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Hey guys

Since the patch I've re-specked my MM. When we are fighting a boss in an instance 8 out 10 times I will end up with the highest DPS in the group, however, when it comes to mobs my DPS suck. I would like to know if you people think I should change to allow more DPS when it comes to mobs or keep it as is for the bosses?

I find scatter shot has such a long cooldown that it does not make much of a difference for me. Any thoughts?

BTW, I'm only level 77 at the moment.
 
Welcome to the life of a mutilate rogue. :(

Highest single target dps...absolute failcaek on mobs.
 
only Voicy will turn a hunter thread into a OMG Rooogs sucks at AoE :D
 
Esea said:
only Voicy will turn a hunter thread into a OMG Rooogs sucks at AoE :D
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kek ^_^

Dude, seriously... I'm so stoked about hunters going back to focus instead of Mana. Having mana made absolutely zero sense. Granted my hunter is only a lvl 1 bank alt called "Absa", but I've always loved the hunter/ranger role in RPG's and MMO's. I have a hunter in LOTRO and a ranger in GW and absolutely love that play style.

I think the only reason I never rolled alts was because I started off as a rogue and been playing nothing else for the last 3 years. It's too much fun causing with the ninja. :o
 
but why do you care about your AoE DPS whn your a good single target DPS class ?
 
yes the guild hunter ran BM last night in the ICC 10 man and he was 2nd on dps (and no that doesnt mean the rest was kuk) and that was over 10/12 bosses
 
Esea said:
yes the guild hunter ran BM last night in the ICC 10 man and he was 2nd on dps (and no that doesnt mean the rest was kuk) and that was over 10/12 bosses
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Nice, I haven't done a run in BM after the patch yet, think I will give it a try tonight.
 
Veroland said:
Hey guys

Since the patch I've re-specked my MM. When we are fighting a boss in an instance 8 out 10 times I will end up with the highest DPS in the group, however, when it comes to mobs my DPS suck. I would like to know if you people think I should change to allow more DPS when it comes to mobs or keep it as is for the bosses?

I find scatter shot has such a long cooldown that it does not make much of a difference for me. Any thoughts?

BTW, I'm only level 77 at the moment.
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scatter shot for mobs :wtf: you should be using multi shot.
 
Esea said:
yes the guild hunter ran BM last night in the ICC 10 man and he was 2nd on dps (and no that doesnt mean the rest was kuk) and that was over 10/12 bosses
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im pretty sure the rest where kuk, because BM is not a viable raiding spec as it stands.
 
TBH, most AOE have been nerved down. I play mage at the moment and while our arcane single target spec is way OP, our AOE have been scaled down so much that I just shoot single targets down when there are 5 mobs to kill... Seems the old AOE normalization effects are back, i.e. AOE causes 10k dps split over X-targets...
The idea at the end of the day seems that we will not "just" doe AOE for Cata, but rather high focused damage.
 
BM's are doing very well on AOE damage... thanks to mr Worms exotic ability... slap a explosive trap onto it coupled with multi-shots, you do decent damagel. Just painfull to get the whole micro management rolling out.
 
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I find scatter shot has such a long cooldown that it does not make much of a difference for me. Any thoughts?
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You're doing it WRONG.

Try reading the tooltips. Scatter shot is a defensive cooldown, it is NOT an AOE dps ability. Multishot IS an AOE dps ability and has no cooldown.

If you want to do any kind of decent aoe dps as MM you need the Bombardment talent. This will let you fire almost twice the number of multishots you would otherwise be able to. So the abilities you should be using is Trap launcher + Explosive trap and then MS till you're out of focus. Stuff should be dead by then if they not then you might need to get off a few steadies in order to MS again.
 
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