So I finally started reading the Elitist Jerks Hunter threads. I read plenty of Hunter blogs, sure, but I knew EJ was bound to have some great information, and I am all over improving myself as a hunter and doing my part to dispel the Huntard image.
I don’t think this post will help me much in that last thing… I really feel pretty silly for not GETTING this sooner, but in the course of reading through one of the hunter Q&A threads, I found a post by Zogeth about shot rotation, and suddenly I understood.
“Your hunters need to understand that steady shot is the perfect ‘filler’ special shot. Special shots consist of:
steady shot
arcane shot
multishot
(any others, but irrelevant)Because arcane shot and multishot both do more damage than steady shot, these should have precedence, then, only when these 2 shots are on cooldown, you feed in your steady shots to keep up the damage.
So, ideally the sum of all steady shots + arcane shots + multishots should be equal to the number of auto shots fired. This is a 1:1 rotation, one autoshot, followed by one special. Doing this wills see their DPS increase DRAMATICALLY.”
AND THE LIGHT BULB HAS COME DECIDEDLY ON.
I GET it. HOLY COW.
I mean. Okay. I’d read a bunch on shot rotations. I knew I needed to maintain Auto, Steady, Auto, Steady. But, somehow, the whole… firing arcane or multi and then using steady shot WHILE THEY WERE ON COOLDOWN never quite clicked in my head.
Yes, I am dense. I know. I’m sorry?
I can’t wait to get back into Karazhan and see what this new understanding does to my DPS. I was in there last night, and I hit 936.9 DPS on the Shade fight, my personal best. Honest to God, I’m not sure how, but between the buffs, my shot timing and my attention to BW and Rapid Fire, IT WAS ON.
God, I love the taste of revelation in the morning.
(Also, I made new friends! A warrior and a shaman, who were both made of win. I can’t wait to run with them again.)
