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Episode 64, Kripparrian!

Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged agility, best practices, crit, enchanting, exodus, gemming, Hunter, kripparrian, logs, master, nerf, parse, performance, pet, podcast, pve, pvp, rotation, spec, stats, Survival, ysondre on January 12, 2011 | 9 Comments »

This week, we welcome Kripparrian, hunter extraordinaire from the Exodus guild on Ysondre-US! This episode was recorded two weeks ago, and in it, we talk about the impending nerfs, some persistent bugs, and the best practices for playing a hunter at the highest possible level of content. Here’s the site where we host our shows live. As [...]

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When To Take Improved Hunter’s Mark!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agi, agility, armor penetration, arp, build, focused aim, hit cap, Hunter, hunter's mark, ihm, improved hunter's mark, Marksmanship, pve, raiding, Survival on April 5, 2010 | 24 Comments »

Improved Hunter’s Mark is an easily reachable talent in the marksmanship tree that everyone’s min/max calculations assume you have. The default “best buffs” button on the DPS calculator has it set to 3/3 talents and glyphed too. Who should take IHM? How should this be decided? Ideally, the person who is giving up the least [...]

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End Game Marksmanship!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.3.3, agi, agility, armor pen, armor penetration, arp, chimera shot, comparison, dps, glyph of chimera shot, glyph of kill shot, glyphs, Hunter, icecrown, kill shot, marks, Marksmanship, mm, pve, Survival, sv on March 26, 2010 | 40 Comments »

There’s no doubt about it, right now, the best hunter DPS in the game is done by marks hunters. Marksmanship is the end game raiding spec, if you have the gear. There are presently two styles of marks hunters: agility and armor penetration. ArP Marks Hunters

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Can Survival Raid? Pshaw!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agility, comparison, dps, ICC, icecrown citadel, marks, Marksmanship, mm, pve, raiding, Survival, sv on March 18, 2010 | 54 Comments »

My old buddy (and OutDPS poet laureate), Frostheim, posted today about some things Ghostcrawler said about BM raiding. In his analysis, he dropped a hint that he had been planning a “can survival raid” post, so I figured I’d clear the air a bit about the whole survival and marksmanship comparison. I’ll say it right [...]

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Armor Penetration vs. Agility, Redux!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged agi, agility, aoe, arcane shot, armor pen, armor penetration, arp, arp vs agi, dps, one trick pony, pve, raiding on November 6, 2009 | 48 Comments »

Armor penetration or agility? I’m going to give you the rules of thumb. Never go ArP if you’re not MM. If your gear has less than about 350 ArP from gear (not including gems or a trinket proc), then you should use arcane shot taking improved arcane shot talent, as well as gem agility. If [...]

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Agility vs. Armor Penetration After Nerf!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agility, armor penetration cap, arp, grim toll, Marksmanship, mjolnir runestone, Survival on September 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Hi folks! I noticed that about half the people who dropped by yesterday to listen to the Munken interview seemed to click on the single out of date guide I had linked on the right hand guides section. Murphy, his law, and the horse they rode in on can go fly a kite. That said, [...]

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Hunter PvP 101!

Posted in arena, Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, pvp, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agility, arena, battleground, Beast Mastery, bg, focused aim, gemming, hit, Hunter, interface, macro, Marksmanship, mouseover macro, pets, pvp, resilience, spell penetration, spider, Survival, UI, wolf on September 18, 2009 | 21 Comments »

Hey everyone. Today we’ll talk about what it is the beginning pvper needs to know as far as gearing and setting up for pvp. I’ll try to cover the most basic things that everyone should know without favoring one type of PvP over another.

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Epic Gem and Enchant List!

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Resources, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2, 3.2.2, agility, armor penetration, attack power, crit, enchanting, enchants, gearing, gem, gemming, hit cap, hit rating, how do I enchant my gear, how do I gem my gear, Hunter, meta gem, pet expertise, professions, pve, raiding, socket bonus, stamina on September 14, 2009 | 27 Comments »

Today I’ll be going over how to gem and enchant your hunter, regardless of spec. First off, you need to know what goal will give you the most bang for your buck. To that end, import your character into www.femaledwarf.com and we’ll get started. Here‘s a guide for how to use it if you’re not [...]

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Survival Spec and Glyphs for Patch 3.2!

Posted in Hunter, Resources, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2, agility, aimed shot, dps, explosive shot, expose weakness, global cooldown, glyph, glyph of explosive shot, haste, hit cap, hit rating, kill shot, lock and load, multi shot, patch 3.2, pve, raiding, serpent sting, shot rotation, shot rotations, sniper training, spec, stamina, steady shot, theory crafting, timing, ulduar on September 8, 2009 | 24 Comments »

**Note: much of this post is reused from the last version, but the comments there were left over several patches, so I’m updating it and reposting. 0/15/56 is the survival spec that gets me the most DPS. Lets go over the basics, and why I took (or didn’t take) things. In general, you want to [...]

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Hunters in Cataclysm!

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged agi, agility, ammo, ammunition, armor penetration, attack power, blizzcon, cataclysm, class, consumable, energy, focus, ghostcrawler, haste, hit, hit rating, Hunter, hunter changes, hunter loot, int, intellect, mana regen, mastery, overhaul, q&a, shadowmourne, steady shot, talents on August 21, 2009 | 19 Comments »

According to the class Q&A on wow.com: They’re replacing mana with energy, like rogues. We’ll have a maximum of 100 focus, and it will regenerate 6/sec (a little slower than rogues’ 10 energy/sec), or a little faster (12/sec) if we use steady shot. No more mana regen, aspect of the viper, or int needed. There [...]

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How to Use the Online DPS Calculator!

Posted in Hunter, Resources, World of Warcraft, tagged agility, armor penetration, arp, dps calculator, DPS spreadsheet, femaledwarf.com, Hunter, import character, online dps calculator, online dps spreadsheet, shot rotation, simulator, zeherah on August 11, 2009 | 15 Comments »

[edit 12 aug: fixed broken link, sorry for fat-fingering the first link to the site in question] You’ve probably all been told at one point or another to “use the spreadsheet”. They mean this spreadsheet, and here‘s the guide I wrote for it. Since then, the cries for a version that would work for people [...]

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Common Mistakes!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agility, arcane shot, auto-shot, black arrow, chimera shot, common mistakes, dps, dps calculator, enchants, explosive shot, femaledwarf.com, gems, hit, Hunter, kill shot, lock and load, Marksmanship, online dps calculator, pet, pet talents, pre-raiding, pve, pvp, raiding, rapid fire, readiness, resilience, rotation, serpent sting, shot rotation, sons of hodir, spec, steady shot, Survival, traps, wow on July 27, 2009 | 15 Comments »

From Ahunkaluvin: “I’d like a guide to what the common mistakes are. For instance, I have pretty fair gear and have tried to put most of your lessons to practice, but somehow I still get nowhere near the DPS(about 1600-1800) of my fellow hunters. OK, So I suck, but, WHY? (other than just general suckiness)” [...]

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Marksman Specs and Glyphs!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged agi, agility, aimed shot, armor penetration, arp, build, chimera shot, cookie-cutter, feign death, focused aim, glyph of chimera shot, glyph of feign death, glyph of hunter's mark, glyph of kill shot, glyph of mend pet, glyph of serpent sting, glyph of steady shot, glyph of the hawk, glyphs, hit, hit cap, hit rating, hunter's mark, improved arcane shot, improved hunter's mark, improved steady shot, major glyphs, mana, marks, mend pet, minor glyphs, mm, pve, raiding, rapid fire, rapid killing, rapid recuperation, serpent sting, spec, steady shot, talent, too many tags, trueshot aura, ulduar on July 20, 2009 | 25 Comments »

Today I’m going to talk cookie cutter glyphs and specs for marksmanship hunters. That’s right, specs plural. There are a myriad of viable builds for marks, and I was rather overwhelmed when I made the switch.

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Agility vs. Armor Penetration!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged agi, agility, aimed shot, armor pen, armor penetration, arp, auto-shot, dps, DPS spreadsheet, elitist jerks, general vezax, grim toll, hit rating, horid, mjolnir runestone, online dps spreadsheet, raiding, random number generator, rng, steady shot, t8, ulduar on July 17, 2009 | 26 Comments »

[edit 25 Sept 2009: this was written before the last patch, and I have a new version that covers it after the update] I’m sure you’ve read that all the cool hunters are gemming for armor pen, and seeing good results from it. The best possible DPS thread over at elitist jerks shows a very [...]

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Hit rating!

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2, agility, dodge, DPS spreadsheet, elitist jerks, hit, hit cap, hit rating, miss, napkin math, patch 3.2, pet, pet expertise, pets on July 7, 2009 | 36 Comments »

Today we’re going over hit rating. You are all aware that there’s something magically special about hit, I’m sure, due to the ambient information on the internet. What you may not know is exactly why people are always worried about getting hit capped! Well, I’m going to de-mystify this today.

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Marksmanship Gemming and Enchanting!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agility, ap, armor pen, arp, attack power, crit rating, DPS spreadsheet, enchant, gem, hit, marks, Marksmanship, minmaxing, mm, raiding, stat weights, Survival, sv on June 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

So as I’m digesting the changes from survival to marksmanship, one of the things I took for granted was that I’d have to re-gem and re-enchant. Agility used to be king, but surely attack power would be for marks right? Apparently not!

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Survival spec and glyphs, updated!

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Resources, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2, agility, aimed shot, dps, explosive shot, expose weakness, global cooldown, haste, hit cap, hit rating, kill shot, lock and load, multi shot, patch 3.2, pve, raiding, serpent sting, shot rotation, shot rotations, sniper training, spec, stamina, steady shot, theory crafting, timing, ulduar on May 21, 2009 | 13 Comments »

This post has been replaced by it’s updated version here.

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