Originally Posted by
bballscott6
The reason you would want to use Twisted Chanter's Staff is for two MAIN reason and one side reason.
The first reason is that it offers purely stamina and intellect; as hunters, you need intellect for your ranged abilities. When you are kiting your only using abilities that require mana. When fighting a mage or other hunter and staying still, you spam Multi-Strike and Aimed Shot and all your other shots as much as you can.
The other reason is that Twisted Chanter's Staff has 20.4 DPS, which is more DPS then any other weapon available (to Alliance), except for Looming Gravel which isn't even worth getting.
The side reason is that its gives you the stats you need all around. The only weapon I would replace it with is Smite's Mighty Hammer, due to the huge amount of agility it gives you. But, as a hunter with 1.6k hp and 1.1k mana I still find myself getting mana sapped all the time in BGs.... Then again, I also never which is kinda an issue.
Also, while in a BG you don't have time for mage water or food, and when in Shadowmeld and you use an action such as this, Shadowmeld fades as of 2.3/4 (can't remember which).