This week, Frostheim, Darkbrew, and I talk about the “crit cap”, the hunter song, and then try to shovel ourselves out of a deluge of listener emails.
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Hey, I have a maybe-not-so-huntery question. You talked about “mandatory” debuffs like faerie fire and sunders. I’ve never met a feral druid who didn’t keep up FFF, but often in 25mans (my guild only does 10s, and any dps warriors I run into are pugs) I notice that sunders never go up even on the main target. I whisper warriors who tell me that adding sunder to their rotation would be a DPS loss for them and so they don’t do it. Is this true? Isn’t it beneficial enough to the raid that they should be doing it anyway? I know -I- would appreciate it!
Bemused,
Wolf
While it may be a dps loss for the individual warrior the net gain for the raid is whats important…. tell em to suck it up cause you’ll down the boss faster.
sunder stacks decrease fury/arms warriors dps, thats seriously bullshit. its maybe hard to stack it up to 5 stacks, but getting 20% ArP for 15 rage every 30 seconds is an amazing dps increase, for sure.
I heard its good to sunder when they are too high in threat.
I ran into the same issue with ICC gear and Survival. Mainly I’ve received ap+crit+hit drops, decreasing my overall arp and making it possible to run without Mark of Supremacy.
Download the song:
http://www.youtubedroid.com/download2.php?v=q0l4T9kRlBE&title=I%5C%5C%5C%27m+a+Hunter++World+of+Warcraft+Hunter+Song&hq=0
You’d be missing 2 things with all hunter dps raid:
-3% Crit debuff on target (like Totem of Wrath)
-4% increased Physical Damage (Arms Warrior/Combat Rogue)
Good show. I like the idea of all hunter DPS. That sounds like it could be fun. Everyone better have a good video card.
I prefer kings over wisdom or might. Then again I run mainly Heroics. I also never ask for a particular blessing. If I get might or kings I just run with it. Some pallies get their underwear in a bunch when you make a request instead of just taking what they give you. It’s not worth it in a PUG. I’ll only know them for maybe 20 minutes hopefully.
There is nothing wrong with having two level 80 hunters. It actually sounds like a good idea, but I am in no mood myself to level another character.
Just a reminder to Frost: Don’t forget everyone does not raid. We heroic runners like your insight on our level too. :-)
I had been putting most of my energy into a pally until recently. Then I realized my hunter was by far the most fun char to play (and I have many alts). Your podcast/website has helped solidify that realization and has been hugely helpful.
Btw I know this is tangential and not of particular importance but Chimera is pronounced with a hard C like cat or crystal meth.
Just for you, I’m gonna start pronouncing it “chaymeera” :P