Wowhead has been nice enough to show an extensive guide on how to survive Patch 6.0 and beyond, for BM Hunters. It goes over the basics, to rotations. And there’s things I didn’t even know that have been screwing me over for years!
Such as, when to not use Arcane Shot which is my primary DPS ability… or so I thought. It’s to be used as a way to spend excess Focus, not as a DPS ability. :/ So…
It also says not to use it when Kill Command is available. Which of course, makes sense. Gotta have the Focus for that ability.
It also mentions what enchants to get for BM Hunters when hitting Level 100(wonder if these are available of your Garrison’s buildings), and the main stat to focus on when hitting Level 100. It’s ‘Mastery’. Not Multistrike. And for going on the road to Level 100, it also mentions that Agility is no longer what one should really be focusing on when gearing. Now, it’s Haste and Critical Strike. As both are needed to increase the DPS of your bullets or arrows.
And hell yes, I WILL be getting my hands on Glyph of Aspect of the Cheetah, as it removes the fucking annoying dazed effect! 😀 Holy hell, that’s going to be awesome.
Wowhead also has a guide on Monks. Sadly, it doesn’t explain the changes. Don’t think it’s been updated to 6.0 yet. The guide feels like a mess right now, and I hope it eventually shows a solid foundation to help people like me who are trying to re-learn their class, and new players.
Currently, all I see is “this ability can be used for this!” Just one big mess. No explanation.
Monks have a shitload more buttons to remember what they do and when to push them at a moment’s notice, than Hunters. With Hunters, it’s just going ‘pew pew’ with your gun while your Pet does all the Melee work.
Which makes me question, how in the fuck I got my Monk to Level 90 without help!? I think it was the near 100% XP boosts.
This guide feels useless to new players, especially ones that get the free Level 90 boost to get into Draenor, without the work leveling up.
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Moving on, another reason why I’m talking about classes and abilities, is Blizzard released several videos called ‘Crash Course: Class’. Each video explains every class in WoW, and is tailored to help players that used the boost to Level 90 instead of leveling from Level 1. The one about Hunters seems to cover only Survival. That’s weird. Why not all specs?
There is a one about Monks. And much to my favor, its about the DPS spec. It gives me an idea of what to do with the many, ominous buttons. Get rid of 7/8ths of them and start basic, and gradually re-learn my class’ abilities.
This is the only way I see it working.