Sometime early in s6, hunters looked at the talent hunter vs. wild and thought to themselves, what if I gemmed and enchanted completely for stamina? The desire to make a gimmicky kind of build work is understandable given how successful, in WOTLK alone, stuff like shadowfrost DKs (a phenomenon that appears to be making a comeback in the aptly named sfrost 2.0 spec), fan of knives rogues, and other specs were. These builds revolve around pressing 1 or 2 buttons and completely overwhelming the opponents with damage. Unfortunately for hunters, if there is a truly effective, gimmicky build out there, it has yet to be discovered. Today I will explain why stam-stacking isn’t worth it. The proof, I hope, is in the pudding. But first an explanation: (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘feign death’
Why stamina-stacking doesn’t work in Arenas
Posted in arena, Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged arena, deterrence, disengage, fan of knives, feign death, gimmick, HP, hunter v. wild, master's call, pvp, resil, resilience, scatter shot, silencing shot, stacking, stam, stamina, survival instincts on August 22, 2009| 2 Comments »
Tricks of the Hunter Trade!
Posted in arena, Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged abolish, arena, bladestorm, chaos bolt, charge stun, cheap shot, class strategy, conflaguration, dead zone, death grip, deterrence, disarm, distracting shot, evasion, feign death, flare, freezing arrow, gargoyle, gladius, hammer of wrath, heroic throw, immolate, intercept, intervene, judgement, kidney shot, mirror image, overpower, polymorph, pvp, scare beast, scatter shot, shadowfiend, silencing shot, tranquilizing shot, tricks, vanish, viper sting, water elemental, wrath of the forsaken, wyvern sting on August 6, 2009| 13 Comments »
This post will feature useful tips for hunters versus each class. The tips are meant to be general, and you should look for ways to apply them in any setting you can. Playing your class to its fullest is one of the few remaining ways to enjoy WoW, since the advent of the Death Knight ;) (more…)
Ignis trash and kiting magma ragers!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged aspect of the pack, feign death, fire blast, flame herpes, ignis, kite, kiting, magma rager, sacrificial hunter, trash, unquenchable flames, whirlwind on June 5, 2009| 4 Comments »
An update and a couple of tips today on Ignis’s trash. First off, flame herpes has been taken out of the game. You no longer have to heal through a jumping dot while trying to clear the trash on the way to the pools. Also, they took out a few groups. The trash now have a very low chance of wiping your group, and takes only a few minutes.
Those magma ragers come in pairs, as always, and spawn fire whirlwinds that grab you and deal damage while trying to fling you to your death. They move slow and are easy enough to avoid, but one tactic that’s worked well for our group is kiting one of them out of harms way while the second one is dealt with. (more…)
How to save a healer!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agro, agro threshold, aoe tanking, arms warriors, disengage, distracting shot, fade, feign death, focus, healers, macro, misdirect, misdirection, misdirection macro, pve, raiding, recount, recount addon, saving healers, tank, tanking, threat, threat generation on June 4, 2009| 10 Comments »
We’ve all been there- you’re doing a fight with multiple tanking targets, and possibly multiple tanks. Healers can generate a lot of agro. Some of them don’t have clutch agro reducing abilities. Sometimes they get something pounding on them, and like all of the weaker classes, get mulched in short order. Today I’m going to write about something that will make my guild healers prioritize me next raid: how to save a healer, and how to avoid siccing mobs on them. (more…)
Hunting Razorscale!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.1, adds, air phase, dark iron guardian, dark iron sentinal, dark iron watcher, devouring flames, disengage, dps, feign death, fuse armor, ground phase, harpoon, heroism, patch 3.1, pve, quick shave, quick shave achievement, raid, raiding, razorscale, razorscale air phase, razorscale ground phase, ulduar, wing buffet on May 8, 2009| 5 Comments »
Continuing my series on Ulduar encounters from a hunter’s perspective, Razorscale. Much nerfed recently, the Razorscale encounter is still lots of fun, and a challenge if you’re undergeared. My guild got her to 2% health when we inadvertently 9 manned her (forgot to summon someone), and the tank had forgotten to take off some non-tanking gear he had worn for the iLvl to vehicle health mechanic in the flame leviathan encounter. When we got the tank defense capped again and summoned the 10th person, we got the quick shave achievement without even trying. There’s no trash on the way in. Starting the event involves simply talking to an NPC. (more…)
Sniper Training vs Trap Dancing!
Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agro, auto-shot, boss trapping, build, dps, explosive shot, feign death, frost trap, global cooldown, hateful strike, lock and load, patch 3.1, patchwerk, pve, raid buffs, raiding, resourcefulness, sniper training, spec, steady shot, trap dancing, trapping on March 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
There are two perfectly functional hunter builds that you can use to magnify the effects of your explosive shots. One uses sniper training, the other uses resourcefulness to increase your lock and load procs (remember, these builds are baselines- spend the remainder of your points as you see fit). Both are viable and used by many hunters. Which you take will be based on your own style, but neither will last past the next patch.
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