability in a state of less AP (AOTV on, a might buff wears off) it would overwrite and proceed to start ticking for less damage (not that any would choose to do that)??

It seems to always happen in the last few seconds or final tick(s) of the serpent cycle. Could the Serpent Sting glyph be causing this?

 

Kanandi

I just noticed this on my hunter last night. Had not seen it happen over the weekend, but when kiting an elite around, I noticed that the serpent sting I tried to cast was not hitting if the "old" sting was still ticking away.

I currently have been testing some glyphs with the help of our guild Scribe, so am not sure if these errors were happening with the Serpent Sting glyph, or I had swapped it out for an Aspect of Beast, just to test the numbers.

((Yes, I know, I should wait until the old one drops off to re-apply, but kiting is not raiding and I could care less about efficiency when I am dragging around an elite 2 levels above me, and more worried about keeping distance and a few DoTs in between Concussions, Explosives, and snake-traps. ))

 

Rivkah

From what I was told when I asked this question about serpent sting awhile ago in beta, it's due to the fact that serpent sting scales off AP, so if you have any fluctuating AP buffs and your AP was higher when you cast the initial sting than it is when you refresh it, it will give that error.

 

Zenoeth

Just a quick question, well more of a clarifacation, me and a fellow hunter raid together, are stats are equal, gear is pretty equal, but he has about 300 or more haste then i do, oh and he does close to 250-500 dps more then me on some bosses (in 10 man naxx) so i figured haste that must be it, so what i want to know what exactly does haste do for a hunter becuase we have the same rotations and the only other thing he has that i dont is the 4 piece t7 bonus, but i doubt +5% dmg done by your pet is 250-500 dps lol. so i'd like to know what does haste do for hunters and if its not the haste then what is it he could possibly be doing to do that much more damage/dps then me.

 

Mattaos

Haste increases the rate at which your Auto Shots fire, so naturally he is getting more Auto Shots off than you. Also, 2pc T7 grants a 5% damage increase to pet, not 4pc T7, and with the way certian pets scale currently in a raid it very possible to see upward of 250 DPS increases with that set bonus. Honestly, it is not truly possible to tell you exactly how another hunter with comparable gear/stats is out DPSing you, since there are a lot of other factors that play a role, i.e. spec, pet used, range weapon used, etc...

Have you used the spreadsheet yet? Plug yourself in and the other hunter in to compare.

 

Cranch

Search didn't find anything, so I have to ask: does 2 piece Hero's bonus stack with 2 piece Valorous' ?

 

KraxisSingular

No, you would get 2-set and 4-set instead. Like PvP gear they count as one set.

 

AncientHeart

Ok so the epic hunter helm for engineering is good, but....

The epic helms from naxx seem to be better...

Once I get a better helm I think I'm going to give up engineering since everything else with engineering I can buy myself, or should I wait a while and see if they come out with an even better helm like they did in BC?...


I am currently an engineer/leather worker.

What would be a good second profession to compliment leather working?