striveldt, Eater of Souls wrote:
Any hunter who says they've crit over 5k is lying. There's just no way. The shot is not that powerful. Save a full stack of sunders and an expose weakness and full raid buffs and pots and elixers and the crit happening while all yoru trinkets had popped and it hit at the highest of its high end.
That's what I think.
Even a sitting level 25 rogue, I only crit aimed shot for 3600.
No, they are acutally not lying.
Against Curator in Karazhan or the 1st Boss in Mechanar heroic (Mechanolord Kapazitus is the German name, don't know the english name of that boss) everyone does amazing damage.
During Curator's evocation everyone does 250% damage to him. So your normal 1.3-1.5 autoshot crits hit for around 3k. Your multi-shots which can do around 2k, do around 5-6k on Curator. Anyone stupid enough to do an aimed shot (and thus reducing his damage output) will see very big numbers *g*.
At the first boss on mechanar, if all of your DDs have the same debuff you can do +300% damage to that boss, there I have had noncrit autoshot hits for > 2k damage (which is a real aggro problem for other DDs as we experienced as our warlock landed a 16k shadow bolt *g*).
So, I checked my CritLine and here are some numbers:
arcane shot (non crit) 2168 against Mechanolord Kapazitus
autoshot (non crit) 1003 against Arans Schemen (2.8 bow speed; full buffed; flasked; > 3k RAP)
autoshot (crit) 3661 against Mechanolord Kapazitus
multishot (crit) 6470 against Curator
steady shot (non crit) 2191 against Curator
steady shot (crit) 5061 against Curator
aimed shot (crit) 4141 against some lvl 1 critter in an instance with quite some buffs.