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#showtooltip 
/cast <insert shot here> 
/cast Silencing Shot

Just make that for Steady, Chimera, Aimed and Arcane and your Silencing shots will fire whenever they're ready.

I hope to be in that same boat soon. I'm currently leaning toward keeping Loatheb's Shadow because I have terrible luck with RNG. The vast majority of my Lock n' Loads proc right as the boss teleports to an unreachable spot or it's time to dodge something painful. With a clickable effect I can time it up when I know I can hold still for a while and/or link it up with rapid fire or heroism.

When in doubt keep both and equip the one that feels right for the fight.

I'm pretty sure the mirror is better, but I haven't done much hunter work lately.

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Thank you!

I figured it would be something like that, but seeing the numbers is a huge help. :D

<-- is someone who bought hardened adamantite tubes for her warrior's goggles instead of figuring out whether raw mats would be cheaper because the math made her head hurt.

I did read through the WoWhead comments but I was a little fuzzy on how much it would be worth to someone with low crit chance and bad luck on procs combined. Knowing that, under good circumstances, it's only a 55 AP difference, is making me think Loatheb's Shadow is the way to go.

More like I lose that much anyway when the Rets insist on blessing something other then Might, and that's only if I don't end up with really sh*tty timing on procs (woo Gothik just switched to the other side!)

But yeah.

The more haste you have, the quicker Volley will be over.
It will however, keep the same amount of shots.

So if you normally have 6 seconds and 6 volley shots, with heroism/bloodlust it'll be 4 seconds and 6 shots.
(numbers are not exact, at all, but it shows the idea)

I have a lvl 14 troll hunter. I have read that BM is the best tree for solo leveling (I do plan to do some instances here and there as I level). Is this a good build to level with?

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Improved aspect of the hawk seems like a nifty talent, should I substitute that for endurance training? Should I put 5 points into raising my crit chance immediately or should I wait until I fill out the BM tree then put points into the marksman tree? Thanks for any advice.

I hope this is a simple question.

I've been using the crafted Nesingwary 4000 gun for a while now. Last night I won the roll on Arrowsong.

Running it though Warcrafter with the same Heartseeker scope (+40 crit) and ammo it tells me I have lost AP but gained DPS. AP is down by 19 but DPS is up by 15.

Autoshot seems to be about 20% of my damage from recent WWS.

I've been concentrating on maxing AP but this made me think about it. The purpose of AP is to increase my DPS then a straight DPS increase is better than just having more AP?

Am I going round in circles here or does it make sense to switch to the bow?

Thank you. That is a very nice site.

It does however say exactly the same thing. Arrowsong gives me higher dps but less AP.

I suppose I'll just have to find out by using it.

I had a question regarding the mechanics of traps.
When the Frost trap goes off, any mobs in the area are obviously affected. Mobs that enter the area after the trap goes off are affected as well. Does the Explosive trap work in the same manner? i.e. I drop a Frost Trap and an Explosive Trap that go off together and hit a group. Another mob enters the aoe and is slowed by the frost, but is it affected by the Exposive Trap DOT as well? In the same vein, do mobs that leave the aoe of Explosive Trap lose the DOT?

How important is Hit Rating, exactly?

I've always gone for hit cap above all else, which means using a couple gems for hit instead of agility. I've been messing around with the online spreadsheet, though, and it seems as if, as long as there's a Draenei in the party, I do a lot better adding in an extra agi gem instead of a hit one. Yeah, I know, obvious, but it's not something I'd really considered before.

What do you guys think, as an Alliance hunter is it reasonable to go for 7% hit instead of 8% on the assumption that there will be a Draenei there when it really matters, or am I better off going for cap regardless of any buffs from group members?

What I was seeing was a bigger DPS increase in one more agi gem plus Draenei aura over one more hit gem than in one more hit gem over one more agi gem. When you say fully raid buffed do you mean with or without the Draenei buff?

I probably shouldn't worry so much about this, I'm not too far under cap (7.5% atm). I want to make sure I'm getting the right epic gems cut now that I've talked my hubby into picking up the hit and agi designs first, though.

Yeah, I'll probably have a better idea of what I need once I'm actually in a guild again. Thanks though. :)

I've been talking with the leader of the guild I raided with from the end of BC to early Wrath and she wants me back, but I'll be deciding for sure once my new computer gets here on Monday and I can actually try out a few runs with them. The officer who caused trouble for me before isn't an officer any longer, so I should be okay with them.

Ugh...If I remember correctly he whispered me while I was in H UK and started bugging me to drop group and spec SV to run 10-man EoE. I told him that I'd be happy to go but that going SV was a little tricky for me atm because I had very low crit and I would have to regem all of my gear from AP to Agi to get decent results as well as take 10 minutes to set up my action bars and notifiers for SV. I didn't really want to respec, but since it was an officer asking I would do it to help guild progression. He wasn't willing to wait 10 minutes, though, and followed up with an unneccessary spiel about how I was bad DPS and didn't know my class if I couldn't respec in the blink of an eye. Note here--I was second out of 5-6 hunters, and even there it was very close and mainly just gear differences because I'd started raiding late due to living with my inlaws for a few months. Not bad DPS by any means, and he knew it, he was just being an ass.

It was a good thing I didn't respec for him, though, because that guild run of EoE he needed me for? Wasn't a guild run, it was a pug led by a DK we'd gkicked for poor attendence, specifically pugging runs with other guilds during our scheduled raids and refusing to drop group so he could join the guild run. @#%^. Of course I brought this up to the only other officer online, pointing out that I felt as if officer #1 had been trying to trick me into respecing for a pug and abusing his position as an officer--I was told to shut up and grow a thicker skin and what the first guy did and said was totally appropriate.

So yeah, I left.

I've always gotten along with the couple that runs the guild, though, and since officer 1 is not even core raider rank anymore and officer 2 left long ago to follow the loot, I'm willing to give them another try.

I'm a bit out of practice, so I'll leave the WWS for someone else. It looks like you're not making any stupid mistakes like using Arcane Shot though, which is good.

Spec looks fine to me.

You're missing a ton of gems and enchants, which could really help you out. Get an enchant on that helm--if you don't have the rep or gold, at least grab one from WG, it'll give you a bit of a boost. And at least pick up a scope for that gun, it's cheap.

You're over hit cap by a fair amount, so keep an eye out for hit rating free drops since you don't appear to have any hit gems to replace. Switching from leather to mail will help with this, and also give you a larger mana pool (less time spent in viper).

Pet spec is bad. Drop Heart of the Phoenix and Lick Your Wounds, pull one point out of Bloodthirsty. Fill up Avoidance, get Rabid, and put a point into Wild Hunt.

You're missing 8 enchants, 4 gems and you have a slack enchant on your cloak.
Get a wolf and spec it with rabid and wild hunt.
You are wearing craptons of leather gear, in WotLK leather gear is pretty much never better than equal ilevel mail gear.

Edit: the only thing I see really wrong about your WWS is that you have really low % on steady damage.
It's hard to judge from heroic fights but I'm guessing you are wasting time and not shooting enough.

Edited, Sep 27th 2009 10:24pm by Aethien

I have a question on mobs blocking attacks. I have recently read that physical ranged attacks can be blocked. I've also read that bosses can't block attacks made from behind them. Is this also true for physical ranged attacks?

I've always just stood with the casters who often sit right in front of the mob. Have I been gimping myself all this time?

Thanks for the info Aethien.

It's funny you mentioned prot paladins because that's what triggered my question. I was having a conversation with one about how expertise is a poor hunter stat. We were talking about avoidance/mitigation and ranged attacks and he mentioned that he noticed how much "blocked" came up on his screen while dueling hunters. It lead me to wonder if it was a big issue in PvE that I had never thought of before.

How do I link to femaledwarf or any linkable spreadsheet?

Trying to help a guild hunter, want to link the site with him loaded plus some changes.

Also if I want for him to have True Shot where is the best spot to take a point from?

edit: Never mind I found it on the site. In the load setting option menu they have a link button next to the delete one.

Edited, Nov 21st 2009 11:57pm by Horsemouth

That sucks, aura should be top since you get personal benefit from using it.

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I was going to ask a macro question here last night but I got it working... in case anyone else has been trying to figure out something similar, here it is:



Sets your friendly target as your focus, otherwise sets your pet as your focus.

Yes it took me an hour to finally figure out how to specify a friendly target. >.<

Edited, Nov 23rd 2009 2:50pm by isyris

Then he probably fails at SV rotation

Just a quickie - where does the Hand-mounted Pyro-rocket go in the priority list for SV (and maybe for BM&MM, too, if the place differs)?

/facepalm
next time I'll check ingame first beforre asking...
thanks

http://femaledwarf.com says that the best combo is mjolnir/mirror, ditching the banner... generally, the femaledwarf answers 99% of complicated gear questions :)