Question about focus fire during bestial wrath...

[Madkip]

Hey guys, Im sure this question as been answered before but I haven't found any information about this topic using search tool on this forum.

Some months ago I was reading BM guides and on that guides people said that you have to save the five charges of focus fire and use them when bestial wrath ends because having the 5 charges active during BW makes your pet to do the max dps as possible.
Nowadays I've seen that some people says that now if you want get the max dps you have to use the 5 charges when BW starts so the pet gets more focus and it can make more Bites during BW and it increases the dps nicely.

So here goes my question: What is the best choice for make more dps? Im not sure which of the 2 affirmations is the best atm so this is why i want your opinion about this topic.

Thanks in advance people!

[Nerfgun]

You can find a lot of relevant information if you dig a bit in here. I can tell you now that you never want to use Focus Fire going into BW.

On the link I gave you, Azortharion, the number 1 ranked BM hunter in 25s, has a pretty useful Focus Fire WA on the front page that you can use if you want a visual of when you should use it. Sorry, I don't know the times exactly when you should be using Focus Fire (other than just before BW) as I primarily play SV. If I ever touch BM again, I would use Azor's WA to be lazy about it.

[Azortharion]

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A group of WeakAuras to use Focus Fire, based on the following:

1) If BW up, use Focus Fire if under 20 focus, and BW has 2.5+ seconds left, and frenzy Stacks = 5
2) If TED up, use Focus Fire if under 25 focus, and Frenzy stacks = 5
3) If BW is above 10 seconds of coming off cooldown, and 5 Frenzy stacks, use Focus Fire.
4) If your Frenzy buff is about to expire, use Focus Fire.

The reasoning for the BW/TED ones is that Focus Fire guarantees a 100%+ dmg bonus to your pet's next Basic Attack, the damage gained is higher than the Cobra Shot you'd otherwise have. The 3 second thing is because of pet Basic's 3 second cooldown, e.g. if you use it @ below 3s on the TED/BW, and your pet has just used its basic attack, you will not have TED/BW for the basic attack.

[Deleted]

never used weakauras, what exactly does it do ? guessing its a addon of some sort though .

[Azortharion]

WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows you to display highly customizable graphics on your screen to indicate buffs, debuffs, and a whole host of similar types of information. It was originally meant to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras, but it now incorporates many features that Power Auras does not, while still remaining more efficient and easy to use.

It basically does everything you want it to.

[Deleted]

sounds great guess i look it up. sry for off-topic btw =)

[Artemishowl]

It basically does everything you want it to.[/FONT][/COLOR]

Is a different font really needed for that Azor?

[Azortharion]

>_>

The font was different on the website I quoted it from.

[Papasmokes]

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A group of WeakAuras to use Focus Fire, based on the following:

1) If BW up, use Focus Fire if under 20 focus, and BW has 2.5+ seconds left, and frenzy Stacks = 5
2) If TED up, use Focus Fire if under 25 focus, and Frenzy stacks = 5
3) If BW is above 10 seconds of coming off cooldown, and 5 Frenzy stacks, use Focus Fire.
4) If your Frenzy buff is about to expire, use Focus Fire.

The reasoning for the BW/TED ones is that Focus Fire guarantees a 100%+ dmg bonus to your pet's next Basic Attack, the damage gained is higher than the Cobra Shot you'd otherwise have. The 3 second thing is because of pet Basic's 3 second cooldown, e.g. if you use it @ below 3s on the TED/BW, and your pet has just used its basic attack, you will not have TED/BW for the basic attack.

Will this WA still function properly without a TED equipped?

[Azortharion]

Yeah, cuz it's actually a group of seperate Focus Fires, one for TED, one for BW, one for general/neither of those, and another for expiring. The TED one obvs won't work tho.

[Madkip]

So... If I have no HC TED yet i just have to follow steps 1-3-4 the best I can and Ill be doing it right? + If I've never been using WA i just have to download it and insert the code you copied to us somehow (i guess it will be not rly hard allright?)

[Azortharion]

Yeah just do the Import thing and paste the code.