Hunter Tier 14 (T14) Set Bonuses

[Zagam 1,982]

T14 2P Bonus - Your Kill Command deals 15% additional damage, your Chimera Shot deals 15% additional damage, and your Explosive Shot deals 5% additional damage.

T14 4P Bonus - Increases the duration of your Bestial Wrath ability by 6 sec, increases the chance for Black Arrow to trigger Lock and Load by 20%, and increases the ranged attack speed granted by Steady Focus by an additional 10%.

Edited December 11, 2012 by Damien
Updated for Patch 5.1.

[Neridae 59]

20% lock and load might be nice!

Having looked at the look of the Tier 14 set for hunters, I have to say I am mightily unimpressed!

[Zagam 1,982]

I'm pretty sure there is a typo error on the improved Kill Command damage. I would imagine it is around 10%, not 1%. If the 1% bonus to Kill Command is on par with 15% Chim and 5% Explosive, I shudder at the thought of how powerful it already is and seeing a Hunter turn big and red in a 2v2 match haha

[Zuul 1]

I hope along with the 20% increase to the proc rate of Lock'n'Load and the shortened Black Arrow timer, that they make some adjustments or better yet remove the internal cooldown (currently 10seconds) of Lock'n'Load's ability to proc, otherwise the 4 piece doesn't exactly make me all warm and fuzzy..

[Vlad 411]

I'm pretty sure there is a typo error on the improved Kill Command damage. I would imagine it is around 10%, not 1%. If the 1% bonus to Kill Command is on par with 15% Chim and 5% Explosive, I shudder at the thought of how powerful it already is and seeing a Hunter turn big and red in a 2v2 match haha

Yes, I assume it is a typo on Kill Command, in the vein of the "within 0 yards" tooltips.

I hope along with the 20% increase to the proc rate of Lock'n'Load and the shortened Black Arrow timer, that they make some adjustments or better yet remove the internal cooldown (currently 10seconds) of Lock'n'Load's ability to proc, otherwise the 4 piece doesn't exactly make me all warm and fuzzy..

Well, the 4P might give you two Lock and Loads during the same Black Arrow. Not exactly earth-shattering, but it's still something. I really don't see them removing the internal cooldown on it, that would be too good

[Unclose 2]

I have an question and I need your opinion =)

Should I either run w/o 2 set bonus t14? or with 2 set bonus t14? (trading offensive stats for Mastery and +15% KC DMG)

This is WITH T14 2 set bonus

And this one is W/O t14 2 set bonus.

[nicocba 5]

Currently I'm running with 2 set T14 and the damage buff on kill command is pretty good (Bestial Wrath + Kill Command crits over 200k). I'd say I prefer 2 set bonus over a little mor ilvl or stats

[Unclose 2]

Anyone else with an opinion>? I'm happy to hear more! ^^

[Vlad 411]

2 set in my opinion.

[Kobler 0]

Can anyone make me more clear about the Tier 14 bonus please

Im trying to figure out weather or not the 4 set bonus is even worth going for over the BiS gear ? (as Survival) the LnL procks just doesn't seem good enough in my eyes, but could i get clear answer if i should go for it or not

Thanks Kobler, Kilrogg

[bataa976 0]

Ever since I saw the 2 and 4 set bonus for the BM, my first thought was "Looks like i'm going to stack Mastery", but most of the hunter community does not suggests this priority and just shows up the same old 'crit>haste>mastery'. I have seen some sites suggested mastery over crit for BM but did not provide any reasonable explanation.

I haven't done any calculations myself yet, but I just wanted to know wheter if anyone shared the same first expression? 26.6% uptime for Bestial Wrath and +15% damage for Kill Command plus +30% pet damage increase from Mastery sounds good to me...