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Archive for March, 2011

Interpreting Damage Meters

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , on March 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »

How is DPS actually calculated?  Why do meters love mages?  How do you figure out how much damage you and others did to adds or shields?  This post answers these and other questions in a discussion of how to read damage meters.  The post only focuses on interpreting damage counts on Recount and World of Logs  (WoL) and leaves [...]

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Ability Spotlight: Explosive Shot

Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on March 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I started the Ability Spotlight series to shed light on commonly misunderstood hunter tools.  I imagined writing about abilities that are underused but useful, abilities that improve huntering at the margins.  However, as the hunter recruits to my guild and the hunter forums have shown me, even signature abilities can be persistently misunderstood.  That is why [...]

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Episode 75!

Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged , , on March 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Poor Darkbrew was left completely bereft of co-hosts this time, however we invited Kinaesthesia, a raider from Vodka, to drop by the show and answer some questions. 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 [...]

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Kiting Magmaw Adds as a Hunter

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on March 18, 2011 | 11 Comments »

One strategy for fighting normal Magmaw involves having a single person kite the add packs while all other dps focus on the boss.  Often enough, that single person is a hunter.  What should you do if you get tasked with this job?

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Episode 74!

Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on March 17, 2011 | 9 Comments »

This time, we have the honor of interviewing Onymas, who is hunter in the EU guild Immersion on the Auchindon realm. This is the guild that got the world first Glory of the Cataclysm Raider achievement! Here’s the site where we host our shows live. As always, here is the iTunes store link, the Hunting Party Podcast [...]

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Ability Spotlight: Hardcast Aimed Shot

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 12, 2011 | 9 Comments »

This post concerns the version of Aimed Shot that we can fire instead of Arcane Shot as a focus dump in the MM rotation.  When and why we should use this non-proc’d, hardcast version of AiS is a matter of some debate and this post attempts to offer some resolution.

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Episode 73!

Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »

The Canadian Duck Flu and Feral Druid Mange have struck again. This time, both Frostheim and Euripides were unable to attend the show, leaving Darkbrew in the good care of Michele Morrow, who graciously agreed to cover for both missing hosts. Rumors abound as to the “coincidental” timing of both hosts’, who theoretically live in [...]

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Survival and One with Nature

Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 7, 2011 | 6 Comments »

The recent buff to Aspect of the Hawk left Survival with an interesting choice: 3/3 talent points in One with Nature (OWN) or just 1/3?  The question isn’t whether One with Nature is good.  OWN is good.  The question is whether or not it is better than the other good dump talents that Survival can spec into, Sic [...]

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Ability Spotlight: Misdirection

Posted in World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on March 4, 2011 | 8 Comments »

This time around we look at Misdirection.  As usual with Ability Spotlight, we’re concerned with pve applications of the ability.

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