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Hunter Arena Talent Specs
June 20, 2008 by Zuggy
0/43/18 Marksmanship Talent Spec
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11/41/9 Marksmanship
So why is it that this spec of all the hunter builds remains supreme? Well, in my opinion it’s entirely due to the balanced nature of it. Unlike beast spec, which relies too heavily on the pet, in essence, if your target isn’t dead by the time your beast within is up then you are dead. Marksmanship offers you the ability to rotate a wide variety of shots to virtually permanently lock a caster down.
Additionally the area of effect damage that a single hunter can dish out through multi-shot is great. This brings me to my next point, being that just as you play widely different styles with different specs, you play very different ways in the different brackets, especially as a hunter. In the smaller arenas it is very possible to simply focus your main target while throwing occasional other crowd controlling shots and traps at your opposition to slow their own DPS or heals down. Though in a 5v5 scenario the hunter often functions as a meaning frost trap, where your most important role will rely in properly positioning the frost trap (which shouldn’t be too difficult). Beyond that, many 5v5 games will simply end up as mana battles, which a hunter certainly helps tip the tide here with viper sting.
In any regard, back to the basics of the spec, overall I just feel this is the most balanced of all the specs. You do not have to rely on any major cool downs, simply keep track of your shot rotation, if you are able to use this to effectively lock out casters in addition to providing insane amounts of focus damage and utility via the pet and traps, you and your team will fair very well.
41/20/0 Beast Mastery
BM is the type of spec that requires a very specific team composition. Typically blowup teams or teams with heavy melee damage will take advantage of a BM spec’d hunter.
If your team fall into this category you may find it superior to a traditional marksmanship.
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Zuggy this is Faith. I’m trying to gear up my BM hunter with some gear and I’m teaming up with a friend who is a rogue. I know it’s probably not a good combination but I don’t have hopes of a high rating I’d be happy to just reach 1600 honestly. Any advice for a rogue/hunter 2’s team? I’m currently BM spec’d and we do want to be a blow up team so it seems best but against duel mages we get pwnd. I try to LOS as much as possible. Get real sneak with my dps.
thx
Faithdriven
I don’t know that there really is a correct answer here. Your playing a combo that really has no validity in arena and you’re going up against other comps that really only exist in the sub 1700 bracket.
I would just say rush down one mage and have your rogue blind / gouge / kick the other if at all possible. There’s not much else you can do.
haha.. that is funny. Don’t be suprised if I -points to the sky- take my hunter/rogue straight to the top baby! -hehe-
We’ll see what happens. Should be fun.
I am currently MM hunter 47/14 and I just wanted to through in my opinion for the marksmen out there. I did spec heavy into mm for maximum damage and into surv for the better cc and some xtras. This is also strictly a 2v2 or 3v3 build. If you want 5v5 you will need to drop some dps from mm into surv (if you are a mm hunter)
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/hunter/talents.html?tal=0000000000000000000005505001055310253105102300232200000000000000
In surv tree you can have 2 extra points if you dont spec into survivalist and I would put those back into deflection.
If you have anything to say or have correction or something better on this build please email me at - themopie@hotmail.com-
I really think you are underestimating the damage of BM hunters. Honestly, I think beast is going to be a better spec for all hunter arena builds, with the exception of heavy marks hunters who are just playing mana drain 2s / 3s teams.