Drop Arcane from Rotation? - Builds, Talents and Class Mechanics - Hunter Forums

I can't remember the exact point that they say you can safely drop arcane shot from your rotation.  I think it's like a between this and this area and you're safe, that being said, if I remember correctly you are all ready in that area so yes you could drop it if you wanted.  I dropped it when I was around 300ish ArP, but that hasn't worked for some other MM playing hunters on this site, so there in it lies with works out best for you.

Something I noticed about the rotation you posted is that you didn't mention silencing shot.  It's not going to increase your DPS by heaps, but it should be in your rotation.  It's been said that it's best to macro it to a shot in your rotation.  Mine is macro'd to my chimera shot and possibly my aimed shot, I just can't remember if I macro'd it to two or not.

As far as your gemming goes, I'm not a big fan of gemming ArP.  I think you get more overall bang for your buck with agility gems.  Plus, you're talking about having to switch targets a lot, which leads me to believe that you may also be moving a lot.  If you're moving a lot, most of that ArP is wasted.  It's been established that it has it's best effects on auto shot (a non moving ability), steady shot (non moving again), and aimed shot(the only instant of the trio).  Recently we've been talking about whether or not it effects chimera shot as well, that would give you another instant, but that's really about it.  When you really get down to it, all three hunter specs really require good movement management, or better said, non excessive movement management to do their best DPS.  Switching targets isn't necessarily as bad as constantly moving is for DPS.

Another DPS issue is timing.  What I mean by that is making sure you're using your Improved Steady Shot buff on your chimera shots.  or in the worst case scenario, at the very least you're using them with your aimed shots.  A good addon to indicate when your ISS has proc'd is called Power Aura's.  I'm sure there are others like the scrolling combat text ones, but I like the visual effects of power aura's.

Changing your pets spec will net you a DPS increase as well.  I looked at your wolf, since that's the typically raiding pet these days.  Take all the points out of the stamina, armor, boar's speed, charge, heart of the phoenix, lick your wounds and shark attack.  Take one point out of rabid.  Put them in cobra reflex's – maxed out, Culling the herd – maxed out, spider's bite – maxed out, call of the wild – maxed, and one point should go in wild hunt.  that will be all the points you have left.  you'll have to use one in rabid so you can open up the tree for wild hunt and once that happens you'll only have one point left.  it's usually better spent in wild hunt.  I would have to run it on the calculator, but I think those changes will net you a couple hundred DPS.  If you have a hard time keeping your pet up, keep it on passive by your side.  it will still do the furious howl buff, and you can still activate call of the wild, while the wolf is on passive.  these are two of the main reasons to raid with a wolf as the buff your attack power.

Your spec itself looks fine, but if you're not the main marking hunter in your raid, you could probably drop at least two points out of improved hunters mark and put them in improved barrage.  not sure that will net you too much DPS increase, but usually only one hunter in the run, if any, will max out the improved hunter's mark talents.

ok, glyphs are good.  Your stats look good.  I would change your meta to the +21 agility one.  personal preference I think, but I also think it nets a few more points of DPS and it stacks with kings as well as mark of the wild.  Other than that, I really think you should pick one red gem or the other. You have the AP gems, agility gems, and ArP gems and I really don't think that having just a few of one really helps that much.  Picking one to maximize on it will probably help your DPS out as well.  Also, you have your meta gem in a meta socket so you're not using it to meet a socket bonus.  I recommend you move it to the piece of gear that will net you the best socket bonus, that's the best use of the meta gem.  Lastly, are you using speed potions?  The faster you're attacking the more damage you'll be doing.  Time your potions between rapid fire and heroism.  It doesn't really stack just like rapid fire doesn't stack with heroism, so try to use them at separate times to get the most bang for your buck.

Sorry if this seems like so much, it's what I noticed that might help though…

good luck and happy hunting!!!

Sorry I'm back so quickly, but Niika mentioned something that caught my interest.

Readiness.

You'll have to try it both ways to see which you like better, but my use of readiness is different than Niika's.  I wait for Kill Shot to light up (boss at 20%), and then I do this:

Kill Shot, Chimera, Aimed, Readiness, Kill Shot, Chimera, Aimed, rapid fire.

If those three shot's aren't available when kill shot first becomes useable, I usually wait until they all three are so I can do that run of shots.  Usually when KS first becomes useable you're in no danger of the boss dieing so you have some wiggle room…

food for thought, let us know which way you use readiness as you might be doing something we should be trying