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Don't understand mastery. I know it increases our elemental damage but what shots of ours do elemental damage? Explosive and maybe our dots? Is it viable to reforge some gear for mastery? I have looked long and far and can't seem to find a good source of knowledge about mastery for hunters. Any help would rock thank you.
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MSRBL20
Mastery is right below agility for every hunter spec. And as survival literally everything you use is elemental damage except steady shot which will be replaced by cobra shot (elemental damage).
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Wutchu
So as a SV hunter what would priority look like now?
Knowing that hit is first priority till you get the 8%, should I then assume the order of importance would be : agility>mastery>crit> haste ( or would hast be above crit since it helps with focus regen?)
I havent reforged any of my stats yet since I havent been sure of what to change. Here is a link to
my armory
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Interest
So as a SV hunter what would priority look like now?
Knowing that hit is first priority till you get the 8%, should I then assume the order of importance would be : agility>mastery>crit> haste
( or would hast be above crit since it helps with focus regen?)
I havent reforged any of my stats yet since I havent been sure of what to change. Here is a link to
my armory
I would be inclined to believe it's based on what's said here my own analysis:
Hit > Agl > Mastery > Haste > Crit.
More Steady Shots = More focus, and a lot of our glyphs and talents tend to emphasize crit regardless.
Besides, even with the haste talents, it's not like we're going to be reaching 50% Haste any time soon =P.
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Wutchu
So I guess Ill, mess around later and reforge some crit ot mastery to see how that works.
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Ragnuk
@ Nykkida:
Well, ive been testing haste from 8% to 13%. While 8% left me a bit starved and at 13% i didnt manage to use up the focus (
was using steady shot when my focus was already at 100% while waiting for CD of explosive shot or waiting to reaply a dot
).
For now i am at roughly 9-9,5% haste which keeps me just fed enough to not loose the CD or aplication of dots.
This may vary depending on various factors like lag etc.
Hope it helps.
In that situation you should be using arcane shot. It does NOT share CD with explosive shot anymore.
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messiah77
well last night I reforged my crit into mastery, so am now sat at 40% crit with 32% chance for mastery, and also have 17.40% haste. Now my steady shot sits at 1.65 secs, and have had to adjust my rotation to cram in a couple more AS to bleed some focus, but my dps actually went up!
Prior to reforging i was on the standard 14% mastery, 48% crit and haste was the same.
Now my dps didn't sky rocket pre se, but it has gone up on raid bosses by about 200-400 dps dependant on boss, and more noticeably in heroics my dps is now back upto 5k in HoR, before i was lucky to get out of the 3.5-4k dps range for that heroic.
Having written all this, it could just be that i've finally begun to feel comfortable with rotations, what shot to use to bleed extra focus etc since the patch. As someone above pointed out, I think that mastery will have more of a significant affect come Cataclysm, but soo far I am happy having reforged all my crit into mastery.
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MSRBL20
Or Kill Command if you happen to have LnL active. All procs of LnL need to be used on ES.
This may beside the point, but note that since our GCD is down to 1 second, we can now weave in serpent stings, Black Arrows, or steady/cobras in between Explosive shots on LnL procks, but it is still a drastic dps loss to clip Explosive Shots.
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Or Kill Command if you happen to have LnL active. All procs of LnL need to be used on ES.
This may beside the point, but note that since our GCD is down to 1 second, we can now weave in serpent stings, Black Arrows, or steady/cobras in between Explosive shots on LnL procks, but it is still a drastic dps loss to clip Explosive Shots.
Im fairly certain that youve always been able to weave in another spell between LnL exp shots, in fact you should have always been doing it because u lose dps if u refresh exp shot, and u lose dps if u do nothing until it falls off, ive always put a steady or ,serp/black arrow if i need to refresh them, in between my LnL exp shots
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