Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Glyph of Kill Shot

After slacking with my farming, I finally took time, get the funds and replace my Glyph of Steady Shot with Glyph of Kill Shot. On paper, it doesn't look that awesome, basically way less awesome than the Steady Shot Glyph. I must admit Glyph of Steady Shot was my favurite simply because hunters lack any imaginative designs already. Just check our Glyphs or better, tier set bonuses. This Glyph wasn't a reduction in CD, nor a 10% increase in something. It always feels better when there's some fancy combination/synergy behind.

Sucks even more that our Steady Shot was nerfed to ground and is really useful only as a filler nowadays. Any other shot is better, and as such we don't use Steady Shot nearly as much as we used to in TBC (that was overkill as well, though).

Still, CD reduction on Kill Shot doesn't sound that good either. From the first glance that is. Even on a single boss with no adds, which basically means he got quite some HP, this CD reduction helps a lot at putting his 20% life down faster. Dishing 13k crits with 6 seconds less CD is, even here, not bad.

But so many bosses have one way or another to bring in some adds that Kill Shot will be used even more frequently. And that is why it's way better than 10% better damage on Steady Shots, which really hit like a cow nowadays.

I'll just focus on Ulduar now, but the list of bosses on which Kill Shot is useful besides normal 20%-0% spammage, is still massive:

XT-Deconstructor - bomb adds
Razorscale - loads of adds, especially on big ones
Iron Council - 3 bosses, 3 times to spam Kill Shot
Kologarn - 2 arms, 1 boss, that is 3 targets
Auriaya - meh, only if you decide to go for achievement, then it's 9 times for the kitty
Hodir - iceblocks, every time he casts freeze
Thorim - gauntlet/champions in ring
Freya - big adds, the three elementals that have to go down together, Life Binders
Mimiron - Phase 1 spammage, Phase 2 spammage, Phase 3 - Assault & Bomb Bots, Phase 4 - all 3 parts spammage
Yogg-Saron - adds in Phase 1, tentacles in Phase 2 (outside and inside), adds in Phase 3

That's 11/
14, not counting Algalon. Believe me, it's totally worth it.

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