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#1 Apr 08 2008 at 7:06 AM Rating: Decent
I have marksmanship talens on my hunter (currently lvl 40 I'm using these talents for exping and plan to use them also later). The problem is that when my friend saw I use marksmanship, he started laughing(almost rolling on the floor) and telling me what a noob I am and refused to tell me why he thinks marksmanship is bad.
So I wanted ask you if you agree with my choice or if you think the same as my friend does and -if so- why these talents are considered to be useless.
#2 Apr 08 2008 at 7:09 AM Rating: Decent
While leveling, it doesn't really matter all that much. But once you get to 60 and heading towards 70, your specc will matter more. For soloing and raiding, you would be far better served by a Beastmastery build with MM as the secondary tree. It provides better DPS and far better soloability. Survival provides better CC and a far better group/raid buff.

Marksmanship at 70, however, unfortunately just doesn't scale much. The TSA buff is inconsequential compared to BM or Surv, and the dps is lackluster. At 70, Marksmanship is a pure PvP build with no real raid/group/solo ability when compared to other builds.

I will tell you this, though: Leveling as Beastmastery will most likely be far easier and faster than leveling as Marksmanship.
#3 Apr 08 2008 at 7:17 AM Rating: Default
41/20/0 seemed to work for me, until you get geared your pretty much stucked with 41/20.
#4 Apr 08 2008 at 7:22 AM Rating: Decent
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BobinatortehHunter wrote:
41/20/0 seemed to work for me, until you get geared your pretty much stucked with 41/20.
Why until you get geared?
#5 Apr 08 2008 at 8:07 AM Rating: Decent
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Actually, marksmanship is going to pump out more DPS at lower levels of gameplay. I mean that both as while you're levelling and when you're at 70 in only greens. It's not that bad of an idea to level marks, since it will make grinding faster (and if you pick up talents like GFtT and AP increases you'll be fine). BM would be slightly easier, albeit slower too. The difference isn't huge either way, though.
#6 Apr 08 2008 at 8:12 AM Rating: Good
Faster grinding in the short run. Slower in the long run, since a BM Hunter will never have to rest unless he/she messed up a pull. In instances though, Marksman is definitely the way to go.

It doesn't really matter much, though. It's a matter of playstyle while leveling. Go for what you enjoy. Just take half an hour to skim through the two stickies and bookmark the various Hunter resources linked in said stickies. This will help you enormously once you get up to higher levels and actually need to think a little before acting in groups.
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