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I can't see how +1 agil would be better than +5 str to wrists although it's largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. For weapons though, dismantle is without a question better than +dmg and shadow oil is better than sharpening stones for off hand.
dismantle > Striking (hes talking to the average player not everyone is raider and dismantle doesnt help in pvp lol) and yes 5Str > 1agi on wrists for sure. Shadow oil > Sharpening stones i totally agree as well. GG
I am so sick and tired of BM being the only spec that ends up being the best each phase. I refuse to play such a boring spec. Blizzard needs to buff loan wolf again, or take it off the same slot as lion.
Moving lion to baseline would be a great change. IIt is just too powerful not to have and usually the raid needs it so you don't ge tmuch of a choice. I'm thinking some rebalancing to pets might be fun too. Like some CDR for thunderstomp on gorillas could be fun
I agree. We only have one viable spec now. Even when others parse higher, have more survivability, cc, etc, they still whine about hunters being op as we get nerfed every patch.
I actually like BM, the problem is the "cat is the only playable pet and is ok" mindset. Not, it is not okay. Why go to the work of making so many tamable pets, but put insane damage and two good abilities in one pet? I wish Blizzard would do their homework and actually buff the other pets to make them situationally better, like Gorilla. Seeing 50 shades of cat is just boring.
Few Extra Tips: You can also instead of Solid Sharpening Stones, add your Weapons with Frost Oil or Shadow Oil, also to stack up Damage Dragonbreath Chili, but any Fooding afterwards overwrites, if u eat Chili after stamina, its a Stackable Buff. - Frost or Shadow Oil on Weapons - First Stamina Food then Dragonbreath Chili As Engineer, get yo Bombs, if your not an Engineer, theres still bombs to buy, "EZ-Thro DYNOMITES" Write your Macros Gud Damnit, any good parser is buffed with Macros, for example One Button Raid Start CDs, with Head Slot (Hands too) Berserk and Bestial Wrath. Important Raid Comp.: If you have a Shaman Enhancer (tanko or dps) Stormstrike debuff plus Dreamstate Increases Nature dmg Taken INSANNEEE!! So i recommend Wind Serpent > Cat if Composition gives you the Opportunity.
@@Zelulu1214 sure and ofc i have the aspect on, but the talent only gives 1% chance per rank to increase your ranged attack speed by 30% .. if it increased your ranged attack power sure, but that aint the case
It's a wash either way because you only have 2 choices. I would say both of the first choices on the top of the tree don't effect your melee damage at all, so if you want go with the pet health. I think people just choose imp hawk for when they're out in the world doing quests or world pvp or whatever.
@@maximecaron1969 Yeah but imp hawk is just as useless in a raid environment. Regardless I'd pick it over more health because it's more useful when doing open world stuff
Ok I am going to be that guy. If you are completly new to being a hunter and just hit 40 theres nothing wrong with following the advice presented here. However... Read at your own peril. On the topic of pet: On high armor targets (That is everything over 2.8k armor PRE reduction. So all the mechanical bosses (3 to 6) in Gnomer) a wind serpent outperforms a cat. If shaman/druid nature dmg taken debuff and the new Mekkatorque fist debuff is on the target the WS is better than a cat on every target. no matter the armor value. If you decide to get a ws, tame one that does NOT have a mana bar. Your pet (cat) should have Rank 6 Claw, Rank 6 bite. Dash and Prowl are optional and you need to weight their training point costs against getting the stam, armor and resistances. For Gnomer pick Fire and Nature highest rank and Frost for the remaining points. For PvP pick Shadow, Nature and Frost as the resistances. On the topic of enchants: Yes, our pet scales with our ranged ap, but 5 strength on wrists is going to outperform 1 Agi. You also want +3 agility on your cloak. On weapons you want Striking for PvP, for Gnomer you now want the new Dismantle. It obviously doesnt work on Boss 1-2 and is utterly useless everywhere else, but is still outperform Striking in Gnomer as a whole. Also ff you do more than just patchwork fights consider the movement speed enchant over the 3 agi on boots even if it is on paper a dps loss it feels so much nicer. On the topic of rotation: You want to prioritize FS as long as you are not at 3 stacks. When you reach 3 stacks the most important thing is to not let those stacks fall off. If stacks are about to drop you prioritize FS, if stacks are going to last a while and both RS and FS are up, you prioritize RS'ing. Line up your major cooldowns and stack them if possible (on use items and BW). On the topic of consumables: Dont forget your str consumables. On your offhand you want to use Shadow Oil. It gives more dmg than the sharpening stone, partially because it doesnt suffer the offhand dmg reducition (not sure how the math looks for the mainhand when you have no wf). If you have spare cash, get Sagefish Delight for mana regen (eat this first) and Dragonbreath Chili (eat this LAST. Dont drink after.). Theres more crazy expensive mumbo jumbo you CAN do, but really shouldnt.
Hi mate, thanks for the guide generally good input, just a few missing pieces here and there. 1. I would enchant dismantle on both weapons, with the buff it simply sims at +15 dps over the weapon damage 2. For the consumables, note people can also get the strength potion + the giant potion + the dragonbreath chili + solid dynamite + shadow bolt oil > sharpening stone and you will ALWAYS want to apply that to your offhand as wild strikes procs on your main hand 3. as it was asked, slow weapons with high weapon damage are still bis, e.g. epic fist or blue fist and you want to equip the one with higher damage in ur mh. A good change is that you now can run 2 random weapons together, e.g. fist + sword w/o the penalty. 4. regarding cat, I read a few threads that claimed that WS was BiS now as it deals a good chunk of magic dps, ignoring the high armor of the gnome bosses - can anyone confirm this?
Hunter discord says Wind serpents are better on bosses with high armor or every boss if you have a boomie and CoE Also says Raptor's strike is prio over flanking no matter the stacks
Hey just found your channel, great stuff. A question how about the weapons ? We still prioritize slow weapons ? Do we still aim for the 2 fist weapons of gnome ?
No problem at all, thank you for watching! Health is going to help you with the aoe spell damage abilities that you are going to run into. Like the poison cloud and such. I haven't run into physical damage that is killing my pet
Everything you can learn him from stamina plus Armor. Nature Res plus Fire. If you use Cat, make sure to have the least Level of Claw and Bite. If playing Wind Serpent, only Lightning is needed because its dealing ALOT dmg in the right Raid comp.
No worries, you can right click on the pet abilities on teh pet bar and they will auto cast when the pet has focus to do them. You will know it is auto cast when you see the white dotted box appear just inside the frame of the ability
@@GladiusGamingGG u didnt even answer his question lol. Anyways, have bite off and keep claw on. That will give u the most damage. and with Beast Mastery giving focus back, u wont be just dumping it leaving your pet with no focus. I would only key bind growl as our crits will take aggro off your pet and especially if u take on multiple mobs.
@@ericpadilla2454 good call, thanks for following up. To add to what you said, if you are running the focus fire rune, then you want to turn bite off. If the meta shifts and you aren't running focus fire or if you are doing a melee build, don't turn bite off
I'd think so. The minimal times you'll be forced to use ranged, such as last boss on bombs, doesn't make that talent worth it. Unfortauntely, there's no _great_ options for some point allocations, but pretty much every class experiences that.
Try to wowsims yourself, i checked in many playstyles, it will do less dmg, but have at least 4% hit (Best 8% obv.), everything below is a constant dps loss.
@@DataCollaborate no need to wow sim. I found out, it works well for mobs up to 42. 43 and above. You barely see any crit gose out, I think it’s because of target defense level, and bosses normally 43+. Not worths the 7 tp
@GladiusGamingGG - Question I am doing exactly what you did, but I am sticking with raptors, not cats (I just like dinosaurs). Am I losing to much in terms of damage/utility by doing that? What raptor do you recommend?
The only difference between raptors and cats (assuming you have 2.0 speed raptor) is that cats are slightly more tanky and have access to sprint. Dash is honestly kind of big so I wouldn't go raptor.
@@Pedrosa2541 Doesn't matter which raptor you get, none of them can learn dash (sprint). Their damage while in combat will be the same as a cat but they won't have sprint and they have a slightly lower defensive multiplier.
Thank you gothemcloud! I'm pretty sure it doesn't because mark gives ranged AP added to the attack of anyone doing ranged attacks against the target. The added ranged AP only applies to the ranged attack and doesn't increase the spreadsheet stat so it wouldn't scale the pet's damage from my understanding. I could be wrong though. Thank you for watching!
@sGamingGG You mentioned in the video that it appears when Raptor Strike resets. By that do you mean when it doesn't trigger its cooldown from Melee Specialist? When that happens for me it is not popping up, likely because the condition for it to pop up is it coming off cooldown, so it won't trigger here since it was never put on cooldown to begin with. Do you know if there is a way to make it pop up when when it doesn't trigger the cooldown?
You could do that one instead. the 5 melee attack power you get from the strength might put you slightly ahead of the converted pet damage you get from the 2 ranged AP on the agility. Either way will be similar
I hate this melee hunter meta.. Most people that play hunter play cuz we're the only physical ranged DPS and if we wanted to play a melee class we would have rolled warrior or rogue. I don't get it.
Speak for yourself, I had no interest in hunter until I saw melee hunter is a thing. I do hope ranged hunters get a nerf though, you shouldn't be forced to play a spec you don't like or reroll.
Broken tooth is still great in PvP because of the pushback but not at the moment in PVE because 2.0 is outperforming 1.0 due to flanking strike. The damage difference isn't crazy so you can def still use broken tooth if you have him.
Improved hawk doesnt give you additional ranged ap (dps for your cat), just ranged attack speed (which you dont need). Nice try though@@maximecaron1969
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I can't see how +1 agil would be better than +5 str to wrists although it's largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. For weapons though, dismantle is without a question better than +dmg and shadow oil is better than sharpening stones for off hand.
dismantle > Striking (hes talking to the average player not everyone is raider and dismantle doesnt help in pvp lol) and yes 5Str > 1agi on wrists for sure. Shadow oil > Sharpening stones i totally agree as well. GG
Blizzard is starting to really
Piss me off with these nerfs , I farmed the runes , strength gear for melee and they nerf the dog piss out of it .
they always punish and laugh at the hardest working try hards :(
I am so sick and tired of BM being the only spec that ends up being the best each phase. I refuse to play such a boring spec. Blizzard needs to buff loan wolf again, or take it off the same slot as lion.
Moving lion to baseline would be a great change. IIt is just too powerful not to have and usually the raid needs it so you don't ge tmuch of a choice. I'm thinking some rebalancing to pets might be fun too. Like some CDR for thunderstomp on gorillas could be fun
I agree. We only have one viable spec now. Even when others parse higher, have more survivability, cc, etc, they still whine about hunters being op as we get nerfed every patch.
Yea, 1 viable spec.... And we ere in top 3 DMG, but now around 6-7th spot. What about warrior, Ive been one shot by them. And seen them Crit 2 k..
I actually like BM, the problem is the "cat is the only playable pet and is ok" mindset.
Not, it is not okay. Why go to the work of making so many tamable pets, but put insane damage and two good abilities in one pet?
I wish Blizzard would do their homework and actually buff the other pets to make them situationally better, like Gorilla.
Seeing 50 shades of cat is just boring.
BM plays exactly the Same as survival did, the same buttons in the exact same order. Your post is nothing but a meaningless winge.
Few Extra Tips:
You can also instead of Solid Sharpening Stones, add your Weapons with Frost Oil or Shadow Oil, also to stack up Damage Dragonbreath Chili, but any Fooding afterwards overwrites, if u eat Chili after stamina, its a Stackable Buff.
- Frost or Shadow Oil on Weapons
- First Stamina Food then Dragonbreath Chili
As Engineer, get yo Bombs, if your not an Engineer, theres still bombs to buy, "EZ-Thro DYNOMITES"
Write your Macros Gud Damnit, any good parser is buffed with Macros, for example One Button Raid Start CDs, with Head Slot (Hands too) Berserk and Bestial Wrath.
Important Raid Comp.: If you have a Shaman Enhancer (tanko or dps) Stormstrike debuff plus Dreamstate Increases Nature dmg Taken INSANNEEE!!
So i recommend Wind Serpent > Cat if Composition gives you the Opportunity.
Thanks for the tips
why are you putting 5 points into improved aspect of the hawk? the increased ranged attack speed chance on ranged hits seems very irrelevant as melee
Pet damage scale vith ranged attack power, which aspect of the hawk increase. You should have it activated at all times during combat.
@@Zelulu1214 sure and ofc i have the aspect on, but the talent only gives 1% chance per rank to increase your ranged attack speed by 30% .. if it increased your ranged attack power sure, but that aint the case
Because the other option is more hp on your pet, who cares? your pet is not even tanking. That's a bizzare comment tbh
It's a wash either way because you only have 2 choices. I would say both of the first choices on the top of the tree don't effect your melee damage at all, so if you want go with the pet health. I think people just choose imp hawk for when they're out in the world doing quests or world pvp or whatever.
@@maximecaron1969 Yeah but imp hawk is just as useless in a raid environment. Regardless I'd pick it over more health because it's more useful when doing open world stuff
Ok I am going to be that guy. If you are completly new to being a hunter and just hit 40 theres nothing wrong with following the advice presented here. However...
Read at your own peril.
On the topic of pet: On high armor targets (That is everything over 2.8k armor PRE reduction. So all the mechanical bosses (3 to 6) in Gnomer) a wind serpent outperforms a cat. If shaman/druid nature dmg taken debuff and the new Mekkatorque fist debuff is on the target the WS is better than a cat on every target. no matter the armor value. If you decide to get a ws, tame one that does NOT have a mana bar. Your pet (cat) should have Rank 6 Claw, Rank 6 bite. Dash and Prowl are optional and you need to weight their training point costs against getting the stam, armor and resistances. For Gnomer pick Fire and Nature highest rank and Frost for the remaining points. For PvP pick Shadow, Nature and Frost as the resistances.
On the topic of enchants: Yes, our pet scales with our ranged ap, but 5 strength on wrists is going to outperform 1 Agi. You also want +3 agility on your cloak. On weapons you want Striking for PvP, for Gnomer you now want the new Dismantle. It obviously doesnt work on Boss 1-2 and is utterly useless everywhere else, but is still outperform Striking in Gnomer as a whole. Also ff you do more than just patchwork fights consider the movement speed enchant over the 3 agi on boots even if it is on paper a dps loss it feels so much nicer.
On the topic of rotation: You want to prioritize FS as long as you are not at 3 stacks. When you reach 3 stacks the most important thing is to not let those stacks fall off. If stacks are about to drop you prioritize FS, if stacks are going to last a while and both RS and FS are up, you prioritize RS'ing. Line up your major cooldowns and stack them if possible (on use items and BW).
On the topic of consumables: Dont forget your str consumables. On your offhand you want to use Shadow Oil. It gives more dmg than the sharpening stone, partially because it doesnt suffer the offhand dmg reducition (not sure how the math looks for the mainhand when you have no wf). If you have spare cash, get Sagefish Delight for mana regen (eat this first) and Dragonbreath Chili (eat this LAST. Dont drink after.). Theres more crazy expensive mumbo jumbo you CAN do, but really shouldnt.
Hi mate, thanks for the guide generally good input, just a few missing pieces here and there.
1. I would enchant dismantle on both weapons, with the buff it simply sims at +15 dps over the weapon damage
2. For the consumables, note people can also get the strength potion + the giant potion + the dragonbreath chili + solid dynamite + shadow bolt oil > sharpening stone and you will ALWAYS want to apply that to your offhand as wild strikes procs on your main hand
3. as it was asked, slow weapons with high weapon damage are still bis, e.g. epic fist or blue fist and you want to equip the one with higher damage in ur mh. A good change is that you now can run 2 random weapons together, e.g. fist + sword w/o the penalty.
4. regarding cat, I read a few threads that claimed that WS was BiS now as it deals a good chunk of magic dps, ignoring the high armor of the gnome bosses - can anyone confirm this?
Hunter discord says Wind serpents are better on bosses with high armor or every boss if you have a boomie and CoE
Also says Raptor's strike is prio over flanking no matter the stacks
It’s because lowering nature resistance is easier than armor deductions
For rs over fs, it’s because 1h weapon dose less dmg on fs
Did any of the info change from your leveling video or is it still fully relevant? Also, shout out to our mutual sponsor lol
Isn’t it better to use a sharpening stone on your off hand since you still get wild strikes on your main hand
Great point on that covin6270
Sharpening stone now requires a 200 blacksmithing skill? I tried and one day it was hot fixed and I couldn't use them. I use shadow oil on offhand.
I've been using sharpening since week 1@@Isidore22
i go with shadowoil an arcane power elixier. dragon chili is also buffed with elixier
@@Isidore22 doesn't require any skill and either way shadow oil is the bis hunter off hand item, not sharp stone
Awesome as always thank you
No problem at all franksdiy, I'm glad it helped! Thank you for watching
range hunter build plz
No. They do less damage than frost mages.
Any info on why 2-3 weeks after this post now all the hunters on the top 100 page are back to using LB pets? What changed?
LB?
Thanks for this. Super helpful!
Fucking hate one button gameplay. They should make Beast Mastery Rune a instant cast spell.
Hey just found your channel, great stuff. A question how about the weapons ? We still prioritize slow weapons ? Do we still aim for the 2 fist weapons of gnome ?
hey, why you choose health over armor increase in talenttree?
thx for vid
No problem at all, thank you for watching! Health is going to help you with the aoe spell damage abilities that you are going to run into. Like the poison cloud and such. I haven't run into physical damage that is killing my pet
Do you have some info about pet talent points? :)
Everything you can learn him from stamina plus Armor. Nature Res plus Fire.
If you use Cat, make sure to have the least Level of Claw and Bite.
If playing Wind Serpent, only Lightning is needed because its dealing ALOT dmg in the right Raid comp.
Growl>Claw>Bite>prowl/dash>stam>armor>resist is my priority list.
Such an elementary question, but do you use bite and claw for your cats abilities? Should i try controlling these manually?
No worries, you can right click on the pet abilities on teh pet bar and they will auto cast when the pet has focus to do them. You will know it is auto cast when you see the white dotted box appear just inside the frame of the ability
@@GladiusGamingGG u didnt even answer his question lol. Anyways, have bite off and keep claw on. That will give u the most damage. and with Beast Mastery giving focus back, u wont be just dumping it leaving your pet with no focus. I would only key bind growl as our crits will take aggro off your pet and especially if u take on multiple mobs.
@@ericpadilla2454 good call, thanks for following up. To add to what you said, if you are running the focus fire rune, then you want to turn bite off. If the meta shifts and you aren't running focus fire or if you are doing a melee build, don't turn bite off
Can u not bait with the MASSIVE NERFS lol
Would the points in Aspect of the Hawk not be wasted points?
I'd think so. The minimal times you'll be forced to use ranged, such as last boss on bombs, doesn't make that talent worth it. Unfortauntely, there's no _great_ options for some point allocations, but pretty much every class experiences that.
Wind serpent seems to be bis according to the discord. Why don't you think it's best and is there proof? Sims show WS is better
10% and 10% is 15% tho
I do chimera shot/training/trap/expose for gnomer BM spec
Chimera is looking at a pretty decent buff next patch
u believe to know whats best... i out dps any meele hunter after patch easy with my full MM LoneWulf build
That's awesome! Can you link the build? I'd love to give it a shot
@@GladiusGamingGGyeah me too. It's major cap.
Link logs
Show us your logs
lets see the logs big guy
What about 7 into sv for the 20rs crit??
you will loose to many points in frenzy which is pretty important with a 2.0 attackspeed pet and the big pet cooldown, so it isnt worth it
Try to wowsims yourself, i checked in many playstyles, it will do less dmg, but have at least 4% hit (Best 8% obv.), everything below is a constant dps loss.
@@DataCollaborate no need to wow sim. I found out, it works well for mobs up to 42. 43 and above. You barely see any crit gose out, I think it’s because of target defense level, and bosses normally 43+. Not worths the 7 tp
You’re the best ty!
I appreciate it asdhaslf! Thank you for watching
@GladiusGamingGG - Question
I am doing exactly what you did, but I am sticking with raptors, not cats (I just like dinosaurs).
Am I losing to much in terms of damage/utility by doing that? What raptor do you recommend?
The only difference would be a slower engagement because cats can learn dash, raptors cannot. I notice the lack of dash alot more in pvp too.
Is there better raptors to tame or are they all the same? @@Ragranos
The only difference between raptors and cats (assuming you have 2.0 speed raptor) is that cats are slightly more tanky and have access to sprint. Dash is honestly kind of big so I wouldn't go raptor.
@@Pedrosa2541 Doesn't matter which raptor you get, none of them can learn dash (sprint). Their damage while in combat will be the same as a cat but they won't have sprint and they have a slightly lower defensive multiplier.
if you dont like cat, the ELwynn Forest Bear in the South has a Attack Speed of 2.5, which should be the strongest min max dps pet
Great video, convinced me to switch to BM. Do you know if hunters mark increases pet damage? I know they scale off ranged AP with aspect of the hawk.
Thank you gothemcloud! I'm pretty sure it doesn't because mark gives ranged AP added to the attack of anyone doing ranged attacks against the target. The added ranged AP only applies to the ranged attack and doesn't increase the spreadsheet stat so it wouldn't scale the pet's damage from my understanding. I could be wrong though. Thank you for watching!
@@GladiusGamingGG That makes sense! Thanks mate
Hunter is still broken compared to rogues or warriors
Props to the Doom Cooldown Pulse... had something like this back in the day and been looking for this forever and I have not skills with weak auras
I love Doom_CooldownPulse, my favorite addon and I wish it was updated for retail lol
@sGamingGG You mentioned in the video that it appears when Raptor Strike resets. By that do you mean when it doesn't trigger its cooldown from Melee Specialist? When that happens for me it is not popping up, likely because the condition for it to pop up is it coming off cooldown, so it won't trigger here since it was never put on cooldown to begin with. Do you know if there is a way to make it pop up when when it doesn't trigger the cooldown?
i run a scorpid with myhunter does really good dmg
I haven't tried scorp since the phase 1 nerf. I'm glad to hear it is still doing good damage. The scorp days were fun in p1
not +5 strength on bracers?
You could do that one instead. the 5 melee attack power you get from the strength might put you slightly ahead of the converted pet damage you get from the 2 ranged AP on the agility. Either way will be similar
whats the best way to level a pet :?
soloing dungeons and fighting green elites is really fast. Make sure they are green to you and not green to your pet oddly enough
I hate this melee hunter meta.. Most people that play hunter play cuz we're the only physical ranged DPS and if we wanted to play a melee class we would have rolled warrior or rogue. I don't get it.
Speak for yourself, I had no interest in hunter until I saw melee hunter is a thing. I do hope ranged hunters get a nerf though, you shouldn't be forced to play a spec you don't like or reroll.
Having options would be nice. Ranged and melee are just on two ends of the spectrum with how they are performing right now
@@Apav1x It's okay to be weird
why not dismantle?
100% dismantle. Not even a question. Especially after buff. Dismantle particularly shines with dual wield/faster weps as opposed to a slow 2h.
Is broken tooth not bis pet?
Broken tooth is still great in PvP because of the pushback but not at the moment in PVE because 2.0 is outperforming 1.0 due to flanking strike. The damage difference isn't crazy so you can def still use broken tooth if you have him.
lol, you’re duel wielding, I’m not 😂
Are you running ranged or 2h? How is it doing?
после очередного нерфа ханта, жду видео от тебя)
I appreciate it, dementorskiss1870. See you after the next nerf! Спасибо
I thought this was Guzu lol
lol not the first time I heard that
why striking instead of dismantle?
also whats the point of improved aspect hawk as melee
@TheDavidDouglass my thoughts exactly. I opted out of putting any talent pts into it.
@@Douggy24 give more dps for your cat... are you not a hunter?
improved hawk doesnt give you any extra ranged ap, just ranged attack speed (which you dont need) nice try though@@maximecaron1969
Improved hawk doesnt give you additional ranged ap (dps for your cat), just ranged attack speed (which you dont need). Nice try though@@maximecaron1969
Non caster wind serpent sims more dps with boom/ench debuff and epic fist from gnome
Lovely content cheers bruv!