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The Verdict

October 20, 2009 By Garwulf 28 Comments

Special thanks to Kazador for helping me with a title for this post. Not only have I rewritten this post like 5 times, but I’d cycled through at least ten different titles in the meantime. Today’s just been one of those days where I can’t seem to focus. When I saw your comment, I thought oh… The Verdict… that’s perfect!

Last week I surprised some of you by announcing that I’d respecced to Beast Mastery for PvP. In fact, this move surprised even myself. After all, it had been just three short weeks earlier that I had completely discredited Beast Mastery as a PvP spec. I was so frustrated over what Patch 3.2.2 did to my beloved spec, that I abandoned both of my exotic PvP pets, went and tamed a crab, then immediately switched to Survival. [Read more…] about The Verdict

Filed Under: General, Hunter Pets, Hunter PvP, Talents Tagged With: arena, battlegrounds, beast mastery, bestial wrath, pvp, talonstrike, the beast within

Profiting From Survival

October 3, 2009 By Garwulf 16 Comments

As I’d mentioned earlier, I decided to go Survival once I ditched Beast Mastery as my PvP spec. Oddly enough, at this same time I also elected to go Survival for raiding as well. This may sound strange to those of you who follow the site, because I’d stated a few times in the past that Survival had been my least favorite spec.

I’ve had a change of heart… what can I say.

The reasons I went Survival for PvP should be pretty obvious to most. Survival is currently the most dominant spec for arena due to the combination of burst, survivability and crowd control. I had contemplated Marksmanship, but it’s a little too squishy for my tastes and I don’t like that the spec’s heavy burst is reliant upon a setup shot. Too many classes have the ability to dispel Serpent Sting, which in turn negates a lot of Marksman’s burst. For BGs, Marksman is a blast, but I’m not brave enough to venture into arena with it just yet.

Now, as far as Survival for a raiding spec… The reason I chose this route is because I found that my absence from raids hadn’t been helping my DPS any. I was falling behind gear-wise and still rocking a 141 DPS crossbow. With Marksmanship being more dependent upon weapon damage than Survival, I felt it may be time for a change.

For kicks, I decided to plug into Zehera’s Online DPS Analyzer and see if there was some room for improvement. Much to my delight, I managed to configure a Survival setup with my then current gear, which showed a 12% DPS increase. Needless to say, the next evening I respecced SV and profited.

Heroic VOA

Heroic ToC

The irony is, immediately after this change I obtained the high damage weapon my Marksmanship spec so sorely needed. 😉

The first screenshot is from a VOA clear, and the second was from Northrend Beasts just after we dropped Gormokk the Impaler. Both of these occurred before I obtained my new crossbow. So as you can see, Survival allows you to get away with a lot more damage in lieu of a good weapon because the bulk of the spec’s damage is based on attack power.

I may end up returning to Marksmanship at some point, but probably not until I upgrade from my *cough* Valorous 2pc bonus. I am really feeling comfortable with Survival now, plus I like the mana efficiency of the spec. Not only did I manage to avoid Viper during our 25 man ToC raid, I don’t think my mana pool ever went below 80%.

Now I’ve never been one to go with the cookie cutter spec of the day just because it was the best possible DPS. I typically spec what I enjoy playing and squeeze every ounce of DPS possible from it. Yet, last week I felt like my contribution to the raid was lessening, hence the change. In the end, I’m glad that I did because it forced me to revisit the spec and finally learn to play it effectively.

In my next post(s) I’ll offer up a few basic tips and fundamentals concerning Survival and how to get the most out of it for both PvE and PvP, so stay tuned…

Oh, and by the way, here is my spec: 0/15/56

Filed Under: General, Hunter PvP, Raiding, Talents Tagged With: dps, marksmanship, raid, survival, talonstrike, toc, vault of archavon

Talonstrike

September 30, 2009 By Garwulf 13 Comments

This will do.

Talonstrike

I’m beat, so this all you get until tomorrow – a screenshot of me posing with my new ilvl 245, 212.2 DPS crossbow from 25 man ToC, aka Talonstrike. I’m rocking my PvP gear in the pic because I was in Wintergrasp at the time farming crystallized shadows and leveling my new PvP pet. I was hoping for some Horde player to swoop down and jump me, but no takers. I saw a few of them hovering and circling above me, but I think they caught a glimpse of what sort of pain I’m bringing now and got scared. 😉

I have loads of of stuff I want to post, but free-time has been scarce. Tonight I blew off the blog to get some VoA and ToC in. Good thing I did. 🙂 No regrets there.

As I said, there’s a lot I want to cover including the overview of my UI which I’ve put off now for weeks. I also want to discuss my new found love affair with Survival Huntering. I’ll try to crank some of this stuff out in the next few days, I promise, but as my son would say, it’s nigh’night time…

Zzzzzz…

Filed Under: General Tagged With: survival, talonstrike, toc, vault of archavon

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