Welcome to Pimp My Profile, the column in which the WoW.com staff turns zeroes into heroes. Don't think you're performing where you should be? Not sure how your class/spec is supposed to be gearing up? E-mail us with your Armory link, and you might be next to receive our help! I would like to submit my character for the re-release of Pimp My Profile. I have a hunter named Fizzlebow, he's profiled for both Marksman and Beast Mastery, though I mostly play Marksman because I have more shots to choose from. I play 3-5 times a week, usually after work. I try to get in Heroic dungeon on the nights I do play, hopefully I can get two done a night. I usually group with my wife, another married couple, and one of their friends. I would be interested in any advice that I can receive towards my character to improve DPS. Depending on the heroic, I usually get somewhere between 1800 - 2300 DPS, and it feels like I should be getting more than that. Thanks for any info you and WoW.com can give, keep up the good work!

- Fizzlebow
Thank you for writing to Pimp My Profile Fizzlebow! You appear to be both deeply insightful as well as uncommonly good looking -- which is especially remarkable in your case since you don't have the rugged dwarven good looks to boost you. Marksman is indeed an excellent build to use in heroics, and I do believe if we roll up our sleeves we can jump your heroic DPS up considerably. We'd like to see you consistently doing over 3,000 DPS in any given heroic.

Best of all with higher DPS your runs will be faster than ever and I daresay your wife will be looking at you with new eyes and suggesting ways to spend that extra time!

Talents

Your talent build is pretty good overall, however I would suggest a handful of changes. Concussive Barrage isn't really doing anything for you, and you're way over the hit cap with all those points in Focused Aim. The Hawk Eye talent is not worthwhile -- you can always just stand 6 yards closer and spend those talent points where they'll increase your DPS. Improved Arcane Shot, which you passed by, is a very good talent for heroics. In general, I'd recommend a talent build a little something more like this: MM Hunter Heroic Build.

This is a bit different from a standard MM hunter build. We aren't worried much with shortening the Rapid Fire cooldowns or anything to conserve mana (that's what Viper Sting is for in heroics). We took out all of your points in Focused Aim. The hit cap for a heroic boss is only 6%, which requires 197 hit rating, and you've already got that from your gear and gems. If you decide to go after raid bosses, you'll need another 2% hit.

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