Hunter Buzz Report

At level 60:

• Weapon Skill Rating: 2.5 rating grants 1 weapon skill
• Hit Rating: 10 rating grants 1% hit chance
• Spell Hit Rating: 8 rating grants 1% spell hit chance
• Critical Strike Rating: 14 rating grants 1% critical strike chance
• Spell Critical Strike Rating: 14 rating grants 1% spell critical strike chance
• Haste Rating: 10 rating 1% haste
• Spell Haste Rating: 10 rating grants 1% spell haste
• Defense Skill Rating: 1.5 rating grants 1 defense skill (And for every 25 defense, you gain 1% dodge, 1% parry, 1% block chance, 1% decreased chance to be hit, 1% decreased chance to be critically hit.)
• Dodge Rating: 12 rating grants 1% dodge
• Parry Rating: 20 rating grants 1% parry
• Block Rating: 5 rating grants 1% block chance
• Resilience Rating: 25 rating grants 1% resilience (Which reduces your chance to be critically hit by 1% and reduces the damage of criticals by 2%)

• Weapon Skill Rating: 3.9 rating grants 1 weapon skill
• Hit Rating: 15.8 rating grants 1% hit chance
• Spell Hit Rating: 12.6 rating grants 1% spell hit chance
• Critical Strike Rating: 22.1 rating grants 1% critical strike chance
• Spell Critical Strike Rating: 22.1 rating grants 1% spell critical strike chance
• Haste Rating: 15.8 rating grants 1% haste
• Spell Haste Rating: 15.8 rating grants 1% spell haste
• Defense Skill Rating: 2.4 rating grants 1 defense skill
• Dodge Rating: 18.9 rating grants 1% dodge
• Block Rating: 7.9 rating grants 1% block chance
• Parry Rating: 31.5 rating grants 1% parry
• Resilience Rating: 39.4 rating grants 1% less chance of being struck by any type of critical strike, and 2% less damage taken from critical strikes

Once a hunter lays a trap it doesn’t activate right away. It’s having a 2-3 second delay before it is triggered. Trap’s radius has been lowered so this is a big PvP nerf.

By Prance on the beta forums. Read it for a blue reply on the subject…

Lol, 37 dps bullets available!

Current epics suck, in spite of the strengthening announced:

This gun is better than every actual epic except Soulstring and Nerubian Slavemaker (both drop from Naxxramas) and it is a reward from a level 68 elite quest (obtained at level 65).

People stuck at BWL level gear will get their update even earlier:

By NeMeSiS_tm via BCspy.

• Hawk Eye - Moved to first tier, where Deflection was.
• Deflection - Moved to second tier, where Savage Strikes was.
• Savage Strikes - Moved to first tier, to the right of where Hawk Eye was moved to.

From Fanatik via Warcraftmovies. Download the hi-res version here (39 mb).

The sequence is: warrior > paladin > mage > priest > druid > warlock > hunter > shaman > rogue

As part of the changed mechanics in BC, current ranged weapons have been revamped and they deliver now around 20% more damage:

Snake Trap - Rank 1: Requires Level 68
305 Mana - Instant cast - 30 sec cooldown
Place a trap that will release several venomous snakes to attack the first enemy to approach. The snakes will die after 15 sec. Trap will exist for 1 min. Only one trap can be active at a time.

Yes, snakes are mobs that can be targeted. There are 6 to 10 snakes that come out of the trap (oh $h1%, we’ve got Snakes on a Trap!) and attack random targets within 10 yards of the trap. The snakes do physical damage and apply random poisons (ie: mind numbing, crippling, and a deadly poison). They don’t do a lot of damage individually, but in total the damage is meaningful. The snakes will chase the same distance mobs normally chase. The snakes move at normal mob speed (although their victims may be affected by crippling poison).

From a Kalgan’s post on official forums.

Aimed Shot - Rank 7 not listed, 370 mana, 870 damage.