Archive for November, 2008

Why can I not help feeling like a Rogue?

Thats becasue Hunters now have Expertise. “You didn’t just say that did you?”

“Yes I did, you got it?” 

Animal Handler now increases your pet’s expertise by 5/10. It no longer increases your pet’s chance to hit.

“Blizzard I’m not a Rogue, Ok?”

“What does a hunter need expertise for?”

“Hang on what is expertise?”

Well here goes.
With enough of the stuff it is possible to prevent your target from dodging your attacks (you can not gain enough expertises to prevent parries).

For the math below we will assume you are behind your target like all good Rogues do it.

“For the last time I’m not a Rogue!” 

How much do you need? Well every 3.92 expertise rating you have you gain 1 expertise at level 70. This in turn reduces the chance of being dodged by 0.25%. 

Still with us? Good.

So a raid boss has around 6.5% chance to dodge (no one knows for certain but the Rogues seem to like this number). This would mean you would need 26 expertise (101.92 expertise raiting) to reduce that 6.5% to 0%. 

What does that mean for us hunters? Well with Animal Handler our pet has now got 10 Expertise. This mean our pets attacks have a 2.5% less chance of being dodged. So on a Raid Boss fight that would mean the chance for the boss to dodge our pets attacks would be 4% instead of 6.5%.

But do we need this over hit? As it turns out yes. In testing our Devilsuar only missed 1.3% of attacks but 6.0% of his attacks were dodged. So yes the change was needed. 

This leads us to our next question do we take it?

Well at the moment I’m unsure. I’m not raiding in Wrath yet so I can’t say if the higher dps you would get from this would be better than say Spirit Bound for its awesome extra 10% healing.

So the jury is still out on this one. It was a good change and it is far better in its current form, but we will have to wait and see if it makes it into our lvl 80 raiding build.

Well we don’t know really.

Between Wrath and uni exams I have become some what side tracked. I havn’t really got back into writing but now exams are over Wrath has been out for a week now, we can go back to life as normal.

So whats coming up over the next week?

I have a few things planed, the first will be a look at the new Animal Handler talent. ALso on the cards is a look at LeatherWorking in Wrath, and macros I am using for 3.02. We will also be looking at what items we should be aiming for once we are at 80. 

Should be a good week ahead.