Hello hunters!

[hubbah]

http://www.worldoflogs.com/guilds/38782/rankings/players/

there you go legolei

[Twyst]

So that means I'm ranked 119 most powerful DK tank on HC chim IN THE WORLD (of logs)!!!!?!!!!!??

Holy cow!

[hubbah]

and 2 more ranked fights! Whoop lost 1 as well so on 5 now! haha

[Cynba]

Hai! So up until tuesday I was MM spec, but then I changed to survival. I like it, just need to get used to it. I sometimes forget stuff which results in dps loss.. Like hunters mark (with MM it was automaticly applied with CS or AS because of the 'Marked for Death' talent), I forget this the most. What I also sometimes forget is serpent sting.. Like after changing targets to go for adds, getting back to the boss & forget to cast it straight away since it wore off.. This happens less & less now though.

For stats, atm I go for agi>hit cap 8%>haste 20%>crit>mastery>haste over 20%. But some others say it's Agility > Hitcap > Critical Strike Rating > Haste > Mastery. I'm still not sure what to go for.. should read some more about it or just test it out. Reforging is free so..

So any thoughts, tips or even useful addons for hunters... always welcome!

cheers

[hubbah]

Finally a hunter to talk to again Hello!

Anyway, the stats:

Agil ( fill all slots with 40 agil except when the bonus is +20 agil or more. )
Hit to 8%
Haste to 750ish ( cobra shot to 1.66 seconds )
Crit
Mastery
Haste

Alot of people are saying that switching the last 2 does not matter and the dmg is about the same but in my mind that just does not make sense, mastery buffs every shot except autoshot, haste buffs nothing but your autoshot & cobra shot ( hunters dont get more dot ticks due to more haste. )

I dont use many addons but the one thing i cant live without is Hunter Focus bar, it lets you create a focus bar anywhere on your screen and put your debuff / buffs around it.
On that one theres a warning if you forgot your hunters mark as well so when its not on your target it shows it on the middle of the screen with a big picture of the huntersmark icon.

For the serpent sting thing you had i cant really help you what i always do is at the start of a fight is: MD to tank, Huntersmark, Prepot, ( here fight starts ) Explosiveshot - Serpent sting - Black arrow - Cobrashot - Cobrashot - Expslive shot - Arcaneshot ( this will have a 20% chance or someting to get your 4 piece t13 buff going ) - etc.
This way i always know a serpent sting is on the target, when im switching targets i always start of with a serpent sting anyway, maybe someting you could do .

I know there is a addon to track your debuff as well, but havent used it yet.

[Azunai]

I sometimes forget stuff which results in dps loss.. Like hunters mark (with MM it was automaticly applied with CS or AS because of the 'Marked for Death' talent), I forget this the most. What I also sometimes forget is serpent sting.. Like after changing targets to go for adds, getting back to the boss & forget to cast it straight away since it wore off.. This happens less & less now though.

It's practically every class that has a dot or other effect that needs to be up whenever possible that has this problem. I use WeakAura's to show a Texture on my screen when the dot or spell is not up on the target, as a reminder for me to put it on. On my hunter I have this for Serpent and Mark, as well as for Aspect of the Hawk. WeakAura's is great for monitoring this, as well as a lot of other things :-) And yes, I will promote it every chance I get!

[Switchback]

for dots i knwo hunters dont have to many but a great addon...easy to use is needtoknow
can set it up with dot spells,cd's etc and its quite small yet big enough to notice...and obvioulsy you can make it bigger etc....just my 2cents

[Cynba]

Tnx for the replies the NeedToKnow addon is really nice, it already helped me couple times reminding me to apply certain spells . It's also nice to show when a trinket, or some other item with a certain ability, is about to proc (if you know what the internal global cooldown is). Here's a vid that shows it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6IDQ99y92I

I think the NTK addon is good enough for now, WeakAura seems also nice though. And I already had a similar hunterfocus bar addon

[TeaLeaf]

the NeedToKnow addon is really nice

That's the one I use for my toons to handle my DOT tracking.   The only thing it does not do is track multiple target - for multiple target tracking I use Forte Xorcist.   You can see both in the RGT videos I uploaded to the dMw Youtube channel.

I use WeakAuras too, but not for DOT tracking, just for specific encounter buff tracking or self-buff tracking.