So after a, how should we say, less than spectacular ZA run last night (if you can call it a run) I decided that despite my love for Survival I need to see about maximizing my personal DPS.
So I respecced to Beast Mastery. And using a 3:2 shot rotation, my DPS has sky-rocketed. In most situations with a weapon such as Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle I would use a 1:1 rotation, firing Steady Shot and Auto Shot. However with Sunfury, it is too slow for the 1:1 rotation.
A 3:2 rotation involves my shots looking something this: Auto Shot > Steady Shot > Steady Shot > Auto Shot > Steady Shot and then repeating that sequence. We ran heroic Mechanar and Slave Pens to get some Badges last night and in both instances my personal DPS was just shy of 1000 sustained for the instance. That’s only with Blessing of Might. So yeah, the actual damage output is great.
Obviously if I ever get to the point where I am in a 25-man raid, I would completely volunteer to bring Expose Weakness to the raid but at this point it just was not proving to be viable.
Additionally, I am up to 276 Badges of Justice in anticipation for 2.4 which I feel we might get next week.
EDIT: Oh. I thought I would add to this post real quick. Thanks to everyone who read the blog, leaves comments, or sends me an e-mail. It’s good to know that people are reading my silly meanderings. I know I don’t advertise as much as other blogs and my blogroll is kept to a minimum as there are not a lot of sites I read regularly, so there really isn’t an influx of readers clicking over. Most of the time the sites I read are ones related to the geeky aspects of WoW (Well, I guess geekier than WoW in general). :)
So, thanks again to everyone that reads the blog!
Ah, so you are a Beast Master now. Welcome to the dark side.
MWAUH HA HA HA!
Ahem…On another note, you’re welcome and thanks for listening to my own ramblings.
Thank you for leaving comments on my blog as well =) Oh and don’t tell anyone but yours is one of my favorites =P
Thanks for the comments. It’s a little reassuring. Oh and don’t worry Pike, I’ll keep that on the down-low.
Hmm, my previous comment didn’t seem to work, let’s see if I remember what I wrote…
1. Great blog, I love reading it as it’s super helpful for me and my newly 70 hunter.
2. If I have a slow enough weapon, will my 1:1 macro automatically fire at 3:2? Someone in game told me this, but I haven’t been able to verify it. I have the Twilight Longbow from BM which is 3.00, but 2.17 with my talents (I’m BM).
As always, thanks!
Cbizzle
Thanks for the comment cbizzle.
I am using this macro currently:
#showtooltip Steady Shot
/cast !Auto Shot
/cast [target=pettarget, exists] Kill command
/cast Steady Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
It will fire a 3:2 shot rotation and automatically adjust itself based off Quick Shots, DST, Rapid Fire, Bloodlust, etc. Try it out, I think you will find that it will work great for you.
Thanks for the macro, it works great. I need to do some more tests and compare it to my old one. This is what I had before:
#showtooltip Steady Shot
/castsequence reset=120 Bladefist’s Breadth
/cast [target=pettarget,nodead,exists] Kill Command
/castsequence reset=2/target !Auto Shot, Steady Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear();
Thanks again, I’ll let you know how it works out.
Definitely, I look forward to hearing how it goes.
You could easily modify the one I posted if it works better for you to use your trinkets just by adding the line:
/use Bladefist’s Breadth
Since the macro is a spam macro, it is already clearing the error text with the line:
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear();
So you really wouldn’t see the “This item isn’t ready” text anyways. Hope it all works!