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Gushnak said:

Hello,

My name is Gushnak, horde hunter on the Stormreaver server.  I have been trying to wrap my head around raiding as a hunter for the last couple weeks but I think I have been receiving some bogus information.  I have searched many forums and everyone seems to have different answers.  I'm sorry I can't provide an armory link because its blocked here at work.  I am a MM hunter, I was told to gem for Armor Pen, which is what I have done.  I also have Mark of Supremecy but I am trying to replace that with the trinket from heroic Forge of Souls.  I top out at about 5k DPS, and I'm really just looking for someone to set me in the right direction as far as build/gems/enchants go.  Thank you for your help!

Hi Gushnak,

I had a look at your armory. The first two problems I saw…

You're 324 hit rating over the cap, plus you have taken 3/3 Focused Aim. Every point over 263 hit is doing nothing for you in terms of DPS. This seems to be an epidemic all over Azeroth, as players seem to be more preoccupied with ilvl than stats. You only need 8% hit to be capped. You're at 17.9%.

Those 3 points you have in Focused Aim could be a lot more beficial for you in say, Improved Steady Shot and perhaps 1/3 in Improved Hunters Mark.

You should be gemming for agility instead of Armor Pen. You don't have enough armor pen through gear, nor one of the necessary trinkets, that make gemming for armor pen a benefit. I wouldn't advise gemming for armor pen unless you have about 550 through gear alone + Needle Encrusted Scorpion.

I would recommend swappping out your armor pen gems for agility ones, and picking up 3/3 ISS and 1/3 IHM. Also, look for upgrades that don't contain hit rating.