The HELP ME! Thread.Follow

To avoid unnecessary threads bloating the forum, this thread will be here to ask and answer questions.

First of all:
Have you read the FAQ?
It'll answer all basic questions you want to ask.
And the Hunter, preparing to raid! guide?
That will answer nearly everything you want or need to know concerning preparing for and starting out in raids in WotLK.

Is your question about your gear?
Download the Spreadsheet or check Femaledwarf and check for yourself.
It'll answer nearly all gear questions better than any of us can.

In here, we will answer questions that are more specific such as "How do I handle XXX fight?"(whether it is a (raid)boss or a player), "I've got these and these upgrades, why am I not doing more dps?" and "This is my WWS, can you help me find out what I could improve?"
For questions about your dps, helping you based on just your armory link is not possible.
We'll need to know your rotations and we strongly recommend posting a WWS report to help us analyze where you can improve.

If you have a question that can likely be answered by a "yes" or "no" and it isn't answered in the sticky, this is the place to ask that question.

Note: Even though this is the HELP ME! thread, you'll still be mocked for posting questions that are answered in the stickies.

Edited, Aug 7th 2009 1:38pm by Aethien

Sort of. But it doesn't matter. currently trap dancing has been killed on the ptr so there is no point in doing it anymore. In addition to that sniper training no longer requires you to be at 30 yards, instead it requires you not to move.

Normally trap dancing ignored the sniper bonus and just stays as close to the boss as possible, as 30 yards was too much distance.

Slightly off topic in some ways perhaps , but still i thought i had to say it . Why is there threads going right back to the beginning of WoW as they are completely irrelevant to the WoW of today even if some are an interesting read of how it used to be ?.

Those deemed interesting could be kept and the rest deleted or is it that would mess up the karma ratings some have ?.

Just wondering why we have so many pages here that nobody will ever read.

There is no crit cap for hunters as misses can be pushed off the table by +hit leaving just crit and hit.

As for a PvP spec: I use 0/15/56.
And don't expect to do good with hunter/hunter, it's a clowncomp and unless you have insane skill, coordination and gear you probably won't be able to pull it off.



Only what is interesting?
So as long as there's enough place to store it all you might as well keep it.

Okay, so I phail at advanced Excel spreadsheets. I can do data entry, but macros defeat me.

I downloaded the spreadsheet, I installed Excel (much to my unhappiness) and I still can't use the damn thing. I click on the buttons (for instance, to import my info from the Armory) and nothing happens. A few fields I can edit, but nothing more.

Is there a tutorial for how to make this exceptional complicated thing?

I turned the security setting to low so that the macros would run, but I still couldn't get it to work yesterday. But I just tried it again and now it works. *shrug* But it's giving me really inaccurate numbers with regards to amount of health and whatnot, so obviously I'm missing something still. Ah well, will keep messing with it.

Edited, Mar 15th 2009 11:43am by Ambrya

Your weaponskill with guns is likely lower, thus your chance to hit and crit is lower than it should be too. :)

Just curious... I've noticed that the DPS spreadsheet will auto-choose gems when you update an item on the gear tab. It seems to do that based on creating the best overal DPS, however, it doesn't always work to maintain a capped hit rating and/or 20% + crit rating. Has anyone else observed this to be true? And if so... I thought maintaining the hit cap was an *essential* requirement, with maintaining the hit cap being more important than the few extra AP one can achieve? Also, isn't a modicum of crit necessary for a hunter with GFTT?

For the record, I am a 80 BM, armory linked in sig.

Thoughts, ideas, comments?

Edited, Mar 27th 2009 5:34pm by Sketso

I was wondering how pro-level hunters initiate pet attacks when the pet is in passive mode. When I'm soloing, my pet is in defensive usually which means he attacks as soon as I start to shoot, which is fine except when I want to intercept the mob a bit closer, then I put him in passive, shoot and then send him out.

What I'm finding is that I'm using my shot buttons to send out stings, etc ... but in these instances I'm having to reach out far to my left to my pet bar to put the pet into attack mode. Not terrible in solo where I can control the flow of activity, but a huge pain when I enter an instance.

So, how do you do it? Do you put pet attack on your shooting interface bar? Do you move your pet bar over to the right? I guess I'm looking for a best practices sort of thing.

Here is my hunter if that helps at all:

Djineane

That sounds like a good idea, and if I had thumb buttons on my mouse I'd probably go with that too.

Since I don't, what I have done is to make a macro for /cast Hunter's Mark and /petattack--it's not an ideal solution, and I still pull my pet back manually which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for error, but it lets me use my pet easily when he's set to passive, which is the most important thing.

It's actually called follow, but it just makes your pet run back to you.

Explosive shot is your heavy, it's the Muscle in your DPS. Since it's on a 6 second CD, you need to look at what shots will fall during that CD time. There will be 4 possibilities (keep in mind this is in a perfect world now where you don't have to move at all)

Explosive > Serpent > Aimed > Steady > Explosive
Explosive > Steady > Steady > Steady > Explosive
Explosive > Serpent > Steady > Steady > Explosive
Explosive > Aimed > Steady > Steady > Explosive

This is not taking into account a Lock and Load proc. Keep in mind while you are looking at what shot CD's are up, Auto shot is firing away at it's ~2.24 per second rate. So during those 6 seconds, you are also getting 3 Auto shots. That is why your Auto damage is so high. As you can also see, Steady is a filler shot but appears in the rotation quite a bit. That is why it is sitting at a solid 3 place in your damage output. Aimed and Serpent have longer CD's so they won't be putting out quite as big of numbers as the others.



Explosive is your main priority. Do not waste any CD time by shooting a Steady or other shot if you can shoot it. I also wouldn't start a steady if you Explosive CD is almost done, wait that half a second and shoot Explosive. Serpent is not a huge DPS booster other than the fact that you are keeping it up to get a Lock and Load proc. The speccing into Noxious and Improved Serpent Sting is to get the most out of a debuff that you will have up anyway.

If Lock and Load procs, you need to still stagger the Explosive shots, do not fire all 3 right away. You would be clipping the periodic damage that Explosive gives off. You should do something like this when LnL procs...

Explosive > 1/2 sec > Explosive > 1/2 sec > Explosive

Teh main idea is to let the DoT tick before reapplying.

I hope this helps in your Survival experience.

Edited, Apr 5th 2009 11:52pm by browningguns

Ahh, that explains a lot, thank you!

Here's what I'm using right now to keep myself from clipping the Explosive Shot DOT. The green and white dots are for SSting and Aimed Shot, the red one shows when I can fire Explosive Shot, and the flare over it tells me my Explosive Shot is already ticking and I should fire something else.