PST is an Acronym not an Onomatopoeia

I think I'm back to playing hunter for a while. I have been fairly unlucky with drops in Kara on Grufft so my bonus healing still wallows around 1200. It has barely improved in the stints of healing I have done there. I had some upgraded pieces but they left my bonus healing nearly unchanged while adding to stats. It seems to me that druids can squeak by with less bonus healing than other classes but it's discouraging to make three full trips through there not yield anything phenomenal. So discouragement there and a new hunter spec have drawn my interest back to Lÿnn.

I ran an heroic last night with Gurch. He is a very well geared Shadow Priest, so I was pleased to see that I beat him by a shade on DPS placing me second in the group. This is even with a gimp pet. I admit to bringing a level 61 pet to heroic Arcatraz. I have Shy-rotam's mate and darnit... instances are the best place to level them. We conquered Heroic Arc without many problems so I felt no remorse. I was narrowly beaten by an elemental shaman from our guild. I'm now setting about to re-gear for survival versus Beast Master to help put me back on top.

As BM spec hunter, I stacked three things typically. In order they were hit percentage (until hit cap), crit percentage, and ranged attack power. Hit is important because it is a point for point increase in DPS. Increase my hit percentage by one precent and I increase my damage by one percent. For nearly all of Kara, I was hit capped or very nearly hit capped. In ten to fifteen full runs of Kara I can say with utmost certainty I have missed fewer than one hundred shots. Crits came before AP for me because of the talents that come along with crits, like Go for the Throat. There was always a need for other incidentals that accompanied gear upgrades like stam, int and MP/5 but I never chose gear based on anything besides hit, crit and AP.

Things aren't a world apart with Survival but it does require that I re-gear. I need agility. Agi by itself was not as important with BM. I needed hit, crit and AP. Crit and AP do come from Agi but I have several pieces that had little or no agi but instead "Equip:" effects. These pieces have to go. I got rid of one such culprit already. My former neck piece offered no agi but I now have the SSO neck that gives +19 AGI amongst other things. This need for AGI comes from two talents: Expose Weakness and the one that gives me +15% AGI. I forget the name.

Now the sad news. I was window shopping the smith on the Isle and I need around 440 Badges of Justice to get the items I want. This has inspired me to be more diligent about the dailies that offer an SSO bag and possible BOJ and the heroic daily dungeon. I will try to get into as many Kara runs as I can but they have been pugs now-a-days since CN has been starting Kara an hour too early for me. Equally disappointing was the guild's last two "scheduled" Zul'Aman runs. The first was canceled and yesterday's was rescheduled to tonight. Ugh! I want in! this toon has been so lucky on drops, I know I can save myself some badges by getting some super neat ZA gear. /bigdotsigh