BiS Hunter?

No.
First off dont gem expertise atall.
You cannot cap expertise for pvp and your looking at something like 20-30% dodge for hunters/enh and 50%++ for rogues. To even try would just be gimping yourself.
Blackened silver -> no , with jc/engi get the stam trink or the panther trink.
Belt -> no
Tuskar on boots / 28 spell pen on cloak* pvp power*.
 
shard of contempt ......many over look it, works great for melee classes and with MOP works for hunters now too

gnomish lightning generator, you can reforge some of the 84 crit off it and get +33 expertise
 
I love these BiS assumptions. There's barely point even trying until the expansion, because shit can change (for example, ret mastery got nerfed, so my speculative sets for level 80 got smashed around)

Don't bother til the expansion, and likely then it'll be about stacking PvP power.
 
Belt of the Black Eagle, Necklace of the Deep, Earthcaller's Headdress of Second Sight.

In addition you'll want to be using T6 boots and bracers to retain your 2 piece bonus.

This will likely only be BiS until they change the scaling on PvP power, since atm you're trying to negate the massive resilience numbers everyone has.
 
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Stalker's is arguably better then earthcaller's since it has more agi and 3 blue sockets for 8 ap bonus & more crit, but you lose out on some stam.

Tbh, without being able to add the head enchants, its a big downgrade and loss of stats & resi from brutal or swp helmet, so i'm not sure that 40 pvp power is really worth it.
 
After just doing some bg's in fully stacked pvp power gems i have to conclude its not much use for a hunter, even though other classes might make it work. Using the blue triple socket helm, the green jc ring etc to reach 40% pvp power, my AP dropped to somewhere around 1600-1700 so i was still hitting like a wet noodle, plus i sacrified a lot of resi as well so i was dying way too fast.

So imo not much we can do until pvp resi/power has been rebalanced, i've used several stacks of agi/resi/pvpp gems to try out stacking different stats, but its just too broken atm to make a big difference in bgs.
 
I read on arena junkies that the new pvp power stat should not be gemmed. Someone concluded that agil/int > pvp power > etc but i'm not sure how valid the source is. Also, there is no other way we can get pvp power.. so perhaps a nice mix of gems?
 
yeah indeed, so far i've been getting the best results with a mixed gemming, including enough red gems to keep the agi/crit meta active, and just grabbing whichever relevant socket bonus where possible.
Using lower ilvl items which have more gem sockets doesn't seem to be worth it if it means dropping a lot of dps or survivability in the form of resi/stam, especially in terms of helmets where you will also lose the meta benefits.


(ps manaki, <3<3<3 dat sig)
 
Aerandielle said:
yeah indeed, so far i've been getting the best results with a mixed gemming, including enough red gems to keep the agi/crit meta active, and just grabbing whichever relevant socket bonus where possible.
Using lower ilvl items which have more gem sockets doesn't seem to be worth it if it means dropping a lot of dps or survivability in the form of resi/stam, especially in terms of helmets where you will also lose the meta benefits.


(ps manaki, <3<3<3 dat sig)
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Indeed, I would urge people to use pve items over pvp aslong as they have more int/str/agil and gem slots. There is no point in using a rare ilvl 115 head or whatever for an extra 2 gem slots when you lose for example 30int, 20 stam, pvp resil and meta gem slot (+ Gf'd head enchants :00)

oh, and thanks :)))
 
Harispiltøn @ Kel'Thuzad - Game Guide - World of Warcraft this is my current spec. im BM with Full pve/Agil stacking. not sure if i should use pvp power because it will decrease the amount of AP between my pet and i. i just started playing my hunter so what you see from my armory i got like in 1 day and the rest like 2-3 days ago. if you have any suggestions on what i should change ill take it into consideration. but i plan to stay in full pve gear and hope to get Leg bow soon.
 
Manaki said:
I read on arena junkies that the new pvp power stat should not be gemmed. Someone concluded that agil/int > pvp power > etc but i'm not sure how valid the source is. Also, there is no other way we can get pvp power.. so perhaps a nice mix of gems?
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I'm sure this is only really true if you have PvP power on gear, which as of yet, we don't.
 
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