Elustriel wrote:
This maybe a bit off topic, but for the love that is holy, please drop spirit bond and put those points into imp mend pet. I just couldn't stay quiet about that travesty.
When I was BM spec, I had both. I leveled to 70 primarily solo (ie. probably over 95% of the total xp I earned from 1-70 was done without a party). Spirit Bond keeps the grind grinding. It doesn't seem like much, but over the course of a couple of hours worth of grinding, it almost always kept my health bar full (or near full) despite taking the occasional whack.
FangXLR wrote:
I know i know, i've been meaning to fix up my spec, i let my friend do it because he is an up and coming BM hunter and i wanted to see what he's got in terms of the essentials, still got a bit more to go.
And about my story, i know i completely forgot to mention him pulling agro from the tank, he did it a few times, but it was nothing major. I pulled agro on purpose to show the rogue that EVERY CLASS CAN DPS LIKE A MACHINE IF THEY TRY BUT ONLY GOOD PLAYERS CAN DO IT WITH SKILL. He seemed to not get that i was busy doing other stuff, i.e. keeping mobs trapped, sometimes having to chain trap and kite on bad pulls, etc. etc. And i had to use my pet to pull agro off me for a sec cause i pulled agro from the boss, just tried to stay alive.
The only conceivable way your pet is going to be able to get threat from a boss mob after you blast through the tank's threat threshold is if you were using Growl (or your particular pet's equivalent) periodically throughout the fight. I'd hate to think you had it on auto-cast.
I smell *********
For starters, if you weren't a Huntard you'd never put your ego ahead of the rest of the party. You'd do your ******* job the right way, which is to give the tank a little time to build threat, dps hard and then FD to reset, then dps hard again. Repeat as necessary until the boss is dead or your party is.
Which leads into the next "If you weren't a Huntard" component: you'd FD before you'd use your pet's tanking threat abilities to manage the situation. Using your pet to tank for you until the tank could get above it in threat is bloody stupid. As a BM Hunter, your pet is more an integral part of your dps than any other Hunter spec.
Getting butthurt because a better-geared loudmouth Rogue is giving you a hard time about your spot on the damage meter is weak all by itself. Getting so butthurt that you'd jeopardize your party trying to prove a point is bloody disgraceful. Rogues are pure dps classes. The only real crowd control they are ever expected to do is a Sap right before the pull. That means after the pull happens, they stand opposite the tank and spank out damage.
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I usually do get top in meters, with a few expetions (BM and SH, hate trash mob duity during boss fights QQ), but this group was a little inexperianced, so i was busy making sure the tank didn't get overwhelmed cause he was one of the few polite warriors i've met during my PuG adventures.
I ran BM tonight with a mage geared for Gruul's. I was on add duty with him backing me up on the whelps. I never stopped shooting. By the end of the run, he had only edged me out by 4% of overall damage done. Add duty doesn't mean kill the little things that come out of the portal and then jam your thumb up your *** waiting for the next one. It means mash the adds and then get back on the portal keeper. You should be easily within range of the portal keeper to resume dps as soon as your add is down. Sometimes you'll get overrun and spend all of your time on adds (whelps really ***** things up for Hunters if you have no backup to manage them quickly), but you're still doing damage. If you make sure you never stop shooting at
something, your overall damage done for the run will go up dramatically, you'll start to earn a reputation for yourself as something other than a Huntard, and your thumb won't smell like ****.
Shattered Halls is no different. I keep my pet at my side with Charge and Growl set to auto-cast (bite and gore off because focus can be an issue). Track Humanoids up, dps on Kargath, and as soon as an add gets up the stairs my boar is on him in a heartbeat and I unleash hell. Add down, back to dps on boss. Repeat as necessary.
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But i don't know, i'm sure what i did was a bit much, i just kinda went off the deep end for a bit (not verbally of course, i was too miffed to even really type anything).
I'd say more than a bit much. If you ever pulled that kind of crap in a party I was in, I'd never invite you to another group. It's a game. Do your thing to help your party as best you can and ignore the e-peen strokers. The best way to keep from catching their load in your eye is to not even look at them.