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How to Choose Your Set Pieces!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 14, 2010 | 7 Comments »

I realized I’ve never written up a guide about set pieces for marks hunters. This is a common question: “Should I stick with 2T9, or get my 4T10 bonus?”. This also has a very simple response: “Do whatever the DPS calculators say is more DPS, because they’re usually right”. The long version

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Episode 26!

Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on May 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Hi folks, this is one of those slightly aged episodes we’ve been meaning to get out the door for a while. In it, we talk about some patch 3.3.3 changes, tier bonuses, and ArP. Here’s the site where we host our shows live. As always, here is the iTunes store link, the Hunting Party Podcast [...]

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End Game Marksmanship!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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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Armor Penetration vs. Agility, Redux!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , 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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A Short Analysis of Armor Penetration!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »

We all know that patch 3.2.2 is going to see a reduction in effectiveness of armor penetration, but how much will this affect you? Well, the best answer is to load your character into a calculator (like www.femaledwarf.com), save your DPS, then check “Enable 3.2.2 Changes” under settings, recalculate, and see how much it went [...]

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The Hunting Party Podcast, Episode 6!

Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »

This week, we cover the news: faction changes, the armor penetration nerf, 3.2.2, bestial wrath nerfbuff, trial of the grand crusader difficulty, the tier 9 set bonus bug fixes, and Darkbrew’s theories on management. We then answered some listener questions! Episode 6 of the Hunting Party Podcast was also the first live show, however this [...]

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The Hunting Party Podcast, Episode 5!

Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Episode 5 of The Hunting Party was done without Darkbrew, who is on vacation (lucky blighter), but we got Brigwyn to fill in. We started with the interview, and then went over the news. Today’s show notes contain a lot of links: Most importantly, the squirrel launcher. Brigwyn’s blog, podcast, and forums. The Hunting Party [...]

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Agility vs. Armor Penetration!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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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Marksmanship Gemming and Enchanting!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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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Gearing revisited!

Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

At every possible level of gear and experience, there are some rules that will help you choose where to go next. This post will go over some of them.

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