When opening with misdirection, as I understand it to work, the threat induced by the first three shots is directed to the object of said buff (usually a mage or rogue, am i right?); a guildmate of mine, and a frequenter of tall tales, indicated that the decription of the Misdirection is misleading. This guildmate stated in opening with Serpent Sting, the procs of damage also count as a "shot".

In debating with this guy, I stated that more often than not a hunter ought to get off 3 shots prior the first proc regardless if the poison counts or not.

Anyways, for the sake of my sanity, who is correct?

Only the initial application of serpent sting will eat up an MD charge. The remaining ticks from the sting do not. If you fire serpent sting and no other shots, you'll have 2 MD charges left still.

Hello there once more!

So, we have the new patch here, and new bugs also:
Does anybody else encounter the random pet offensive ability autocasts (not the buff stuff, but bite, for instance)? Even if the pet is on passive? I have misspulled a few trash packs this week, and a fellow guildmate, even managed to pull a boss with this bug.

The only thing you need to do - is to be lucky and target the mob you want to pull, then you can start crafting something, or eating a fish feast, the pet will do the job. Like Russian roulette, either it will attack, or it won't. The strangest thing is, that the pet even uses taunt at the moment it starts autocasting, even if the taunt is disabled on autocast and put on the autocast bar (common way to fix the autocast bugs).

Does anybody know how to fight/fix it?

As we all know, you cannot disable bite autocast, then there will be loss of dps/almost no use of the pet, except for the few talent points and the buffs it gives.

I noticed, that the pet, when it starts autocasting, does it for a while, even with no target to attack, just the bite ability is on GCD all the time, dismissing and calling it doesn't help.

As for missdirection - hasn't this been broken too? Either i am really lame (i suppose i am lame, wouldn't be asking the question here then ), or i do not understand, how the mechanics of it work, or the MD, after patch, really counts for the serpent sting periodical damage, since i allways open with serpent sting, as I am MM specced.

3 shots should have bigger threat + tank threat than the next 1 or 2 shots after missdirection? I only need to shoot approx 1 -2 shots, after missdirection and i got the mob on me (omen starts swearing on me), ofc, i can FD, but, for instance, if i misspull patchwerk like this, it will anyway deadly strike 3 more cloth wearing targets (as it did this week for me, i did a ranged pull with MD on the tank, and patchwerk just jumped on me, killed me and a few cloth wearers, wanted to try a speed kill on him with ulduar gear and stuff).

One thing to be careful of when MD pulling is shot macros. If you have, say, Silencing Shot, macroed to all of your shots and stings, then if you open with SrS, the following will eat your MD charges:

1) Silencing Shot
2) SrS Application (no threat until it ticks)
3) Autoshot

The result is very little threat transferred to the tank, and if you follow up with a CS, you not only negate any threat that would transfer to the tank via SrS, but also more than likely generate more threat than your SilS and AutoS generated, causing you to pull aggro.

Sadly, each tick of damage will eat a MD charge. See note below next quote for how I handle this.

For MD pulls I tend to have trouble MDing with Explosive Shot even though I would love to get all of its threat onto a tank. To be safe I usually just MD with aimed shot + auto shot then stop attacks and run back to the group. The main purpose of a MD pull is to pull the boss to the tank that is already in position. It isn't our job to give the tank a 10k threat lead. He can worry about building threat once it gets to him.

I have heard that the hunter crit has a point of diminished return verses attack power at 35% crit.Hunter's are always trying to balance crit and AP since having a balance is the best I'd like to know if anyone knows if this is true!

There is no hunter crit cap.

Has anyone done any math on the difference between DPS output with [True-Aim Long Rifle] vs. [Nesingwary 4000] for us hunter alts? Just playing around with the weapons on a dummy seems to be leaning towards the Nesingwary, but any help/advice would be awesome (ps, I am faaaar from the armor pen "cap")

PS:
The only time I have seen an issue like this is in Trial of Champions after the jousting event - a pet on defensive will start attacking the bosses (presumably because of the jousting portion), but this can be easily remedied by putting your pet on passive before you begin the joust event. PSS - If your're talking about your pet using an offensive ability while on passive without you sending your pet after something, uh... ticket time? Havent seen this particular problem yet.

Yes, i am talking exactly about that. And i was not the only one, who experienced something like that.

MD in MM build

-applying SrS on boss will make few threat
-SilS will make few threat
(this u can make on the run, if u dont want make an AutoS)

than u can cast MD and than make a CS-AutoS-AimedS

i think if u will stay far from Boss u will have 2gcd before boss will kill you

i'm using macro MD on focus (tank=focus). so make this chain is very easy... and i'm sure that after 1 CS tank will have much more threat than u

I have gotten 2 answers to one question and was wondering if I can get an answer here. What is white damage and yellow damage? some ppl say white damage is normal hit and yellow is the crit hit and some say that white is from your auto attacks and yellow is from your other abilities. Can anyone tell which is correct?

I don't like the sound of that...

It's likely that the SrS portion of your CS and the 2nd tick of SrS will consume your MD before you hit the boss again with aimed shot, which means you might pull aggro with an unlucky sequence of crits.

Note: pyrorocket consumes an MD charge too. I learned that the hard way.

White damage is your auto-attack / auto-shot. Yellow damage is damage from using abilities.

Is there a way to figure out ingame how much ArP rating my character has (aside from the obvious adding it up by hand)? The default character panel does not show it, and this makes it tedious to figure out what effects different gear would have on my ArP.

The default character panel does show ArP, just mouseover your Hit Rating.

I am trying to determine if full integer rounding has been removed in hit transfer to pet with patch 3.2. So that if you have 7.99% hit your pet also has 7.99% hit rather than the 7% they had pre 3.2. I did some testing last night manipulating my Hit rating above and below the hitcap however I believe my data has been demonized by the random number generator (RNG).

Conditions of the Test
Pet attacking alone Raid Boss Test dummy timed for 5 minutes
No Buffs on Pet other than True Shot Aura
No debuffs on test dummy
10 rounds for each test

First test
Hunter HR 327 9.97% (1.97% over)
No misses by pet

Second Test
Hunter HR 259 7.87% (0.13% under)
Results by round
1. 0%
2. 0.57%
3. 0.11%
4. 1.15%
5. 0.98%
6. 0.08%
7. 0%
8. 0.32%
9. 1.08%
10.0.18%

As you can see in the second test two of 10 rounds against the raid test dummy my pet failed to miss at all, conversely 3 of 10 times it missed almost 10 times I would have expected if full integer rounding was removed. When all cases are averaged out it appears like full integer rounding is still occurring in hit transfer to pet. Has anyone else tested this and can confirm/disprove these results.

Edited for spelling and content

You don't need such an addon anymore. Improved Tracking was changed a while back in such a way that as long as you're tracking one creature type, the IT bonus applies to every other trackable mob type.

Ah, I found what you saw. Thanks for the correction.

GC's Post: Improved Tracking – now benefits damage to all included creature types as long as you are tracking one of them. You don’t have to swap around what you are tracking as much.

You may still be interested in trying Track-o-matique, which only tries to switch to one of your tracking types if you're tracking something else such as Herbs. It can also switch you back to Herbs (or whatever you had) when you leave combat if you wish.

Why is Improved Barrage taken in the cookie cutter MM spec? My personal crit rating is 45% unbuffed. Wouldn't the points be better spent in efficiency?

The cookie cutter spec assumes full raid buffs, which means also Judgement of Wisdom. With JoW mana is of no concern and so Efficiency does nothing.

That makes sense, but that being said. Why Imp Barrage? Why not Hawk Eye, or anything else?