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It all depends on your gear and shot rotation. Once Surv hunters start breaking the 1000 agil mark it becomes much easier to hit the top 5 on any dps meter. Ranged dps also has an advantage in that fight cause they have to run around less chasing after the next mob. I am nearly always in...

I expected a nerf to Explosive Shot but 20% down to 8% is way to severe. Hopefully Blizzard follows its pattern of major nerf and then buff it some. Concenious on Elitist Jerks seems to be around 12% would be good at keeping the talent providing good dps output while at the same time not have...

Mostly from Elitist Jerks. Heres the link to their forums http://elitistjerks.com/forums.php There are a few other sites also but this site definately has the most in depth analysis of our mechanics.

You cant clip anymore. Autoshot will go off whether you are in the middle of Steady Shot or any other special. It was technically possible (though highly unlikely) that Multishot could also clip Autoshot, since it has a .5 sec cast time. The only thing that will screw up Autoshot is if you...

I think it was done cause of the unlinking from Autoshot. Keep in mind that as of 3.0 Autoshot is going to keep firing no matter what you do. The only one of your specials that will affect Autoshot is Aimed Shot. And yes Haste will affect Steady Shot, but as of now it has no effect on...

The 2.0 cast time has been up since the beta opened. Also with SS and and the 15% on your quiver you will probably have the cast time down to 1.7 sec (you can use Quartz or some other timer to verify). The goal is to get Steady Shot down to 1.5 sec which is the GCD, from what I understand...

I always thought the scaling Hunters Mark was some kind of stacking bug. I know right now Rank 5 (lvl 76) will give you a 300 RAP buff and if you take the 3 talent points you will get a 30% boost (90 RAP). AotV is all screwed up, while it may possibly work in pve the concensus for pvp/arenas...

I must admit that I'm finding BM less and less interesting in WotLK. It was never a complicated spec and never required much in the way of being the top dpser in a raid. The talent additions though just seem blah. Im sure from a straight dps standpoint it is going to win but I just dont know...

From what I've been reading on Elitist Jerks is that BM is still out in front dps wise and MM and Surv in a tie for second place. I know our shot rotations are changing in WotLK and I'm not sure yet what the optimal BM rotation is gonna be. I know the goal of both MM and Surv is to get enough...

BM still has the highest dps output on the beta atm, but keeping your pet alive will paramount if you want to stay in the top dps. Pet dps for BM hunters seems to have gone up from around 25-30% to +35%, depending on your pet.

You can always be like me and have 3 hunters (1 for each spec :D). I doubt I will have my third hunter to 70 before WotLK hits but she will be 80 before the next x-pack hits (or DC Online, which ever comes first). Also the initial change to Viper was awsome, 0 to 100% mana in 10 sec is...

I was looking around these forums and was trying to find out what the rules are for this guild and more specifically what you guys use for raiding rules. The only thing I found so far is a post about swapping mains for the 25 man content. Do you have both your general guild policy and your...

Yeah EW going to self buff only is a bit of a bummer though between that and dps buffs from abilities like L&L we should see a big dps boost that will make us more comparable in dps to BM hunters. I'm holding off on any judgement if they are really removing rage/energy/runes from the talent...

I wouldnt stress too much about it, when they added the dispell effect onto it, it though alot of people off. Aside from going 2+ yrs without the effect on it I dont think many people expected it to actually work on a boss. My biggest blunder as a hunter was pulling the Baron in MC while...

With the current live content (Burning Crusade) Animal Handler is useful for raiding because pets do not gain anything from our hit rating like the do from our Armor, Stamina, AP,... When WotLK hits (and probaly when patch 3.0 hits) pets will gain a percentage of our hit rating just like they...

For Survival I'm debating between a build based on the buffs to SS http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/hunter/talents2.html?tal=000000000000000000000000000053052000300000000000000005303002510033330503130301051 And a build based on MT...

IF you are going for a pve spec then I would alter your build to this http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/hunter/talents2.html?tal=542001015150120531025313010053052000000000000000000005000000000000000000000000000 From what Ive been reading on sites like Elitist Jerks separation anxiety...

Hehe, I read about this happening to guilds after they added the dispelling effect to Arcane Shot. I gave STRICT orders to every hunter in the raid when we started doing Gruul's Lair about not casting that shot. I still remend everyone about that whenever we go in there. Its also helpful that...

The best thing you can do to help pet survivability in terms of spec is max out Avoidance (-50% AoE damage) and find out what bosses you will be fighting and spec your pet for those resistances. In Kara for example my pet has max arcane resistance (Currator & Shade) and some in shadow...

Lechuza is right about using steady shot as your main shot as a BM hunter. The math behind it is that Steady has a 1.5 sec cast time and if you can get a weapon that is at 2.7 speed (or as close as you can get) with Serpent Swiftness you are casting your Autoshots at just above 1.6 sec. This...