finding you are going OOM lots?Follow

The only time I go OOM are on longer boss fights. As far as normal mobs, I rarely go OOM at all.

hunters have made nearly zero use of spirit based mana regen.
You fire specials more then once each 5 seconds thus hardly ever get to make use of that rule during combat.
a.k.a you saying that you are suddenly OoM way faster when fighting mobs simply isnt true.

Well, in raiding and instances it doesn't make a huge difference. But when you're out solo grinding, it can be noticeable- especially if you were one of the people to lose upwards of 50 MP/5.

There was no change to mana use or in combat mana regen. So whatever you're noticing is either for other reasons or all in your head.

I think it's with the rate at which we regain mana now. I think I read we no longer get back as much mana a tick as we did before. Well depending on your Int I think it said. The change helps jobs that rely heavily on mana and have a whole lot of it. It doesn't work as well for most hunters since they don't seem to have the same Int as other jobs.

Something like that.

I guess i'm the only one who always has done grinding in viper with a full on rotation? oO

And no, i never go OoM like that, and i hardly ever have more then 5 seconds between mobs so i never get more then 2 maybe 3 ticks of mana regen outside of the 5 second rule...

Now why would you have a mana regenerating aspect on during a boss fight when you could have Aspect of the Hawk on for more damage? That makes no sense to me.

No, I grind with AotV on but I don't really do full DPS rotation (trinkets and all that). I stay 1:1 and the only time I break it is to toss a Mend Pet on Morris or FD if I'm pulling aggro from Morris (which seems to happen more often now, but I am doing a lot more damage these days).

This gives me at least half mana (usually 2/3rds) in case something goes horribly wrong or I get adds I have to deal with.

With AotH on, I have to stop and chew on a Pod about 3-4 mobs. I don't really lose much time because I send Morris after the next target while I eat. Once I had to get up and fire an arcane because he had the target near death before I'd finished! I guess I couldn't do that trick if I were BM, but then again, if I were BM, I probably wouldn't be going OoM since it's more mana efficient.

It does go faster but even without the trinks I am starting to pull aggro too fast from my pet. Maybe if I triggered them towards the last half of a targets health or something...

I generally grind in 'easy mode', usually chatting with a friend or something, texting in the chat window, whatnot.

My focus isn't normally on grinding. I've even read books and catalogs while grinding.

So time generally isn't my constraint if I'm grinding. The same is not true for questing and such. Then I trinket and go for max dps.

I can't help it. I'm lazy.

Too dang efficient...

I do:

Mark Target
Send Pet
Heal Pet
Start Aimed
Check out model on page 34 of the latest Victoria's Secret catalog
Occasionally hit Steady shot
Check to see if target is dead
Nope, check aggro rates then check out next model
Target dead, move on to next target

Rinse, wash and repeat.

Highly ineffective and inefficient, but I'm just blowing time grinding anyway right?

LOL!

(I use something close to your description if I'm in a hurry or need a particular 'thing' from the targets. I consider that actual questing!)