I cant test any further as the servers just shut down, but i have genuinly no idea how your is doing so much damage, my chimera serpent sting proc hasnt gone above 20 once. Maybe you are bugged? as the rest of us have similar numbers, and you are the outlier.
Mana management is a staple of classic. Pace yourself, make sure you get a few ticks of mp5, get some intel on your gear, donât sleep on spirit either.
You donât got to press the button just because you âcanâ, slow down on fights where youâll need the mana, itâll pay in the end.
Iâm sorry did you mention Spirit for a hunter? You must be trollingâŚ
I said 40 out of the top of my head, but the proper number is in fact 32 like Leoni mentionned.
It will always deal 32, since itâs 40% of 80 (total damage of SS). But that burst can crit, which is where I get 64. It also means that talents improving critical hits damage (Mortal shot / Humanoid Slaying) will affect it.
Okay, but mana management literally just means only autoing for the entire fight outside of refreshing stings. I could do that, or I could just run BM and do more damage overall because it has 100% uptime and I can cast multi-shot at will which does the same damage. That is the problem with the runes.
Nyss seems to be completly missing the point of this thread, we were talking about useless boring runes and hes talking about our DPS, we know our DPS is fine
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I donât think so, just waiting a tick of mp5 between shots allows you to press many more shots over the duration of a fight. On longer ones, yes you will likely get âoomâ but, youâll always have enough mp5 to refresh SS with a chimera and even a Multi-shot here and there.
Well, perhaps I am missing the point, Iâll stop after this one.
I think the runes are not as flashy as other classes, but they make up for a much more enjoyable experience than era. shrugs
mine hits for 32 as well
do you chimera on cooldown, lined up with multi shot or just when the sting is about to fall off?
Itâs the fact that our most effective DPS Runes are Passives, you cannot deny that Chimera and Explosive perform way worse than the BM rune, so for people that want to maximize DPS, we have no choice other than the âclassic eraâ play style of just "send pet and autoshoot/multi shot
I personally have not found a way to use CS in BFD in a way that would make me want to pick it over BM. I want to use it, and I do use it single target for short fights, but it seems not worth the press most of the time. And thatâs one of the better runes. People have done the math on our other ones. They provide very little DPS. Some, like Lone Wolf, cause us to lose DPS over running a pet. They need to be looked at.
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I think itâs just R2 Serpent Sting youâve got, but at the same time I donât think youâre wrong about it being weak. 32 is little different than 16, and Chimaera Shot is super weak compared to othersâ abilities.
Early in the fight, I go all in:
- Serpent Sting :: Auto-shot :: Aimed-shot :: Queue Multi-shot :: Chimera
- Auto-Shot for a few MP5 ticks
- Aimed-shot on CD and refresh sting with chimera when itâs about to fall
I donât remember if the mana usage from aimed shot is before the cast or when the shot fire, if its after the shot, lining up aimed > multi > chimera would grant us 2s of mp5 every 10 seconds, it can help mana management in the long fights
I have been using Explosive in dungeons. You get a good Shaman tank, they pull an entire room, I was getting CRAZY dps with explosive and multi. It doesnât have a limit on how many mobs it can hit, so 20 dudes all exploding nonstop was massive. Other then that thoughâŚyeah. Its useless.
Youâre not wrong about the BM rune being more âefficientâ as far as input/result goes. I will agree that it is a very simple and easy way to get decent DPS.
However, I feel like the more geared one becomes, the more they will gain by going the âactiveâ route and using Shots.
Personally I was using it to lightly tap boss adds for rep in Ashenvale, but that was the only use I found.
Correct.
Hunters are pretty much pigeon-holed into Sniper Training, Lion Aspect or Master Marksman(good early on at least), and Beast Mastery. Now weâre pigeon holed into Serpent/Cat until they nerf Serpent even further⌠then itâs just Cats. Evnetually theyâll hit Cats too. Maybe theyâll just delete the damn class since they canât make up their mind and some other class can suffer constant nerfs or adjustments. On top of that, itâs overall better to just be a BM Hunter because thatâs clearly the direction the runes are going considering most of the runes are pretty garbage. Most runes feel Retail-esque or even Supplemental but I guess thatâs the point of the season is to mess around despite it being tidbits from another version of WoW.
ES is perfect at catapult when Horde are rooted in place and you get that massive explosion of ticks.
Baseline ability please.