I’ll have something proper written up tomorrow. In the meantime, all you readers (and I know you’re out there- I watch my stats!) think about volunteering to guest write some pvp content for this blog. Contact me using the contact page! The alternative is much worse- if I were to attempt to write a pvp [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Raiding tonight, quick note only!
Posted in Hunter, Offtopic, World of Warcraft on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lock and load!
Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2, addon, aimed shot, dps, explosive shot, flight time, global cooldown, lock and load, macro, macros, patch 3.2, pve, quartz, raiding, shot macro, shot rotation, shot rotations, steady shot, timing on April 29, 2009 | 38 Comments »
Everyone has an opinion about lock and load. It used to be the bread and butter of the trapdancing spec, and is now still an incredibly nice talent that’s well worth the points spent in it. What it does is proc from 20% of the ticks of black arrow outside its 22 second cooldown, providing [...]
Happy anniversary!
Posted in Offtopic, World of Warcraft, tagged anniversary, breakfast for dinner, mrs. dps on April 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I am working on a good PvE post about how to best take advantage of lock and load procs, but I can’t finish it today because, as the title may have tipped you off, it’s my anniversary! Mrs. DPS and I have been together for 8 years, and today’s the second year since we formally [...]
Kiting Boot-camp!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged auto-shot, concussive shot, disengage, firing angle, frost trap, how to kite, instant, instant abilities, instant shot, jump shot, kite, kiting, kiting macro, macro, raptor strike, slow, snare, wing clip on April 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Due to popular request, I’m writing up a guide on how to kite. I’ve written before about how to kite zombie chows on gluth, but this is going to be more general. Plus, the zombie chows is really more like range tanking than kiting ;)
Link day!
Posted in Offtopic, World of Warcraft on April 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Stuff I read and thought I’d share. In lieu of a real post. Because I can’t think of anything. Because I suck at blogging. Nance’s take on Emalon Nassira on Razorscale Tobold on linear progress in WOW
So you want a wolf!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2, blessing of might, dps, DPS spreadsheet, furious howl, patch 3.2, pet, pets, raiding, shark attack, sons of hodir, stamina, untextured cube, wild hunt, wolf on April 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The best DPS raiding pet since patch 3.1 is the wolf. This post will go over how to get one, what to do with it, and how to “configure” it. Heh, “configuring your wolf” is such a min/maxer way of putting it :)
Impassioned plea for post ideas!
Posted in Hunter, Offtopic, World of Warcraft, tagged economy, post ideas, posts, raiding on April 22, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I have committed to posting something every work day. When I’m lucky enough to have a new patch to chew on, I’ll write a useful post every time. Once I’m out of stuff to write about, however, I regress to writing about crap you probably don’t want to hear about. On that note, I’m making [...]
Survival Macros!
Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2, 3.2 survival macros, aimed shot, arms warrior, bloodlust, casts, castsequence, dps, exhaustion, explosive shot, global cooldown, heroism, instant abilities, kill command, kill shot, kill shot macro, macro, macros, patch 3.2, pve, raiding, rapid fire, serpent sting, shot priorities, shot rotation, shot rotations, steady shot, survival macro, trinkets on April 17, 2009 | 38 Comments »
I covered the shot priorities list. Now it’s time for macros. Some of you are thinking “Macros? I thought you said not to macro shots, just to weave them manually based on what’s available and highest priority?”. This is correct! However, and I went over this in the last patch, it’s fine to take all [...]
Survival Rotation!
Posted in Hunter, Resources, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2, aimed shot, black arrow, dps, explosive shot, global cooldown, glyph of steady shot, kill shot, lock and load, macro, macros, multi shot, patch 3.2, patch 3.2 survival, priorities, pve, raiding, rapid fire, serpent sting, shot priorities, shot rotation, shot rotations, steady shot, Survival on April 15, 2009 | 50 Comments »
3.2 edit: I’ve gone through this survival rotation guide and ensured that everything is accurate for patch 3.2.
Survival in patch 3.1! Pun intended!
Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.1, black arrow, dps, DPS spreadsheet, dual specs, explosive shot, frost trap, global cooldown, glyphs, haste, kill shot, kill shot macro, lock and load, macro, macros, patch 3.1, pve, quiver haste, quivers, raiding, resourcefulness, serpent sting, sniper training, spec, steady shot, theory crafting on April 15, 2009 | 27 Comments »
I was so excited about this post, I used two exclamation points in the title. That’s one over my budget, but I’ll just have to try and save one from another post sometime. Well, the servers have been up and down like a toilet seat. I haven’t been able to play for long, and we [...]
Randomly acquired tools!
Posted in Resources, World of Warcraft, tagged arms warrior, Heigan, heigan dance, naxx, naxxramas, pve, raid composition calculator, raiding on April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, I’m starting to write up some revisions for my earlier work on huntering pre-3.1. This will not be ready today, however, because while the patch notes are finalized, no live testing has been done. For now, here are two really nifty tools I discovered in my travels that every raid leader should know about. [...]
Making money farming eternals!
Posted in Offtopic, Resources, World of Warcraft, tagged auction house, crystallized air, crystallized fire, crystallized water, demand, economy, elementals, eternal air, eternal fire, eternal water, eternals, farming, gold, herbalism, mining, money, relic of ulduar, revenants, supply, wintergrasp, wowhead on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I haven’t needed to farm elementals in a while, but if the prices keep going up at the rate they’ve been, I might have to start again. I looked into it, and I figured I would share some of the wisdom I’ve gleaned.
Long weekend!
Posted in Uncategorized, World of Warcraft, tagged posting, schedule on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you all know, I don’t write much on weekends. Well, I have today off so you will hear more from me on Monday :) I’m probably going to talk a bit about elemental farming.
Pets, ammo, and respecialization in 3.1!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.1, ammo, ammo stacking, ammunition, battle shout, blessing of might, dps, dual specs, furious howl, haste, longevity, patch 3.1, pets, quivers, raiding, spec, talents, tamagotchi, ulduar, wolf on April 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m going to write a little about 3.1. Not all the changes because they’re mostly still not ready, but certain things that are of importance now.
Copping out!
Posted in Hunter, Resources, World of Warcraft, tagged cop out, link post, naxx on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m short on time and bereft of ideas for a post, so I’m going to refer my reader(s?) to a brief Naxx guide written by Larissa over at the Hunters Mark.
Account security!
Posted in Offtopic, Resources, World of Warcraft, tagged account, blizzard authenticator, hackers, keepass, login, login security, open source, passwords, security, sourceforge on April 7, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Lodur over at Matticus’s post about password safety got me thinking. Parts of my day job involve computer security, so I’m going to go over some of the basics and tell you all what I do.