With your gear, you should easily be looking at 2300 DPS in heroics. With the right buffs, you should be looking at 2400 in 10-mans and anywhere from 2500-3000 in 25-mans.
First off, get your gear enchanted! There are so many enchanters around right now that are just giving away cheap/free enchants to skill up. Are there any enchanters in your guild that can do this? AP to Bracers, Hit to Gloves, Icewalker to boots, +8 stats to chest and 16 Agi to cloak are all fairly cheap and will improve your stats immensely.
Second, your build is just a little bit off. In the BM tree, Endurance Training is more beneficial than Thick Hide. Take 1 point from Improved Mend Pet and 1 point from Frenzy and put them into Animal Handler. Take a point out of Cobra Strikes and put it into Longevity. At level 80, your pet crits so much that Cobra Strikes doesn't really shine at all. In the MM tree, You should try 3/3 Focused Aim (but still work on getting to 8% hit from gear, since the hit from FA doesn't apply to your pet), 5/5 Lethal Shots, 3/3 Careful Aim, 4/5 Mortal Shots, 2/2 GftT, 3/3 Stings (Arcane shot is useless to a BM hunter), and of course the point into Readiness. This will get your hit rating up, your pet's focus up, and your Serpent sting up, which is actually some of the bread and butter to our DPS now (I'll explain in a moment)
Next, get a cat. Gorillas are AMAZING for solo grinding, but really don't do as well as a Ferocity pet in raids.
This spec is full of win for cat DPS. Keep Rabid on Autocast, but pop Call of the Wild manually during BW/Trinkets/Rapid Fire.
Unfortunately, we can't (to my knowledge) look at Glyphs on the Armory yet, so I'll point these out just in case. Your first priority in Glyph should be
Glyph of Steady Shot. That one increases your Steady Shot damage by 10% when you have Serpent Sting up (see why you should have the points into Imp.Stings?). Depending on your server's economy you may look at anywhere from 50-100g for it, since it's a randomly discovered Major Glyph (needs 385 inscriptions to even get a 1 in 70 chance to learn it), but if you're looking to increase your DPS, it's actually one of the cheapest ways to get a significant boost in DPS.
Second Glyph is Bestial Wrath. It decreases the cooldown of your BW by an additional 20 seconds, bringing your CD (with talents) to barely over 1 minute. More uptime = more DPS.
Third is debatable. Some people like Hunter's Mark, others prefer Serpent Sting. I've seen some people go with Aspect of the Viper, but I don't really care for that one much. Ask the other hunters you raid with if they have the HM glyph, if no one has it (or you're the only one), take HM, otherwise take Serpent Sting.
Now, here's where the skill really comes into playing a hunter:
1. Open with Serpent Sting
2. Spam Steady Shot
3. Refresh the sting every 15-18 seconds
4. ???
5. PROFIT!
(I left out the send in kitty part because it's more interesting to raid with the pet on Defensive. Just don't tell your raid leader about it ;D)
PS: If you're looking for a cheap alternative to getting Enchant Weapon: Accuracy (could cost 1000g per enchant with the way mats are right now!), get a pair of
Titanium Weapon Chains off the AH. You'll lose about 1% crit, but save around 1800g. Just don't be stingy once you start getting epic weapons.
Edited, Dec 6th 2008 5:59pm by ProjectMidnight