10-24-2006, 02:24 AM
In general I think Beast Mastery will always be the strongest to solo with
Your own damage is restricted by the requirement to not pull aggro. OK, there are counters (Misdirection, FD and so on) but using a counter every time on trivial pulls is not efficient
With Beast Mastery you can send the pet in and start autoshot and the pet will usually keep aggro. With MM you need to allow time for the pet to reach the mob before you open up. Plus BM pets move faster and Spirit Bond is a very good soloing talent
Reports from some Hunters in Beta are of growl working exceptionally well so this may be less of an issue
If so there is another reason to consider: simply that you can win stand-up fights with BM you couldn't win solo with MM. That I've found to be true in the current build may or may not hold true for BC. It is possible to win fights with MM that you couldn't win in a standup fight by kiting. I've found kiting very risky and quite time-consuming. It's all very well being able to kill some super-hard elite in 20 minutes of kiting it along a road but I doubt you'd want to solo that way especially if it takes you a death or two before you actually get a kill
Your own damage is restricted by the requirement to not pull aggro. OK, there are counters (Misdirection, FD and so on) but using a counter every time on trivial pulls is not efficient
With Beast Mastery you can send the pet in and start autoshot and the pet will usually keep aggro. With MM you need to allow time for the pet to reach the mob before you open up. Plus BM pets move faster and Spirit Bond is a very good soloing talent
Reports from some Hunters in Beta are of growl working exceptionally well so this may be less of an issue
If so there is another reason to consider: simply that you can win stand-up fights with BM you couldn't win solo with MM. That I've found to be true in the current build may or may not hold true for BC. It is possible to win fights with MM that you couldn't win in a standup fight by kiting. I've found kiting very risky and quite time-consuming. It's all very well being able to kill some super-hard elite in 20 minutes of kiting it along a road but I doubt you'd want to solo that way especially if it takes you a death or two before you actually get a kill