Azuarc wrote:
[quote]I'm pretty sure Mulgrin understands both perspectives, and I'm betting will probably leave it in out of principle, so I'm not trying to force an edit here.
Nope, I don't include in on principle, but because I believe a BM/sv spec has its merits.
Azuarc wrote:
For my own sake, however here is all I want to know: What does a BM/SV build *do*, and do better than another talent spec.
It is like "the marksman" spec. It might not be the best overall spec but there are a lot people who are really in love with BM and not only spec BM because it currently gives the most DPS.
If you are deep into BM you can only go two ways. Either you spec into MM to get mortal shots, lethal shots and go for the throat (the raid cookie cutter) or you go into survival and get all those buffs to the traps and a little extra hit chance.
In the current version I have included the spec as follows:
new version wrote:
Mainly for soloing (buffed pet and crowd control): 41/0/20 Solo PvE. Makes your pet a great tank and gives the hunter nice crowd control.
Sayis wrote:
Yet it's not just for soloing. It's good in PvP, in duels (not quite the same as PvP), in instances, and in smaller raids.
Of course one could tweak the specs to be better for groups, but I have already included two specs for groups and I wanted to show a spec which is more focused on soloing.
In raids however this spec does not shine. It might deliver OK damage, but there are clearly better specs for raids, so I would never encourage anyone to spec BM/sv for raids. You'll miss those 5% crit and 30% crit damage in raids.
As for the Curator example. Curator is a DPS fight. You'll need good dps, especially during evocation.
During those ~10seconds you'll deal 400% damage against curator and it is the only time you'll hurt the boss (you'll have enough to do with the adds the remaining time).
So the 5%less crit and less damage on crit will hurt your damage in that fight. It might be the difference between 3 or 4 evocations (which should be realistiv numbers if you are learning the fight. If you have an instance on farm you can of course enter the instance with a sub optimal spec).