Patch 2.4 hunter changesFollow

Hunter

* Equipping a thrown weapon while in the middle of an Auto-Shot will no longer cause animation issues.
* Casting Flare while in any way not visible, will no longer cause your flare to be invisible to other players.
* Hunter’s Mark: Hunters with Improved Hunter’s Mark will now properly overwrite Hunter’s Mark cast by Hunters without the talent.
* The stamina tooltip for hunter pets will now display the proper health increase.

HUZZAH! Omg. I'm SO sick of other hunters in 25 man raids who INSIST on casting their non-improved hunters mark, even though I tell them not to. I've been told by 3 different hunters that my mark will override theirs, but according to xPerl, it's NOT. I can tell because my debuffs are twice the size of other players' debuffs, and when I try to cast a 5/5 improved hunter's mark over unimproved marks, the debuff does not become mine.

I almost can't wait for next week's raid so I can tell them that even BLIZZARD acknowledges that it doesn't do it.

I've been reading about that legendary bow on the O-boards and the general consensus is that you'll hit about 200 dmg harder on steady shots and such but your auto shot dmg would remain the same (assuming you were using Sands of Time rep ammo + BT range weps). Other than that, most hardcore hunters seem disappointed and see it and go "wheeeeeeeeeeee... no more quiver...-_-"

Edited, Feb 10th 2008 11:32am by Ancalimanarion

I wonder what arrow equivalent those magic arrows are? I hope that they're better than Scale of the Sands arrows.

Edited, Feb 10th 2008 9:40pm by ProjectMidnight

The Illidan Bow has also ~40 MP5 on it which really is useful. A shame that I got outbid on it :-(
So between the Illidan bow and the legendary you look at:
17agi, 16crit rating, 34ap, 112armor reduce vs. 0.1dps, 26ap and 8 mana per shot (~40MP5).

As long as mana is not an issue, the legendary bow is clearly better. But in those mana heavy fights, I'd prefer to use the Illidan bow.

So the legendary thing about this bow is that it does not use your quiver and normal arrows? Meh, I hoped for a bonus that would be useful to the raid group... or at least a buff that would boost the dps like the war glaive's haste proc.

What bow are you talking about? If it is the Netherstrand Longbow, you can only use it for that fight.

wow thats pretty nice, let me guess it drops somewhere that most of us will never see :)

Edit: Nevermind, i totally missed that post that has all my answers in it.

Edited, Feb 11th 2008 6:50pm by montaghar

Steady Shot doesn't benefit from Arrow DPS, this does.

Yeah Kinda. I beleive it is only in there because people constantly complain that there is no legendary bow. So Bliz said "fine, take this, youwill just out level it in a few months when the expansion is finally released."

Oh well. I will probobly never see it unless we return here at lvl 80.

yeah it is, and i'll be workiing my *** of to see it drop before WotLK.
But its kinda dissapointing that its just not that special...


And i dont give a **** about extra bagspace, i care about raiding.
and you dont need bagspace for raiding.

Well... On a better note. There's FINALLY a PvE option for an epic chestpiece for hunters who aren't getting into ZA or 25-man content... Or have to compete with 2 other hunters, a handful of enhancement shamans, and enough mages and warlocks to make you cry.

Hauberk of the War Bringer drops from Kael'thas in normal mode in Magister's Terrace.

It's still a great stepping stone between dungeon blues and ZA/25 mans.

I'm in a position where I could spend a ton of money to get the BoE epic crafted chestpiece to BARELY raise my stats from my Laughing Skull battle harness, or I can wait for my turn for the chestpiece off of Hydross, which I'm competing for with an enhancement Shammy, and two other hunters. There's also the Arrow-fall chest guard from ZA, but I'm only an alt for my guild's ZA raid, and they haven't cleared that boss yet- AND I'm competing for it with the same shaman from SSC. We also haven't cleared Mag yet, and I'd be about 4th or 5th in line for the token.

There's always the leather chestpiece from Nightbane, but I have to pass to rogues and feral druids before I can even hope to roll on it =\.

Raid loot Politics suck. 5-mans that drop Epics don't.

Edited, Feb 12th 2008 5:01am by ProjectMidnight

I'm sooo glad they fixed that animation problem, becuase I always switch to a thrown weapon in the middle of a fight...

But you all missed what RPzip said



In other words with a 1:1 shot rotation this bow will put out a crap load more DPS because of it's much higher base damage.

Look at it another way. All things equal. Average damage for arrows at 70 is roughly 40 so a DPS of about 24, for auto shots alone. This bow basically adds that dps to our steady shots as well. So thats a pretty big increase in overal DPS if you ask me.

sorry for the rough quick guesstimation, it's 4:50 icey out, I'm rushing to get a lot of things done in a few minutes, and of course WoW takes priority lol