Excaliber

Well, its that time of the year for me again. My senior year in highschool will be the most important year for me. The first 6 months are going to be very hectic with school, college applications, and scholarships.

I wish it wouldn't be so hard, but I know once I send in all my applications and pass my midterms, everything should mellow and I might be able to come back (my projected month is january, the latest being march). It's going to be very hard to give up my WoW life. (Especially when I've been playing like a madman this whole summer.) And it is truely hard to give up my friends like this since I've spent so much time with them.

Ill be doing another post of my WoW-Summer playtime. Got some nice screenies and even a video recording ;).

It was a blast playing WoW. And hopefully, the year will fly by so I can continue my adventure and return to my friends.

So as many of you readers know, I recently respec'd to go Marksman/Survival. If you didn't know that shame on you and read some of my posts below....

Anyways, like I said before, Marksman/Survival isn't that bad. In fact, like intended, my overall dps/damage/crit/agi went up quite significantly. In fact I have finally reached over 500agi (woot!). Now I am no expert at this build, but I will provide some insight of what make this build shine (imo)

**Edit**What I've come to realize is that for me Agility isnt a big deal, least of my priorities (gasp). My agi went from 520 to a steller 443. But, to my surprised (when i switched in some of my "pvp" gear) my agi went down but my RAP, DPS, and crit % all went up. And thats what I want. Do MM hunters need to concentrate on those 3 things above agility? When I had 520 agi and pve gear my RAP, crit, and DPS went down...Interesting..**

Tier1
-Lethal Shots 5/5= Crit strike chance increased by 5%. Who dosn't like critting often?

-Imp. Concussive Shot 3/5- Possibly a minor mistake on my part. 12% chance to stun the target when i use Concussive shot. Usefull in pvp (and i pvp from time to time) but rarely does it proc. I might have to take those points and and put it somewhere else.

Tier2
--Imp Hunters Mark= Causes 100% of you Hunters Mark ability effect to apply to melee attack power as well. Here's the important thing to know about the mark. It "Increases the ranged attack power of all attackers against that target by 110 and by an additional 11 each time they are struck by a ranged attack, up to a maximum of 440". I don't know if this is correct but it seems to me that not only will ranged dps'ers (hunters, mages locs etc) will gain a boost in damage as the fight goes on, but as well as the melee classes to. They'll love you for this

Why this over Efficiency I chose not to put 5/5 on efficiency because honestly reducing mana cost on my shots and stings by 10% are nice, but when I'm pve or in an instance I usually only use arcane shot and scorpid sting. Now if I used multi, serpent, arcane, steady,aimed all the time during a battle, i might consider this an option. But usually I don't.

Tier 3
-Go for the Throat 2/2- All my crits give my pet an additional 50focus. It's good because now I find my pet's focus always in the 10's or 15's and sometimes 0. Thankfully I crit often and the focus goes back up so he can at least put in a growl and claw here and there.

-Aimed Shot-A ranged shot that increased damage by 870. This isn't too bad, I like using it in instances for the first misdirected shot against bosses. It's pretty useful for that, though I have yet to use it in pvp (a lot of time waiting for it to shoot). But when I do hit, boy sometimes my crits are amazing. My highest atm is like 3200ish not too bad!!!

Why not rapid killing or imp arcane shot? Imp arcane shot 5/5 imo is a waste. Woopie only 1 second taken off? Lousy. Rapid Killing I might have to go back for (take some points outta imp concussive) because an additional boost in attack on my first arcane/aimed/auto is always a welcomed thing.

Tier 4
-Mortal Shots 5/5- 30% increase in ranged critical strike damage. This is the big kahuna for all those who are looking to go deep into the marksman tree. This will boost your crit chance by a lot(how much persay? Not doin the math atm lol) and we all like criting right?

Why not Imp stings? 5/5 on this will give you 30% increase in damage by your serpent sting and wvyern sting as well as 30% increase mana drain by viper sting and 30% chance the stings will not be dispelled.

Ok. first. I don't use serpent sting in instances a lot nor in pve. (Scorpid because my pet has nearly half health while he is soloing a clefthoof./Sigh and more chance for the clefthoof to miss = good). I dont use viper except in pvp. I dont use wvyern because Im going full MM and why would you stop at this tier if you think you were going to go full Survival?...NEXT

Tier 5
-Scatter Shot- Deals 50% and confuses target for 4seconds. A Lifesaver in battle.One of your "get-out-of-jail-free" cards. Use it a lot in PvE to get more distance from your target in case you pull from your pet, to buy you 4more seconds in an instance to lay a trap down or bring the monster back to the tank OR shut many of those casters up in PvP.(my favorite lol).

-Barrage-3/3 Increases damage done by your multi and volley shots by 12%. Another iffy talent point I may move to somewhee else. I dont use multi as it is just because it wastes a lot of mana for me and I rather do the simply steady-auto-arcane shots over and over...

How about Concussive Barrage 3/3 your Auto Shots have a 6% to daze a target for 4 seconds. Now this talent would be great if (imo) you had a fast gun (like 2.20-2.00) and if this talent had a higher % to daze the target (maybe 33% or even 50%!!!!). This is a waste of talent points, lousy %, my bow is way slow (3.00) and frankly, this talent just sucks.

Tier 6
-Combat Experiance 2/2-Agility increased by 2% and Int by 6%. Looked good to me. But havent done the math to see how much my agi and int increaed from xxx to zzz.

-Ranged Weapon Specialization 4/5 - Increases ranged weapon damage by 4%. Another iffy one. I hear people say the 5% increase in damage is a big difference. I only put in 4 because soon as I put in 4 I could go into tier 7. I might revise this talent..

Tier 7
-Careful Aim 3/3- Increases your RAP by 45% of your total Intellect. An iffy spot to put 3 points in as well. Bump that 5% and basically 50% of your total Int (without buffs? Unbuffed?). So I technically get somewhere from around 86 added RAP from my int. It's ok, they need to buff this talent..

-Trueshot Aura-Once you get this talent and the highest rank (4). You use 620 mana to gain 125 AP for 30min. Not to shabby. Don't skip this talent..A must have.

No imp barrage? like I said, I dont use multi or volley a lot, so I decided not to waste more points into this talent.

Tier 8
-Master Marksman 5/5-RAP increased by 10%. Seriously if you get this far down and dont get this talent turn around and roll a rogue =P

Tier 9
-Silencing Shot-Can't trap casters in instances to save your life? Those damn lock's keep fearing you? Oh no that priest is about to heal himself! Oh man I knew I shoulda silenced that pally. This baby helps you traps casters in instances easily and stop those pesky casters in pvp from doing what they do best. Although I do hate how its only 3 seconds of silence...It should be 6 or 7...

Ill do another post for the Survival tree. Sorry for the wait!!! =D