Concussive Barrage
2 Point Talent
Your successful Chimera Shot and Multi-Shot attacks have a 50/100% chance to Daze the target for 4 sec.
Overview
Concussive Barrage gives you a Concussive Shot effect on two of your damaging shots, Chimera and Multi. Depending upon the points invested, it gives you a 50% or 100% chance of applying a 4 second 50% run speed snare on your target(s).
Why take it?
This talent is incredibly important for Marksmanship PvP. An extra 4 second daze, especially one that’s preceded by a huge Chimera Shot burst, is a most beneficial skill for arena. The Multi Shot effect is great for slowing multiple targets, but only advisable in battlegrounds or possibly larger arena team comps where another MS is present.
Even if only for the Chimera Shot effect, two points in this talent gives the Hunter another 4 second daze in between Concussive Shot cooldowns.
Why not take it?
Not a talent for end-game raiders – strictly a PvP talent. I suppose an argument could be made for solo play or farming, but if you want to do that right then go BM. 😉
Readiness
1 Point Talent
When activated, this ability immediately finishes the cooldown on your other Hunter abilities except Bestial Wrath.
Overview
Readiness immediately finishes cooldowns on all of the Hunter’s abilities apart from Bestial Wrath. It allows you to pull back-to-back Rapid Fires, Kill Shots, Chimera Shots, Traps etc… every three minutes.
Why take it?
It’s possibly one of the greatest talents available in the MM tree, and a bargain at only Tier 5 in my opinion. An absolute must-have for any MM Hunter.
Why not take it?
If you’re BM or Survival. As great as Readiness is, at Tier 5 it’s too deep to forsake any of the core abilities in the other two trees.
This talent used to be incredibly overpowered for Beast Mastery Hunters, allowing for 36 seconds of enrage and immunity to CC, but Blizz nerfed the talent shortly after it was discovered how imbalanced that was.
Barrage
3 Point Talent
Increases the damage done by your Multi-Shot, Aimed Shot, and Volley spells by 4/8/12%.
Overview
Barrage increases the damage done by Multi Shot, Aimed Shot, and Volley by up to 12%. Pretty straightforward.
Why take it?
I’d recommend this talent for all MM builds. The damage boost to Aimed Shot is great for raiding and PvP. The boost to Multi and Volley is great for PvE play, but especially for trash AoE in dungeons.
Why not take it?
If you’re Beast Mastery or Survival.