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Post by
Qlix
point him here to your friendly neighborhood wowhead =) and explain that while MM might have been the spec of choice Pre-BC now it most certainly is not. Give him site to back yourself up so you dont sound elitest though. Most people respond better by seeing it for themselves rather than just hearing someone say "no thats just wrong"
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Zalambar
BM hunters tend to do the most individual damage at level 70 but that's the result of a complex combination of pet damage, individual shot damage, attack speed, and the efficiency of different shot rotations so there's no easy formula demonstrating the difference.
We can however compare the group buffs each spec offers pretty easily:
Trueshot Aura is a flat attack power boost, handy but it doesn't scale with gear and not any use to casters or your holy damage as a prot pally.
Survival hunters offer Expose Weakness which does scale with the hunter's gear but it is still an attack power bonus which does not help casters. Unless you have pretty good gear(500 agility total) it will offer less attack power than Trueshot Aura but it applies to everyone in the raid rather than just the party. It is also very difficult to keep Expose Weakness active on more than one target at a time while the other buffs apply even when the hunter is attacking a different target from the rest of the group.
Beast Masters' Ferocious Inspiration gives a 3% damage boost so it scales with every group member's gear. The buff increases damage from everyone in the party regardless of what type of damage they deal so a BM hunter can buff a group of casters or a pack of rogues. As a prot pally this is the buff you want to see as it is the only one which will buff all of your holy damage. Even if the entire party can benefit from attack power buffs a 3% increase to damage should be larger than what Trueshot Aura can offer unless the hunter cannot keep Ferocious Inspiration active for much of the time.
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Qlix
Unless you have pretty good gear(
700
agility
UNBUFFED
) it
is not worth the respecc
fixed
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