The pre-Cataclysm patch is up on the public test realm. There hunters have focus and a dramatically different spellbook. Pets have their new abilities. Armor penetration is gone from our gear and haste is in ascendance. What can we do to prepare before these and other changes go live?
Archive for September, 2010
Preparing for Patch 4.0
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged cataclysm, hunters in cataclysm, patch 4.0 on September 26, 2010 | 30 Comments »
Episode 50!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged episode 50, hunting party, podcast on September 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Welcome to the 50th episode of the Hunting Party! That’s right, folks, we’ve been doing this for 50 whole episodes. Thanks to all our listeners for putting up with us for so long, and enjoy the show! Here’s the site where we host our shows live. As always, here is the iTunes store link, the [...]
Heroic: The Crimson Hall
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged blood princes, Blood Queen, heroic mode, ICC hard modes, ICC Heroic Mode, The Crimson Hall on September 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This post focuses on the new things that hunters can expect to find in The Crimson Hall’s heroic modes. It assumes knowledge of the normal versions of the fights and takes as a given that the encounters put out more damage and have higher dps requirements. I’ve previously posted guides to the first and second wing heroic modes [...]
One of my favorite WoW Insider commenters
Posted in Hunter, Offtopic, Spotlight, World of Warcraft, tagged article, cutaia, funny on September 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Go and read these confessions of a noob hunter by (cutaia), one of the most prolific and funny WoW Insider commenters. It’s a good reminder of times long past for me, and I got a a couple good lols out of it :)
Misdirecting Different Tanks
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged macros, misdirect, misdirection, multiple tanks on September 14, 2010 | 18 Comments »
Endgame huntering often requires repeated MDing to different tanks over the course of a single fight. Tanks trading hit for mitigation and ICC’s threat mechanics both push hunters into this role of MDing often and to changing targets. We should wonder about the ways we can make this job easier. What we want to avoid are methods of [...]
Heroic: The Plagueworks
Posted in World of Warcraft, Hunter, tagged hard mode., heroic mode, ICC, Plague Wing on September 13, 2010 | 6 Comments »
You can find my guide to ICC’s first wing heroic modes here. This post addresses playing a hunter in the plague wing’s heroic modes. It assumes that you are already familiar with the fights on normal mode. Fortunately or unfortunately, the plague wing hard modes offer few changes that affect hunters in a unique way [...]
Episode 49!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged beta, cataclysm, Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, pet, pet design pass, pets, podcast, show, shows on September 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This week, we talk about the pet design pass, as well as have Bella, from the WHU guild, on to chat with us about the WHU in game event. Here’s the site where we host our shows live. As always, here is the iTunes store link, the Hunting Party Podcast feed, and the direct XML [...]
Episode 48!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, podcast on September 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This week, we talk about the last beta patch with the new hunter changes. Here’s the site where we host our shows live. 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. [...]
Episode 47!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged hunting party, podcast, show, volley on September 2, 2010 | 11 Comments »
This week, we talk about the removal of volley, as well as other various and sundry topics. Here’s the site where we host our shows live. 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 [...]