BM Hunter talent question

[LavCat]

Well, in the 50/21/0 build, Readiness was used for BW. As soon as 3.0.8 hits, that won't be in effect anymore. Though, readiness is still pretty nice with Rapid Fire.

Looking over your spec, if you wanted my opinion on where to drop 2 points, as you said you were mainly going for a pve build (I don't know if you intend to raid or not) I'd look at dropping the two points into Invigoration.

That also depends on what size of raid group and what kind you raid with, too. If you can reliably count on getting a replentishment rebuff, perhaps the 2 points would be better off spent in Cobra Strikes for the enhanced crit you desired.

However, I'd also like to point you to Improved Revive Pet. It's mostly a raiding thing, but dropping 2 points into it can be VERY handy as I have found a lot of fights in the LK raiding scene to be pretty pet unfriendly. Losing your pet early in a fight will really hurt your overall dps, and Imp MP can go a long, long ways to helping you get that pet back up and running with hardly any downtime.

Some things to think about, at any rate.

Raiding is sort of a sore subject at the moment, as the guild wants me to get my paladin leveled for raiding. They have no interest in my hunter. Woad missed almost all of BC and I felt it was her turn to play. I never leveled her to 70 till a few days before WotLK came out. But we have done a few 10 person raids and would like to be doing more. If you are ever short a DPS for a group, please ask! There is not much more for her to do outside of raids. If she does not get a chance to raid it will probably be back to PvP.

Her kitty has Heart of the Phoenix and I am thinking that makes Improved Revived Pet less necessary. Woad has one point in Improved Mend Pet now.

I could put one of the two points into Invigoration and the other into Cobra Strikes. Do you think 2/3 Cobra Strikes will be enough? With 1/3 Cobra Strikes her kitty's Rake crit was 30% and Claw crit was 37.6%, measured over one run of heroic Nexus. The melee crit was only 24.3%, from which I infer Cobra Strikes is doing something.

Do you know if there is any way to actually measure if a pet is focus starved? Maybe from the ratio of melee attacks to specials? I'm thinking one point in Go for the Throat is sufficient, but that is no more than a guess at the moment.

In any event I think one of the two unused talent points should go in Cobra Strikes. I'll try to see what difference that makes in the melee crit/special crit ratio. Would anyone advise against at least 2/3 Cobra Strikes?