Marksman Guide Revisited

After reviewing some thought provoking comments and doing some careful analysis (in other words, running builds through femaledwarf.com), I’ve gone back and updated my Marksman Hunter Raiding Guide.

I’ve updated my pet build slightly after one of my readers suggested I look at Wild Hunt again as opposed to Shark Attack. The DPS gain was very minor, but a gain nonetheless.

I also updated the section about armor penetration and elaborated upon things a bit. After analyzing reader feedback and testing some things for myself, I’ve concluded that armor penetration is very relevant to a majority of level 80 MM Hunters, not just the well geared end-game raiders.

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Marksman Hunter Basics

Although I haven’t posted in a few days, I assure you I have been busy working on the blog behind the scenes.

Yesterday I stealthily published my 2nd installment of Hunter raiding guides – this one being for Marksmanship. I intended to post a mention of this, but I didn’t budget my time well yesterday. I ended up going on a marathon guild raid night that included 25 man TotC, VoA and Onyxia. It was nice to return for some raiding after having missed out the past few weeks.

After that, I decided to hop on my Horde Hunter so I could complete the quest for the OP (at level 46 anyway) Rune of the Guard Captain. Once that was done, I figured I’d do a BG or two, which ended up being four or five. Good times though.

Eventually, the night passed me by and so I decided I’d just make mention of my Marksman Hunter guide today.

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Hunter Mentoring

Last week it occurred to me that I don’t have any all-encompassing build guides for raiding Hunters, anywhere on the site. After helping three of our guild’s newer Hunters over the past two weeks with respecs, re-glyphs, and suggestions, I realized I’d probably save myself a lot of in-game time by having some guides on here that I could send them to. Plus, that way I could also share my tips and recommendations for anyone else who cares to know. …

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