Just how much have we been buffed?Follow

I have always classed myself as an average hunter, certainly not to the standard of most of you who post on here, but I can hold my own in a raid thanks to reading these forums.
To get to this standard took me two and a half years and a huge amount of "teaching an old dog new tricks"(41 year old computer illiterate who has never played another mmorpg in his life speaking :))

So with the arrival of the new patch I decided not to raid until after WOTLK and just start the long learning curve (again) whilst slowly teaching myself all the new skills pet talents etc.
Then our guild decided to venture into BT and give it a try on nerfed mode.

After some persuasion and a lot of promises that they wouldnt laugh at me and my lowly DPS with my new exotic pet I said I would join them.
Previous to this my DPS on a raid boss (MH/SSC and TK..But not BT as we hadnt done this before)was around 1300 on a good night.
We got going and I was absolutely stunned at the numbers that started coming from my damage meter,"It must be a bug" I thought.

So after muddling through the first 4 bosses and me dying a few times we called it a successful night and went to bed.

This morning someone linked the WWS report on our guildsite and I dont believe what i'm seeing. http://wowwebstats.com/vlsjfq4osptjy?m
Questions...
Has anyone else seen such a massive increase in personal DPS?
Is it because of new buffs from other players?
Is it because of my super dooper exotic Corehound? (doubtfull i know)
Can I do even more? (bearing in mind I am a noob at heart and will never cut out the odd stupid death)
Your thoughts and comments would be appreciated.
Cola
P.S. I'm soooo happy lol

You would see an even bigger DPS increase if you dropped the corehound and went for a 50/11 or 49/12 build for raiding. By all means, if you like the corehound, keep it, but if you really want to destroy the meters, get a cat and Go for the Throat.

And I saw a pretty big increase, too. Back in T5 content, I was topping the meters by a good 2-3% on bossfights. It started to even out a bit once my guild got into T6 content, but since the patch, I have to try to not by #1 or #2.

I don't have a WWSR on this because WWS was messed up at the time my guild took Illidan down, but I have a screenshot of what my hunters were doing:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/gcngrrl/WoWScrnShot_101808_211912.jpg

Edit: Not entirely sure why the third hunter dropped out of the top 10. It may have been a mix of being on parasite duty and he might have died at one point.

Edit again: Mulgrin, I hate you. Since the patch, I've killed Gorefiend twice, and both times, I was the first (and only) person to get marked for death. I haven't been able to gauge my DPS against him /cry

Edited, Oct 30th 2008 6:16am by ProjectMidnight

I really do not have time to look up your armory. However, I would not be suprised if you where to see 2500 for single target and around 1800 for the raid.

Damn im convinced!
Thanks to Rinkell Mulgrin and Midnight for the help again, as always great advice.
I'm off to respecc and blow the dust off my cat.
Cola

Yes MM spec is currently very strong as well.
I'm not yet convinced that it is better than a BM spec and it is very hard to come down to good results for different reasons:
- All fights are so very short that crit luck can not really average out (hey, I had > 4k dps against teron because of crit luck and I had a meager 2k dps against brutallus because my pet bugged out (had 3.3k dps the week before with bad crit rates).
- Brut is a joke, every guild farming Sunwell for some time might kill him in a bit more than 2 minutes maximum which is so short that running out because of burn can cost you 500-800dps over the whole fight.
- Because Sunwell is so easy now you'll see a lot of people in off-specs and you will see a lot of raids bringing alts or sub-optimal setups. Thus you really cannot compare results for different raids.

Just to give a small example. Before the nerf of Sunwell we had 4 or 5 guilds which where able to kill Brutallus on my server. Currently I think more than 10 have killed him and 5 or 6 guilds killed Kil'Jaeden.

Brutallus is so easy now that it is hard to convince anyone to use flasks / buffood / weapon oils and so on (I have a hard time convincing our DDs to take demonslaying elixirs which are sponsored by our guild bank *g*).

There are currently not many raids which put much effort into clearing Sunwell thus most results won't tell a lot about how good a spec is.

im predominately a sv hunter and i've noticed a big increase in survivability and dps for my sv spec, but im also at around 870 unbuffed agility so im buffed enough to stay sv

I tested a scorpid after the big patch and was loving how well the scorpid poison was stacking. Has this changed? I wondering how long that will last, with scorpids being a tenacity pet and all.