I feel you are missing BRK’s point…it doesn’t matter what spec you are, as long as you play it well. I am putting out just as much damage as I was when I was BM and MM, plus the utility of better traps. I don’t advocate any spec is better than the other, I advocate solid Hunter skills and enjoyment of the spec you spent your hard-earned gold on. If you think I am sacrificing any damage output in an instance you are sorely mistaken. I have optimized my toon to take advantage of every talent I chose and this is thanks to the info that BRK has provided. Don’t downplay other specs unless you have played the spec with the gear, including enchants and gems, that is made for it.
With that said, I appreciate your input and advice, but I invite you to come along any raid I’m on and I think you will change your mind about the benefits the new SV talent changes offer. Cheers

- Misfit

Check this post out from our PvP days:

http://bigredkitty.blogspot.com/2007/01/saturday-night-fever.html

I know some people like to be different…in fact some people feel the NEED to be different. But there’s good reason why Survival is by far the least popular spec.

If survival is how you like to play your hunter then more power to you. But remember that anytime you don’t min/max you are missing out on a lot of potential.

I have no clue what sort of strategies are typical for the battlegrounds, so I just went off and laid support to the team wherever I could find it was needed. If I saw our flag being taken, I would head towards our side of the Gulch, focus on slowing the carrier, and putting enough damage on him to make sure they didn’t get very far. If they made it back to the other side, I focused on laying support for the tanks to get in to reclaim.

I’ve never been a very upfront aggressive person in games. In FPS CTF games I always focused on defense, and was consistently at the top ranks. I just use the methods from my old shooter days, and they seemed to work pretty well.

Again, it all goes back to your playstyle, and what works well for you. I’d would just recommend that it meshes well with the team, and it’s not counterproductive.

Imo, needs of the team come before personal gain, but I’m weird like that

–jason

furthermore, if you don’t like reading what he has to say, why are you here? you did “choose” to come here, you weren’t forced! So either keep your biased opinions to yourself, or make your own blog where you can rant and rave to your hearts desire!

otherwise shut it, and bug off!

Article quote: “BigRedKitty would destroy anybody one-on-one who tried to take our flag. Anybody. Those eighteen seconds of god-like power basically guaranteed our success.”

It’s inferred here.

BM does not “destroy anybody” and does not “gurantee our success”. The 18 seconds is on a cooldown timer and you take the same damage.

Different play styles sure… but quit misleading people. Back in the day when damh would embrace his hunter counter parts and fellow classes BRK was an interesting read. Now it puts down the other classes and specs in every post. It’s tiresome.

I really don’t care, the more hunters I see with a big red kitty the less they come on our raids, the more I destroy in bg (I kill their pet, then the hunter), the more I kill in arena.

BM spec is for leveling and solo grind. I’ve used the spec on two hunters quite effectively.

I was often caught standing by rogues and died more than anyone but despite that and despite being the the lowest lvl on the team I avoided being bottom of the charts.

Armed with some of the useful tips here I’m ready to try again and this time do better.

That being said we are also good at flag room defense. Flare keeps the stealth druid away from the flag, freezing trap will stop the first person who tries to grab it. And if someone tries to fear bomb the flag room defenders, just pop Beastial Wrath and go to work.