Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 4.3.2, careful aim, One with Nature, shark attack, Sic 'Em!, Survival, wild hunt on February 4, 2012 | 17 Comments »
Survival is the spec of choice these days thanks to the buffs it received in 4.3 and 4.3.2. This means that the spec is receiving closer scrutiny than it has in the past. The consensus build appears to involve SV taking three points in One With Nature, two points in Sic ‘Em! and none in Careful Aim. However, often left out of talent discussions is how this build’s optimality is conditional upon pet talents.
Edit: Post updated to include Frenzy builds. Thanks to Harvoc for the suggestion.
Posted in economics, Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged careful aim, Kirix, macros, Molten Front, patch 4.2, pet stances, pvp on July 1, 2011 | 12 Comments »
I kept starting and stopping a variety of posts because I’d find something to write about but it wouldn’t be enough for a full post. So, today, a stew of all those ingredients.
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged Beast Mastery, bm, careful aim, nerf, One with Nature, patch 4.2, shark attack, Sic 'Em!, Survival, sv, wild hunt 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 off putting three points in OWN, two in SE and zero in CA (like this). This is categorically true in my estimation for SV hunters with cunning pets. SV hunters with ferocity pets will want to have their pets have at least one point in Wild Hunt (rather than going 2/2 Shark Attack). The best SV results I found were with the SV spec I recommend and a ferocity pet with one point in Wild Hunt and one in Shark attack (like this).
Note that these results were found using my gear and the femaledwarf setting that allows you to manipulate the percentage of the fight spent in CA range. I reduced it from 20% to 10%. I additionally disabled AS during CA. Note also that these results assume a tank and spank fight and that I committed no errors. Thanks as always to Zeherah.
Posted in Hunter, tagged careful aim, patch 4.2, patch notes on June 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Careful Aim now grants additional critical strike chance against targets over 90% health, up from 80% health.
Well, crap. That’s an unequivocal nerf. It will have the largest impact on MM and is likely an attempt to rein that spec in.
Also, we’ll get some new pets to tame and there’s a change to pet defensive stances. See the updated patch notes on hunters here.
Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged ability spotlight, aimed shot, AiS, arcane shot, AS, careful aim, HAiS, hard cast, hardcast, marksman, Marksman rotation, Marksmanship, mm 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.
Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 4.0.6, careful aim, cunning pet, ferocity pet, One with Nature, pet spec, Sic 'Em!, Survival, survival spec, survival talents on March 7, 2011 | 6 Comments »
The recent buff to Aspect of the Hawk left Survival with an interesting choice: 3/3 talent points in One with Nature (OWN) or just 1/3? The question isn’t whether One with Nature is good. OWN is good. The question is whether or not it is better than the other good dump talents that Survival can spec into, Sic ‘Em! (SE) and Careful Aim (CA). SV can’t have all three maxed out and so it’s a matter of opportunity cost: where should the four points we can spend go amongst the six possible options?
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