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Spec
Raid BM Spec: 33/18/0
Raid MM Spec: 7/34/10
Pet Spec: Pet Talents
Pet Encyclopedia: Petopia WotLK
There are some variations you can go with Raid BM but they all end up being around the same. Some will go 1/2 Animal Handler and go full 5/5 Lethal Shots... others move points from Endurance Training to Imp. Revive Pet... go what you like. Make sure you keep 3/3 in Careful Aim and get Aimed Shot. Also 1/2 in Imp. Mend Pet can be nice as most people won't Decurse your pet .
Itemization Priority (in general)
BM Spec
- Agility (Attack Power / Crit)
- Intellect or AP (Attack Power + Mana)
- Crit Chance
- Hit Chance
Prioritize AP/Agi/Int because it boosts your Pet's AP and Magic Damage... and your Pet will be about half or more of your overall damage. Keep in mind that with this talent spec that Intellect will also boost your AP with a 1:1 ratio (Careful Aim) and also 1 Agility = 1 AP with some crit. So pure DPS-wise... 1 Agility > 1 Intellect > 1 AP. The reason Crit Chance is good is because Crit will restore some of your Pet's focus allowing them to Bite more! (Go For The Throat).
Marks Spec
- Hit Chance
- Agility (Attack Power / Crit)
- Crit Chance
- Intellect or AP (Attack Power + Mana)
Prioritize Hit Chance to ensure you maximize the number of auto-shots hitting (I have not tested hit cap for white/yellow attacks). Agility and crit for stronk auto-attacks. And Intellect AP last because it gives you the least benefit. Obviously something like 40AP is better than 1 crit (haven't done math) so use your head.
Pet
Beast Master: Train any Raptor. Raptor's have a bleed DoT for minimal damage but more importantly they give a 10% damage buff to themselves when they crit. Uptime is 50% of the fight and ends up edging out the AP buff you get from a Wolf.
Marksman: Train any Wolf and level him to 60. Wolves have Ferocious Howl which grants the Pet and Hunter 120* AP with 50% uptime (meaning you have an average of 60AP boost over an infinite amount of time). Wolves are awesome
PVP: Grab a Crab or Spider for a 4 second channeled immobilize and charge talent.
Pre-Raid BIS
Head: Backwood Helm (Crit) (DM W Quest)
Neck: Mark of Fordring (EPL Quest)
Shoulders: Black Dragonscale Shoulders (Leatherworking)
Chest: Savage Gladiator Chain or Black Dragonscale Breastplate (Leatherworking) w/ set
Bracers: Bracers of the Eclipse
Gloves: Devilsaur Gauntlets
Belt: Beaststalker's Belt
Legs: Sentinel's Chaing Leggings (PvP) or Black Dragonscale Leggings (Leatherworking) w/ set or Blademaster's Leggings
Boots: Elven Chain Boots (BoE World Drop) or Beaststalker's Boots
Ring 1: Tarnished Elven Ring
Ring 2: Painweaver Band or Tarnished Elven Ring
Trinket 1: Devilsaur Tooth (Hunter ST Quest) swap with Blackhand's Breath (Ony Attuned Quest)
Trinket 2: Power of the High Chief (WS Quest) or Earthstrike (Silithus Badges) when it comes out.
Weapon: Barbarous Blade
Ranged: Dwarven Hand Cannon
Strategy
BM Spec
To maximize DPS your pet should be attacking as close to 100% of the time as possible. This means you will want some good keybinds for pet Attack, pet Follow, and pet Dash. Personally I use these bindings: mouse forward button for attack, mouse backward button for follow, alt+w for dash.
For max DPS I have been using the following rotation on bosses.
- Hunter's Mark before combat or after Pet Attack
- Send Pet to attack with Dash
- Aimed Shot + Bestial Wrath + Trinket + Rapid Fire
- Arcane Shot
- Serpent Sting
- Steady Shot
- Arcane Shot
- Steady Shot
- Steady Shot
- Continue prioritizing Aimed Shot > Arcane Shot > Serpent Sting > Steady Shot. You'll get the hang out the rotation if you remember priorities and not to clip your CD on Aimed/Arcane because you want to get 1 more Steady Shot in.
Marksman Spec
Even though you are Marksman you need to micro-manage your pet... To maximize DPS your pet should be attacking as close to 100% of the time as possible. This means you will want some good keybinds for pet Attack, pet Follow, and pet Dash. Personally I use these bindings: forward button for attack, backward button for follow, shift+mouse scroll for dash.
For max DPS I have been using the following rotation on bosses.
- Hunter's Mark before combat or after Pet Attack
- Send Pet to attack with Dash
- Serpent Sting
- Aimed Shot
- Arcane Shot + Trinket + Rapid Fire
- Readiness to reset cooldowns
- Aimed Shot
- Arcane Shot
- Steady Shot
- Steady Shot
- Normal rotation + use Rapid Fire again as soon as it wears off