“Relax man, you’re two tents.” One of my favorite WoW jokes. But it seems as though I am two specs. Last night during our first full Mount Hyjal clear (doing the whole thing in one night) Rage Winterchill dropped the Bracers of the Pathfinder. Both myself and our other Hunter were passing on them since I had the Bindings of Lightning Reflexes and the other Hunter was planning on getting them made. I then made a comment in passing they would be good for Survival when I respecced. That’s when funny happened. Apparently none of the officers recall the talk we had about how I was respeccing to Beast Mastery since our physical DPS was . . . less spectacular than our caster DPS. Well, needless to say I went back to Orgrimmar before we did Anetheron and respecced back to Survival.
I am over the hit cap right now, but I don’t want to re-socket my gloves as I am eagerly anticipating Tier 6. I did splurge and use a Delicate Crimson Spinel in the bracers.
Regarding my respec, I opted to try what Alu likes to call “Mana Barrage.” Last time I tried Improved Arcane Shot so we will see how this new build works out. As of last night I wasn’t able to upload our combat logs to WWS so I am not sure how I performed through out the raid. But I definitely had more DPS time on Archimonde (I love you Hawk Eye!). With this build I was able to pick up Scatter Shot and Wyvern Sting which will be fun for PvP. Gotta start saving that honor again. You can check out what I did with my spec here.
I am eager to look over the logs to see how the build did. OK, kind of a short post today. If I can get the WWS reports uploaded I might add another short post or edit this one with the information from it.
Questions, comments, etc. Leave ‘em here!
That actually looks a lot like my current spec…
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Ravencrest&n=Kerrigor
I took trap talents in lieu of monster slaying because my personal progression level is somewhere around ZA… so I’m still spending time in 5 and 10 mans.
Any spec/gear advice, or classic nub mistakes that I’m missing?
P.S. Armory seems to be showing PvP gear atm, hopefully that will update soon.
Looks like your Armory updated. Your gear choices look fine for your level of progression in my opinion. If you can swing, It would recommend putting higher quality gems in your boots as the Fiend Slayers are excellent boots that can last a long time.
And definitely look into things like the Badge Bracers or Leggings if no other immediate options are available.
Thanks for the comment and reading the blog.
Survival!! :) Welcome back to promise land!
I am a survival hunter who respec’s as well for raiding vs arena. One thing to consider for your build is a 0/27/34 build. this build lacks a few mana enhancing skills, but with proper efficiency you should not need the mana help.
Survival is severely underrated. EW is far superior to FI and TSA. last night for Gruul i had 1015 Agility (no shaman) and I crit 39% of the time (no feral druid!). that means EW was up almost all the time providing 253 atp to all physical dps classes, tanks and pets! It is the ultimate raid support spec, that’s for sure :)
Please feel free to hop by my blog! I discuss a lot of these things! :)
Aye, I’m actually saving for the leggings now, they’re beautiful… and I may spring for the bracers, we’ll see what I’m using for a ranged weapon at that point. Hopefully I’ll be able to pick up the Steam-Pistol or Tuskbreaker and dodge having to buy that xbow (for now). =/
Thanks for the advice, and for writing one of the last good SV blogs. /salute
Yeah . . . I was hoping Archimonde would drop his bow last night. But alas, I shall continue firing arrows from a peacock’s butt. Both guns are great, especially when combined with the Dwarf racial.
I never considered myself a Survival blog, but I do appreciate the comments. :)