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Ability Spotlight: Kill Command

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on June 10, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Kill Command is the signature ability in the BM rotation but, unlike Chimera Shot and Explosive Shot, it can be used by all three hunter specs.  Indeed, it can even be beneficial to use for MM and SV in some occassions, such as for some procs of the tier 12 four-piece bonus.  This post discusses Kill Command–how it works and how to [...]

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Ability Spotlight: Glyphed Raptor Strike

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on May 12, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Druids have Barkskin, paladins have Divine Protection and hunters have . . . Raptor Strike.  Yes, Raptor Strike.   A major glyph transforms our simple, unimpressive melee attack into a source for a potent defensive aura that reduces incoming damage by 20% for five seconds. This can make a huge difference on fights with spike raid damage like Nefarian.   [...]

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Ability Spotlight: Explosive Shot

Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on March 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I started the Ability Spotlight series to shed light on commonly misunderstood hunter tools.  I imagined writing about abilities that are underused but useful, abilities that improve huntering at the margins.  However, as the hunter recruits to my guild and the hunter forums have shown me, even signature abilities can be persistently misunderstood.  That is why [...]

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Ability Spotlight: Hardcast Aimed Shot

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 12, 2011 | 10 Comments »

This post concerns the version of Aimed Shot that we can fire instead of Arcane Shot as a focus dump in the MM rotation.  When and why we should use this non-proc’d, hardcast version of AiS is a matter of some debate and this post attempts to offer some resolution.

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Ability Spotlight: Misdirection

Posted in World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on March 4, 2011 | 8 Comments »

This time around we look at Misdirection.  As usual with Ability Spotlight, we’re concerned with pve applications of the ability.

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Ability Spotlight: Deterrence

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , on February 24, 2011 | 11 Comments »

This round of Ability Spotlight focuses on Deterrence.  As usual, we’ll be looking at pve applications here, leaving pvp applications for other writers.

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Ability Spotlight: Camouflage

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on February 10, 2011 | 18 Comments »

Much-maligned but also underappreciated, the hunter’s level 85 ability, Camouflage, is our topic this time around.  This post focuses pve applications for Camouflage and leaves pvp applications for those who know and care more about hunter pvp than I.  This article was researched before 4.0.6, and while I’ve done my best to incorporate the patch’s changes to [...]

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Ability Spotlight: Disengage

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , on January 19, 2011 | 14 Comments »

This is the second in a series of posts on hunter abilities that commonly aren’t used to their potential in PVE.  Last time we looked at Tranquilizing Shot and this time it is Disengage‘s turn. 

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Ability Spotlight: Tranquilizing Shot

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on January 14, 2011 | 11 Comments »

This is the first in a new series of posts on hunter abilities that are underused and/or misunderstood in PVE. Tranq Shot is an appropriate inaugural topic, I think, given its common absence from hunter bars and the renewed attention that Blizzard has given to non-dps abilities like interrupts and dispels in Cataclysm.

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