Hunter gear help

[dracco4heads]

Ok, so tonigth i got http://www.wowhead.com/item=5179 (its the staff from LK 10 normal) I aint sure if its better than my current combo: http://www.wowhead.com/compare?items...3.0.40147&l=70 (its the axe from gunship 10 hc and gunship 25 hc)

My armory is http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...dt&cn=Hysnalit

Please help.

[xavier384]

femaledwarf.com

[Thereign]

Gain 35 arp and 59 AP on the tainted twig, and lose 42 agi and 14 crit. My gut says Tainted Twig if you are gemming for Armor Penetration, but simming it is your best bet.

[Mezziah]

He only gains 15 ArP (if the same gems are used in both choices, which you should be doing when comparing).

At the end of the day I'm guessing we're talking very minimal dps differences, so I'd go for the coolest looking option, which is the axes!

[writhe666]

IMO, all the BiS setups for Hunters use 2h weapons, so I'd stick with Tainted Twig and get used to gearing around ArP and 2h weapons

[Thereign]

IMO, all the BiS setups for Hunters use 2h weapons, so I'd stick with Tainted Twig and get used to gearing around ArP and 2h weapons

This is true as well. 2h weapons just have a higher stat allocation to them than that of one handers. This is partially why a 258 can be an upgrade against a 264 and 277.

[dracco4heads]

True, but i havent been around any 2handers since Ilvl 232 and then now, ... ill think i stick to the axe's till i get oathbinder, or twig hc? )

Also, you all gotta agree, 2 of those axe's IS BADASS!

[Syatek]

Use the staff, scrubs use 1 hands.
Also, get hit capped. Kthxbai

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IMO, all the BiS setups for Hunters use 2h weapons, so I'd stick with Tainted Twig and get used to gearing around ArP and 2h weapons

LOL WHAT? Uhmm absolutely not
BIS for hunters is Oathbinder (heroic or normal) and the Twig on heroic or normal is still a worthy rival.
The only time you should ever consider using 2 1hers is if you get heroic Bloodvenom Blade and the Heroic gunship axe 25m if your 2h is crappy. Hersirs is even better than 2 1hers.

[Infs]

LOL WHAT? Uhmm absolutely not
BIS for hunters is Oathbinder (heroic or normal) and the Twig on heroic or normal is still a worthy rival.
The only time you should ever consider using 2 1hers is if you get heroic Bloodvenom Blade and the Heroic gunship axe 25m if your 2h is crappy. Hersirs is even better than 2 1hers.

Reading is hard mmkay.

[stalkerzzzz]

LOL WHAT? Uhmm absolutely not
BIS for hunters is Oathbinder (heroic or normal) and the Twig on heroic or normal is still a worthy rival.
The only time you should ever consider using 2 1hers is if you get heroic Bloodvenom Blade and the Heroic gunship axe 25m if your 2h is crappy. Hersirs is even better than 2 1hers.

Heroic Oathbinder is BiS followed by heroic Tainted twig and 2 heroic Scourgeborne Waraxe are better than heroic Hersir's Greatspear if you can reach the ArP cap.

[Avido]

Use the staff, scrubs use 1 hands.
Also, get hit capped. Kthxbai[COLOR="red"]

Ya, cuz he's totally not spec'd into Focused Aim.

L2Armory.
Kthxbai

[dracco4heads]

Working on getting the scope from MC +30 hit, can then take a hit gem out and get another arp gem, + it will still give me +10 hit makeing me capped. besides, i lack 0.2% hit or so, over the course of a sindragosa 25 hc attempt (7% best try) i missed 6 auto shots, and thats it. not realy that much.

[HossKorgath]

When you miss a kill shot when you absolutely need it (I have, I shit you not, seen logs of Sindragosa25h wipe where she had under 10k life left, with nobody alive except a hunter and he missed his last shot)... Or when you miss a tranq shot on shamblings on hLK25 and your tank gets instagibbed... You'll get hit capped. Any miss percentage above 0 is too much. From a RNG perspective it's extremely unlikely, but it's also inevitable that it will happen at some point.

Also, a hunter using 2x 1h weapons is a pretty sure sign that "they're not doing it right". Even Distant Land is probably going to be an upgrade on a lot of 1h weapon combos. The stat weight for 1h weapons just doesn't stack up; even a 1h with ideal stats (AGI/STAM, and AP/Crit/ArP) like heroic Scourgebane Waraxe (iLvl 277) has 78agi, 78stam, 52 crit, 88ap, 44arp. Duel wielding those gives you:
156 stam
156 agi
104 crit
176 ap
88 arp
2x yellow sockets (8 agi if you hit both sockets).

Compared to Tainted Twig of Nordrassil (iLvl 258):
+19 agi
+18 stam
+6 crit
-40 ap
-2 arp
-1 yellow socket, +1 red socket (6 agi if you hit the socket).

Without running it through a spreadsheet, I couldn't even tell you if that's an upgrade. MM hunters don't get a bonus from stam so take that out, any hunter worth his beans doesn't need to gem hit into his weapon so take the sockets out, and you're trading 19 agility and 6 crit for 40 AP and 2 ArP. That's pretty damn close, and keep in mind that's comparing 2x 277s to a single 258.

[stalkerzzzz]

Look at my armory, http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...l&gn=Worthless. Take it through the spreadsheet and you'll see it gives more dps than a tainted twig even with an ilvl 264 axe and a 277 one. The 25 hit/25 crit enchant is actually pretty strong if you can utilize the hit.