Tag Archives: Marksmanship

Hunter News, Opinion

WoD Beta: Improvements to Lock and Load and Chimera Shot on the way

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Celestalon has been tweeting more about hunters, and we have some good news for both survival and marksmanship to talk about. None of these changes are in the build (or patch notes) yet, but they should hopefully make it in soon so we can test them.
Lock and Load
We'll start with the survival changes. One is … Continue Reading ››
Opinion

WoD Beta: Missing the Mark

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Editor's Note: If there's one thing most hunters will agree with on the Warlords beta, it's that marksmanship and survival are simply missing "something" in their current state. I thought Jademcian articulated the reason for this better than I ever could, so I asked him to do a guest post for the site. … Continue Reading ››
Hunter Guides, Hunter News

WoD Beta: Lone Wolf and Adaptation talent previews

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This is second in a series of posts about the new level 100 hunter talents as they currently exist on beta. The first post was all about Exotic Munitions. Today, it's about Lone Wolf and Adaptation. This talent changes based on your current spec: Lone Wolf for marksmanship … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Opinion

Hunter Beta Feedback: Round 1

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What follows isn't going to written like one of my normal blog posts. It's a copy/paste of a feedback post I made in the Warlords beta forums intended for the developers. I thought some of you may be interested in reading it anyway. I've added a few pictures to help with the "wall … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Marksmanship mastery and Lock and Load changes, T17 Mythic armor

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WoD beta build 18505 just hit the servers and with it comes some pretty substantial changes for marksmanship and survival hunters. Marksmanship Mastery
Hunter News

WoD Alpha build 18443: Hunter tier 17 armor revealed, new set bonuses

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The vast majority of hunter changes in this build are tooltip changes for clearer wording, or to merge two abilities into one to reduce spellbook clutter. Piercing Shots is still listed in this build even though it's supposedly getting removed, but I would wager that it's just an oversight. The Enhanced Piercing Shots perk for … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

WoD Alpha: Quick first impressions of the 3 hunter specs

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I've spent some time with all 3 specs recently. Ran the dungeon at least twice with each, and did a little bit of testing (what little I could without a damage meter). Yesterday, I shared some more general impressions of the alpha as a whole.  Today, I'm keeping it short and to the point.  … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Latest alpha patch notes clean up the Hunter spellbook [Updated]

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Updated: If you read this post earlier, there were some more hunter changes added to the notes. Updates are in red. Blizzard just updated the alpha patch notes with a handful of hunter changes and an explanation of their philosophy on adding the new secondary stat attunements which were discovered in the previous build. [bluequote … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Opinion

Lone Wolf: How to play a pet class without a pet

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Lone Wolf is a new level 100 talent for survival and marksmanship hunters. It's kind of a big deal. It lets you play a pet class without a pet. Whoa. It's pretty simple: Dismiss your pet and get a 30% damage buff. Lone Wolf is undoubtedly the result of player demand. Demand from … Continue Reading ››
Hunter Guides, Hunter News

Ricket’s 5.4 marksmanship guide

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Tired of beast mastery and survival? Ricket has posted a great video guide to marksmanship DPS in 5.4 on her YouTube channel. She discusses stat priorities, arcane vs. aimed shot focus dumps, the opener, and more. She's currently ranked #1 for marksmanship on Malkorok … Continue Reading ››