Hunter spec

[Jayce]

Half the zerg on either side is MS'd now 

Fortunately for the Alliance, it doesn't matter because no one ever heals!   


[At least from what I remember way back playing Alliance]

[Fordel]

The alliance heals just as much as the horde does on my battle group.

[Xanthippe]

My holy priest friends won't go to the bgs anymore.  They will on their alts but not on their holy priests.  They go down way too fast.  Apparently the heals haven't scaled the way the dps has.

I wouldn't know - my priest specced holy for 2 levels and I hated it so much I wanted to delete the character.  Back to shadow and all is well.  I'm a poor healer - I really don't like the role at all.

[Chimpy]

Survival has always been the "what the fuck is this supposed to do" tree. It's literally only specced by 2% of hunters. What you do is spec Entrapment and be a giant asshole in AV with Frost Traps.


Which is where I've seen the real difference with the hunter changes. In the small scale stuff, I haven't really felt a "wow hunters are harder to deal with now", but in AV, with a dozen per side being allowed to stand off at max range, it gets pretty stupid. Half the zerg on either side is MS'd now 

Survival is a raid-wide physical DPS buffbot these days. It is entirely gear dependant, requiring as high a crit rate as possible to keep EW up at all times.

Other than that, it is meh. BM is still the best hunter DPS spec for raiding, and the most utility for 5 mans/soloing. Though I wish I was marks every time I do arena, so I might have to do that next week, heh.

[edlavallee]

I hit a ridiculous amount of crit on my gear this weekend, <snip>
I'm at 31.89% crit as a BM w/o my boots being enchanted. 

Wow, that is awesome. Mind posting your gear or armory link? If you did already, I am too lazy to search for it.

[Merusk]

You'll have to search it out, as work has finally blocked any and all xml-processing pages.  Character is Ayarae of Alleria (us).  My spec's still survival, though, as I was busy yesterday up until I got invited as a replacement for Gruul.  Oddly enough it made me realize how much our dpsers suck, since I still hit #7.