Naxxramas Loot Spoilers

[Kevin]

Hm, Hunter set finally up.

Looks = Interesting. I like the addition of the glowing eyes on the helmet. Shoulders aren't way out nuts or overstated. Muted colors that work well together. Looks = Good.

Stats = Agi upgrades all over the place. Surv hunters are going to be happy. +mana/sec. Very nice. +Crit/+hit. Great balance of stats, indeed. Stats = Good.

Bonuses
2pc = Rapid Fire + 4 seconds. Impression = Meh.

4 pc = Reduces Multi/Aimed cost by 20mana = Step in the right direction, to be sure.

6 pc = Ranged Crit hit gives you 50man = Awesome. Keep this kind of bonus up!

8 pc = Pet dies, +25% speed for 15 seconds. = WTF?!? Please STOP with the gorram pet bonuses on armor. I know that pets need work, but find some other way to make them more useful than having incredibly inane bonuses taking up valuable slots. And for this to work, we have to sacrifice them? If we are going to have to sacrifice our pets, why not make it useful? Say +20dps to your bow until the pet is rezzed. Or maybe +50RAP until pet is rezzed.

Geez, please Blizz...stop it with the BM happy armor sets already. CS is a good step in the right direction, but that 8pc bonus is an utter joke.
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Eh the 8 piece bonus isn't a beastmaster bonus, it's a marks and survival bonus. Shooting faster = more damage. That plus rapid fire + quiver is like 80% attack speed bonus. So a 3.2 speed attack speed weapon is shooting every .64 seconds. So in that 15 second time you can get off 23 normal shots. As opposed to the 5.5 shots you could have gotten off with just a quiver. Don't tell me that isn't s boost. Those 1% wipes don't happen with a hunter or two doing this. And I'm a little afriad of a troll hunter that will eat a demonic rune, sac the pet, and hit rapid fire (eat the rune to be more injured to get even more of a speed bonus).

I do agree that the beast master bonus on the armor is even pretty suspect for a beastmaster build. I've got a beast master hunter, I use my pet effectively in ZG, AQ and all the other instances, but even I look at the extra crits, or damage or pet health as pretty crappy stats. I see nothing on the T3 set that is aimed at helping a beastmaster build. As mentioned the sacrifice gives the marks and survival hunters something to do with thier pet that is usually not out or just sitting by them during raids. I thinkyou are underestimating speed increases for hunter damage.