Race change questions.(opinions are welcome) & profession ?sFollow

If you go orc, go female orc for the sexiest females in WoW.
And I'd go for JC/LW/Enchanting/Alch or whichever other profession gives agility instead of engineering.
Engineering is cool but very expensive and not that useful for a hunter.

JC = bonus agility from 3 gems.
Alch = bonus from flasks/elixirs.
LW = 130 agi bracer enchant.
Enchanting = agi ring enchants.
BS = 2 extra sockets for 2 agi gems.

And I'm not sure but I think inscription gives agility as well now.

Either way, if a profession gets you 80 agility (or more, of course) it's good, if not it sucks. Yeah, rather black & white but that's it really... 1 point of agility is almost three times as good as other stats in pretty much every case.

Edited, Jan 18th 2011 10:23pm by Aethien

There is rarely a time in SV that you need to focus dump. I've only really come across 2 situations; rapid fire, and BL. Those provide excellent focus regen plus the 1.0 sec cobra's, you're popping them off like crazy.

Interesting hunter discussion . .wait, what was the question? Oh yeah.

Unless they have changed things a lot since my last swath of transfers it should work like so:
-You have 3 Org wolf mounts & exalted Org rep.
-You change to Goblin.
-You now have a Goblin with 3 Org wolf mounts & exalted Org rep.
(You would be be able to purchase Goblin trikes now because you are Goblin regardless of rep.)

Race changing in-faction doesn't change mounts and reps you already have.

Now, were you to transfer to Worgen instead you would end up with 3 of some other mount in place of your 3 wolves (Elekk or Ram maybe . .they have a chart somewhere which explains the cross-server transfer replacements) and exalted rep with . .I think Ironforge (again, there's a chart.)

On another note, my recently created horde hunter is undead. Reasons? I've never had and undead toon, I like the /dance, and having leveled my Dranaei to 83 I thought the cannibalize thing would come in handy for keeping me moving along. Plus, I wanted an undead because I do think they're cool but I never liked the way they looked in robes or plate. For some reason, I don't care so much with the hunter looking all disheveled. *shrug*

(If I ever made a horde hunter to actually do serious stuff with, it would be . .a female orc.)

I have never played SV, so bare (? bare? bear? wtvr) with me please...

Explosive Shot (ExS)
Black Arrow (BA)
Cobra Shot (CS) (focus regain)
Arcane Shot (AS) (focus dump)
Serpent Sting (SS)
Lock and Load (L&L)
Kill Command (KC) (BM only)
Cooldown (CD)

The bolded numbers will be used in a rotation at the bottom instead of typing out the whole rotation over again)

I understand the (#1) ExS > 3x CS > ExS > repeat (I am guessing you mean to use 3x CS again and just keep doing the same rotation over and over... until BA is off of cooldown)

...then when BA is off of cooldown(CD) you do: (#2) BA > AS > 2x CS

... then when/if L&L procs you said: (#3) ExS > CS > ExS > AS > ExS(Do you need to have an enemy break a Frost/Ice Trap in order to get L&L to proc for two free ExS/***, or do you just watch for L&L to proc during an ExS?)

Do you normally start out a fight with SS or BA?

(#1) ExS > 3x CS > ExS > repeat
(#2) BA > AS > 2x CS
(#3) ExS > CS > ExS > AS > ExS

Here is a hypothetical long fight rotation and just by looking at what you typed how I would go about it... (please correct me if I do something out of place):
(#2) then (#1) and if L&L procs you go into (#3) then back to (#1) til BA is off CD then go back to the start starting with (#2) again.... right?


Edited, Jan 18th 2011 7:17pm by PentUpAnger

Right now, it is a dps loss to try and force proc LnL. In 4.0.6 the way it stands is that Explosive Trap will essentially do more damage than BA, but with movement fights you will still want to use BA since you'll get it's full effect.

For starting the fight Aeth always says start with Explosive since you want to keep it on cd. I tend to start SS -> Explosive -> BA -> 2x Cobra, then Explosive is off cooldown and I can do the 3x Cobra until BA is off cooldown. While it may not be the top dps it's just what I've been doing forever now so I always tend to just apply SS and get it over with.

Personally I found the transition between pre-401 Survival hunter and post-401 Survival hunter to be almost identical - at 80, Survival was focus starved, but Cobra Shot fixes that problem. Once you get used to the priorities, you might want to have Arcane Shot on a button somewhere to use when you're focus rich on a single target.

As for the OP's topic, I've been debating race changes on my two main toons for similar reasons - the racial benefits are negligible since I don't raid or PvP at the top end. My mains are a NE druid and Draenei huntress. Three others I've considered are a human warrior, BE pally and a NE rogue. The rogue I re-rolled because that class I historically struggled to level with (I found rogues to be far squishier than a mage several years ago) and decided that if I'm going to learn the class, I might as well start at level 1 with it. I'm nearly level 30 with the rogue; the original was 64 (boosted to 60 with RAF) and used only occasionally as a bank alt. So far I am satisfied with leveling the character, both with the improvements to leveling the class and with my rogue as a worgen. Through this character, I have checked a few things off my list in regards to changing my warrior and hunter. As for the pally, the decision was made when the new race was announced. The limiting factor for me is that I don't plan on playing the character much, making it a low priority for me. Re-rolling the character is a likelihood provided that I keep the existing one; she's 80 with 460 enchanting and 450 inscription with most of the glyphs and would give me the excuse of getting Loremaster of Azeroth on a horde character.
I've decided that if I'm going to spend the money to race change (since deleting any character 75 or higher with two 450 or higher crafting professions with many rare and valuable patterns isn't an option in my book), I need to like the little things about the race. One thing I don't like about the worgen are the casting animations. I feel most of them are too... unnecessary. The lady worgen animation for the hearthstone cast isn't bad though. This rules out me having a worgen mage, priest, warlock and potentially druid. I did decide, however, that if I am going to have a worgen druid, I would look past my dislike of the casting animations if I liked everything else about them.