Overall BM isn't getting much of a change, aside from being more focus efficient.

The change to careful aim is particularly painful as this makes MM crit soft cap 53% instead of 43%. I'm not sure it's feasible to try and reach the crit cap without sacrificing too much in other secondary stats like Multistrike. The increased damage of Chimaera shot should mean a decent increase in DPS, and gives me more reason to stay MM personally. Increase in sniper training effectiveness will bring me up to about 10% now. It might be worthwhile to stack Mastery of Multishot, at least for certain boss fights.

The changes to traps for survival are probably a PVP based nerf, and they will nerf PvE DPS somewhat since explosive trap will not be available as often. Black Arrow cooldown means you are spending focus on it more often in PvE and is a little annoying, but a very small nerf, while being a buff for PVP since you will be able to use it more often.

All in all the biggest change seems to have occurred for MM and we'll have to see how much of a DPS change it makes for me on the raiding front.

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/ch.....a/advanced

I do have a question though, I've kept up enough on huntering to know that all pets in a class are supposed to do the same damage, the only difference is their different spells.  However, I keep being told that Loque'nahak is the highest dps pet for a BM  hunter, but I can't find any data to back that up.  Has anyone heard similar or have an opinion on it, mine is that it doesn't do more dps than any other spirit beast, am I wrong?

You don't have to adhere to it exactly, but Spirit Bond is essential, and I would strongly recommend Intimidation and Thrill of the Hunt. The other talents can be based on your preference.

For soloing, the main things will be your pet and glyph choices. For most content, a Ferocity specced SB will do. For most fights, Spirit mend will provide enough additional healing to keep your pet safe. For tougher bosses you should go with a Tenacity specced Turtle. Not sure what content you're planning, but I've soloed all of TBC and most of WotlK with a SB. There were a couple of fights that required a turtle, but Illidan is the only one that comes to mind atm.

Make sure you use those glyphs that are listed in that build: Animal Bond, Mending and Misdirection.

Hope that helps!

Jacob, I pretty much do the same with my buttons. I have them placed with Bartender in a way that I will have to do the least amount of mouse travel.

This is just my 2 cents.  Hope it helps.  I'm Jacobo on Kael'thas if you want to look me up.

Happy hunting!

In my hunt for some wisdom, I used the search facility (it's there, believe me, top left of the forum page and just below your screen pic if you've logged in)... back now? See I said it was there... anyhow, I found an old post by Garwulf about how he plays, and guess what... no, He's not a clicker! Concentrate! He said in that post (I can only hope it's still the case...) That He only uses mouse for movement and I can't remember now, either A and D or Q and E for strafing. That's it. Nothing for forward, nothing for backpedaling... 

So I figured, if that's how He does it...

So I am now configured to use mouse for all movement, A and D for strafing and all other keys for attack! I've mentioned before I'm not much of an defender, though I do see Disengage as an opportunity for attacking from range again, it's Feign Death I always forget about!

Anyhoo, off to the slaughter...

Cheers,

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