Hi folks, my file hosting provider, Dreamhost, has spazzed out on me and as such none of the podcast files are available now. They assure me they’re trying really hard to get it working again. In case you were wondering, this is indeed the same problem that has taken down Twisted Nether. Once the files are back up, I’ll republish episode 13.
edit: it’s all working again. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Hi folks! This week, we interview the guy your raid leader points to when you don’t succeed in your efforts to get out of the fire: Quadilious. He’s a hunter, he’s a quadriplegic, and he raids hard modes. How much more badarse can one get?
Editor’s note: This excellent gear guide is a contribution from Eidotrope, a long time reader. It’s up to date for 3.2, and we’ll try to ensure it’s kept up to date going forward :)
How do you get gear that is fit for raiding if you are not already raiding? These days the answer is not simply “run heroics for drops.” The answer is a bit more complicated, and so I decided to write this guide.
If not just heroics, where else can you get gear before raiding? Blizzard wants to make it easy for you, so they provide a number of sources. You can earn raid emblems (used to purchase gear) by running heroics, you can run Argent Tournament dailies for seals (again used to purchase gear), you can obtain crafted or other “Bind on Equip” items, and you can still run heroics for drops. Read the rest of this entry »
You know what I really want? To be able to purchase stuff from Blizzard that normally costs money for in game gold. I’d like to be able to faction/race/server transfer for gold instead of real money. Yes it would cost them a little money, but it would be an additional gold sink, and possibly much more effective than the current bling we can buy our bank alts, as it would probably be used more often than we currently buy motorcycles.
Jurgwena’s working on a really nice PvP article- keep a weather eye out for it.
I am still working on my post about cooldown management. I have to completely rewrite it because of a really truly excellent hunter I interviewed for the Hunting Party podcast.
On that note, the next two episodes of the podcast are recorded and are being touched up for posting- another thing to keep a weather eye out for.
My quest to learn Simulationcraft is going well. I’m still nowhere near experienced enough to answer the questions I want to, though. If you are reading this and have experience with the hunter module, please feel free to drop me a line.
edited to add: I have a reader submitted gear guide that’s looking really awesome- I’ll get that posted asap :)
I’m quitting smoking. I will endeavor to make sure that my crotchety nature for the next few weeks doesn’t spill into my posts :)
Alterac Valley is a complex battleground, but it’s also been out for a long time so I’m not going to spend time going over the basics. There are two basic ways to win this BG, and I’ll go over them today. Read the rest of this entry »
Armor penetration or agility? I’m going to give you the rules of thumb.
Never go ArP if you’re not MM.
If your gear has less than about 350 ArP from gear (not including gems or a trinket proc), then you should use arcane shot taking improved arcane shot talent, as well as gem agility.
If your gear has more than 350ish ArP (this amount changes based on how much crit and AP you have), but less than 850 (again, not including gems or a trinket proc), then you should continue to gem agility, but drop arcane shot from your rotation, and use the improved arcane shot points somewhere else. To see whether this is a DPS increase, you need to use a DPS calculator for your spec and gear.
If your gear has over 850 ArP (again, not including gems or a trinket proc) and you don’t mind being a bit of a “one trick pony” (a term Tobin at EJ coined to mean that you don’t AOE or DPS while moving well), then you can gem ArP and will get a DPS increase.
These are not going to be accurate for everyone, but they will be most of the time. I’m going to reserve the bottom of this post for exceptions to the rules.
I realized that I never got around to writing this boss guide, but better late than never. Yogg Saron is the final encounter in Ulduar, and this guide will go over the basics of the fight (although “basics” is a bit of a misnomer) and talk about a few things hunters can do to really knock his sock(s?) off. Read the rest of this entry »
Mana management is not tricky. We all do it, and we’re all good at it. This post is going to go over a new macro that I believe could increase your damage throughput! Read the rest of this entry »
This was such good advice, I had to give it its own post. Thanks to Bristal, who wrote this in the comments section of this post: Read the rest of this entry »
Hi folks! This week, Darkbrew and Euripides have the pleasure of interviewing Scott Johnson, from The Instance and the myextralife.com comic. Scott has also just started another podcast called The FilmSack- honestly, I don’t know how this guy finds time to sleep :)
This show, we talk to him about leading the largest guild in WOW (and probably any MMO), Alea Iacta Est, as well as ask him a bunch of silly questions in a tribute to the Quick Fire Questions segment on The Instance. These ones are all hunter related. Well, mostly.
As always, here is the iTunes store link, the Hunting Party Podcast feed, and the direct XML feed. If you email us comments or questions, we’ll read them on the next show. Send an email to outdps@gmail.com or thebrewhall@gmail.com, and mention “podcast” in the subject.
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