Survival DPS for noobs?

[accretion]

As a relatively new lvl 80, I was getting around 1900dps as SV, and around 1750 as BM, iirc. I couldn't ever find a Marks spec that could beat either of those.

My BM hunter can do 3.2K now with a gear score of around 4500.

[Fuzzyboy]

As a relatively new lvl 80, I was getting around 1900dps as SV, and around 1750 as BM, iirc. I couldn't ever find a Marks spec that could beat either of those.

My BM hunter can do 3.2K now with a gear score of around 4500.

Not sure what kind of damage I was doing at 4500, but at my current (5450 GS) as MM, I'm getting anywhere from 5k to 9k depending on rng on heroic bosses.

[Lyonheart]

Surv is better DPS than MM until you reach 400ArP and 4k AP on gear alone ( no enchant/gems etc ) and have a ranged weapon that is item lvl 226 or better.( for a solo/raiding hunter) MM is way easier to macro.. it has no "proc" dependent DPS cool downs. Even though a solo surv hunter can out dps a MM hunter at lower gear levels, i found that MM is easier to box, due to the reliable/simple rotation.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Heh, so with no gear change, my 80 went from 1k DPS as BM to 1600-1800 as SV. Very nice improvement. I haven't found a rotation that works with MM as easily as the SV one does but I'll keep looking as I would really, REALLY like to have improved volley for farming.