Thursday, December 24, 2009

Hunter Surv or Marks DPS, What Spec to Choose for PVE in 3.3?

I have been playing the hunter a bit lately with all the new easy LFG system. As i hadn't played for a few months, the gears and spec was getting away from me a bit. But after a bit of researching i came up with the following DPS specs.

My Gear isnt awesome, and the DPS is still a bit crap ~2.5k or so, but for 5 man heroics its more than enough while i gear up for the more srs stuff ;) Not that ill ever get there as im more casual than anything these days, but something to do to pass the time i spose.

I found a nice DPS Calculator/Spreadsheet from Female Dwarf, you can import all of your armory and gear settings into it, and it will tell you what DPS you should be hitting, quite useful.

This one is quite good for recommending gear upgrades: @ Hunterloot.

The rotation that you should be looking at with a Surv Build is:

  1. Kill Shot

  2. Explosive Shot

  3. Black Arrow

  4. Aimed or Multi Shot

  5. Serpent Sting (Make sure it's always up)

  6. Steady Shot



I think im going to go with one of these specs:
0/14/57
or, they recon that this is the best PVE dps:
6/14/51

Best pet is still a wolf in pve, just for the added AP boost buff, i got one of those cool lookin demon ones ;) Here is the spec:
Wolf PVE Pet Spec

Here are a couple of good reads on what the hell we should be doing to get decent DPS in PVE. ;)

Official Forums for Hunter DPS on 3.3

They recon that a good addon for hunters and seeing when everything procs is Power Auras a Great Hunter Addon.