Originally Posted by
Thursley
You know we're talking about heroic here right? I'm in ilvl 575 gear. With all my procs up at the start of a fight, plus pre-pot, against a fully debuffed target, my arcane shot caps out at around 300,000 damage on a crit, glaive toss about 450,000 on double crit. Even if you somehow managed to get the target debuffed, had a potion up and all your trinkets proced immediately, and had nothing but crits on glaive toss, arcane shot, and auto shots, you still wouldn't kill it in 4 GCDs. And you can't get debuffs on it, or rely on your trinkets procing immediately, or always get all crits.
Can you post a log of you killing the engineer in "2-4 seconds" as BM without a pet? Or even just killing it consistently solo before it activates the iron star?
I'm not saying hunters are always a terrible choice for the assignment, but if you expect a BM hunter, or realistically even survival, to do it solo, sans pet, every time, I think you're going to be wasting a lot of attempts.