Ipit
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Post by Ipit on Dec 9, 2006 12:54:21 GMT -5
This thread is started in the hopes that hunters such as Swarmed and Hazel might stop by and tell us how they're doing with the new talents. After all, I have to find if you guys have anymore weakness I may exploit in PVP...I mean...  After all, I've read some of the stuff on paper that they've changed but have been curious how it is in game. |
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Post by Vithigar on Dec 9, 2006 13:02:37 GMT -5
I've heard hat arcane shot is spectacularly more useful now.
That is all I know.
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Post by Swarmed on Dec 9, 2006 14:47:20 GMT -5
Yeaa, arcane shot is really really good now.
Our weakness is our mana pool now, we burn through mana really really really really really really... really fast, so im looking for mana regen gear now.
/love Silencing Shot
Im not sure on how my DPS was affected or how much arcane shot was raised for damage, cause the mod i used i dont think has been updated yet (the dps meter in ctmod)
Aimed shot isnt worth it most of the time now, cuase it is a longer cast time and resets autoshot
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pamplona
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Post by pamplona on Dec 10, 2006 15:44:53 GMT -5
interesting, I've not specced taxes yet. looks like I should hit the improved arcane shot talent now.
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Post by Swarmed on Dec 10, 2006 17:09:19 GMT -5
i accually dont think the talent is worth it atm, though im considering it. But i dont like it becuase of the extra mana it costs and it stops us from regening anything
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Post by pamplona on Dec 11, 2006 13:40:18 GMT -5
wait, I don't understand. You like arcane shot, but you don't like being able to use it more? Is the mana usage that bad that you can't keep up with drinking after the pull? Also with multi-shot you're never going to be outside the 5 second rule.
How's the new mana usage with aimed shot? Do you think DPS might be higher on something like a boss fight using aimed shot if you take mana usage into account?
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Ipit
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Post by Ipit on Dec 11, 2006 13:45:42 GMT -5
So I've got about 3k health unbuffed and was into an Arathi Basin yesterday and a hunter crit me and one shotted me. Does that sound about right or was there something amiss?
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pamplona
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Post by pamplona on Dec 11, 2006 15:36:25 GMT -5
not sure but I was seeing over 1k crits on aimed shot with taxes in his 40s in auction house greens. Seems to me that a well geared hunter could do that. My green geared level 60 shaman can definitely crit for over that much.
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dysprosium
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Post by dysprosium on Dec 11, 2006 16:29:26 GMT -5
Aimed Shots from well geared hunters (tier 2 and up) is easily taking off half of Dysp's life, which is about 2100 damage. Hunters are painful, and now that more of them are gonna be running around with HWL/GM ranged weapons . . . /sob
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Post by meanmoocow on Dec 13, 2006 17:41:27 GMT -5
I'm finding that my ranged spec is very poweerful in the way of my average shot damage but my crit rate has drop alot- not sure how I want to work it out- and with the beast talents now- you have the potential to make a pet stronger than most tanks- I'm not sure what i want to do anymore /cry
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Post by Swarmed on Dec 14, 2006 6:32:56 GMT -5
unless your are raiding MC/BWL, i am quite confident that Beast Mastery is the way to go. You lose a lot of crit from losing survival, but the other shiny things in MM/BM makes either your noncrit damage really high(MM) or your pet BIG AND RED.
If you go MM, the vast majority of your damage will be from noncrits.
If you go BM, the vast majority of your damage will be from noncrits, AND YOUR BIG RED FUCKING PET.
In most situations aimed shot is useless now. It takes too long to cast, and it resets autoshot. If i wants big damage i go with multishot. Unless i have someone frozen...
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pamplona
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Post by pamplona on Dec 14, 2006 20:58:29 GMT -5
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Post by Swarmed on Dec 14, 2006 21:09:00 GMT -5
pretty close. Um, i wouldnt have taken Catlike Reflexes, though it doesnt matter too much. I would have taken thick hide. Perhaps give up the one point in mark I also am not that impressed with ferocious inspiration, though it could be better then it reads.
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pamplona
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Post by pamplona on Dec 15, 2006 12:53:02 GMT -5
on ferocious inspiration, I think to me sounds very good. 3%+ DPS is something nearly everyone that does DPS specs for, and with your pet having all the attack speed specs and +crit chance specs and + focus generation specs it should be proccing all the time.
Also I would have thought that a BM spec would really benefit from the new improved mark, since you're giving all that attack power to your pet as well as the side benefit of having it for raiding to really help the melee DPS.
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Post by pamplona on Dec 18, 2006 14:42:51 GMT -5
Ok, report on ferocious inspiration:
Yeah that buff is pretty much permanently on with a beast master build. I just did about 40 mins of farming AD rep and I think it only got down to 1 sec once. It kept proccing on top of itself all the time.
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