Comments on: Best Hunter Professions for DPS

By: Aztec

Aztec — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:08:38 +0000

You forget LW drums Frost

By: Dagray

Dagray — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:22:40 +0000

Frost,

I realize that you may not have time to do so with all of the recent work (Good Job BTW) on the WHU, however it’d be great if you could delete this page and/or replace it’s contents with the recent guest post’s contents and place a link in the guide portion of the website.

Simply for the sake of convenience and clarity,

-Dagray

By: Dagray

Dagray — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:40:02 +0000

Update:

Flasks are still affected by Mixology, however some players have reported the effect being bugged post 4.0.1. I submitted a ticket myself after speaking w/ another alchemist and the issue was fixed. The tool-tip alone will not tell you whether your account is bugged, you must actually look at your AP Before and After drinking a flask.

By: Dagray

Dagray — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:48:42 +0000

@ lvl 80 this is a bonus of 240 haste over 20 seconds, w/ a cooldown of 2min.

Therefore you’re going to average a bonus of 40 haste overall in addition to the small self heal every 2 min.

It should also be noted that Alchemy no longer increases the attack power bonus of Flasks from 180 to 240. It now simply increases the time that flask is active for (2 hours instead of 1).

In other words, while you used to be able to get self-heal + 80 AP bonus from the Alc/Herb combination, you’re now getting a very low 40 haste bonus w/ an even smaller self heal. I’m currently using this combination simply because I started out with it and I dont feel like changing things this close to Cata. However, I’m really hoping that they change things so that Alchemy gets a DPS boost from Flasks again.

By: Ellendra

Ellendra — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:42:57 +0000

Just wanted to point out that Herbalism’s “Lifeblood” now provides a haste bonus in addition to its heal.

By: Papaoomowmow

Papaoomowmow — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:54:22 +0000

Good article, but……

While I understand that every little bit helps,the DPS differences are relatively tiny. Changing professions just for an extra 4 dps or so in ten man seems like selling your house and buying the one next door just to get a couple windows that are an inch or two wider.

By: Mascaron

Mascaron — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:35:02 +0000

Frost, put this in your Hunter Guides section. It really deserves to be in there.

By: Dehvi

Dehvi — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:43:46 +0000

Frost, I know you often comment that the Hand-Mounted Pyro Rockets are better than the Hyperspeed Accelerators; however, wouldn’t the extra Haste, in stacking with other procs, gain the multiplicative effect? I mean, in essence that’s only for the first 12 secs of the fight, since it’ll be macro’ed into all of my shots. Still though, it would also scale with raid buffs, whereas the Rocket would not. Is that correct?

I see how this would be really difficult to test at the target dummy, considering part of the argument is that it is better when you use it with other procs, and part of target dummy testing usually involves getting rid of those extra procs to simplify the data. I’ve never done any Theorycrafting myself, but maybe this is something I could try to start on. Any insight you already have would be really helpful though.

By: Willaam

Willaam — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:41:29 +0000

Don’t forget, for players stacking ArP, those extra 42 points you get from the Jewelcrafting gems are actually a lot more valuable for different players.

Also, the extra slots from Blacksmithing will do quite a bit for ArP stackers.

By: FatDwarf

FatDwarf — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:28:29 +0000

Nice overview of how much the professions actually help out on the dps department. I can’t help wonder how this would look with the new(er) MM-ArP build though…