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 for it. Let’s take a look at all the popular builds and see where they can afford to spend points on it: (more…)
Posted in World of Warcraft, tagged aimed shot, arcane shot, armor penetration, arp, build, chimera shot, dps, DPS spreadsheet, efficiency, femaledwarf.com, focused aim, hawk eye, improved hunter's mark, improved steady shot, judgement of wisdom, Marksmanship, online dps spreadsheet, piercing shots, raiding, rapid recuperation, removing arcane shot, rotation, steady shot, trueshot aura, uptime on August 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
My paladin healers are busy guys. Between keeping my pet alive with splash heals from their holy light and actual heals that will bounce back to the tank through beacon of light, they’ve got a lot on their hands. That and I believe feign death is for pansies. Hunters were given a bubble for a reason!
All of this means that I’m lucky if they have time to judge the boss more than the strict minimum needed for their haste bonus, and that means judgment of wisdom‘s uptime can be fairly low. (more…)
Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged aimed shot, arcane shot, aspect of the viper, build, chimera shot, dps, DPS spreadsheet, dual spec, efficiency, first draft, gcd, global cooldown, glyph of kill shot, glyph of serpent sting, glyph of steady shot, glyph of the hawk, improved hunter's mark, kill shot, macro, mana, marksman, mm, multi shot, raiding, rapid killing, rapid recuperation, serpent sting, silencing shot, spec, steady shot, Survival, sv, talent preview on June 17, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Not going to go into much depth here because I haven’t done anything yet other than annoy a targeting dummy with my new MM rotation, but lets talk about the process of switching to MM. (more…)
Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged dps, dual spec, improved hunter's mark, macros, Marksmanship, mm, raiding, repl, replenishment, Survival, sv on June 15, 2009 | 17 Comments »
I’ll be dual speccing marksmanship and starting to learn how to play it, so you can start to expect some quality MM content here. I did the math, and I’ve reached the point where the highest DPS SV build I can use is slightly less then the highest DPS marks build I can use, and to top it off, I don’t even run with the highest DPS SV build. Instead, I bring replenishment to the raid.
Since improved hunter’s mark is still bugged so that it can be written over with a normal hunter’s mark, I’m going to work with my fellow hunters on this to make sure that (a) only one of us specs into it, and (b) everyone takes the non-improved version out of their macros, if not off their bars.
What I’m expecting is a large increase to my DPS on fights where I have to move (freya, thorim, etc) and a small increase on fights where I can mostly stand and unload.
I’m looing forward to this challenge, and I’m hoping that I will be able to contribute a few good guides soon.
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