Oh i edited my other reply but i think it was after you saw.
Why not max snatching/Coursing over Praise.
Why retrieve over Coursing? When 10 in retrieve outbeats the defense down from coursing?
Why points into Praise at all?
Hounding 1 is to fix the pet being stuck right?
Why now max both Hovering and Sonic Strike? With the patch to turn one or the other off coming soon?
The defense decrease from coursing is flat as far as I know. At lvl 6 coursing deals 3k vs retrieve at lvl 10 dealing 5k per crit. Also retrieve just worked, remember the time when coursing made your pet stuck for eternity? me too! I did not want that to happen.
I never maxed snatching since I played without reading any guides, I thought to myself âhah, what an useless skill only works vs flying typeâ then I put a single point to it like at lvl 140 and I was astonished, yet retrieve and growling win over a situational skill.
Why praise? Well I was a young naive hunter that thought that +45 meant something, how wrong I was, still it doesnât really justify burning a skill reset.
Yes hounding was only to âunbugâ the pet, did more harm than good in its time. useful at pvp, donât recommend more than a single level to it for pvp though, its cooldown is rather short.
I wanted circling at lvl 15 so I didnât max either hovering nor sonic strike, to be honest their damage is quite low, I doubt that +600 or +900 damage will make all the difference.
So hypothetically if you had a stat reset for hunter what would you put points into? I just reset my skills and im curious what I should put them into for hunter is all.
Ignoring the possibility of âPraiseâ becoming an actual useful skill Iâd say:
Coursing at 5
Snatching at 12 ( wouldnât recommend using this skill vs rexipher at this high duration though, at lvl 5 last long enough to avoid revenged sevenfold, still the only boss to use that skill, for now)
Growling at 3
Hounding at 1
Retrieve at 10
Rush dog 15
Thatâs ignoring praise becoming useful at anypoint and dear god after the changes to sapper there might be some hope.
If only Coursing/Retrieve worked vs Bossed TâT Id even take it where it slowed the boss instead of snaring them just for the sake of them working on bosses.
And what would you expect them to change about praise? % based modifiers?
That would be way too good. But yeah, Iâm hoping for something like that.
anyway weâve derailed this thread long enough, If you want to continue send a PM and if youâve got further observations about circlingâs attribute, please, do list them here.