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Latest hunter talent and DPS news
steady shot — [image] I will keep this to posting some news on the latest changes, as well as publishing a post in the near future discussing builds.  For today, there were a couple of recent blue posts, I thought worth noting: Hunter DPS & Mana regeneration Frankly, Hunter’s DPS right now is balanced with Aspect of the Viper in mind. If we, say, reduced the amount of time you were in it drastically or the damage penalty we’d have to do something equivalent of reducing Hunter’s total DPS by at least 10-30%. While you guys might not notice it with the pre-mades, the Hunter class is currently king of DPS. What I do buy is that when you’re soloing, between pulls or not able ...

Beta Talent Builds, Just Say No
BigRedKitty — When the blues speak, we should all listen. Greetings. I have some good news, and some bad news. First, the bad news. Unfortunately we won’t be able to do the Aspect of the Viper change I discussed yesterday (passive instead of requiring you to attack the target) at this time because of technical limitations and its potential ...

Everything We Thought We Knew is Wrong
The Hunter's Mark — There’s a short post up on the Hunter Beta forums this morning that rocked my world. I don’t mean that in the sense that I thought it was really and truly awesome, but more in the sense that it literally put my entire perspective on it’s head. Aimed Shot Goes Instant Cast For a long, long time now, Aimed Shot has been considered largely useless. It had it’s minor situational usefulness, but was otherwise largely ignored and looked down upon. Aimed Shot in your shot rotation? Hah! I should think not. (The other hunters are laughing at you.) But what has always been at the heart of our ...

World of Warcraft: WotLK Beta Build - 8982
Curse — The Beta realms have been updated with a new build (8982). As usual stay tuned for all new changes. New Wrath Gate Cinematic Movie A new machinima movie has been added to the beta client featuring a battle at Angrathar, the Wrath Gate. With the followup story, it is probably the most epic event ever in the game! You can find it below this news item to avoid accidental spoiling. Clickety-click ...

One hand giveth the other taketh
Lienna's log — I start posting again, even show you a movie on the wonders of explosive shot, and what do they do, they nerf it. Well actually explosive shot is fine, it does the same damage it did before the latest patch, and I actually have a correction to make, explosive shot will proc aspect of the viper 4 times, not 3 ( the main target gets 1 tick of the aoe effect which procs it too) which makes for another 18% mana return on a lock and load cycle! Oh, and the aoe side-effect of explosive shot still generates no threat, so your still fine with multi-mob pulls... ish, its a little buggy, every other ...