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Kennadie said:

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Recently I've been doing a lot of raiding in ICC. Last Tuesday I received 3 new pieces of 251 gear. My DPS tops out at 4k in ICC or 3.5k in heroics. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I asked a few hunters on my realm and they kept saying haste, my speed is about 2.39 or something along those lines. Then another hunter told me to replace haste with crit and agi gems. Should I be gemming my gear according to the color slots or just strickly stacking agility? My agi and power seem to be pretty high IMO, I just feel that I should be doing a lot more DPS.

If you guys could check me out on Armory and Wow-Heroes, I would apprecaite any feedback that you have. I'm open to anythng.

I raid in Surv. with my shot rotation as:

Serp. Sting – Explo. Shot – Black Arrow – Multi-Shot – Steady, Steady (if given time). Of course Kill Shot whenever it is available.

I have also tried the shot rotation maxdps suggests which is:

Explo. Shot – Black Arrow – Aimed Shot – Serp. Sting – Steady Shot and then Kill shot when available.

Links for my wow-heroes and armory:

Heroes – http://tinyurl.com/yasc8gj

Armory – http://tinyurl.com/ydh53da

Like I said I appreciate any input or questions.

Thanks!!!

Kennadie

Hi Kennadie,

First off, your spec looks really good. The only room for improvement there might be to take a point from Exposed Weakness (leaving 1/3) and dropping it into either Improved Stings or Hunting Party. Your base crit is just under 50%, so with buffs and everything 1 point should be fine there. Your glyphs look fine as well.

Here's the first thing I'm noticing… You are… *Gasp* 289 hit rating over the cap. That is an obscene amount of wasted stats. Your hit rating should be in the neighborhood of 263. Those 289 stat points could be gaining you crit, AP or haste, but instead they're a total loss.

Your trinket is a good place to start. Mark of Supremacy is doing nothing for you beyond it's on use buff. Try to get your hands on Needle Encrusted Scorpion from H FoS, or run normal ToC for the Banner of Victory.

Your gemming has a lot of room for improvement. You need to dump all of your haste gems for one. Yellow sockets for you should have either a 20 agility red gem or a 10agil/10crit orange gem (if the socket bonus is really good). get rid of the 20 crit and 20 int gems right away too.

Your blue gem slots should have 20 agility in them as well, with the exception of one Nightmare's Tear to cover your meta requirement. You should be jamming nothing but agility into your sockets, with the exception of agility/crit in the case of socket bonuses.

You want agility, agility, agility and agility. Oh, did I mention you want to gem agility..? <img decoding="async" class="wp-smiley" src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt="” /> and in some cases agil/crit for the sock bonus. Stay away from the pure stat yellow gems. Bleh.

The priority is: Kill>Explosive>Black Arrow>Aimed>Serpent>Steady

Don't use Multi over Aimed unless there are multiple mobs. Aimed benefits from Sniper training, plus it's slightly more mana efficient.

Never delay Explosive Shot for anything apart from Kill Shot.

Be sure to cast another shot in between LnL procs so as to not overwrite the DoTs. Steady is good for this, unless one of the other higher priority shots is off CD.

That info should get you started. I bet if you do those things your DPS will shoot up by at least 15-20%.

Best,

Gar

how do i start a new post? lol

I admit, it's not the easiest link to find, but seems you figured it out since I saw a thread you started.

I'll look at making the post button a bit larger.