Soooooo.... Have I been posting, like, ever? Nope, didn't think so. I so it's either time to retire the blog or just start fresh. I'm leaning more towards the retirement end, but I know that I had at least a couple people who read and coresponded with me through this. So I'm gonna try posting every now and again. I assure nothing to no one, and chances are that I've been removed from most of the blogrolls I may have ever been on... Oh well.
I'm currently in a coffee shop, blogging from my iPod, drinking a strawberry tea latte, and basically just killing time. So here are some thoughts on raiding hunters while I wait.
Tox is currently one of the few remaining raiding BM hunters I know of. The other hunters in Verve love the BM spec, but they're either MM or SV. I,ve got decent gear, but a couple have better. And we all know that the BM hunters were heavily nerfed post naxx, and understandably so. They were out performing the other specs by a little too much. Currently, I'm not entirely sure what of the specs is most popular for raiding, but I can tell you that it's definitely not the beastmasters.
Here's the catch though, I regularly out perform the other hunters in the groups I'm in. I'm not sure why, it could be that I don't experience as much lag, I could have a more efficient shot rotation, or maybe I've just itemized my gear to match My spec more efficiently. Granted, my pet does more than 30% of my total damage (generally around 35-38%) and when we're both fully raid buffed we benefit much more greatly than individual hunters and their weak pets do. In groups that don't have many buffs to offer my performance can be significantly lower than what I expect of myself. That helps to solidify the pet-buff theory.
Also: with 3.3 looming around the corner, I am one heckuva happy BM hunter. new, epic, craftable ammo ( rogue engineer, he's still super handy... And does a surprisingly large amount of damage considering how much time I've put into him), new emblem trinket that will actually be good for a hit capped hunter, a 232 belt (and another trinket to upgrade that's 232 as well.), the edging quel'dalar, and AMAZING T10 bonuses. I'm totally stoked or this coming patch. You'll see me running the 10 man and downing arthas soon enough, but probably not the 25 due to time restraints at the same time that verve normally goes into the 25 man raids. I'll attempt to, chances are slim.
I think that's all for me tonight.
Good hunting,
~Tox
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*poke*
There are still some of us out here watching for you to post :)
I think the key to BM out-performing another spec lies partly in its simplicity. There are fewer cooldowns to watch, and it's a bit more forgiving if you're a split-second late hitting your next shot. The other part is that (from what I've seen) MM and SV depend a lot more on crits for their big numbers. You get an unlucky streak, it's pretty obvious.
Just my two cents :D
That's an entirely valid and completely believable sense of reasoning you've just slapped down in my lap there. Totally makes a lot of sense. I know I've tried the MM spec and frankly, I've got too much to work with. Especially since it's what I PvP with (nothing fancy, just killin' hordies in WG and some BGs...with a healing priest by my side almost constantly...(and I don't even do much of it)), so I take all the more skills that help to keep the hordies off of me and at a good safe distance.
Oh, and the fact that the simplicity of it enhances your observational awareness of what's going on around you. SV gets mad tunnel vision, and they have to stand still in order to do max damage, MM are constantly watching their cooldowns, but BM hunters can just duck and move and get the hell out and be shooting again in less than two shakes of a lambs tail. The most likely candidates for hunters to DIAF are SV. Plus my gear totally isn't itemized for SV, so my Deeps lacks a lot of...how you say...goodness when I attempt SV.
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