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Friendly Reminders for Patch 4.3

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , on November 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Patch 4.3 is available for download, and so now seems like an appropriate time to offer some friendly reminders about the patch.

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A Quick State of Hunter DPS

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on September 25, 2011 | 26 Comments »

I haven’t seen any “state of hunter dps” posts in a while so I thought I’d throw one together.

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Comparing the Hunter Talent Trees for PVP

Posted in arena, Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, pvp, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , on July 15, 2011 | 9 Comments »

This post goes over the relative pros and cons of the different hunter talent trees for PVP.  It leaves aside the strengths and weaknesses that hunters have in general, focusing instead on how the specs compare to each other.

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A Note on the Careful Aim Change for BM and SV

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 7, 2011 | 7 Comments »

MM will want to keep its points in Careful Aim despite the nerf, but what about BM and SV, specs for which CA is weaker?  At least according to tentative results from a warf that’s been femaled, BM should keep points in CA (like this) if the PTR change goes live.  SV will be better [...]

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Bloodthirsty PVP Gear Possibly Better than Dungeon Gear for PVE DPS

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, pvp, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on January 2, 2011 | 22 Comments »

I was playing around with Zeherah’s online dps modeler and found that four pieces of ilvl 352 Bloodthirsty pvp gear were better for my dps than the pieces of ilvl 346 pve gear I had equipped.  This was true for all three specs (an SV dungeon build, an MM dungeon build and a standard BM build) that I ran through [...]

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Likely Nerf to Survival, Buffs to Beast Mastery and Marksmanship

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on December 28, 2010 | 10 Comments »

In Ghostcrawler’s new post on upcoming class changes, all three hunter specs get mentioned by name in the first body paragraph.  Survival hunters are brought up twice, for having suspiciously high single target damage and for having possibly too-high AoE damage.  Beast Mastery and Marksmanship hunters get singled out as having damage that is definitely too low.  This much attention, this prominently in the [...]

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DPSCheck: 4.0.1 Shot Priorities

Posted in addons, Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 29, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Hi folks, Pherra here. I just uploaded a new release of the DPSCheck addon to WoWInterface and Curse. This new version has the first pass at priority checks for Beast Mastery and Marksmanship builds, along with a new buff/debuff checking feature. The priority checks are designed to help your shot selection in any fight, while [...]

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Hunters in Cataclysm Beta!

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 1, 2010 | 14 Comments »

Hi guys! The non-disclosure has been lifted, and what we know about hunters in Cataclysm’s beta is postable. I’m not in the beta or alpha because I didn’t sign up for it, however my co-host and dwarven chauvinist, Frostheim, has been chewing his tongue trying not to tell us all on the podcast about the [...]

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Hunter Leveling at the End of Wrath

Posted in battlegrounds, Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »

We’re in the doldrums at the end of Wrath.  The story is done aside from a token shrine.  Like captivated readers often do at the end of a good story, many players have opted to just flip back to the beginning of the game and create an alt.  This abundance of young hunters in the [...]

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Addons and Mods: DoT/Proc Timing!

Posted in addons, Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Resources, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 15, 2010 | 24 Comments »

editor’s note: Please put your hands together again for the newest OutDPS writer, Shadowstreak! You might know of him as the artist for the Frostheim Goggles comic, over at WHU. If not, go check it out- it’s some funny stuff! There are a few different DoT/Proc timing mods available. They all have their own different [...]

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Cataclysm Hunter Changes Live!

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2010 | 11 Comments »

Nethaera posted the hunter changes. Reposting now, analysis and follow up quotes will be edited in at the end. Of course this would happen while I was at lunch. I called it. With the upcoming World of Warcraft: Cataclysm many game elements will be changing, and each class will be receiving a number of tweaks. [...]

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Pets Now Eligible for ICC Buff!

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , on March 15, 2010 | 7 Comments »

From Zarhym: “Hellscream’s Warsong and Strength of Wrynn now provide their bonuses to player pet health and damage, as well as the absorption amounts of Power Word: Shield and Sacred Shield.” I’m happy :) edit: well, I will be in 3.3.3!

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BM Raiding Data Point!

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , on March 8, 2010 | 39 Comments »

Frost answered the call. He surprised me on the last podcast by telling me that he took his whole raid to Ironforge to pound on a dummy for two 5 minute tests, ostensibly to see what the stand still DPS of his raiding team was without any gimmicks. He did the first one as MM [...]

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Beastmaster Viability Data!

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 3, 2010 | 20 Comments »

I got a couple of interesting comments on my last post about this, and it got me thinking. The spreadsheets and websites are not perfect models for in game results- everyone knows the disclaimers that come with using them. I am curious about how big the DPS difference of a BM hunter really is, and [...]

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Beastmaster Raid Viability?

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 24, 2010 | 76 Comments »

I promised myself I wouldn’t get into this. People really seem to get divided over the issue and take it way more personally than I think they should. There have been several posts on both sides of the question that got debated endlessly, but I finally decided that I would throw my two cents in. [...]

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Tanking Keleseth

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , on February 1, 2010 | 26 Comments »

As a hunter you may be called on to tank one of the ICC blood princes, Keleseth.  While there are a number of approaches to tanking him for different classes, this post will describe how a hunter can do it and do it well.

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Buffs and Debuffs for Hunters

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , on January 25, 2010 | 21 Comments »

In this post I will go over buffs that hunters provide, the buffs that hunters want and the non-hunter debuffs that increase our dps on the target.  The goal is to give you a sense of what you can contribute and what you can benefit from in terms of buffs and debuffs.

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