Comments on: Headscratching

By: Raskul

Raskul — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:48:08 +0000

I enjoy my survival spec, does a good bit of dmg (been beating out BM spec’d hunters of equal gear in both dmg and dps) and has more of a rotation. Trying to time steady shot to fire right before explosive shot and multi-shot/aimed shot (spec’d into MM far enough to get aimed shot) is pretty fun. I actually get a shot rotation going that requires some skill to fire off shots right when they come off cooldown.

By: Moinn

Moinn — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:52:40 +0000

For Arch, your pet will bug and stand on the stairs if you send it in before you both are off them. Just wait till then and there shouldn’t be any problems. Spamming passive seems to get them to your side if it does happen though. Same thing happens with ghouls and lock pets

By: Sade

Sade — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:30:56 +0000

Aye. =/ They gave us a truly unique method of DPS, then took that away, then what was left was way too easy so now they’ll likely try to reintroduce thought to hunter DPS (let’s face it, guys, steady shot spam in a post-3.0 world is mindless) little by little. Who knows what our shot rotations will look like by the time we’re all running around in T9?

By: Steadfast

Steadfast — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:32:54 +0000

Pike and others – I have encountered a “non-existent doorway” problem with some areas in Wrath where the pet just won’t go through a doorway.

There are some areas in Warsong Hold and in Dalaran (the Legerdemain archway opposite the wine shop) for example where Bliz haven’t properly coded the doorway. As far as your pet is concerned, there is no way through to follow you, or if you are lucky, it has to take the long way round.

All we can do is report these issues as we find them.

By: Souvraya

Souvraya — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:09:06 +0000

I agree with you wholeheartedly. I miss very much the weaving of shots. I think that’s why I’ve mainly been playing my new DK since Lich. At least I just don’t spam 0 + popping cooldowns then…

By: Jong

Jong — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:45:18 +0000

I agree. Spamming steady shot is boring. I think good hunters will bring solid raid dps after the nerf.

By: Rilgon Arcsinh

Rilgon Arcsinh — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:58:46 +0000

And lo, Pike rolled a Priest, and she saw that it was hard. (At least when your better half isn’t a warrior at your side the whole time.)

I rolled a Priest first >_>;

By: Mister Adequate

Mister Adequate — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:34:09 +0000

And lo, Pike rolled a Priest, and she saw that it was hard. (At least when your better half isn’t a warrior at your side the whole time.)

By: Tchann

Tchann — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:43:29 +0000

I’ve run Archavon twice in a 10-man. The first time, I didn’t notice until the end that my pet had been missing for the entire fight! The second time, I was paying close attention and found that my pet (who I’d sent in to attack while standing on the stairs) had once again disappeared completely. I hit Passive and a moment later she popped up next to me. At that point I sent her in again (from the flat area below) and everything was fine.

My guess is that it’s a stair bug like Karazhan had, but I can’t be sure without more testing. =\

By: Alyviel

Alyviel — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:29:43 +0000

I had exactly the same problem on Archavon, it cut my DPS by a similar amount. I managed to get my pet to attack by telling him to follow me and then attack again, but the feign trick might work too.