Every hunter i’ve seen had aspect of viper on in dungeons meaning they do 50% less damage. The pulls are too fast to stop and drink. Using your abilities as you should if you do not have viper on then you go out of mana every single pull
If they are clearing too fast to stop to drink then the damage loss on viper doesn’t really matter does it?
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Well not too sure why but I do remember Aspect of the Viper giving mana back with Volley which made Mana a none issue for Hunter in general but without this, yeah… Mana can be an issue and it can be annoying to gain back.
Hunters should be doing a balancing act with viper and hawk.
They should not be staying in viper 100% of the time, thats a bad hunter.
Example of what a hunter should do.
Aotdh then Explosive trap, multi shot, volley, then aotv steady shot 3-8 times for mana, aotdh explosive trap/volley, multi, exc.
This is assuming an aoe situation.
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It worked this way in early wotlk because the mana tick return was on dealing damage origionally, it was changed to only give the extra mana tick on auto attack damage only because hunters were able to go full mana in 1-2 ticks of volley from 0, and single target snake trap would put the hunter to full mana in 5 seconds flat because of how fast the snakes hit.
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Just take warlock instead, kekw
Mana will get much better in cataclysm. They wont have mana
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I’ve had mana issues on my 80 hunter since we’re demolishing 1-2 packs with aoe. What helps is finding the mob with mana bar and Viper Stinging it to replenish hunter’s mana.
Cunning pets have a 2min cooldown ability that restores 30% of your mana.
And all 3 trees have at least 1 mana replenish ability. Invigoration. Improved Stings. TotH/Hunting Party
A good hunter is toggling back and forth, managing their rotation and drinking whenever there is 3 seconds of downtime.
A bad hunting rolls with viper on an mashes all their buttons.
Cuz the hunters youre playing with are bad.
1 viper sting on a mob with mana in the pack will keep you full mana all dungeon.
Have you dried not being bad. I’ve heard that works wonders in mana usage
it gets better yes, but honestly what I do is if I see a mob with a mana bar i toss viper sting onto it if i need mana, same thing in raids if the boss has a mana bar i dont go into viper i just swap to viper sting for a moment, its less DPS loss, outside of that I go into viper in dungeons till im full if we are pulling non stop, and before bosses just to make sure I’m topped up so i can go HAM on the boss.
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