I am desperate to know how any BM hunters did the Focusing the Eye quest. Where the boss eye comes down and you have to kill 6 level 60 elites while other guys are draining your life. I have checked out EVERY video on Youtube and it is always either a melee class or a healer. I hit 44 renown yesterday and need this chapter to get flying in SL. A friend tried to help me but was phased out. PLEASE anyone with a BM hunter that survived this tell me how. Jarrol on Shadowsong, Ally.
From what I can recall.
- Blow the horn to start the encounter.
- Hit the big eye every now and then to spawn spears on the platform.
- You pick spears up by running through them, use the spear to pull down the other eyes(only 1 at a time if you don’t feel like you can take on several at once).
- Do not stand in any swirlies on the floor, the shades draining your health appear if you get hit by the swirlies.
Continue like this until the eye is defeated.
If you use a Ferocity pet, particularly a Clefthoof, this will make it easier to keep your pet alive, and also yourself. The bonus leech really helps.
Note that it’s even easier to keep your main pet alive if you don’t use the talent Animal Companion(2nd pet). This because of how the main pets share damage and thus, the pet that’s tanking will heal for less from leech.
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Ghorak I am SO indebted to you. I am going to change my pet and try again. By the way, I was using animal companion and a bear, Where could I find a clefthoof to train? And why didn’t my GTFO alert me when I was standing in bad stuff??? Is it broken and is there a way to turn in on? Thank you, thank you, thank you for you help. It makes sense now.
Glad it helped.
If you go to Nagrand in Outland, you’ll find them all over the place.
Petopia is a great resource for anything regarding pets, and finding them.
Never used GTFO so not entirely sure how it works outside of dungeons or PvP, nor if it works with the swirlies in that fight as they aren’t a lingering ground effect but rather a 1hit-done type of spell.
Maybe there’s just some setting you need to change in the addon.
Bad move as this halves your personal leech from Mend Pet, which is far more of a loss
You saw the part about “keeping your pet alive”, did you not?
If the person in question have no issues keeping their pet(s) alive, and especially if they’re having trouble staying alive themselves, then yes, it’s better to stick with two pets. Note that this last bit is dependent on them actually using Mend Pet, on a frequent basis. Which, in practice, many hunters do not, when their pets don’t need the extra healing.
Yes but the one pet saving a small portion of their healing isnt worth trading your mend pet leech for, even if youre having issues keeping your pet up.
Well, in the open world and solo gameplay, there aren’t really any such encounters to speak of, where you yourself risk dying to a lack of healing. More often, it’s your pet(s) that [should] take most of the incoming damage.
In group-based content, such as dungeons or raids etc., it’s ofc a different story. But that wasn’t what OP was asking about. At least not up until this point. It was more about learning the encounter, rather than it being an issue with lack of healing.
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Nope even in open world and especially Torghast you should be running AC.
A clefthoof with mend pet and exhil with AC leech can survive 99% of the same things as one without AC in the open world, except youre wasting more time doing it with less dps and less personal healing.
It’s just not worth it lol.
You’re gonna have to explain this one a bit more.
For one, your animal companion does not properly benefit from leech(the Aura from Ferocity pets that is Predator’s Thirst). Nor does it benefit from the other passives provided by pet specs. Unless they’ve changed this recently.
Second, leech only benefits the caster. If you cast exhil or mend pet, the additional health goes to you, not to your pets. So again, unless you’re the one who takes additional damage, that extra self-healing is worthless.
As for the loss of damage, most of the time, that part doesn’t matter one bit in solo content, if you’re struggling to keep your pet alive.
Oof
If a clefthoof has 30k health and does 2k of a hunters dps
With AC it leeches 200 hps while receiving 1800 hps from mend pet
Without AC it leeches 300 HPS while receiving 1800 hps from mend pet.
2000 hps vs 2100 hps, so you cutting your dps for a 5% increase in healing to the pet before popping exhil between shields, so its actually less than 5%. Impossible to pinpoint as incoming damage as we know is unpredictable. This number drops even further on pulls where the hunter would pop off (Venthyr hunters for example).
It reaches a point where race changing to Draenei increases your pet survivability more than dropping AC does. When doing trivial world quests it’s even better to use a Cunning pet instead for the movement speed bonus.
In short, the dps loss in dropping AC usually only accomplishes that: a dps loss. That less than 5% healing makes no difference on almost all pulls.
And what would you, in this scenario, account for as the amount of damage lost, if you don’t pick AC I mean. It’s not exactly such a massive amount either.