Raiding for the first time in a longtime and I went MM for our raid team and I’m definitely not pulling my weight. Still learning moving and getting rotation out. What am I missing or doing incorrectly.
Please help and thank you 🙏
#Working to be a better MM hunter and grey parses ouch
brazen hedge
calm meteor
Hi, there are a few things to address, this will probably be long so bear with it:
- trueshot windows are the most important thing for an mm hunter and the setting up for it must be followed almost religiously, in order to take maximum advantage of that damage cooldown. This means having bulletstorm, preferably probably provided by volley into a double tapped rapid fire, and trinket usage.
So it should go volley>puzzle box> rapid fire>arcane (to spend precise shot buff)>trueshot and then commence your aimed+ arcane sequences etc...
The reason for this is that you want to have all buffs before entering trueshot. Trueshot time is so precious, it's only 18sec every 2min you want to maximize the amounts of aimed shots+arcane inside that window.
If we look at your opener, although it might have bugged the log a little bit i can see that you probably casted rapid after activating trueshot, then you pressed chakram (we'll go into that later) and at 16secs you pressed volley, when it should have been pressed followed by a rapid fire to get 18stacks of bulletstorm before trueshot.
If we look at your other trueshots in that fight there we mistakes
This one at around 2min isn't so bad, you could have probably held volley a bit to sync more. But at around 4min on your 3rd trueshot window the unthinkable happens, and you waste trueshot time by using trinket after, resulting in less time casting dmg abilities.
- chakram is to be used when you don't have more aimed shot charges or at low focus inside trueshot because it gives you a free aimed shot, so always try to delay it.
- there were times when you didn't spend precise shots by casting arcane after a rapide fire, you should always spend them. It happened a lot, these are just a few screenshots of it.
- a few aimed shots back to back and arcanes back to back, avoid this, again a few examples.
- the huge amount of not casting, doing anything, of blankness.
Again just a few examples. If we compare with a better log of the kill, you can see the difference in casts per minute, this log was only a 91parse btw. For example you have 11aimeds and 9arcane casts more than me in that whole fight, but i have almost 4 aimeds and 6 arcanes PER MINUTE more than you, and our fight took almost half the time.
Idk if it's a problem you have with movement or mechanics,but you should Always Be Casting -ABC, rely on steady and rapid fire for that, learn the fights and preplan your movement.
So in conclusion:
- fix your trueshot windows
- fix rotation issues by spending precise shots properly and don't double cast
- reduce downtime
Should be better after that.
Lastly one thing to consider is that were 259 and competing while who have more than 10 ilvls than you.
brazen hedge
Thank you!! For responding and the thorough breakdown. I skimmed this for the moment while at work and will put into practice once I get home!!
Movement and learning my windows on some of these mechanics has been a chore but committed to getting better !!
Thank you again.
For clarity the opener to get all buffs is that both aoe and st or different for each I think I get confused on those as well
calm meteor
Check icy veins guide in that regard, you can switch between st and aoe
The main difference is in volley placement, for st you want to use it before trinket and rapid fire so that the latter gives you 18stacks of bulletstorm. For aoe you delay it and use after your first aimed shot while in trueshot so that you get trick shot and make aimed shots hit more targets (for the duration of volley)
Main reason is because in an aoe opener you will get 20 stacks of bullettstorm by rapid fire alone if it is hitting more than one target (thanks to hydra talent)