4.0.1 It’s here and so is bloody focus
So the day has finally arrived. Patch 4.0.1 has hit the live servers and oh what a shit fight the first couple of hours were. The focus thing didn’t worry me too much straight up as I was trying to figure out talents and keybinding layout. Wait….where’s dragonhawk gone……..what the hell….where’s aimed shot…….oh ffs. Venom…VENOM aimed shot is replaced with venom!!!!!..you’re shitting me.
Ok ok I’ll go to the trainer and get this stuff sorted first….then I’ll sort my spec out ….. then my pet…..then this mastery stuff……oh and my glyphs………and my UI…….patch day really really really sucks.
So I decided to go Surv/BM cause I’ve been Surv for three years and I was BM before that (with a small MM stint in between). I trained up and specced up like this:
Pretty basic really…read the talent…choose the talent. After doing this I struggled through all the spell books and chose my shots again and keybound them. Pretty much we have :
Kill Shot
Black Arrow
Explosive Shot
Seroent Sting
Steady Shot
Arcane Shot.
The new focus system (at level 80) requries that you fire Steady Shots to regain focus so essentially we have a shot rotation/priority that looks something like this:
SrS – BA – ES – SS – SS – KC – SS – ES
This is pretty basic and depends on CD’s etc but just depends if you get LnL procs and wether you get any other Focus back. So it may not be spot on. I was doing about 7.5k on the 83 Target Dummy using it but i did see myself focus starved sometimes depending when I used KC so I’ll have to work on that part. It’s not a matter of just macroing it to every shot anymore.
Glyphs. There are now three types of Glyphs:
Prime
Major
Minor
once you’ve learnt a Glyph you’ll never have to learn it again (just buy it once) then you just need to use powder purchased from the Inscription supplier to change your glyphs. I chose the following (cause really there isn’t much choice if you schose a particular specd and want to do damage)
Primes : Explosive Shot, Kill Shot, Steady Shot (still checking SrS)
Major: Disengage, Detterrance, and whatever takes your fancy
Minor: Pack, Mend, Feign
The other major change is Mastery. Depending on your spec it improves the damage of your main shot. Eg for Surv it increases elemental damage (fire, shadow and nature) so gives a bonus to your ES, BA and SrS. I was was over hit after the patch so changes all hit gear to Mastery. Then I changed Haste to Mastery as well. I’m still at 1.88 haste rating which I think is pretty good. Sitting at over 17% mastery at teh moment and you can tell the differnece in damage fromt eh upgrades.
Next stage is to do BM but that’s for another post.
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