BM and MM DPSFollow

MM is the new SV, but with an extra "HOLYCRAP DPS" added to it.

Trueshot gives 10% (In Wrath it'll be 12%) AP to your entire raid. 10% is a LOT, not to mention the better gear you get, the higher it'll scale.

However, this is of course subjective. Obviously, the benefit of Trueshot isn't going to be as noticeable in T4 level content than in T6+ level content. I might just be biased, but I think you should stay Marksman.

Edit: Less subjective.

Edited, Oct 17th 2008 12:44am by Zeromatter

BM is still the DPS powerhouse, MM is a support spec.

If you have no enhancement shaman in your raid/group, MM might be interesting. Otherwise, BM outperforms MM.

We did Sunwell yesterday (the first 5 bosses).
Hunters are currently really strong.
I managed to top dps charts on every boss except against Felmyst where a lock beat me (it is a very aoe heavy fight on which I did not participate as I had to call out the breaths).
The MM hunter which was in the raid from Brutallus onwards could not compete in DPS. He was 200-500 dps behind me on all fights. This most surely is because of the spec, not skill as the other hunter really knows what he is doing.

Just some fun facts:
- Sunwell has been nerfed beyond imagination. Bosses are really really easy now. It is not even funny anymore (e.g. killed Brutallus with a rather bad setup, buggy uis and strange talent specs. We killed him in 3min20seconds when our best kill before had been 5min30seconds)
- With T6+ gear my cat does 1.1-1.2k dps
- Against Brutallus I had 3.3k dps; against twins I had nearly 3k (those numbers include the pet)

BM is HUGE DPS. I used to compete for the #1 spot on the meters. I usually get it, but it was still a challenge. My guild has 3 BM hunters and we are nearly uncatchable on the charts. The only time we aren't tearing it up is when a retadin cheats. Ah well, Blizzard has already acknowledged that Ret Pallies got overbuffed, and they'll be fixed soon.

Black Temple is a joke, too. We took out Najentus in about a minute 30, Supremus in about 3 minutes. For shade, we didn't bother with any DPS on the adds that come out the side doors. Everyone just stayed on the stairs and DPSed down the channelers (or whatever they're called. I'm usually on adds).

Gorefiend was HILARIOUS. Someone "called it" and said that I would be the first person to get ghosted... And I was. I was the first and last person. I got my constructs down as usual, and the ******* was dead before I even died.

Popped Bloodboil before the second Fel Rage.

Got a progression kill on RoS. It felt like cheating. It was our first try in weeks. We had only made it into phase 3 once, and we took them down with no problem at all.

Got a progression kill on Mother Shahraz with half the raid missing their shadow gear. First attempt.

That was day 1 in BT.

Today, took down Council. Took several tries (that walk back is worse than wiping on Shade of Aran >.<), but we did it after just 3 hours of attempts. And OH EM GEE! I really wish I hadn't WoW-Errored and lost my Recount information when I tried to take a screenshot of the kill. Our three hunters we top three, and #4 on the chart did HALF the amount of damage that we did. Granted, most classes had specific roles that kept them away from the top, but it was still nice to see it happen ;D

Almost got Illidan into phase 3 with 21 people. He dies tomorrow.

Edited, Oct 18th 2008 6:41am by ProjectMidnight

Wow,
I did a full kara run last night in about an hour-2 hours,I averaged 1400 dps in there.