Tol Barad is Cataclysm’s Wintergrasp, a dour archipelago holding regularly-scheduled pvp, a Vault-of-Archavon-style raid instance and many, many foxes. However, it’s also Cataclysm’s Argent Tournament, replete with numerous dailies and all sorts of rewards. It is this second side of Tol Barad that this post will focus on, offering a guide to taking advantage of the dailies as a [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Likely Nerf to Survival, Buffs to Beast Mastery and Marksmanship
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged buff, class changes, ghostcrawler, nerf on December 28, 2010 | 10 Comments »
In Ghostcrawler’s new post on upcoming class changes, all three hunter specs get mentioned by name in the first body paragraph. Survival hunters are brought up twice, for having suspiciously high single target damage and for having possibly too-high AoE damage. Beast Mastery and Marksmanship hunters get singled out as having damage that is definitely too low. This much attention, this prominently in the [...]
Merry Christmas!
Posted in Offtopic, tagged christmas, happy, holidays, merry on December 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If that didn’t happen to cover you, happy holidays!
Episode 63!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged cataclysm, dawn moore, Hunter, hunting party, Hunting Party Podcast, podcast, pve, raiding, show on December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This week, we welcome guest Dawn Moore from Wow Insider to the show! Also, we’re taking next week off for the holidays. 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 [...]
Hunter Crowd Control in Cataclysm Dungeons
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged cataclysm, CC, crowd control, dungeon, Hunter, trap, trapping on December 18, 2010 | 18 Comments »
Cataclysm dungeons are built to keep faces off of keyboards. At current levels of gear, they encourage hunters to make use of the dusty corners of their spellbooks and play roles that, well, they didn’t have to think about much at all in Northrend dungeons. Namely, we have to use crowd control (CC). This post [...]
Episode 62, welcome Morynne of Marks-365!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged cataclysm, Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, marks-365, morynne, podcast, pve, raiding, show on December 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This week, we welcome a guest, Morynne of Marks-365, to the show to discuss the first week of Cataclysm. This was recorded Dec 12th, so some of the information is already dated, however apparently Frostheim doesn’t know who Gene Simmons is. This won’t get old for a while. Until he race changes to worgen to [...]
Episode 61, Cataclysm Preparation!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged cataclysm, cataclysm hunters, cataclysm launch guide, dps, Hunter, hunting party, Hunting Party Podcast, podcast, strategy on December 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
On this, the 61st episode of the Hunting Party Podcast, we go over every conceivable piece of information your hunter will need on Cataclysm launch day! 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 [...]