Monday, July 21, 2008

Hunter Buffs

Each of the 3 Hunter trees brings it's own unique buffs, first lets look at the 2 easiest to compare buffs.

Marksman's Trueshot aura which is 125AP to the whole party
And Beast Master's Ferocious inspiration which is a flat 3% dps increase.
Survival's expose Weakness is 25% of the hunter Agil as an AP increase on the boss.

125AP will increase white hits by just under 9DPS, now if we assume a the same increase for melee yellow hits (it will be close) that would be an 18DPS increase. So at a 3% increase the party would have to on average be doing 600dps for FI to be better than Trueshot. However Trueshot only affects physical dps and by the time you have 4 other physical dps in the party with you, your in kara and should be well on your way to passing 600dps.

This is much harder to calculate because the more crit you have the more frequently it will be up and the more Agility you have the more AP there is and the more physical DPS there is in the raid, the more benefit will be gained from it. As a general rule.

Also improtant to consider is FI increase all dps not just physical and stacks (so 5 BM hunters in a group will get a 15% dps increase). Trueshot does not stack and neither does expose weakness so it doesn't make sense to have more than 1 marks hunter in a group or more than 1 survival hunter in a raid.


BM provides the most DPS increase in 5-10 mans with gear.
Survival will provide the largest raid wide dps increase in a 25 man as long as the hunter has over 600 Agil (800 Agility raid buff is what I would considered the minimum for raiding survival)
And Marks is only best you have low gear and are only melee in the group.



However these aren't the only ways that a hunter can benefit the raid.
Imp Hunter's mark with increase all melee DPS AP by 110, and is worthwhile having 1 hunter take in a 25 man raid. Also another thing to consider is having 1 hunter take an owl for screech and then having the warlocks put up curse of recklessness. The owl with nerf that hunters dps but having recklessness up will nearly make up for it and increase the Raids DPS greatly. Also since recklessness is a 135AP increase and screech is a 210AP debuff, this tactic will actually decrease the bosses's damage output.

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