boxing hunters

[genghiskhan]

what do you think would be the best hunter spec for boxing raids?

[HPAVC]

Your the very adaptive support DPS class, so whatever the raid needs. Every hunter needs to adapt like this, its the hunters strength not to be supporting in a static fashion. Or worse yet, not playing any support role an just spamming a dps macro.

So the ability to always have misdirection on hand, even though it has a 30second cooldown and readiness on a 3min is pretty sexy, plus being able to spam silencing shot interrupts as well.

With 10 people, your likely to not have buff worries in cata, so beastmaster pet buffs likely aren't a big deal.

[genghiskhan]

Thanks. Im going to have 3 hunters so ill have alot of versatility. But i can only dual spec. So is there a spec that stands out as "dont raid with this"? Or should i mix it the 3 specs like all 3 as MM, 2 have SV os and 1 has BM os?

[genghiskhan]

edit: was a repost cuz it wasnt showing up...

[Bigfish]

I would argue all should have a max dos spec, and then try for as many utility specs as you can get, and then switch up as needed.

[genghiskhan]

do we know yet which does the most dps? Ive spent hours doing research and cant figure it out.

[HPAVC]

Thanks. Im going to have 3 hunters so ill have alot of versatility. But i can only dual spec. So is there a spec that stands out as "dont raid with this"? Or should i mix it the 3 specs like all 3 as MM, 2 have SV os and 1 has BM os?

I would think you would want to remove as much twitch as you can from your team and spec the same (minus overlapping talents like multiple true shot).

I would think that this spec x3, http://www.wowhead.com/talent#ccbcZfMG0GRruboM, swapping true shot for silencing shot would be nice. The all the same, such as the nice disengage speed buff, the readiness, and the lack of focus around twitch procs.

[Ualaa]

I personally don't really like Hunters that much.

That said, they now use the Focus mechanic, which can be macro'd close to perfectly.
And the dislike was from PvP, where you cannot prevent classes from closing to melee, especially stealthers.

As a PvE questing team, or even a Eternal/Primal Fire (B.Crusade) farming team...
Well against PvE stuff, hunters absolutely rock.
And raids are PvE, so they might be a fairly decent choice.

[HPAVC]

That said, they now use the Focus mechanic, which can be macro'd close to perfectly.

Seems that with procs that generate focus or discount focus costs that its more like macroing multiple rogues, warriors, or fire mage. This greatly impacts weaving a rotation which is very important for stuff like kill shot. This becomes a problem maintaining stings, or applying them on new transition mobs.

[Ualaa]

Maybe they cannot be macro'd as perfectly as I thought...


I had a fairly decent Marksman build/macro.
The Chimera Shot, refreshed the Sting.

And a decent BM build/macro.
Which was fairly simplistic, so probably not optimal, although it worked fine for questing.