Survival Huntering...
- Vicario
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Survival Huntering...
Any Survival experts around to offer assistance?
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To be fairly honest with you, I just grabbed one of the guys from the most successful PvE-guild on my realm, asked him who was the no. 1 hunter in their guild, then looked him up in the armory.
To be fairly honest, I was lucky that he is not only a good hunter player but a nice guy as well, so when I asked him about his specc and his way of playing, he took some time to explain it to me.
To be fairly honest, I didn't understand all of it but, as it seems, enough that I can play my role in a group or raid, except for 2 things:
a) I always drop dead when Heigan asks us to come out and dance
b) I never got the hang of kiting
It's a pretty good way to get a first toss in the right direction and, when you want to take further steps, it's a good base from where to jump headfirst into the matter of max DPSing.
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I'd be using it for PVE, nothing beyond 5-man yet.Kalliope wrote:Your spec also depends on what you're using it for (PvE raiding, PvE soloing, PvP battlegrounds, PvP arenas, etc.)
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Common problems I see with survival specs:
1) 3/3 expose weakness - With the high crit in survival, 2/3 EW is pretty much 100% uptime.
2) No points in Noxious Stings - It's a confusing worded talent, but when you have serpent sting on your talent, you do 3% more damage with ALL attacks. I must have.
3) Trap Mastery - People read the trap part of this talent and may miss the part on increasing black arrow's damage. Another must have.
4) Resourcefulness - I've seen people skip this talent or not fill it out completely. A reduced cooldown on your black arrow = more uptime on black arrow = more lock and load procs.
5) 2/2 Go for the Throat - Like with EW, with high crit only one point is needed.
6) Hunting Party - One of our less dps increasing talents. It's ok to take points out of this if you don't need the mana regen. The talent spec I linked only has two points in it.
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Since the original question of the thread's already been answered, I'll just hijack it slightly...Karathyriel wrote:a) I always drop dead when Heigan asks us to come out and dance
The best way to beat Heigan's dance is to just run in a straight line across the room, ignoring the room shape.
Fantastic video reference
The vid is from the 40m days, as you can tell from the guy's UI, but the dance hasn't actually changed since then. The key is to not follow anyone due to screen lag issues. That's the easiest way to get yourself killed. Everyone needs to get through it on their own.
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Unfortnately, youtube takes care of copyright issues now.Kalliope wrote:Fantastic video reference
I've watched videos so many times who told me how to do it but meh... It's always one step to far or one step to slow.Youtube wrote:This video contains property of Sony Music Entertainment. It is not available in your country.
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LAME!
Okay, that's an outdated pic from the 40m days, but the blue line is close enough. Just ignore everything else and look at that. You CAN go from 1 to 4 in a straight line and be fine. ^_^
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Blizz changed that talent a while ago to make it appealing to all survival hunter specs. ^_^Suicune wrote:Spec actually depends on the raid difficulty as well, it varies between 10 man raids and 25 mans, one having mana regen, the other none.
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