“It would appear you can faceroll SV and get pretty sick dps still, so expect the huntards that give us all a bad name to be SV spec….”

So true. You can always tell who those people are too. The “Huntard” variety are usually the ones specced SV, who are hovering around 2.5K in 25 mans.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… I am so sick of the stigma surrounding Hunters. I know the Hunter class is rife with imbeciles because it is so easy to play. However, it is the hardest class to master IMO. Perhaps I shouldn’t let it get to me, but I get so irritated when other players make such blanket statements and generalizations in raids.

It’s especially tough to swallow when coming from the “new huntards”, Death Knights.

1) You must have 51BM to use exotic pets. If you swap specs to MM or SV or non 51BM you will *have* to stable your exotic pet because he’ll just stand there otherwise. At least you can hit the stable from wherever now.

2) Most folks *do* count pets in with hunter dps on recount and other stuff – your pet is easily 40% of your dps as BM, not sure about other specs.

3) Pet’s seem to me to be using a LOT less focus now due to “smarter” AI’s … meaning BM’s may no longer need at all to crawl down the MM spec for Go for the Throat at all (still testing). I’m *certain* one point is enough on a BM toon with bestial discipline.

4) The bug where you have to have growl/cower ON your pet bar to keep them disabled is back. Otherwise they tend to turn back on in your pet’s book (sucking focus) every time he’s dismissed or you zone.

5) Current dps appears to be SV > MM > BM so…yet again if you’re pugging raids you may *have* to be SV to get taken over every other hunter on the server.

6) It would appear you can faceroll SV and get pretty sick dps still, so expect the huntards that give us all a bad name to be SV spec….

I’ll for sure give it a shot.
Set in Sen’jin village or something..

Thanks for the info man.

After 4 times of doing that and a little magic editing on my imac, what you have is a screenshot of my current stable of pets.

Tip: If you try this, whatever you do, don’t move the character you’re using to take the screenies. At one point I had moved my wife’s toon on accident just a step or so. it threw everything off.

Shoot me a link if you end up doing it, and good luck.

Lemme guess… you kindly asked a Nelf Hunter with each of those pets to stand there then shadowmeld?

A Private server?

I hafta know. People must see all of my amazing pets…

I used some smoke and mirrors to get that screenshot.

Thank you for the kind words by the way.

J/k

I recently found your blog from BRK’s.
I gotta say man, I’m really impressed with your site.

I’m glad you can sneak some Hunter-time in while on the job.

Hunter DPS should always represent Hunter and pet combined. It’d be like asking a Rogue to not include their offhand damage, or main-hand damage when compared with BM. The Hunter’s pet is one of their primary weapons. My pet accounts for roughly 43% of my damage.

Interesting point you brought up, and I have often pondered it ever since I respec to BM…If I manage to tame an exotic, then respec to MM or Surv, can I still use those exotics?

Thanks again!

You site is a wealth of knowledge for me and my BM hunter, best part about your website btw it my company’s web security software doesnt block you, I guess your site isnt flagged and games or social and networking or any thing, cause like everything is blocked here..Thanks again and don’t change a thing!

Fushae the Explorer