Comments on: Another Hunter Buff

By: Gurry

Gurry — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:52:32 +0000

Since the hunters mark has been improved would improved hunters mark now be worth it? it would be 150 att pwr bonus now.

By: Frostheim

Frostheim — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:32:21 +0000

I’m afraid you haven’t answered yes to all of the questions (buff food and stat conversions).

By: Neven

Neven — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:27:31 +0000

Ironically, to all your questions Frost, yes. Yes, I use flasks on every boss fight. The best food? I almost always use the fish feasts provided for the raid by the cheerleader. The spec I am in is supposed to be the best spec for dps, though I took a decent hit switching to it because it requires more hit then I had (losing presision in frost tree hurt).

The switching specs to get focus magic to work hasnt worked for weeks, but the current spec I have actually has focus magic in it.

Ryfft is currently in arcane spec and I am doing TTW/fireball spec.

In short, the answer is yes, I do what I can to make sure I am up to date as far as the new specs. Much as you do for yours (though I dont respec 123539129012 times, cuz you are crazy).

By: Tsailencer

Tsailencer — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:07:44 +0000

Yea…I take that back about not seeing any kind of mana issue..in 25 man raids I found the mana issue to be no problem..with all the mana regen buffs I was fine..I did a 10 man Ulduar tonight and I lost mana really fast…constantly saw my mana almost gone…I might have to decide to go dual spec on a hunter and use SV for 10 man and MM for 25 man…I’d hate to spend 1000g I really don’t have to dual spec a hunter..lol…I don’t PVP so that makes it even a crazier idea…oh well guess I’ll have to lvl another toon to 80 and do every quest in Northrend to get about 7-9k g…I still have 2 more lvl 70′s to do this with.

Tsailencer
Antiquus Morte Ortus, Silvermoon

By: Frostheim

Frostheim — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:01:19 +0000

Yeah, I don’t know what was going on in that fight (other than lack of AI and a pvp trinket /shame) but I had to go into viper 4 times on that one fight. I can only guess that there was some kind of mana regen missing from the raid.

By: Ord

Ord — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:28:03 +0000

Nope, the rogue in question was using a 213 MH and 219 OH with most of the gear a mix of 200 and 213

By: Stonefather

Stonefather — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:48:42 +0000

in frosts defence, wasn’t the rogue using a 226 and 232 ilvl weapon combo, with most of the rest of gear in the 219+ category? The way drops have gone in 10 man has rather favoured leather wearing blenders.

And on the subject of mage scaling.. In L80 blues my mage was barely sustaining 2k dps, after a few runs through naxx and switching out most of the blue for purple, he doubled his dps output, breaking 4k on patchwerk. The scaling for mages surprised me. When hrist mentions ryffts dps being similar to frosts, I’ve seen ryfft get ahead with full raid stacking, but i also remember clearly our first 25man naxx runs where i was dpsing as a DK, still in mostly blue gear of about the same level as ryfft and thrashing him in dps, thinking to myself “proof positive my move to DK was the right one”. I dps’d as a mage near 3yrs with ryfft, knowing how good a player he was and seeing that gap really made me feel for the class. Cut to a couple of months of gearing later and he’s hitting like a truck again. Scaling is wildly different between classes.

Right now on my DK I’m looking at a single sigil change being worth upwards of 600dps for my preferred dps spec, no single peice of gear upgraded in any other slot is worth more than 30ish dps except weapon to best in slot, which would be about 100. Mages just don’t upgrade off any single item like that, it’s all in the tiny incremental improvements in every single slot.

By: Tullwinden

Tullwinden — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:35:22 +0000

Thanks Tsailencer for the info, I’m dual spec at the moment, and I’m looking at staying Survival and Marksmanship, and drop BM for a while, (I love my pets) but I need to do damage)

By: Mornmist

Mornmist — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:08:12 +0000

The difference there Quivering is that Frost has an item lodged in his head and you don’t have one at all. ; )

By: quivering

quivering — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:38:17 +0000

in what world is a bow better than a gun? example:

we are standing merely a few feet apart. i have a bow pulled back taut aimed at your face. you have a gun in mine.

if you shoot me, im gonna instantly relax, releasing the arrow. you gonna shoot and move in time?
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so anyway, +200 ap on marked, and +350 with improved marks. thats what, 14-15 dps increase normally and 25 with the talents?