Hunter Spreadsheet Results: Oceanic Lag
October 9, 2007
Anyway I got Cheeky’s spreadsheet and plugged in my gear, and an average latency of 0.5.
The numbers for different weapons are:
Merciless Gladiators Xbow (Arena Reward): 604.71
Sunfury: 598.11 DPS
Steelhawk: 579.84
Wolfslayer: 569.83
Don Santos: 564.03
Marksman’s Bow (Thrallmar Exalted Reward) 569.59
Wraithtide Longbow (Heroic Steam Vaults) 578.27
So in actual fact, with a latency of 0.5, Wolfslayer is the *worst* available gun for a BM hunter.
But the problem is that all these figures are higher than what I got on Dr. Boom. I think I am still underestimating my latency.
I put 0.8 seconds into the spreadsheet and got this:
Steelhawk: 505
Wolfslayer: 497
Don Santos: 490
Which are a lot closer to the results I actually got on Dr. Boom. This leads me to believe my latency can be as high as 0.8s around raid times.
If we assume 0.8s latency to be safe, here is the breakdown
Serpent Spine Longbow (Lady Vashj): 545
Merciless Glad. Xbow: 539
Sunfury: 523
Wrathtide: 515
Steelhawk: 505
Wolfslayer: 496
Notice that the wrathtide jumps ahead of steelhawk here, because its slower speed (3.0 vs 2. 
is less affected by lag, and makes up for it’s lower DPS.
The Merciless Gladiators Xbow also pulls further ahead (3.1 speed) of Sunfury (2.9 speed), and is not at all far behind Lady Vashj’s bow (3.0).
As always, DPS on a bow takes a second fiddle to weapon speed when working out what does the most overall DPS.
What this says to me that all BM hunters may as well go ahead and get the Arena Bow, because it’s the best we’ll see until we’re able to kill Lady Vashj.
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Cheeky | October 9, 2007 at 3:52 pm
The effects of latency can be minimized by eschewing a macro and “pre-casting” your Steady Shot before your Auto Shot actually fires.
This takes a lot of practice to do, and your timing in doing it has to change as your latency changes. But if you use a cast bar that displays latency (like Quartz) you’ll see a big increase in DPS. In effect you minimize the latency penalty inherent to Hunter shot rotations.
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Mera | October 9, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Yea, try stop casting
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Valiad | October 22, 2007 at 3:16 pm
So does this mean that with my Barrel Bladed Longrifle from Doomwalker and a passive 1.88 att speed with BM spec (I have it gemmed with 2×16 att pow gems thus increasing a tad more my dps just from the raw 48 att pow it adds in total) I gimp my dps a lot?I usually play with 200-300 ms latency, and its true that I rarely use multishot due to its hidden cast time.Actually I have the feel that even when weaving an arcane shot in my rotation even then I lose some damage.
Would it be possible to figure out hypothetically if it would be better for me to use my good old wrathtide longbow allowing an easier weaving of arcanes/multis between my steady/auto?Or would it be even better to just use my steady/auto circle without any extra shots in it at all?
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Wolfstalker | October 22, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Yep, if you download cheeky’s spreadsheet and put in your gear and latency, it will tell you what speed weapon will give you the best DPS.
With 200-300ms latency and 5/5 serpent’s swiftness you will definitely be clipping shots with the BBL.
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