05-11-2005, 08:59 AM
Coming back to this topic several days later and after a respec I have to say that changing my talents has made a huge difference to my effectiveness here
I used to have 31 points in Marksmanship. Now I have 31 in Beast mastery which gives me a faster hitting pet and Spirit Bond.
If I get hit by surprise I aspect of the monkey - spirit bond (if it's not active) - tell pet to attack ganker (if this doesn't happen automatically) - wing clip and run. If they circle strafe I just stay still and spam Wing Clip (since they will circle around in front of me sooner or later)
I usually take a bit of a beating which is slightly mitigated by the pet's healing of me and then get clear upon which the pet heals me very fast and the opponent generally feels forced to stop and take on the pet at which point I can stop and shoot them
It's not quite an "I win" button but it's much much better
The trade-off is some dps but it's surprisingly small since the pet's dps is significantly boosted. By the time I reach 60 I'll have enough talent points to regain two of the strongest marksmanship talents: more crits and bigger crits.
In PvE I can take on tougher encounters than I used to be able to before with the Beast mastery build so I'm very happy all round. The survivability of the character is now extraordinary but that's partly because I'm getting better at using feign death (it works much better if you have some distance between you and the big horde of angry mobs so sacrificing kitty and running first then using feign death is an effective method)
I used to have 31 points in Marksmanship. Now I have 31 in Beast mastery which gives me a faster hitting pet and Spirit Bond.
If I get hit by surprise I aspect of the monkey - spirit bond (if it's not active) - tell pet to attack ganker (if this doesn't happen automatically) - wing clip and run. If they circle strafe I just stay still and spam Wing Clip (since they will circle around in front of me sooner or later)
I usually take a bit of a beating which is slightly mitigated by the pet's healing of me and then get clear upon which the pet heals me very fast and the opponent generally feels forced to stop and take on the pet at which point I can stop and shoot them
It's not quite an "I win" button but it's much much better
The trade-off is some dps but it's surprisingly small since the pet's dps is significantly boosted. By the time I reach 60 I'll have enough talent points to regain two of the strongest marksmanship talents: more crits and bigger crits.
In PvE I can take on tougher encounters than I used to be able to before with the Beast mastery build so I'm very happy all round. The survivability of the character is now extraordinary but that's partly because I'm getting better at using feign death (it works much better if you have some distance between you and the big horde of angry mobs so sacrificing kitty and running first then using feign death is an effective method)