Elitist Jerks Weekly Recap 4/13/12

Every Friday Tabana brings you the latest discussions straight from the Elitist Jerks forums with a recap of what was discussed and links to the full posts so you can stay on top of the latest in hunter theorycrafting.

Onyxia: Hunter vs. Wild or Pathing? 4/12/12

In the Soloing Old Instances for Fun and Profit thread, Aerevyn asked, “To those who make use of the 7/31/3 MM solo build, do you find it best to put the 3 in SV in Hunter vs Wild or Pathing?”

I imagine this is dependent on the fight and some fights that need extreme DPS would do better with Pathing (or just using an SV spec). I want to do Ony 10 but can’t quite get phase 2 right, does this need SV spec for the extra AoE damage?

Caribald replied, “Hunter vs. Wild in most if not all cases.”

The 15% increased stamina is huge and since all heals, including pet heals, are percentage-wise, that’s what you wanna go for in heavy damage encounters. If dps is a problem, such as on Marrowgar 25 or Sartharion 10+3D, Survival is the way to go. I can’t think of a single encounter where I would go for the haste buff instead of stamina.

Renato added, “I find it is far simpler now to just run into the center of the area during phase 2, deterrence until all the whelps are grouped up and drop a frost trap/explosive trap then spam multi-shot with rapid fire up in order to eliminate all of the whelps in a matter of seconds. (I would also recommend Concussive Barrage if you do not have it already).

With this technique you only need to eliminate the first large add. Once you eliminate all of the whelps you can just feign death the large add every 30 seconds. If you are geared enough you can use your second rapid fire to make Phase 3 without another set of whelps, but if you are not you can simply just save your readiness rapid fire for the second set of whelps. If you aren’t bringing her down by around the second set of whelps you should work on your dps rotation. One more small suggestion would be to make sure your pet is not next to you because Onyxia’s fireballs will splash off of it onto you.

The only thing that will ruin this strategy is if Onyxia flies over the ramp because that will aggro all of the feigned adds. If this happens just simply dismiss your pet, feign death, and try it again because you will probably get overrun by the adds.

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Reliquary of Souls (new strategy) and Kel’Thuzad as Marksmanship 4/8/12

In the Soloing Old Instances for Fun and Profit thread, Durendil wrote, “Made a video about killing Reliquary of Souls with another strategy than Caribald, since I usually got chain shocked. Durendil vs Reliquary of Souls – YouTube  and a video of killing Kel’Thuzad as Marksman: Durendil vs Kel’thuzad (as marksman) – YouTube

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