01-10-2007, 02:00 AM
Quote:I ran around Frostwhisper Gorge with a friendly neighborhood warlock. We went after the giants in there. He can solo one quickly and have full health and full mana (affliction spec). No need to tank it with a pet (he used succubus for some more damage and momentary distraction). Didn't cast fear or death coil.
He could do two at once and end with 70% health and 40% mana.
Necrali is a holy priest. I can kill one, barely, if my fears aren't resisted. We are similarly geared (T1/T2 mix).
It's not even close. His kills were 2x as fast, with zero downtime. Full health and mana.
Marn has zero downtime on those giants as well. I just kill kill kill, mend pet, auto-shoot that one down or just use rank 1 arcane to regen mana, mend pet, all out kill kill kill, rinse and repeat.
The demons that can drop the eye are a little trickier, and depending if I'm beast or marks changes the approach a bit, but either spec and pet tank them down with some mend pet. Marks will generally end up having to do some kiting but it isn't required, some good mend pet usage and FD usage will get a marks through it, just keep scorpid sting up on the mob and the pet lasts significantly longer. Of course beast spec does solo a lot better than Marks. Beast is actually way too powerful now since the hunters personal damage is not that far behind a similar geared marks hunter and the pet is stupidly powerful now (125 DPS, 8K+ armor, 5K+ HP unbuffed is pretty crazy for a pet).
But yeah, I hear hunters talk about downtime, about having to drink or thinking that drinking now is faster than just pet tanking the next mob while you autoshoot, or just skipping an arcane or multi now and then. I've tried it. If I stop to actually drink I'll kill fewer mobs. I will use a bandage on the pet every now and then (or maybe more frequently if I'm on only elites but farming runecloth of non elites is completely trivial for a hunter and besides demonic runes are pretty much required for a hunter so you'll be killing enough Saytrs for cloth to keep you in runes for raiding that it's a non factor) to get back into things quicker and not use mana for mend pet, but I rarely have down time unless I'm fighting elites that are +2 or more above me. OK that isn't completely true, if I had to deal with a lot of whelps while farming the blue dragons or I got a patrol add or someone tried to train me I might have to stop to drink. The black dragons could make me pause a bit too because the debuff they put up on the pet can be quite annoying. But then again I don't think kiting is the most effective way for hunters to kill stuff, even if they are Marks or survival spec.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.