Hunter Pet Retrospective: Sian-Rotam

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Before all pets were normalized with the 2.0 second attack speed, Sian-Rotam was one of the few that possessed this slow, hard-hitting attack speed. Most Hunters preferred Broken Tooth for his lightning fast 1.0 second attack speed, or Humar for his unique and incredibly awesome charcoal black appearance and fast 1.3 second attack. Yet there were some Hunters that wanted a cat who could swing hard and produce larger crits, Sian-Rotam fit the bill here. I’d never had much of …

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Top DPS Exotic Pet for BM Hunters in 3.1 is… Chimera..?

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I conducted my second round of scientific studies concerning exotic pet DPS. The results may surprise you. Out of my three exotic pets, the Cunning family pet came out on top. That’s right… my Chimera was head and shoulders above the Devilsaur and Spirit Beast. I was a bit surprised at first, so I ran the test two more times. Strangely enough, the DPS only improved on the subsequent tests. Previously I had tested my Devilsaur and Spirit Beast, attaining …

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Loque’nahak Gets “Krush’ed” on the PTR

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I did some DPS comparisons between Loque’nahak and King Krush on the Heroic Target Dummy in Darnassus. I figured the least populace Alliance city would be best, but let me tell ya… it’s still pretty difficult trying to find a dummy that no one else is beating on. I tried a few previous tests, but they all rendered inaccurate due to other players’ debuffs. My initial tests were somewhat surprising, because although Loque’s DPS didn’t seem too hot, he was …

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