This, the 68th episode of the Hunting Party Podcast, we interview Kruf, of Paragon! Here’s his blog at Paragon’s site. 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 [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Episode 68!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged hunting party, interview, kruf, paragon, podcast, show on January 31, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Soloing Slabhide
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged extreme soloing, hunter soloing, slabhide, stonecore, Vitreous Stone Drake on January 26, 2011 | 26 Comments »
Edit: This guide is somewhat out of date, find the new one here. One of the things I do to kill time before a raid is solo normal Stonecore. This dungeon has a well-earned reputation for being a pug-killer on Heroic mode, but on normal it is actually soloable by hunters. I go there for [...]
Episode 67!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged Hunting Party Podcast, podcast on January 23, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Episode 67 is all about Frostheim- he was left to do the show alone this week, as both Darkbrew and Euripides had real life engagements. 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 [...]
Ability Spotlight: Disengage
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged ability spotlight, disengage, jump disengage on January 19, 2011 | 14 Comments »
This is the second in a series of posts on hunter abilities that commonly aren’t used to their potential in PVE. Last time we looked at Tranquilizing Shot and this time it is Disengage‘s turn.
Episode 66!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged episode, hunting party, patch 4.0.6, podcast, show on January 16, 2011 | 7 Comments »
This week, we talk about the patch notes and hunters. 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. Send an email to huntingpartypodcast@gmail.com. Also, we [...]
Ability Spotlight: Tranquilizing Shot
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged ability spotlight, dispel, dispells, tranq shot, tranquilizing shot on January 14, 2011 | 11 Comments »
This is the first in a new series of posts on hunter abilities that are underused and/or misunderstood in PVE. Tranq Shot is an appropriate inaugural topic, I think, given its common absence from hunter bars and the renewed attention that Blizzard has given to non-dps abilities like interrupts and dispels in Cataclysm.
Episode 65!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, nerf, patch, podcast, show, Survival, sv on January 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week, we talk more about the impending nerfs to the hunter class in the next patch. Again these things change fast, so it’s already outdated, but this is what we had to say about it last weekend. Here’s the site where we host our shows live. As always, here is the iTunes store link, the Hunting [...]
Lost in the Nerf: Auto Shot While Moving
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged auto-shot, patch on January 13, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Yes, SV is getting its damage reduced. However, there’s a lot more going on in this patch that merits our attention. I’d really encourage you to read the whole set of patch notes. If you need an incentive, know that there’s gems like this: Hunters can now use Auto Shot while moving. Wow.
Episode 64, Kripparrian!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged agility, best practices, crit, enchanting, exodus, gemming, Hunter, kripparrian, logs, master, nerf, parse, performance, pet, podcast, pve, pvp, rotation, spec, stats, Survival, ysondre on January 12, 2011 | 9 Comments »
This week, we welcome Kripparrian, hunter extraordinaire from the Exodus guild on Ysondre-US! This episode was recorded two weeks ago, and in it, we talk about the impending nerfs, some persistent bugs, and the best practices for playing a hunter at the highest possible level of content. Here’s the site where we host our shows live. As [...]
Working with Healers
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged cataclysm, healers, healing on January 7, 2011 | 14 Comments »
I’ve written about healers for OutDPS before, but I think that with Cataclysm our relationship with them merits revisiting. Players are still learning the mechanics of even the 5mans, leading to lots of standing in fire in all settings. Healers go oom more often and have less capacity for emergency triage owing to Blizzard’s decision to make [...]
Bloodthirsty PVP Gear Possibly Better than Dungeon Gear for PVE DPS
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, pvp, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged gear, hunter gear, pvp, pvp gear on January 2, 2011 | 22 Comments »
I was playing around with Zeherah’s online dps modeler and found that four pieces of ilvl 352 Bloodthirsty pvp gear were better for my dps than the pieces of ilvl 346 pve gear I had equipped. This was true for all three specs (an SV dungeon build, an MM dungeon build and a standard BM build) that I ran through [...]