Comments on: Even Blizz Gets Tired of Kicking Us Eventually

By: Frostheim

Frostheim — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:34:32 +0000

For SV hunters, Agil is still better than armor pen. Keep your agility gems!

By: Vascilli

Vascilli — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:44:45 +0000

I noticed a mana drop with my gladiator gear since the last patch, (about 200). Did the PVE gear have an intellect drop also?
I usually just play BG’s and do quests, hence the gear. I changed from MM to SV when I found this site. Thanks to you guys I get asked to run 5 mans and am 1st or 2nd on the Damage. THANK YOU!!

By: Tsailencer

Tsailencer — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:56:37 +0000

Thinking about the opening statement in blue, and I’m wondering with all the high end gear going ar. pen. heavy, would switching all my gems to ar. pen. be a better idea then staying with the agi. gems?…as of right now I’m a SV hunter with jewelcrafting and 95% of my gem slots are +agi … also, is the ar. pen more viable for MM hunters than SV hunters? just wondering.

Tsailencer (Antiquus Morte Ortus, Silvermoon)

By: Deepfriedegg

Deepfriedegg — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:32:07 +0000

@ David:
the first one is enh. shammy´s Unleashed rage, the second one is blood DK´s Abomination might. There is a slight difference between these two and TSA, though. TSA is guaranteed to be always on. Unleashed Rage procs from crits (100% chance to proc) and lasts 10 secs. Abomination Might procs from Obliterate (100%), Blood strike (50%) and Heart Strike (50%) and also lasts 10 secs. There might be a chance that a melee has to run and this buff isnt up for a short period of time.

By: Shyrak

Shyrak — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:35:57 +0000

Enjoying SV thanks to your advice mate, but have you looked at the latest news about the ranged weapon buffs on high and weapons? Woot!

By: Zyrinx

Zyrinx — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:57:33 +0000

I find I no longer miss BM, despite playing it for several years pre-3.0.8. I try it now, occasionally, as a 2nd spec and I find it both underpowered and uninteresting. I do sort of miss Loque, though :-/

Great news about SV, though, glad to see that.

By: David

David — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:57:18 +0000

You mentioned that TrueShot Aura does not stack with other classes that offer the same buff – which buffs were you referring to specifically??

By: Stonefather

Stonefather — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:19:10 +0000

As a mage i suffered the early power, crap scaling throughout BC and I burned out on being a mage. With Arcane as a dead spec with brief periods of broken stupidity on PTRs, nerfed into oblivion before the patches went live, and the theoretical optimal dps spec (which was still well below warlock/rogue/hunter) being a spec which required 2 shadow priests in the same group to have a hope of meeting the required mana, I see many similarities with the state of hunters atm . I can say they’ve been much quicker to fix balance issues in 3.0 in general, but I have a lot of sympathy for those sticking it out with little to no hope of a happy end in sight.
I am now a very contented DK tank. My name is Stonefather, and I’m a switcher.

By: arthemystia

arthemystia — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:06:03 +0000

Armor pen. IS more important now, as I hurdled my guild’s other hunter for the first time ever for #1 on the meters in ulduar today because he has better gear overall but considerably less armor pen. But yeah, a shame it doesn’t scale to pets at all. Almost makes straight attack power seem more enticing than things like crit. or agility. Almost.

By: Ord

Ord — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:04:29 +0000

Yeah, it’s pretty much Best in Slot for rogues, I think. Can’t wait until I get one