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 this post (a) an impassioned plea for post ideas, and (b) some crap you probably don’t want to hear about.
If you are a raiding hunter, please search your soul for questions for me! I write based on the things I had to figure out or things that challenged me, however everyone has their own challenges and they’re not unique. If you think I should write a how-to post on something, tell me in the comments :)
Now, onto the stuff that’s not raiding or hunter based. Has anyone else noticed a collapse in market prices? I stockpiled most of my money into a few commodoties that I assumed would go up in price- titansteel because of the new weapons, abyss crystals and infinite dust because of the new gear dropping, and goldclover because it’s being used now in the DPS flask. None of these things has gone up in price- they’ve all dropped between 10% and 40% in price, actually. I’m holding out hoping for some of this demand that new content is supposed to bring, but I’ve basically written off this money for at least a few months.
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Just off the top of my head …
1. I suck at kiting. I know you once wrote about kiting in the gluth encounter but a general kiting-howto would be much appreciated. I mean… can someone really do the jump-turn-concussive-shot-thing while running ?
2. Encounter-specific tricks: I really dig stuff like “snaketrap so a snake gets sacrificed by illhoof”. Little tidbits of information what a hunter can do to make an encounter easier. When do Tranquilizing shot or snake-trap help in WotLK ? Uses for Distracting Shot+Deterrence for tanking a boss during enrage (e.g. maexxna)?
3. Gear evaluation heuristics: Yes I know I should use the spreadsheet. But quick ad-hoc comparisons can’t be done with it and I often have to decide quickly if I need something or not. So … how much is one point of intellect worth ?
Thanks Marc, I’ll use some of this :)
I second the kiting suggestion. I do know how myself–but it should be an interesting read, and I’ll get to be lazy and just send newbie hunters a link instead of trying to explain it myself. =D
I can kite something solo, I can kite a player in pvp, and when it’s called for in a strategy, I can kite in a raid. The problem is, I only ever raid, and I can only think of one boss that requires a kiter. Gluth. I haven’t been all the way through Ulduar yet though…
The reason prices tanked – everyone stockpiled the mats before the patch and are now looking to cash out, bringing the price down.
Plus if enough people have AH assisting add-ons (Auctioneer, Auctionator, etc.), competition gets a bit tighter.
To have made money on this patch you have to be able to make high end items that the raiding populace will use.
The first night glyph-makers made a killing, especially those lucky enough to get the newer high-end glyphs.
Flask makers have potential to make a plenty of money on raid nights (Tuesdays especially). I’ve heard some servers are selling frost lotuses (loti?) for over 40g for 1.
And finally enchanters are going to make money once the raiders get new gear that needs enchants.
But in a few weeks, the market will return to normal.
I made a nice profit, but I’ve had some losses.
Fair enough. I’ve just been holding on for now, but if this goes on long enough, I’ll probably just unload at a loss :(
How about the new pet talents? I know everyone says the new raid pet is a wolf but where are they talenting and why?
I have that information scattered among two posts- I’ll concatenate it and put one up soon- thanks :)
If I told you what to blog about, I wouldn’t have anything to blog about myself! :P
Seriously – I’m too lazy to check hunter mechanic stuff myself (which talents are better per point, gear comparison, pet comparison), esp. for MM/Surv tree, so your opinions on that kind of stuff is always a good read for me.
Heh, I appreciate your candor, and your patronage :)
How about something about pet management for Ulduar? Where can I bring my pet, where will it blow up the raid, and where will it require too many gcd’s on mend pet to be worth the effort? That would be really nice information. :)
I’ll roll that into the wolf post I’m going to do :) The main problem is that my guild has only taken out a few of the easy bosses in Ulduar… I’ll post the info as I get it though. Thanks!
The main problem was that Ulduar is not the steamroll that Naxx was. Guilds are actually having to work to get the gear drops, so there’s not that much demand yet for enhancement items.
Raid mats however, may still be somewhat profitable, but I don’t doubt that the majority of raiding guilds stockpiled up before the flask change.
I have started going into your podcasts, and in Hunting Party 1, you have some offhand discussion about guns vs bows. How about a post on that, and the dynamics of each?