Scattered Shots: Yes, beast mastery can raid

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Every Thursday, WoW Insider brings you Scattered Shots for beast mastery , marksmanship and survival hunters. Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union uses logic and science (mixed with a few mugs of dwarven stout) to look deep into the hunter class. Mail your hunter questions to Frostheim . Beast mastery hunters suffered on the DPS charts for the majority of Wrath of the Lich King . By just about any measure , hunters were giving up a lot of DPS by playing the BM spec — around 20% behind the leading hunter spec at best, one of the worst three specs in the game in Wrath . That’s a heck of a lot of DPS loss for a raid leader to swallow. This is not the case any longer. Take heed, raid leaders: BM is a viable hunter raiding spec! I get a lot of emails from poor BM hunters whose raid leaders tell them that their beloved spec does far too little DPS to raid, without even giving the BM hunter a chance to prove them wrong. A lot of this is leftover knowledge from Wrath, when hunters took a huge DPS hit by speccing BM. I imagine this comes from raid leaders’ sporting bell-bottoms and giant, poofy ’80s hair, because these people are woefully out of date. Join me after the cut as we take a look at the numbers and see where BM’s DPS stands and why we can’t trust the top 100 parses in this case. (Hint: It’s math that tells us not to trust it.) Continue reading Scattered Shots: Yes, beast mastery can raid Filed under: Hunter , (Hunter) Scattered Shots Scattered Shots: Yes, beast mastery can raid originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink