is imp hunters mark worth it?Follow

Imp Hunter's Mark is more of a raid talent. While solo, it gives your pet a small boost, and that's it. I'm not sure yet if it even increases Growl.

Efficiency is probably better for solo.

But if you're ever in a melee heavy group or raid, they'll like the extra AP.

From my PoV, marking every target in a solo grind is a sick drain on mana. I used to mark every target in my early days as a Hunter until I noticed that my mana was running dry way faster than it seemed like it should be. I stopped marking every target and huzzah! Huge mana savings.

As for group content, I use Hunter's Mark on anything and everything the group won't mow down so quickly that it's not worth it. It's not just a benefit to other Hunters and melee dps...it gives the tank just a wee bit more AP that in turn builds just a wee bit more threat from their attacks. (I know it's not a lot, but it's something). For raids, if you have an SV Hunter in your raid group, it makes sense that they would be the ones with Improved Hunter's Mark, and have any other Hunters use the talents elsewhere. That puts physical dps boosting debuffs from Hunters in the hands of one player and saves confusion.

Imp Hunters Mark is a group/ raid talent, or even PvP, since you're not going to be alive long enough to make full use of Efficiency anyway. Efficiency is more of a solo talent that increases the time between resting/ drinking so you can grind longer and increase your xp/ hour.

But the viability in a raid for Imp Hunters Mark and Effieciency is still rather debatable really, because on the long fights having efficiency can actually keep your DPS higher than Imp Hunters Mark, and Imp Hunters Mark is very dependant on the group you're in, if your in an all caster group Imp Mark is a waste.

If we assume 8 DPS for all physical attackers in a 25 man raid. Let's assume we are at 10 physical DPS. (Five-ish healers, mages, warlocks, shadowpriests and so on becomes a large chunk of players) Then you will get around 24k damage out of Imp Mark over a five minute boss fight. Is that worth it for a Tier 2 talent? Especially when you can have a 10% larger manapool, 10% larger mana potions and 10% more benefit from your manaregen and so on.

If a Hunter have the sheer manapool and TotH to pull off Imp HM, it's definitely a nice thing. But no more than one Hunter per raidgroup should need it, and in other situations it amounts to so little it is almost pointless.

Don't take it unless you are in a 25 raider guild, and no other Hunter seems to have the gear to still keep up their damage without relying too much on AotV.

Well, I don't PvP much, so I'm far from any definitive authority on the subject. I'd still go for Efficiency though. The amount of added attack power isn't all that much, even should your arena team consist of five physical DPS classes. I have, however, been in quite a few drawn out fights and almost exhausted my manapool. Without efficiency, I'd be dead about 10% earlier instead of standing on top of my (probably likewise exhausted) enemy's corpse.

Still, in any PvP specc I'd skip Tier 2 anyway. More crit? Excellent. Chance on stun on my Conc Shot? Bloody awesome. 10% more mana? A tiny increase in physical dps? Naw... not really worth it. Skip tier 2, head into Aimed, GftT, Rapid Killing, Mortal Shots and so on and so forth.

No point in going back to Tier 2 for anything when it comes to PvP.

Thanks guys I think I'll go with efficiency. Since I don't want to raid, and more manna means more mobs, gold, etc. I want that flying mount so anything that helps achieve that goal faster helps. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

I'll go with this build then.