Peacock Feathers

or Why I Love Hunter
This post is inspired by the last post. It's kinda fun going through all the talents and abils that make me love the Hunter class. Where to start... well the beginning I guess. I'll go in order of where talents fall on the talent tree. Some differ from my current tree because there is one talent pre-70 that helps grind: Endurance Training, 10% increase in pet's HP and 5% increase in toon's HP.
End BM Spec

Improved Aspect of the Hawk (IAotH): my auto shots have a 10% chance of increasing my attack speed by 15%.
Unleashed Fury (UF): flat 20% increase in pet's damage done, both white and orange damage
Ferocity (Fer): 10% increased chance for pet to crit
Combo #1 Fer + UF: 10% increased chance to do crits, crits that are 20% more damage
Bestial Discipline (BD): 100% increase in pet's focus regen rate. More focus means more Claws. This is a focus dump move. That means the pet will continue to use this move once per second until focus is used up.
Combo #2 BD + Fer + UF: Bestial Discipline grants more focus to pet, which generates more Claw attacks which have a 10% increased chance to crit, crits that are 20% more damage
5/5 Frenzy: pet's crits increase pet attack speed by 30%
Combo #3 Frenzy + Fer + UF: this one is the first continual loop but starting with Frenzy looks like this: Frenzy makes pet attack 30% faster when proc'd, attacks that are 20% more damage and have a 10% increased chance to crit, crits that are 20% more damage and proc Frenzy (thus the loop)
Bestial Wrath (BW): pet does 50% more damage for 18 seconds
Combo #4 BW + Frenzy + BD + Fer + UF: when Bestial Wrath is activate, there is an 80% increase in damage from hits, crits and Claws, Claws which happen (roughly) twice as often and provide additional chance to crit, crits which occur 10% more frequently proc Frenzy which causes attack speed to increase by 30%, increased attack speed means less time until next crit and translates to 30% more white damage
5/5 Serpent's Swiftness (SS): 20% increase to my ranged attack speed and 20% increase in pets attack speed
Combo #5 SS + IAotH: 20% increase in attack speed means next IAotH proc comes 20% sooner, IAotH once proc'd increases in attack speed to a total of 38%
Combo #6 SS + BW + Frenzy + BD + Fer + UF: SS increases pet's attack speed by 20% which means crits come 20% sooner, crits which proc Frenzy, Frenzy that brings pet's total increase in attack speed to 56%, which means crits from hits come 56% sooner, crits which cause 80% more damage while BW is active, while BW is active, hits and Claws cause 80% more damage, Claws which come (roughly) twice as often, Claws provide extra chances to crit
The Beast Within (TBW): while BW is active, I cause 10% more damage
Combo #7 TBW + SS + IAotH: 20% increase in attack speed means next IAotH comes 20% sooner, IAotH once proc'd increases my attack speed to a total of 38%, attacks which cause 10% more damage while BW is active
Lethal Shots (LS): 5% more ranged attack crits
Combo #8 LS + TBW + SS + IAotH: 20% increase in attack speed means next IAotH comes 20% sooner, once proc'd IAotH increases my ranged attack speed to a total of 38%, attacks which cause 10% more damage while BW is active and have a 5% higher chance to crit
Go for the Throat (GftT):my ranged crits generate 50 focus for my pet
Penultimate Combo (includes all previous steps): 20% increase in attack speed means next IAotH comes 20% sooner, once proc'd IAotH increases my ranged attack speed to a total of 38%, attacks which cause 10% more damage while BW is active and have a 5% higher chance to crit, crits which generate 50 focus for my pet, focus which become more Claws, Claws that already come (roughly) twice as often, Claws that cause 80% more damage, while BW is active, BW which increases by 80% the damage from hits and crits, crits which cause Frenzy to proc, while Frenzy is proc'd attack speed is increased by 30% and next crit comes 30% sooner
4/5 Mortal Shots (MS): the damage increase from my crits is 24% more. Instead of double damage which is 1x + 1x damage, I cause 1x+1.24x damage.
Ultimate Combo (once again includes all previous)*: 20% increase in attack speed means next IAotH comes 20% sooner, once proc'd IAotH increases my ranged attack speed to a total of 38%, attacks which cause 10% more damage while BW is active and have a 5% higher chance to crit, crits that cause 23% more damage, crits which generate 50 focus for my pet, focus which means more Claws, Claws that already come (roughly) twice as often, Claws that cause 80% more damage, while BW is active, BW which increases by 80% the damage from hits and crits, crits which cause Frenzy to proc, while Frenzy is proc'd attack speed is increased by 30% and next crit comes 30% sooner
Holy Hell!! I even left out some stuff that have lesser effects like Ferocious Inspiration, which increases all of our damage by 3%. This stacking effect is the heart of Beast Mastery DPS and doesn't even include shots and stings. I left them out because they don't scale with what I have here.


* I don't theory craft. If by some chance you are reading my blog and I didn't give you the link please feel free to leave all condescending comments and corrections at this site: I_could_give_a_shit.com
I wrote this for my own musings and to share with people who might care about my musings. TY, Paul