I’ve learned that Chimera shot is a somewhat misunderstood hunter shot (up there with Aimed Shot), specifically with regard to exactly what it does when it refreshes serpent sting. And since this directly relates to our awesome new tier 10 2-piece set bonus, now seems like a good time to detail exactly how this works, starting with some basics.
Serpent Sting Portion of Chimera Damage
The serpent sting portion of Chimera Shot damage calculates completely separately as a separate line on recount or your raid parse. Chimera Shot does 40% of the total potential serpent sting damage. It doesn’t matter if you cast it immediately after using serpent sting or when there’s only 1 tick left – the damage is the same. The serpent sting glyph increases the Chimera Shot damage since it increases the total potential damage of serpent sting. Additionally the T9 2-piece set bonus does not affect Chimera Shot damage.
Attack Power Effect of Serpent Refresh
Chimera shot recalculates attack power for serpent sting.
This means that if you have a trinket proc for 1,000 attack power and you hit Chimera Shot, it will refresh your serpent sting with the new, modified extra 1k attack power damage. Likewise when the trinket buff goes away, the next time you cast Chimera Shot your serpent sting will recalculate its damage to the lower attack power.
On other words, there’s no real benefit to recasting serpent sting during AP buffs.
Quelmiran's notes
This is not working exactly like that in our server. If you cast serpent sting on a target with a AP proc it will lock the damage to the highest value until you reapply the Serpent Sting. If you keep using Chimera shot to refresh the Sting it will always do the highest possible damage even if the proc fades away.
Damage Modifier Effect on Serpent Refresh
Chimera shot remembers and refreshes any percentage damage modifier from when Serpent Sting was first cast.
That means if you get the 15% damage boost from a rogue’s Tricks of the Trade and you hit Chimera Shot, it will remember and refresh the damage without the 15% boost. However, if you recast serpent sting you’ll get the 15% boost, and every Chimera Shot thereafter will remember and refresh serpent sting with the 15% damage boost, potentially for the entire fight.
This has a big impact on us with our 2-piece T10 set bonus, which gives us a chance to proc a 15% damage boost. We’ll want to recast serpent sting the first time that procs (assuming it’s on a target that will be alive for a while) and we can then keep that boost the entire fight. And of course this stacks beautifully with our T9 2-piece bonus.
Aspect of the Viper Effect on Serpent Refresh
If you cast serpent sting and then go into aspect of the viper, then cast chimera shot, it will remember and refresh the damage modifier when serpent sting was cast. In other words, you will not have a -50% damage! Your serpent damage will go down a touch because you lost your dragonhawk attack power, and the AP recalculates, but this is a very nice advantage to Chimera.
Likewise, if you actually cast serpent sting while in aspect of the viper, it will then have the -50% damage. Then if you return to dragonhawk, and hit chimera shot, it will remember and refresh the damage modfier from when serpent sting was cast (-50%).
In other words, if you cast serpent sting while in viper, you must recast it when you get out!
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