Over at Lyraat’s WoW Reprieve, one of our fellow long time hunters Lyraat recently posted a humorous article regarding our raiding choices. Many signs still certainly point to Marksman being the top choice; however, Survival and Beastmastery both are viable for various reasons not the least of which is player familiarity. All of Lyraat’s humor aside, his summary paragraph perfectly captures what many of us actually face within the game. No matter what the “best spec” maybe, we just perform better with another one:
For me, switching to MM would be a dps loss. I will never be as adept with MM as I am with SV.
I know this perfectly fits my own play style. So if you have an affinity for Beastmastery or Survival, please give it a read. If you are a staunch Marksman zealot, it’s worth the chuckle throughout and carries a serious message best learned by all.
Quori
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Very funny stuff.
I’d like to state something I feel very strongly about: I am a Hunter.
Not a BM/SV, not MM/SV, not MM with a PVP BM offspec. Just Hunter.
Before glyphs had the dust of disappearance mechanic, I kept stacks of glyphs for respecs and spec tweaks. Then and now I keep spare gear to shift my minor stat balance when respeccing. I often keep an empty spec, in case I find a spirit beast, or have the opportunity in a raid to go MM (I find I need the 10% haste buff). My action bar setups for both specs have a hidden bar with spec specific abilities and macros to swap out. My NTK spec profiles also are duplicated in this manner. It may seem like a lot of work, but after a bit of initial setup, swapping a spec really is seamless.
Just last week, a fairly new 85 Hunter was asking in trade about haste and the MM rotation, so I (being a sucker for helping people) /w him and set up a session of target dummy time. He was trying to get the rotation down, as he wanted to practice it for raiding, so I respecced my BM to SV, invited him, and watched Recount. I switched back to MM since he wanted a DPS demonstration, and he noted that his own DPS dropped. First, /facepalm, then I chatted a bit about buffs, which lead to spirit beasts somehow, so I ran back to the trainer, respecced MM to BM and grabbed Loque to show off a bit, as that was the only one the other Hunter lacked.
Then the other Hunter said (typed, whatever) “wait a minute, what spec are you?”
My answer to that is always “All”.
I totally agree with Kalven and Hobs. I am a hunter. Being #1 DPS in my guild, I mostly perform the best in SV, because it’s my favourite. But when I was in a ‘mm mood’ and switched to MM for Baleroc, the other hunter asked me a few days later ‘so, are you now MM or have you switched back?’
I told him, I am every spec, because I am a hunter.
Tip for fellow ‘hunters’ (so not ‘MM hunter’, ‘SV hunters’ or ‘BM hunters’):
The addon Talented. It lets you save talent trees, even those for your pets. Makes it easy to handle your 3 specs (plus FL trash solo spec, PvP spec, etc, etc, etc)