Rubberband Lv70 @ 7th November 2008

YES~!
This day has finally arrived!
I'm 70~!!!!
It's late now.... 3:30am... time to rest... zzz




Bought myself a Snowy Griffon Flying mount before i sleep.
Cost of learning the riding skill is 800g.
Flying mount cost is 100g.

My confirmed Chimaeras talent spec

Finalised my Chimaeras pet talent spec @ Lv70 to be like this.



I have also finalised my Chimaeras pet talent spec @ Lv80 under this distribution based on 51 TP BM hunter spec.

Thoughts about Lv70 BG talent spec again..

Ok, this time round.. came up with some funny ideas on talent spec.
Not for the sake of DPS but for pure fun.
I be hitting Lv70 very soon either tonight or tomorrow.
I need to confirm my talent spec as soon as possible.
Will use 2 talent points in either Animal handler or Spirit bond.


Common BM Hunter: (51/10/0)


Proc BM Hunter: (54/0/7)


Trapper BM Hunter: (51/0/10)


Wing Clip + Disengage BM Hunter: (51/0/10)


Stable Damage BM Hunter: (51/5/5)


More Attack Power BM Hunter: (51/10/0)

Pet Skills damage in 3.0.3

Saw these nice info from WoW hunter forum.
Poster extracted it from http://www.mmo-champion.com/
Keeping the information below for self-reference purpose only.



Pet Skills

* Swipe (Bear) focus cost reduced from 25 to to 20. Damage increased (60-84 to 90-126 for Rank 6)
* Snatch (Bird of Prey) focus cost reduced from 40 to 20.
* Gore (Boar) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20. Damage increased. (122-164 for Rank 6)
* Rake (Cat) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20. Damage lowered. (From 59-83 + 21-27 over 9 sec to 24-34 + 22-28 over 9 sec)
* Fire Breath (Dragonhawk) now has a 20 yards range.
* Froststorm Breath (Chimaera) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20. Damage increased. (64-86 to 128-172 for Rank 6)
* Lava Breath (Core Hound) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20. Damage increased. (64-86 to 128-172 for Rank 6)
* Monstrous Bite (Devilsaur) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20.
* Stamped (Rhino) damage increased (from 91-123 to 182-246 for Rank 6). Knockback reduced from 15 yards to 10 yards.
* Spirit Strike (Spirit Beast) damage increased. (from 43-47 + 43-47 over 10 sec to 85-115 + 85-115 over 10 sec)
* Acid Spit (Worm) damage increased. (62-88 to 124-176 for Rank 6)
* Thunderstomp (Gorilla) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20. (104-146 for Rank 6)
* Tendon Rip (Hyena) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20.
* Savage Rend (Raptor) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20.
* Ravage (Ravager) damage increased. (89-125 to 106-150 for Rank 6)
* Scorpid Poison (Scorpid) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20. Damage lowered. (From 85 to 45 for Rank 6)
* Poison Spit (Serpent) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20.
* Spore Cloud (Sporebat) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20.
* Lightning Breath (Wind Serpent) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20.
* Sting (Wasp) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20.

Hunter's improved Disengage

Due to the introduction of patch 3.0.3, Disengage is finally out of global cooldown.
This is where hunters would be able to set disengage in their macro command and execute simultaneously. Moreover, we can make use of talent under survivalist + Glyph of Disengage to shorten our cooldown to as fast as 16secs recast.


Some macro shortcuts which I can utilise Disengage in BG:


#Showtooltip Disengage
/cast Wing Clip
/castsequence Freezing Trap, Disengage
/say Byebye Sucker~! LOL~!!!!

#Showtooltip Disengage
/cast Wing Clip
/cast Disengage


I try to avoid using too much melee attack skills in my macro since i'm a BM hunter.
I will always remind of myself to keep off a distance with my enemies in BG and send Pet attack commands.

My debation with friend on Devilsaur tooth with +200 ranged attack power trinket.

I was on a debation with my friend's brother last night on Hunter's Lv50 quest trinket - Devilsaur Tooth with those common +200 attack power trinkets.

He said my information was incorrect.
I tried to explained to him on the importance of BM pet attack power.
I guess only BM hunters who relies on their pet the most would understand what i mean.


My gut feeling that this trinket is also important is due to recent 3.0.2 patch, Blizzard changed the stats of this trinket to this, which greatly improves a BM hunter's pet damage by a significant margin.


*Bonus information below taken from petopedia*

Pet Scaling

How Your Stats Affect Your Pet

Starting with Patch 2.0, hunter pets now benefit from "pet scaling". Pet scaling just means that your pet gets to add some of your stats to his own stats, so that his power scales with your power. The basics are very simple:

• Pets get about 45% of the hunter's stamina added to their stamina.
• Pets get about 35% of the hunter's armor added to their armor.
• Pets get about 22% of the hunter's ranged attack power added to their melee attack power.
• Pets get about 12.5% of the hunter's ranged attack power added to their spell damage.
• Pets get about 40% of the hunter's resistances added to their own resistances.
• Pets inherit the hunter's hit and critical rates.

From here you can see, Pets get about 22% of the hunter's ranged attack power added to their melee attack power. So if our trinket gives us +200 ranged attack power, it only gives our pet a miserable 44 attack power.

Why people chooses to play BM hunter is because of their pet assisting them to fight.
Our pet is our tanker, our main attacker. While we BM hunter are supportive attacker.

Devilsaur tooth bonus is +200 Pet attack power for 20seconds.
This bonus when combines with Bestial Wrath and Kill Command, your pet can kill anyone in few seconds.

My Lv70 BM hunter talent spec

Hmm.. Wrath of the Lich King is 2 weeks away.
I could go for BG before the launch date.

Currently Lv68, hitting Lv70 very soon.
Still considering which BM spec for personal use in BG.


Proc-ing BM hunter: (56/5/0)

or

BM Survivalist hunter: (51/0/10)

or

BM Marksman hunter: (51/10/0)




I guess most likely i would be using either 1st or 2nd talent spec.