HAHAEdrawr wrote:Wow Gigglemonsta, heck of a post there, and very informative! I am pleased to see that I am doing everything more or less exactly as you laid out there. I use my short-CD skills on trash pulls, big nukey time on boss fights. My rotation is slightly different, but I'm still playing with it (only level 73 right now). It's so refreshing to meet someone else that plays as and succeeds in BM. I think I have at least a basic understanding of the spec, in that it's more cooldown-focused than the others (though I've never ever been survival or MM so I can't say that with certainty). I just need to get my skills into macro form so I don't spend precious seconds manually pushing all the buttons. I probably should get Rabid off of auto-cast, too. I figured it's only 30 seconds, so auto-cast wasn't bad, but if it's on cooldown when the other big nukes are up, that's wasted damage.
For the nuke macro, what is /use 13 and /use 14? Are those bag slots or action bar spaces? Just want to make sure.
I LOVE BEAST MASTERY! :B
I may have to make a post with all me macros on too! I literally have about 20 for BM lol./use 13 and /use 14 are the two trinket slots. So that macro actives any "on use" trinkets
Rabid on autocast is fine, as you said its only 30 seconds, so not a huge difference. You can macro it in so that it will go off at the start of a bossfight, but I'd say leave that one on autocast
.I LOVE BM TOO! The only reason I'm BM on this hunter, as I tried the other specs and didn't like them. I figured, hey its my alt, I'll just stay BM, and pug the odd raid, collect some cool pets, have something different to do when not playing my priest.
Now I REALLY REALLY enjoy my hunter, and its my personal mission to prove that BM is viable in raids
While I don't deceive myself and say BM is BETTER THAN EVERYTHING (I understand Marks/Surv put more dps out on paper), I still attest that the gap between the specs is not as much as most people have been led to believe.Ill hunt around for a screeny I took last nite (eek had a few drinks), but I remember doing a VoA, coming second or third on DPS (I think doing about 6.3k on a boss, WITH swapping to adds while the melee ahead of me didnt).
I had the Marks hunter in better gear actually whisper me after the fight. What did he say u ask? Was it "OMG UR BM LOL U NOOB" or "COOL PET WHERE U GET IT"? No it was a simple....."HOW?!!!!!!!". I laughed so hard, told him that BM isn't all bad and he was shocked.
btw Marks hunters - TY for your Aura. Me and my pet benefit GREATLY from it
