The mastery system I think will work wonderfully throughout Cataclysm's life cycle. The hunter bonuses themselves have seen changes across the board, so the fine tuning of them will be so much easier than looking at abilities. http://bit.ly/e9scXK

I think about re-speccing my mage to arcane in the same way I think about re-rolling as a shadow priest or warlock. Sorry, but I'm a FrostMage, not a mage who happens to be Frost-specced.
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I agree, although I'm really enjoying survival in 4.0.1 (and focus in general). BM is still the symbolic spec for hunters: having the exotic pets who can have incredible raid buffs is what its all about. I'm not seeing the numbers for BM right now, but I really really hope that we have a new expansion where BM stands up as it did in its BC glory days
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