Overview
WoW Forever Marksmanship is built for a lone archer or gunner.
Lone Wolf raises all your damage by 20% while you have no active pet: in dungeons and raids, you therefore play without a pet.
Sniper Shot, the new final talent, caps the tree with a powerful shot.
Several talents open up unusual gear choices.
Careful Aim gives you attack power equal to 100% of your Intellect.
Rapid Recuperation lets you regenerate mana while casting when
Serpent Sting ticks and when you consume Rapid Killing.
Improved Stings strengthens all your stings.
It is the most demanding Hunter spec, without being hard in a group. Its tree is awkward for leveling, where a pet still beats Lone Wolf. At level 20 in the beta, it sits in S tier among DPS with the other two Hunter specs.
Strengths and weaknesses
Strengths
- BurstLong shots, Sniper Shot first among them.
- At rangeYou keep your distance very well.
Weaknesses
- No group utilityA weakened Trueshot Aura and no pet: you need very high damage.
- Dead zoneIt hurts this spec more than the others.
- Long shots in PvPHard to land against a player.
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Your long shots,
Sniper Shot first among them, give big bursts, and you keep your distance very well.
On the other hand, you bring almost nothing to the group:
Trueshot Aura now only grants ranged attack power, and you have no pet. You therefore need very high damage to be sought after. The 8-yard dead zone hurts you more than the other specs, and your long shots are hard to land in PvP.
Key spells
Key talents
Lethal Attacks (5 ranks)+5% crit on all your attacks.
Careful Aim (5 ranks)Attack power equal to 100% of your Intellect.- +20% Serpent Sting damage, more frequent Viper Sting, longer Scorpid Sting.
- Your shots, stings and melee abilities cost less mana.
- More frequent Rapid Fire, and +20% damage on your next shot after killing an enemy.
- +20% damage without a pet.
Rapid Recuperation,
Barrage and
Ranged Weapon Specialization, then
Sniper Shot at the bottom of the tree.
Improved Tracking (Survival tree)+5% damage against the creature type you are tracking. Always track the right type.
Rotation and priorities
Single target:
Multiple targets:
Multi-Shot instead of Aimed Shot, since they share their cooldown.
Keep
Freezing Trap and
Frost Trap to control an extra mob, and
Feign Death to wipe your threat.
Stats
- 1Agility
- then 2Attack power
- then 3Intellect
- 3 Intellect
- with Careful Aim
Order to be confirmed: the exact priority is not settled yet.
No list is established. Aim for Agility and attack power, and Intellect once you have Careful Aim. The order is still to be confirmed.
Leveling
While leveling, keep a pet: it is worth more than Lone Wolf until your tree is complete. At level 20, take the Beast Mastery points first:
Deadly Aspects 5/5,
Focused Fire 2/2, then
Lethal Attacks 4/5. With 5 Legacy points, finish Lethal Attacks and put 4 points into
Careful Aim.
Wailing Caverns has good pieces at this level.
Changes compared to Classic
- New final talent.
- New talent, +20% damage without a pet.
- New talent, mana regeneration in combat.
- New talent, attack power from Intellect.
- New talent that strengthens every sting.
- Ranged attack power only.
- +5% damage against the tracked type.
