I heard some people say that MM is worse than survival at low gear levels. Is it true?
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Member
Is survival better than MM for low gear levels?
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Dargenslayer
As a rule of thumb, if you're raiding T7 content you want to gear hit > agi > crit > haste > arp, play SV with imp. explosive trap glyph and use explosive traps/frost trap on CDs on bosses where you are able to do this. Patchwerk is a great example. For any other boss, you should keep a MM offspec ready to use.
Use this spec for SV: http://wotlk.openwow.com/talent#cZ0eVooZx0ci0cIhedihsu - drop points from Master Tactician and/or Thrill of the Hunt if you need to put points into Focused Aim for hit.
If you're raiding Ulduar however, don't bother with SV. Go full out MM.
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Banned
tl;dr Yes. Surv > MM @ low gear but loses once you get decent ArP gear.
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at naxx gear lvl Surv > BM > MM
after Nax up to togc should be BM>MM>Surv (however since BM suffers due to broken pet scaling this spec underperforms way too much making it unviable)
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Dargenslayer
BM was only good during Naxx, because of a specific patch. I am 99% sure people stopped playing BM and started playing SV with 3.0.8, and I am definitely sure people didn't play BM in Ulduar or after that. Most top guilds had hunters playing SV for the majority of Ulduar, although MM gained traction and was eventually the major spec when going into togc. BM was never a top spec after that patch though, and should not be on this server.
I have literally no idea where you get this information. But if you somehow can source your claims I'd be very happy, as it would change my perception of Hunters throughout WOTLK a lot.
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Member
Pretty much. The claim about BM you quoted is completely baseless, broken as pets may be currently.
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