First, haste increases(IAotH, RF, Hero, pots) give their maximum effect up until they push your steady shot cast time below 1.5. This allows you to squeeze another steady shot into your rotation between the end of your Aimed shot GCD and the time your Chimera shot comes off CD. After this point haste goes down in value by quite a bit.

Second, If you use the hawk glyph then the IAotH proc will push you past this breaking point on its own, to maximize the effectiveness of the other CD’s try and cast RF or use your potion while you have other procs up. I would only suggest really doing this for the potion since its a rare occurrence that this situation will take place and delaying your RF very long isn’t a good idea on fights that last slightly over a multiple of 3 in minutes(such as 3:30, 6:15, ect..) could cost you an RF/Readiness cycle.

Third, due to the Herkuml trinket being common for people who lack DV, WFS, or DBW some hunters are likely to be at their haste softcap anyways( especially if you wear some leather gear). If this is your situation then Haste effects should be stacked as much as possible. Though haste sources that are not sourced in the hunter do not stack multiplicatively and haste rating is calculated as one value, hunters have an interesting amount of haste increases that do stack multiplicatively. So stacking your haste pot and RF on top of Heroism will result in more dps than spreading them out.
The calculation for the best possible increase in dps would be if you were just barely over the haste soft cap and you used RF and haste Pot on top of Heroism( Wep Speed/1.15/1.30/1.4/1.21/1.16+.15) = a total haste of about 332% for the effected time period. With no procs or CD’s your haste is 134%, during Hero alone it would be 173%, during a IaotH proc it would be 161%, during a haste pot 150%, and during RF 187%. The autoshot dps increase if the effects were stacked would be the number of autoshots would be increased by 198% but if they were chained back to back it would only result in a 125% increase. I don’t want to take the theorycrafting out to its fullest extent by calculating uptimes but i just wanted to suggest this for hunters over the haste soft cap.

and I’ve been able to work that in. I still need practice, but thats the way of the Gun.

Would it make sense to have my Call of the Wild and Rapid Fire there as well, or save those as a separate button, for when Bloodlust hits?

Keep in mind that you can stack FH and DV proc 3 times for every one rapid fire (assuming MM). Thus you have to theorycraft for a 3 min period :)

“You don’t gain any advantage stacking static quantity agility or attack power buffs together compared to just hitting them when they’re available.”

Two ap buffs combine additively. But an AP buff and an Agility buff combine multiplicatively. When you combine your Furious Howl with your trinket proc, you’re not just stacking AP, but your Furious Howl *also* gets the increased crit chance from the trinket.

In general your cooldowns are AP, Haste, Agil, or multipliers (like Call of the Wild). If you combine any two categories you’ll get a multiplicative advantage.

Nice article though.

2 things I’d like to ask/pointout are:

Rapid Fire during a Heroism – I don’t think these stack too well together as we aren’t going to be getting out any additional steady shots, so maybe it’s best not to overlap them?

Serpent Sting – Does the application of serpent sting take into acount trinket procs? I.e – would be be worth applying a new sting when you get a greatness proc and just refresh it from then? Probably not a massive difference but still…

-Hawlk

Thank you for saying this :D I’ve annoyed many a raid leader because I ask this (or worse: yell out in the middle of a raid “Heroism…?”), but I don’t care. To get the most out of our cooldowns, we need know when Hero/BL will be cast.

“•Don’t leave a cooldown available for too long unless you’re sure you won’t be costing yourself applications over the fight.”

Or if you know there are times to burn and times to hold off. Jaraxxus, for example: there’s a reason why the nether portals spawn every 2 minutes exactly. Nobody cares what your dps is if you can’t kill the boss.

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#showtooltip (shot name)
/cast (shot name)
/use 10
/cast Silencing Shot
/cast Kill Command
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
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This way I instantly cast the selected shot (Aimed Shot for example) + Pyro Rocket + Silencing shot + Kill Command. No way to waste a single second.

When Heroism is going to be used, this is my specific button I immediately click:

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#showtooltip Powerup
/cast Call of the Wild
/cast Rapid Fire
/cast Kill Command
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If the fight lasts long enough I generally pop it few seconds after I start attacking: this way I get Mirror of Truth + Darkmoon Card: Greatness procs procs or even more power.