BM Hunting?!Follow

Aim for ~1700 AP (with hawk), ~20% crit, 7k hp, 6-6.5k mp and the standard hit.
After that just pure AP, other stats will go up too but no need to focus on anything but AP.

Oh, and respec to 41-20-0 simply because its the highest (personal) dps spec a hunter can have.
And although its far from original and most raiding hunters use this spec, its just very good and there isnt much space to change around points because you need it all especially the 20 points in MM for lethal shots, rapid fire and GftT.

Even if you dislike MM talents I'd at least include those nice 5% crit. You won't need 48 points in BM, you can easily get the nice talents with 43 points.

Another thing that strikes me as odd is why you expect to have more fun after a respec. BM playstyle in raids is more boring than SV as the shot rotation is much easier and you have less buttons to push.


No wonder you won't enjoy your hunter much if you mainly farm with him. I use my druid for farming as it is boring as hell on my hunter. At least I have to do a few things more on my druid when killing stuff.
Why don't you farm with your lock?


That is an easy one eh?
Funny enough you chose the top dps spec and your goal is not to be on the top, but then, one has to have a challenge.

The only thing what would interest me about going BM would finally being able to use the 375 LW ebon epic armor set. Gawd... still can't believe they didnt put AGI on that.

Heh, very very true. Went the other way myself. Spent 10-70 as BM (with a few testruns of other builds as well, at times) and all my Soloing time at 70 as BM. Maxed my professions, and generally enjoyed myself. But decided I wanted to try something else, and since all the Hunters in the guild were BM, perhaps a Surv Hunter would be useful.

And I realized the Ebon Netherscale set I had coveted for so long suddenly became useless. Nooooo! Whyyyy? *Khan Pose*

My Guildleader also managed to misplace the Thich Netherscale Breastplate pattern he'd promised me when I hit 375 DS LW, and thus the other viable option went down the drain.

*sigh*

Gearing a Surv Hunter sucks so hard...

Chest is equal to T5, the other 2 pieces are already replaceable in kara i think...

edit: Stalkers war bands are pretty equal to the netherscale bands.
Stalker ---- Netherscale
0.53% crit - 0.81% crit
180 hp ----- 250 hp
255 mp ----- 120 mp
65 AP ----- 56 AP (sockets filled with +16 AP gems)
0 Mp5 ------ 5 Mp5

So trading 0.28% crit, 70Hp and 5 Mp5 for 9 AP and 135 mp.
And because the stalkers have 21 agility, they are already better for SV and with the high int on them (giving another 8 AP for MM with Careful Aim) i'd say its pretty close for MM and Netherscales are a tadbit better for BM.

And belt of the prowler is also pretty equal.
Prowler ----- netherscale
210 HP ------ 210 HP
330 MP ------ 210 MP
0.63% crit - 1% crit
1% Hit ------ 0% hit
73 AP ------- 80 AP (sockets filled with +16 AP gems)
6 Mp5 ------- 8 Mp5
so trading 0.37 % crit, 7 AP and 2 Mp5 for 120 MP and 1% hit
Again, because of the agility Prowler is better for SV.
Because of the higher Int the difference in AP for MM hunters with careful aim is lowered to 3 so they are pretty equal and for BM hunters the belt is attractive too because they have no way of getting surefooted.
I'd say that if you arent hitcapped yet, Prowler is the better belt.

then the only breastplate i could find in Kara, the breastplate of carnage:
Carnage ---- Netherscale
330 HP ----- 250 HP
570 MP ----- 345 MP
1.14% crit - 1.48% crit
80 AP ------ 138 (sockets filled with +16AP gems)
8 Mp5 ------ 8 Mp5

so trading 0.24% crit and 58 AP for 80 HP and 225 MP.
Here i'd say the Netherscale is simply a lot better because of the 58 AP difference.

Edited, Sep 25th 2007 9:33am by Aethien

fixed.