Using the Chimera Glyph has made my rotation feel a lot more smooth and I’ve had a lot less “do I wait .7 seconds for Chimera or just fire a Steady?” moments.

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One of the big (and new, since Wrath) mechanics in Survival is the Lock & Load procs. When this ability procs, it gives the player an extra 2 Explosive shots that cost no mana and no cooldown. (kinda like Hot Streak combined with Arcane Concentration, except it’s good for 2 shots) This means whenever you get this proc, you have to change what you are doing and use an altered shot rotation/priority for a little while. But you can’t just shoot 2 explosive shots, because Explosive Shot has this silly like 2 second DoT it applies. So you have to wait an extra second and a half before you can cast the second one, or you’ll miss out on some big damage.

L&L procs now come from using Black Arrow, wish is a 15 sec DoT that has a 30 second cooldown (24 with talents), which is a shared cooldown with traps (so you can’t trap in this spec, basically).

Another difference that MM has and the other 2 do not is that Chimera refreshes Serpent Sting, so generally I only have to put it up once and then it’ll always be there. That makes MM feel smoother as well, I find.

BM is very different from the others, quite obvious.

But I don’t really see the differences between SV and MM. Both keep up Stings, Both use Aimed (debateable I know), Both use Kill Shot, Both use some prime special (Chimera or Explosive). Seems same same to me.

Would you be able to ‘splain to a Stupid?

But yes, TSA > Aimed

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