Hunter Halp

[maijay]

I love my hunter. love her love her love her. little panda named Maijay on Moon Guard US, and she's adorable, and has foxy and catty pets, and dominates in PvP, and is just all around everything FUN!

BUT

since I've ding'd level 40 I am dead last on all the charts...something I'm not used to as I was FIRST FIRST FIRST up until now. I know it's my

Comments

[najata]

You might want to think about changing the title of your post.

[maijay]

I did. I wanted to be cute and funny and play off of the whole "huntard" stereotype or whatever, but if it offended you I'm sorry, that was totally not my intention. <3

[catalana]

I have arcane glyphed so that HM goes up when I use arcane shot, so I don't have to worry about that. Generally, though, your rotation looks good. Don't waste BW unless you have most of your focus, since you want to use it on arcane and kill commands, not on SS. Focus fire you can pop when it procs to 5 stacks; I wouldn't worry about it other than that. If you're using MS on multiple mobs, make sure you have an explosive trap down too to do AoE damage. whether I single-target or AoE depends on the mobs and whether there is something that really needs to go down fast. I'm Riya on The Scryers if you want to take a look at my armory/spec/etc.; I'd be happy to chat with you more about it, but I have to get to class. (Sadly, while students can be late, the prof really shouldn't be. ;)

[maijay]

I didn't know about putting an explosive trap down for AoE damage, so thanks a lot. Hopefully that will increase my damage on Multi-Mobs. I have pretty good dps on a single target boss, but I've been running scholo lately and there are 3+ mobs each pull.

[maijay]

thanks, I will get this. I've been experimenting more with Add-ons lately and with each one I add I think "How did I live without this?!"

[maijay]

Thank you so much for recommending this add-on. It has helped a ton!!!!

[dotty]

*Reads replies*, I've never really gotten a hang of my BM hunter either. My main is Survival and I adore that, I recently tried MM and found it pretty amusing (one-shotting things, literally, with Aimed Shot!) but BM just doesn't work for me. I feel like I'm missing something, cause it seems to be a very popular spec and that can't all be for the exotic pets, can it? I must be missing something really obvious.

[thatmadgirl]

I've played all three specs at some point, and I found BM the easiest for soloing, but it doesn't do damage as quickly, and was definitely below the other two in dungeons. My damage went way up when I switched to MM and then up again when I switched to Survival.

[dotty]

I've recently come to the conclusion that, while I like and can manage other classes okay, I'm a hunter4life. I just love hanging back and shooting things while my pet bites them in the face! I want a hunter of every spec and preferably ever race too, eventually. But that'll be hard if I don't get the hang of BM, I find it so weird and unflowing somehow? And it's supposed to be the best spec now, but I just feel like it takes ages to kill mobs. Maybe it'll get better once I get higher level gear, I did have purples on my main that held up for halfway through Pandaria.

[penguinsane]

You know how to play during Bestial Wrath, right? Pop it at high focus, then just Kill Command/Arcane Shot spam, never touch Steady Shot while in BW.

It'll get better with better gear. I'm not quite sure what level hunters get the passive Beast Cleave for BM, but yes, you should be using Mutlishot every time you have 3+ mobs.

[maijay]

I had no idea about not using steady shot in BW, so thanks! and I'll get in the multishot habit now.