Pre Raid Gear, tips and tricks.Follow

It is Rema, and she only has rank 4 of Furious howl, which was available Pre-BC from Bloodaxe Worgs. I'm sure it was difficult to get it, because it came from Blackrock spire.

Party members within 15 yards of the wolf receive an extra 45 to 57 damage to their next physical attack. Lasts 10 seconds.

an extra 45 to 57 damage every 10 seconds from players within 15 yards is still really lackluster to me. I'd still rather have my ravager that does 10% more base damage, can learn bite (just like wolves), and has Gore. Gore has a 50% chance to deal double damage. According to Scrolling Combat Text, that double damage is applied as 2 seperate hits, which can both crit- giving the chance of quadrupling damage.

grr... actually just talking about that pisses me off. I got into an argument with my best friend's boyfriend about pets. He's still convinced that wolves are better. He's the kind of guy who will stop you mid-sentence, and not listen to the facts.

And he's not even a hunter. He's a rogue. -_-; Sorry, OT... I just had to vent.

Edited, Jan 6th 2008 8:28am by ProjectMidnight

Hey Aethien, I'm looking at possibly getting a windserpent.

What are some general rules for it?
Do you need to be BM or MM with X AP for lightning breathe to be effective?
What are it's combat rules, have it stay back and just cast lightning breathe, or send it in with bite and LB on auto cast?
If you just leave it staying back will you need to put cobra reflexes etc on it?

Also, with the infinite crit SV spec, would it be better to take 2 points from survivalist and put it in improved FD?
And is deterrence that needed, I know it is the "Oh ****" button but with proper threat management, IFD, and a good group/ kiting skill (For those cases where the tanks dead, and boss is at below X%) is it really needed?
It seems like with SV theres a bit of waste, but then again you gota put some serious pointage to get EW.
And will IAotH affect your ability to weave in your arcanes etc without cliping (with 2.8 speed)?

Whatever. It's your list, pull it if you want to pull it. But there are very few rings which are its equal for providing both respectable DPS while also having the huge 31 STA which it gives. Several rings edge it out by a slim margin in DPS, but STA has a value I think you're overlooking.

and that 22.4 DPS is assuming that everyone else in the group is within the 15 yards, correct?

Personally, I'm almost always too far away to receive the buff, and I'm almost NEVER in a group with 5 physical DPS classes.

i will as soon as i have the time to do it, or someone else does it for me ;)

Get Rpzip to do it for you ;P

And i'm no star at macro's myself so i'll have to take a while to make and test them...

Edited, Jan 15th 2008 4:04pm by Aethien

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kul+Tiras&n=Fanoran

I'm in all Kara/Badge epics, and I just barely break over the 1700ap/20% crit mark you posted =/

It pains me to know someone can do that in all Blues, and a bit of heroic gear. I must be doing something wrong, and I think it's my trinkets. (Which are gonna change real soon once I get my bloodlust brooch) But yeah...0_o?

Comparing rings, I picked this up from a quest chain and thought it was pretty good, better than some on the list. What am I missing?

Quest
ring

"Standard" Slayer

OK I saw agi/stam and figured it was good for hunters, just better than what I had, and it is rare for a lower quest reward to replace something at 70.

I feel like a complete ****** but I can't figure out how to use Cheeky's spreadsheet. I've looked through the forum but nothing popped out at me.

Can someone please shed some light on my darkened room?

So, are the SV/MM shooting cycle macros updated yet? Cuz i respecced and I need one now =(

Updated a couple things, replaced the blue pvp gear by S1 gear (wich is pretty much equal to blues for PvE)
And i played around with Warcrafter.net to see what the 'optimal gear' i picked would give in the way of stats if gemmd and enchanted properly.
These are the results:
Beastmastery
Marksmen
Survival
(Note: you need to activate AotH (and TSA) yourself because it refuses to remember buffs)

Also, check how this gear pretty much makes the mark for stats to aim for.
BM is lower on AP, but a couple % higher on crit wich will end up better in raids due to the amount of AP you get from buffs vs the amount of crit.
Hunters mark and BoMight alone give a combined 660(!) AP.

SV is fat and easy over the mark on both crit and Ap so i'm pushing those stats up a bit, and downgrading BM a tiny bit.
MM seems to land exactly where its supposed to on AP with higher crit.
Or in other words, it seems that i picked those pieces well :)

Edit: with the 'optimal gear' both MM and BM are at +8.2% hit and SV is hitcapped.
And that with all gear from lvl 68-70 instances, some BG's a couple quests and a few heroics ;)
Oh, and also Sv would have 775 agility unbuffed, bloody nice if ye ask me ;)
Edit 2: that would get to 964 agi, 35.05% crit and 2150 AP fully raidbuffed.
2 pieces of gear from heroics (blues), 2 quested things, 2 crafted pieces 1 pvp piece and the rest from lvl 67-70 instances.
I mean damn.... that pretty much good enough for 25 man raids...
Edited, Mar 31st 2008 8:02pm by Aethien

Edited, Mar 31st 2008 8:10pm by Aethien

suggested update

Belt of the Black Eagle Crafted <NOTE> requires 2 Nether Vortex, and those only drop in TK/SSC (and are BoP) so getting them will be expensive.

as nether vortex is no longer bop you can get belt fairly easily now if you know someone who can craft it for you and have a skinning friend for the wind scales. you can get 2 nether vortex for 30 badges or just buy them off the ah. so this is the best pre kara belt you can get and also relitively easy to obtain.