Blizz has shown a consistent pattern regarding abilities such as this in which the refresh recalculates the dmg based on current attack power. For example, rolling the Serpent Sting with Chim Shot and the druid rolling Lifebloom nerf.

Sigh. The TnT changes regarding Immolation Trap and Trap Launcher didn't make it to the PTR. If they were intended or not, who knows, but I'd say for now it's pretty safe to assume that they've removed those changes for good, and gave us Black Arrow instead.


Edit: Piercing Shots is bugged, I'm seeing 15 damage ticks from a Steady Shot and 1 damage ticks from Chimera Shot everytime. That can't be right.

I've read this before in AJ's forum cause pvp, and seems BA share CD only with fire traps. This really hurts, I'm hope in some change during PTR times.

The chance to proc Lock and Load from one Black Arrow is about 41% over all 5 ticks. That means about 0.8 ppm or on average 73s between each proc. If the hidden cooldown on the proc is still there, it is worse.

Using frost or freezing traps on adds still gives you far more Lock and Load procs, but you don't get the averaged out 3% damage from Black Arrow (and the bit of damage it does).
I don't see any use for Immolation Trap.

Does Resourcefulness decrease the Black Arrow cooldown?

EDIT: If Black Arrow only shares cooldown with the fire traps, can you still use the frost traps on adds while keeping Black Arrow on the boss? And do frost traps still share cooldown with fire traps?

If they've removed the internal cooldown on LnL, triggering it from black arrow will have about the same frequency as triggering it from serpent sting today, right?

Live: In a 60s window from your last LnL proc you'll have 10 sting ticks (the first 10 will be eaten by the internal cooldown) that can proc LnL
PTR: In a 60s window you'll have two black arrow durations, ie 10 ticks that can proc LnL.

Edit: More formally with some probability theory (feel free to correct me since it's been a while since I did these kind of things): If X is the number of ticks (after any internal cooldown expires) needed to trigger LnL, then E(X) = 10. This means the expected number of procs per minute is 1 in both cases.

It's been clearly stated by blizzard that the initial PTR will be missing a lot of planned changes. There's no need to start a fuss over "missing" changes at this stage in the game.

Less QQ, More PewPew has some screenshots of the new ferocity pet talents available (I assume) only to BM 51pt hunters.

Shark Attack - Your pet does 4/8% more damage with all attacks.
Wild Hunt - Increase the contribution your pets get from your Stamina by 20%/40% and attack power by 20%/40%.

Especially the last one is interesting. Current AP scaling from hunter -> pet is 22%. Would this be 40% of 22% or a flat 40% on top of 22% (i.e. 62%). The latter seems unbelievable.

Firstly I believe that just like every other DoT in game the bleed effect will only be overwritten/refreshed by somehting equal or stronger than it so a steady bleed will never overwrite a chimera. This may end up with a small portion of downtime but with better damage overall.

As for survival rotation:

Immolation trap (Glyphed) 1.5s Hopefully be able to prepare beforehand for bosses that are moved.
ES(Glyphed)(immo refresh) 3.0s
AimS 4.5s
Serpent 6.0s
Steady(Glyphed) 7.5s
ES (Immo refresh 9.0s
Steady 10.5s
Steady 12.0s
Steady 13.5s
ES (Immo refresh) 15.0s
AimS 16.5s
Serpent 18.0s
Steady 19.5s
ES (Immo refresh) 21.0s
Steady 22.5s
Steady 24.0s
Steady 25.5s
ES (Immo refresh) 27.0s
AimS 28.5s
Serpent 30.0s
BA 31.5s
ES (Immo refresh) 33.0s

I believe with this rotaion you will get the best flow of shots and most damage due to having the immolation trap effect up for 100% of the fight then using BA whenever your trap CD is up for the rest of the fight for the extra 6% damage and extra ticks for LnL procs. This rotation does not include any LnL procs.

I use Immo trap first because as I understand it does about 300 dps which is better than 6% damage until you hit 5k DPS after that the BA buff will do more damage but I still think having Immo effect up will increase DPS for longer fights.

EDIT: typo

Since it says increases contribution and your contribution is currently 22% that it would increase the 22% by 20%/40% to put it at 26.4%/30.8%

Yeah well, but Blizz's maths regarding percantages has been pretty awkward in the past.

From looking at Rohks post # 254 I would speculate that Blizz currently has the Wild Hunt talent set to increase your contribution to a total of 62% but I would also say this is most likely a mistake and will probably be fixed down to the 30.8%.