Comments on: Musings of the BM Kind

By: Auto Shots » A hunter round up

Auto Shots » A hunter round up — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:06:23 +0000

[...] has some musings of the BM kind – I kinda miss BM, but hate devilsaurs and don’t have the patience to find a spirit [...]

By: The Week #10 | The Lazy Sniper

The Week #10 | The Lazy Sniper — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:54:59 +0000

[...] week, Pike has written an excellent blog post about how to play as a Beast Mastery hunter. I particularly like [...]

By: Guntitan

Guntitan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:27:56 +0000

Pike. I GOT MY FIRST TROPHY- 25 man TOC pug. Is it okay to test a spec on a pug? I use BM on heroics and do fine.

By: Shagrat

Shagrat — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:43:38 +0000

I actually specced Emeralde (the draenei formerly known as the tauren Lavacadora formerly known as the night elf Cairlinn) Beast Mastery. I still enjoy the spec immensely and would still rather spec that than Survival. There is just something about Survival I do not like.

By: Ordinaryhero

Ordinaryhero — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:08:28 +0000

Wow i belive this would be the first post i’ve seen that is pro BM. I just assumed BM was like Fury warr.

Cool in theory.

Everything i’ve seen is that if you want to comepete you go survial til you get the gear then marks when your on the top end of gear. I’ve been leveling BM and just went Surv to learn it so i wouldn’t be a tard at 80 but i enjoyed muh devilsaur lol. I do agree with the bring the player mind set, but good luck finding a guild leader that has a progressing guild that thinks the same : (.

I do have a question though, what are your thoughts on the inc focus system to replace mana?? Do you think it’s going be a buff as we won’t have to swap to viper so much or a decrease as the focus regen will be lower than of energy and we may be starved for it the whole time.

By: Omogon

Omogon — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:37:25 +0000

Pike….if you haven’t seen this already..please go and look at Frostheim’s WHU comic

http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/2010/01/frostheim-goggles-tact/

It would be awesome if you and he could have a chat

By: Dragonrose

Dragonrose — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:26:05 +0000

In my personal opinion, BM is the most fu Hunter spec to play for mainly one reason: You are viable in ANY setting. Sure, you won’t be pulling off top-of-the-charts DPS (mostly…I have often XD) but you can hold your own and changing scenarios is as simple as having multiple pets and using call stabled pet at 80.

For example, for raids and instances, I call my devilsaur. To solo, I call my rhino OR plainstrider XD dependig on what is required. For pvp I could easily have a scorpion or what have you…I’m really not a pvp player. All of this keeping my current spec.

Of course, I could be peaky and choose different BM specs for each case too! But I don’t have to.

Bottomline though, I think everyone plays better if they’re having fun and are ethusiastic about what they are playing enough to be well informed and skilled. A player who has fun playig BM will kick the ass of a player playing MM/SV just because it’s the FotM or cookie cutter spec.

By: ihlos

ihlos — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:54:51 +0000

i think blizzard just knows that cataclysm is bring some major changes to hunters, and the huge one is the mana to ‘focus’ change. They know that buffing bm now is not worth their time.

By: Brigwyn

Brigwyn — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:50:20 +0000

Heya Pike!
Great post!

You brought up an interesting point about Blizzard being “afraid” of the popularity of BM. Though I’m not too sure that’s the real reason they don’t buff it. I do think it’s something that might be caused them to put it off until Cataclysm.

Why work with an old system and try to balance using it when you can patch it here or there and get it passable.

Also, in regards to the “Competitiveness” of BM vs MM or SV, this is something that seems to grow louder as we reach the end of an expansion. Vanilla saw cries for making BM stronger, BC saw cries for MM and SV, and now we’re seeing the community cry out for BM again.

However, during all this time, one thing remained true and you prove all the time. BM is viable. It may not be optimum, but it most certainly is viable.

Again, awesome post and thanks for sharing.

By: Pike

Pike — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:50:00 +0000

@ Pookii – Aimed Shot isn’t worth it for two reasons. First of all, you have to take points out of Survival (which are worth more DPS) and put them into Marksmanship to get it. Secondly, Multishot has the potential to hit more than one target, which also means more DPS.