Hunter Tips: Beth'tilac

I got to listen in on the raid tonight working on Beth and could tell there was some trouble dealing with the Cinderweb Spiderlings. I know from personal experience they are a pain to manage at the best of times during the encounter. I did some theorycrafting and made made of couple of adjustments to make the adds soloable for myself. That's not to say I don't appreciate occasional help from others, it helps soften the buffer between each spawn, which is only 30 seconds.

Spec:

I did the encounter in both MM and SV standard specs measuring the success of the CC/DPS options of both. Neither are stellar alone.

My first thought was that SV with Serpent Spread and Entrapment would blow away the spiders. I ran into a couple of problems, the entrapment and serpent spread worked great, but the spiders constantly got really close to the drone. The problem was that the ice trap only triggered when the spiders where on top of it, so basically they rooted for 4 seconds, then were only slowed for half the width of the ice trap. I could then root them once more with the snake trap, but that meant they were rooted for a total 8 seconds, then had about 5 to 6 seconds of snare leaving me 15 to 16 seconds of them running full speed at the drone. Also because I used both traps I would have to wait for CD's to use traps on the next group of spiders.

When I tried MM against the spiders I picked up Concussive Barrage hoping the constant snare would buy me more time. The snare worked great, but again the spiders would creep all the way into the center before they were all dying. The less costly multi-shot felt better on the move, but with the extra damage procs MM affords I often found I killed the spider I was targeting almost too fast leaving me to have to retarget mid casts, time loss never good for damage.

After one of our nights I came up with a compromise that I have come to find extremely helpful in this encounter.

http://www.wowhead.com/talent#cZfMGMGRMubocbG

This gives you Entrapment and Concussive Barrage, so you're snaring them from the moment you're within range, and you have as many as two opportunities to snare, but I've come to find I don't need a second, and only keep it in reserve. Having Bombardment makes the pace of combat very smooth, rhythm can make all the difference in the world.

Macros!:

As simple as they are, they will increase your damage unbelieveably. Replace your Multi-shot and Steady Shot with the following.

/tar Cinderweb Spiderling
/cast Multi-Shot

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/tar Cinderweb Spiderling
/cast Steady Shot

As spiders die you'll just roll to the next one with each attack not losing a single beat.

Concept is just as simple, have on Aspect of the Fox  and at the beginning of the fight start spamming one of them, watch your radar and with the new target marker you will immediatly know which side they spawned from, run to that side and spam your multi-shot, once they're snared drop your explosive trap, walk backwards just a step or two and drop snake trap. The spiders will hit and trigger explosive shot, then immediatly be rooted in its effect for 4 seconds, all the while be casting multi-shots until you're dry on focus, cast steady shots until you're back over 20 then multi-shots until you're dry, that's all your rotation. Drop traps as soon as you effectivly can with each group of spiders, the sooner you use it the soon the CD is up for the next group, but also try to get the traps close to the groups, the faster they die the faster you're ready for the next. Don't worry AT ALL about other adds. You should be going from group to group with little to no down time.

What you'll find doing all this is that other raiders are free to focus down the drone and spinners instead of taking away one or two other dps to assist with your job.

Once you cross the phase point the rotation is normal MM offering stong dps through the end of the encounter which is just as critical given the soft enrage.