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Small update.

I just finished uploading a video on MM DPS, talents and abilities. I surely hope it's helpful.

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Enjoy!

Monck.

Troll, mon!

A week ago yours truly faction changed.

Toughts on Trolls:
Like:
-Look
-Godlike Racials (Beast Slaying <3)
-Machine Gun effect if RF+Beserking+Bloodlust are popped.

Dislike:
-Attracts Black orbs ><

Anyway, my gear has improved with three (!) pieces of 258 gear in a week time. If I add the Crafted chest in there +3* 34Arp gems, I'm at the softcap again. Hurray, hurray!

Best Upgrade: honestly 258 crossbow owns! 240 weapon DPS, win, win, win, win!

Now Gearpath:
Crusader's Dragonscale Breastplate
TWO HANDER FFS. I want to get rid of Marrowstrike.
A cloack would be nice, I prolly got the hit to make up for the loss.
Then filling up the caps: neck, hands, HC Death's Verdict to finish probably.

Note: I'm already ICC ready, but hey, going in ICC with Marrowstrike and Gloves of the Dark Exile, meh.

So yeah, Azlannagh, I mean Monck out.

Runestone.

I got it /cheer.

Took me another week to determine what was the best path to get the remainder of Arp gear from.

I changed Jounrney's End out for Marrowstrike (<3 colli 5 loot).
Changed out Gloves of the Fiery Behemoth for Gloves of Dark Exile.
I got myself Belt of Dragons and an extra point in FA.
And finally Dextrous Brighstone Ring.

I was doubting either to get the T9 Conquest leggings (loose the 4pcs bonus and get Iron Studded Mantle back in) but that turned out to be a DPS loss vs the ring and keeping the bonus.

Now I need to swap out 2 more gems and then I'm at 566 passive Arp. 577 is needed to hit the cap with the runestone proc. Pretty nice huh?

Now I'll just have to wait how it performs in a raid. I really can't wait tbh.

Az.

T8 4 pieces setbonus

I finally got it!

Took me a while with the holiday and all.

But what nice about it: I can now drop Arcane Shot from my rotation. That allows me to use it when I'm on the move. Which is pretty cool.

So my rotation looks like this: (SrS) CHS - AS - SS x4 rinse and repeat.

Working great for me so far.

3.2 Tommorow

Yup, MMO has confirmed it.

And your truly doesn't like it.

I guess I'll have to put up with it.

Az.

Aaaaaaah!

Glyph of TSA does what he has to do, that's making my Aimed Shot hit like a freight train and my new UI feels like it's an extent of myself.

Wonderful, when I DPS I feel - yeah, this sounds freaky - connected with everything going on and I have no problems whatsoever finding the info I need.

With the recent chnage in keybinds (Aspect Change on Middle mouse button, Pet management on ²-button). I solved two problem that kept haunting me: 1. Pet deaths 2. Forgetting what aspect I was in.

Also, if I'm to believe ma sheetz, ArP's value is buidling up in my gear.
Here's how it scales:

Stat - Armor Penetration

You need approximately 12.39 armor pen rating to reduce 1% of the targets armor. In actuality, it reduces a percentage of a theoretical armor pen cap which is normally slightly less then the targets actual effective armor. You would need 1239 armor pen rating to achieve 100% armor pen, but the current mechanics leave this at 2% mitigation from armor. Apparently it is possible to continue this and reduce boss armor below 0, doing more than unmitigated damage. For more information on armor pen see discussion here, mostly around page 18.

Graphical.

It's indeed a parabole, the more you get, the more it's worth, and I'm only started nibbling at the bottom.

Now here's my UI.

Clicky!

That was about it.

Az aka Lion.

Glyph of TSA pt. 2

Taken from my post at EJ's.

WoWMeterOnline

The macro works as you can see. (I Fired a AiS at 20:41:59.859, prolly started spamming the button half a second earlier... Like shown here

The macro used was:

#showtooltip aimed shot
#show aimed shot
/cast [target=pettarget,exists] kill command
/cancelaura Abominable Might
/cancelaura Unleashed Rage
/cast aimed shot
/cast silencing shot

(Unfortunately no Enh Shammy in the raid.)

The intersting thing is that I didn't get my own TSA (despite recasting it after I got rebirthed) but my friends one.
I didn't fire enough AiS that raid to provide real solid data (Vezax and onwards is in SV), but I think the glyph works, given the fact you regain your own TSA and not you neighbour's.
It was by coincidence I discovered this because normally the other MM hunter wouldn't have had TSA.

I hope the data is somewhat useful.

Glyph of Trueshot Aura

Interesting tought I'm working on atm: Glyph of trueshot Aura.

Looks better then Glyph of Chimera Shot but there's a catch: Abominable Strenght and Unleashed Rage.

To counter that (aka TSA getting overwritten) I'm currently using a Macro to remove those buffs.

I'll need a log however to check on it. So no 'real' data untill monday.

Working in pairs to buff hunter's (1 TSA and 1 IHM) is something that I'm testing from now on aswell.

Az. aka Lion

ISS - Glyph of Chimera Shot liasons.

Remember what I said about Glyph of chimera Shot freeing the rotation up?

Well that has a far greater impact then I tought.

Recently MM has bccome top DPS, now 7/57/7 is the build to go, but when you alreadyhave those in your raid you can drop IHM and/or TSA. Quite logically you put the freed up points in ISS and Improved Barrage.

But what happends? Aimed and Arcane shots eat away all the precious procs. So By dropping Glyph of chimera Shot things get in order again and a steady CS - AiS - AS - SS*3 takes his rightfull place again.

I'm going to test this all out once we get past Vezax, a fight at which SV reigns supreme.

MM Headache

With the addition of the viability of IHM, Improved Steady Shot is no longer worth the hassle.

With the Glyphs of CHs and Ais the whole rotation effectively dropped 1s.

I'm still wondering wether or not I should keep this fixed rotation...

Or should I just spam CD's, like SV?

Stuff to think about I reckon.

EDIT: Decided to drop AS Glyph, it was giving my rotation too much of a headache.

The church of Macrology!

Hmmm, this is becoming a flurry of posts.

While trolling the net yesterday, I discovered macro's to never let a single KC (or silencing shot) be longer of cooldown then 1.5s.

The trick:

#showtooltip skillname
This shows the correct tooltip
#show skillname
This shows the correct icon (don't have to set it yourself)
/cast [target=pettarget, exists]
Casts Kill Command, if your pet has a target
/cast skillname
Casts the skill
/cast Silencing Shot
Casts Silencing shot.


And now for all you who get their (and their comrades) arses freezed on Hodir:

#showtooltip Master's call
#show Master's Call
/cast [target=mouseover, exists][Target=player] Master's Call

This macro let's you safe your teammates on Mouseover, or yourself when you mouseover yourself or nothing.

And then the nuke macro: (I kinda failed here before, putting Call of the Wild on autocast, that was damn well stupid.)

#showtooltip rapid fire
#show rapid fire
/use 13                               Allows you to use useable trinkets
/use 14                               Second trinket slot
/cast Bestial Wrath
/cast rapid fire
/cast call of the wild


Voila these were the revelations of yesterday.
Hope you liked em!

Az.

Ignis 25 Echoes of Lordaeron

I made this little video, while doing Ignis, the quality should ensure that your are able to see which spells are being cast.

Ignis Vid

Enjoy!
Az.

Marksman PewPew

Allright then.

Spec.

Spec: 7/57/7 is the most common Cookiecutter.

Now in 3.1.3 there will be an insteresting change 300AP Hunter's mark will become 500AP. Yadda, Yadda.

Big deal you think. But no. The talent (maybe the glyph aswell) may actually be worthwile now. Atleast I think it's a good idea to have 1 hunter rolling with it in the raid.

For MM it will be a no-brainer, but it will steal points from Improved Barrage/Steady Shot depending on the build.

So u'll get: 7/55/7 +2 to spend as you wish. (You can drop the mana regen on RF)

I'm not too big a fan of ISS, so screw that talent.

Stats.

Crit: Very viable for MM hunters. Our crits hit verty hard, so the more the better.
AP: Scales nicely with talents. Not as important for MM as for Bm tho.

Agi: The best thing to gem for. Combines Ap and Crit (and you'll be able to use the same gear for SV)

Haste: Has limited use for MM. With IAotH your SS will be close to the GCD anyhow.
Hit: Du-uh.
Arpen: Nice not mandatory tho. Does not benefit all shots tho (Arcane, Nature part of Chimera shot)

When in doubt Spreadsheet it (tm)

Rotation. (Fixed)

Preparation
Hunter's Mark
Serpent

In-fight
(Kill Shot)
Chimera (first to catch ISS procs if talented)
Aimed
Arcane
SS*3 (*2 of not <1.5s cast)
(SS = Macro with KC, SS and Silencing shot in it.)

Nuke
Rapid Fire
Wait 15s
Readiness
Rapid Fire

This was a quick MM 101. I hope it was usefull.

Az.

MM

In a while I'll have a new post here concerning MM builds and a quick MM 101.

Lion

Set bonusses

Looks like blizz wants to redeem Steady Shot...

Thats one HELL of a set-bonus :o

Lion

Again, not much news...

Other then some PvP changes to TNT talent not much has happend on the PTR that directly affects hunters. According to MMO-Champion.

But for extra text's sake, here they are:

* Entrapment redesigned: When your Frost Trap, Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Snake Trap are triggered, you entrap all afflicted targets, preventing them from moving for 2/4/6 seconds.
* T.N.T.: Gives your Explosive Shot a 33/66/100% chance to refresh the duration of your Immolation Trap effect on the target.
* Trap Mastery: This talent has been moved up to tier-2, up from tier-9, and is now a 3-point talent.
* Trap Mastery, Resourcefulness and T.N.T. now all affect Black Arrow.

The black arrow thing we already knew, right.

This will be my spec if the PTR goes live. All of that is probably subject to change.

Also there aint much to write on the loot of the PTR since the stats are placeholders and there are on SS's of the final design. They look pretty cool tho.

Further, I'm working on a post a bout the great tool Rawr.

Lion

PS: The talents of MMO-champion aren't updated yet, don't ask why...

SV Breakdown

Since Blizz has decided to close my account cuz I slack in paying (XD), I got some extra time on my hands to make a quick post about how your damage breakdown on single target encounters should be.

Explosive Shot: 30-35% of total damage.
Auto Shot: 22-26%
Steady Shot: 12-15%
Pet: Swing: 7-11%
Pet: Claw: 6-8%

Another nice trick to see if you, or any hunter in the raid, is keeping Serpent up: check your WWS analysis, divide the total time of the encounter (in seconds) by three and compare the number you get with the number of ticks on serpent sting.

A patchwerk fight is brilliant to analyse these breakdowns.

Lion

Source

Strikingly good news from the PTR!

Aspect of the Pack now affects the whole raid, range extended to 40 yards.

Whee! No more Switching in parties. I've to do it alot in raids without a lock.

T.N.T. now affects Black Arrow
Trap Mastery now affects Black Arrow.

This got to be the best news I heard since I knew BA even existed... With points to spend in trap mastery it's no longer required to spend points in a less useful talent, Hawk Eye. Instead spec imba Shadow DoT DPS. I can hardly wait to test it out when it goes live, let's hope it stays this way.

The talent calculator on MMO Champion has been updated save for the TNT talent... But since one would spec in it anyway, it doesn't matter much.

My Spec, should the PTR be live now, now looks like this.

Lion, who is excited!

No news & EE10

Been some time since last post, mainly because not much has happend.

The last PTR included zero hunter changes so I had little to write about...

My Calc's for ES are right btw, I just verifyed that with the updated MMO-Champion talent calculator.

And for shit & gigles I'll give you a screenie from yesterdays Maly10 run.



Click to enlarge and see my DPS, we downed him seconds before enrage. =)

Lion

PS: I think my next post will be on the Strange spec the Ensidia hunters currently have.

Too much spare time equals great finds!

While looking at my character at WoW-Heroes, I discovered that Echoes of Lordaeron is the only guild that has more than 2 hunters in the top 125 of best geared players of the server.

Gratz to us! Let's keep up the good work.

Lion