Comments on: Stereotypical Bad Hunter

By: Saeric

Saeric — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:43:50 +0000

I leveled a paladin very quickly as retribution with BOA gear, doing mostly random dungeon runs. By level 79 I was doing approximately 2k dps, so I felt pretty good about my abilities as a ret pally and when I hit 80 I bought some BOE lvl 200 epics, including a Titanium Destroyer to replace my BOA Arcanite Reaper, and queued up for some heroics.

Suddenly, I was doing 500 dps and couldn’t figure out why… Oh yeah! My 2H mace skill was 0! I was quickly called out by the group, and I explained my stupidity in using my brand new weapon that I had no skill in (I had banked my BOA weapon to save bag space, too, so no fall back). I begged for a bit of patience, which was granted, and by the end of the instance I was doing about 1.1k dps while still at only 240 or skill in maces.

It was definitely a different experience, suddenly being on of “the bads” that was getting carried. I was very grateful to the group for not instantly booting me, can’t say I would have been as lenient in the same situation…

By: Okrane S.

Okrane S. — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:27:59 +0000

Offtopic but, what environement have you used for coding in .lua?
I’m tring to get into it, but I would love a more friendly environment that Notepad++.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:20:09 +0000

I ended up in a Heroic Pits of Saron run with a hunter who was pulling less than 900dps. Our tank (I run with the same one as regularly as possible) has gotten MUCH less tolerant of giving DPS a free ride. She got thanked for coming along, “but I don’t like giving free rides, if you aren’t even going to try.” (She was wearing the full i232 tier set of her gear, along with Triumph badge gear.)

There are two classes I expect, even in a PUG, to outdps my Warlock – Hunters & DKs. There’s just no excuse not to! More immediate damage, and in many 5-mans anymore the mobs are dead before I can get a third spell cast. When those two fail to pull 1k dps and are getting put into Heroic ICC 5mans? Just ugh.

By: Kevmar

Kevmar — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:38:06 +0000

I’ll work on get those screen shots up. I ran out of time to get them up but I did take them.

As far as my talents go, I am undecided what tree to put them in. Once I figure that out, I’ll get them in place. I spent a good deal of the night getting basic stuff. This char didn’t even have a mount. It was a long trip from Org to Silvermoon to get training. I also had to do the level 10 pet quest.

I do have a full set of BoA gear for him in the mailbox. So I plan to take him a little more seriously.

By: hellogoodbye

hellogoodbye — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:55:31 +0000

Why didn’t you put talents in before joining the instance?

I play a hunter as my main and it’s one of the easiest classes to do acceptable dps with. Just dot your target with serpent sting and spam steady shot.

You should have posted some screenshots of the group’s reactions to your hunter. That would have been funnier.