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Except that's not at all what you said. What you said was: Followed by an insult at Hunters who are MM spec. I'll continue to disagree. If you're choosing to "risk the big crits" and if you don't "avoid aggro at all costs", you are a liability to the raid. If you're spending a lot of time during a raid trying to crit a mob off of a healer, you've got other issues than your spec to deal with.Of course not. If I'm not assigned a CC role in a pull I'll drop a Freezing Trap in front of a healer at the start of the pull, and if a mob goes to beat on a healer I will run over to lay another Freezing Trap. I might send the Pet and Intimidate the mob. And I might throw a Misdirection on the Tank and then shoot the mob exactly three times. Crits or no, this should move the tank back up to the top of the aggro list.

But no, I wouldn't try to get the mob off of a healer by shooting it to pull the aggro to myself, and then hope that Improved Wing clip and Surefooted will let me survive until the Tank can pull it off of me. Hunters have far better options than that, and a DPS job to do that can't be accomplished while running from a mob.

Nibbrah, I was beginning to believe that you merely mis-spoke when you spoke of pulling the mobs onto you. You did after all mention Misdirection. But after you last post I'll just conclude that you just have no idea how to conduct a coherent argument. You're more Scatter Shot than the MM Hunters you insult.

Sure. Not often in BC, but a few mobs I could not solo with a "burn down" method. Never in an Instance in BC. But what's your point? If I needed to kite a mob I'd be getting aggro on it at the start of a fight, and it would be trivial. I wouldn't be assigned to kite a mob that just so happened to be beating on a Healer, for example. So your question is irrelevant.
This may seem startling to you.... But if I'm CCing, then I'm CCing. I won't have a spare trap for that mob beating on the Healer, which is why I cited several other remedies. Surely you saw those?
Surely the difference between being assigned a mob to have the pet off-tank and using Intimidate to give a player Tank a few more seconds to regain aggro is not a hard concept for you to understand.

So far all of your points are very much hair-splitting, with no real substance to them.
Ok Nibs. You're right. There's never been a case where a mob got away from a Tank where the Hunter used Misdirection at the start of the fight. Ever. Sarcasm does not convey over text well. Just note that this is yet another statement of yours with no value whatsoever. Not only does it have no value, but it has nothing to do with the central point of discussion, which is that you feel that pulling aggro is fine, and I feel that a Hunter such as yourself who deliberately risks pulling aggro is a liability in a raid.
No need to apologize, I'm BM spec. I was just pointing out that insults are logical fallacies. An ad hominem attack doesn't make you right, and it doesn't make those you insult wrong.

You contradict yourself.
I'll repeat you for your benefit.You might think you're "saving" a Healer by pulling a mob off of it with your risky big crits. What's far more likely is that you pull aggro from the Tank by risking a few early crits since you seem to feel that it's boring to simply assist fire, the mob comes at you, you FD wiping your aggro, and the mob heads for the highest aggro on his list. The Tank isn't that person, since you've pulled it off of him by being willing to "risk the big crits", and that leaves the Healer.

I'd never be interested in grouping with a player who feels that risking pulling aggro from the tanks is an acceptable practice, and all your rhetoric about using those same "risky" (your words, remember) crits to save the healer don't make up for your poor group attitude.

One of the largest strengths of a Hunter in a group is our ability to apply a high amount of safe DPS. Emphasis on safe. No serious group wants a member who is willing to risk pulling aggro from the Tanks. That's just an invitation to wipe after wipe. A Hunter who feels it's ok to "risk the big crits" is just contributing to the "Huntard" mindset. Enjoy.

I've corrected your self-contradiction. And the rest of your points pretty much make no sense at all, making continuing this conversation counterproductive. You may have the last word if you like.

A while back, (before the BC expansion) I went from a BM spec to a SV spec and liked it but I felt a few of the talent points could have been better spent..I took a break just before the launch and recently came back.. I've re-spec'ed to a MM (3.41.17) build but have been thinking about changing that to something like this

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=mZVVbRqzhhZchhGxc0hV0h

(I've tried wyvern sting before and didn't find it hat useful myself.. the only works out of combat component greatly limited it's usefulness imo)

Morrage, the peasant hunter.
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/?#character-sheet.xml?r=Eldre%27Thalas&n=Morrage