Hunters in Cataclysm beta

[esoterik]

Hunters look to be just fine. It's just the encounters where pets just mystically die or hunters have to stack up on melee that suck big time.

Good to hear from a reliable source, its hard to get decent info while having to wade through the official forums :P

Don't a large percentage of the fights involve stacking up on melee currently? This seems like it might be the most glaring issue outside of obvious number tweaks that will come.

[deva]

Don't a large percentage of the fights involve stacking up on melee currently? This seems like it might be the most glaring issue outside of obvious number tweaks that will come.

Some of the fights yes, but if u train those fights alot u know when u need to start moving so u activate aspect of fox and move towards melee pack while channeling cobra, stop for 0,5 sec to shoot auto shot then u start moving again to melee pack while shooting cobra so u dont lose any dps by doing that. U need to be able to anticipate when u need to move to maximize ur dps, and if u cant do that u just lose couple auto shots cause u can still shoot cobra all the time( aspects don't take GCD to switch). When majority of ppl gets to raid Cata raids bigwigs and dbw etc. have exact timers for those encounters so u can just watch the timers and time aspect of fox due them.

Generally hunters are great in Cataclysm atm. Good dps, good mobility, over all survivability is good.

Looking forwards Cata so much atm :)

[flipster]

Don't a large percentage of the fights involve stacking up on melee currently? This seems like it might be the most glaring issue outside of obvious number tweaks that will come.

Some of the fights yes, but if u train those fights alot u know when u need to start moving so u activate aspect of fox and move towards melee pack while channeling cobra, stop for 0,5 sec to shoot auto shot then u start moving again to melee pack while shooting cobra so u dont lose any dps by doing that. U need to be able to anticipate when u need to move to maximize ur dps, and if u cant do that u just lose couple auto shots cause u can still shoot cobra all the time( aspects don't take GCD to switch). When majority of ppl gets to raid Cata raids bigwigs and dbw etc. have exact timers for those encounters so u can just watch the timers and time aspect of fox due them.

Generally hunters are great in Cataclysm atm. Good dps, good mobility, over all survivability is good.

Looking forwards Cata so much atm :)

how's survival doing after the recent nerfs to it? :)

[deva]

how's survival doing after the recent nerfs to it? :)

Constantly top5~
If there is lots of aoe then hunters will fall behind in damage but over all survival is doing pretty damn good

[kalou_CdT]

playing always heroics on beta, i'm always first, survival hunters looks just awesome, at the point that it disgust me from playing my live hunter.

[deva]

playing always heroics on beta, i'm always first, survival hunters looks just awesome, at the point that it disgust me from playing my live hunter.

Agree 100%

[kalaharí]

hey kruf i was wondering if you can tell me what your rotation and your addons are

[Namek]

how's survival doing after the recent nerfs to it? :)

I tested the in dung Halls of Origination for the last boss, in the same EQ as the same group.
Survival: 16 600 DPS
MM: 22 300 DPS

Very big difference !

[Kruf]

how's survival doing after the recent nerfs to it? :)

I tested the in dung Halls of Origination for the last boss, in the same EQ as the same group.
Survival: 16 600 DPS
MM: 22 300 DPS

Very big difference !

And completely useless test, since that's a very short fight so it's all about random crits and procs.

PS. Thanks for reminding me to lock and unsticky this completely outdated thread about the beta...