Confused on MM, SV or BMFollow

Given the recent nerfs to SV and bufss to BM, how are they comparing in raid or dungeon environments?

Also, for al of you BM Hunters out there, I've read up on the shot priority for BM and have one main question.

If you have Serpent Sting up on the target, you're Kill Command is on CD but will come off soon, and you have enough focus to shoot an Arcane Shot...What should you do? Fire the Arcane shot then fire Cobra Shot to get enough Focus to use KC, wait for KC to come off CD then use that, or Cobra Shot to fill time and then KC when it's off CD?

Thanks for the info Æthien.

Been playing my Resto Druid as my main for quite a while and have come back to my Hunter, and want to make sure I get my **** straight before I really get into serious content.

Same question as my previous post though; Have there been any comparisons, or does anyone have any experience with the differences between the three specs, but BM and SV specifically, since the buffs and nerfs?

I don't know about the difference, check EJ for that or FemaleDwarf if that has a 4.0.6 version already.

Under the right circumstances, you probably can pull off 10k dps with 0/0/0 spec.


Lolol, in something close to BiS with 5 minutes of ******** around with FemaleDwarf I get these numbers for 0/0/0 raidbuffed:
Combined: - 14815.35 - 100.00%
Hunter: --- 12217.70 - 82.47%
Pet: ------ 2597.65 -- 17.53%


Edited, Jan 18th 2011 12:41am by Aethien

I was doing 20k on the what 3rd boss of BRC, the one where you run him through the fire.

Agility is king, queen and god.
Go for the agile meta + all agility gems unless you can get more agility out of a socket bonus.

Agile Shadowspirit Diamond

edit: to clarify, this gem is still on the PTR as of right now.

Also, the blue quote from when these were added to the PTR.

Zarhym wrote:

The note hasn't been added yet, but we haven't forgotten. Here's what you're likely to see in the patch notes:

Meta gems with the Chaotic and Relentless prefixes now have a requirement of 3 red gems.

Added new meta gems: Agile Shadowspirit Diamond (Agility/3% critical damage), Reverberating Shadowspirit Diamond (Strength/3% critical damage), and Burning Shadowspirit Diamond (Intellect/3% critical damage). These new recipes are unbound and can drop from any Cataclysm creature. The new meta gems have a requirement of 3 red gems equipped.

Edited, Jan 18th 2011 5:42pm by Aethien

"Meta gems with the Chaotic and Relentless prefixes now have a requirement of 3 red gems."

Yeah, but I'd say that until then just go with whatever meta makes use of red gems and gem for straight up agility, it's probably the best for dps at the moment anyway.


Oh, and pray that the new agi meta won't cost you 1.5k or more.

Whats this...life in the hunter forum?

We tend to slow down a lot when things don't change much. I'm sure we'll kick back up a bit with the patch and people creating 3 threads of "What's best dps spec?" and "What's MM rotation?"

I thought I was in the rogue forum for a second there reading this thread. My bad.

Regardless. I'm just about to cruising altitude with my raid toons and am looking at possibly making hunter the next project (casual, some relaxed raiding maybe, a bit of BG pvp). So I clicked on this thread looking for insight and viewpoints regarding specs.

My question is NOT which spec is "zomg leet deeps" in a progression setting, but which spec you each prefer generally and why. From what I've read today, it appears that Marksman is a bit more complicated, Survival is bursty AoE, and Beast Master is the most straight-forward. Is that accurate? Not doing hardmodes on my next toon eliminates the need to theorycraft another toon (I hate writing sims, really) or absolutely need max throughput. But it would be nice to have some opinions to guide the respecs.

After reading the above I suppose I'm asking the hunter forum for their generalized views and opinions that can help a casual hunter player rather than the hardmode raider.

Thanks in advance.