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Archive for September, 2011

What a Hunter Tanking Tree Would Have to (and Could) Look Like

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , on September 29, 2011 | 17 Comments »

The Hunting Party Podcast and WoW Insider have each brought up the idea of getting rid of pure dps classes and making everyone a hybrid.  While taming a pet that enables a healing tree is conceivable, our having tenacity pets already suggests that we hunters would most likely end up with a tanking tree were we to be hybridized.  It would not [...]

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A Quick State of Hunter DPS

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on September 25, 2011 | 26 Comments »

I haven’t seen any “state of hunter dps” posts in a while so I thought I’d throw one together.

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Episode 99!

Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , on September 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The WHU killed a massive whale with low level hunters, Boz updated the drinking game (uh oh), and Darkbrew and Euripides will be flying down to beautiful Minnesota to record episode 100 with Frost, live! Also, Blizzard has asked hunters for design feedback, and Firelands was nerfed harder than BM was the first Wrath patch. [...]

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Homogenization That Could Help

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged on September 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Class distinctiveness makes the game more diverse, strengthens class identities and increases replay value.  We might therefore suppose that class homogenization is something to always be avoided.  Yet, as we’ve seen over the course of WoW’s development, sometimes sharing mechanics between classes can work out well.  The function of refreshing a dot/hot as part of a rotation was shared to good [...]

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A Note on the Request for Feedback

Posted in World of Warcraft, tagged , on September 16, 2011 | 12 Comments »

I see a lot of comments here and in other places like the Arena Junkies forums accusing these feedback threads of being deeply cynical placations of the playerbase.  The comments question, “how could Blizzard possibly still need our feedback?  The problems are obvious and we’ve been posting about them for ages.”  They question, “why would Blizzard [...]

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Narrative in Cataclysm

Posted in World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on September 15, 2011 | 17 Comments »

This is a follow-up to a piece I wrote earlier on maintaining the WoW playerbase.  This post focuses on something largely left out of discussions so far: narrative.

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Episode 98!

Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »

This episode, Frost was out camping. Darkbrew and Euripides talked about the latest dev watercooler. 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 [...]

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Blizzard Requests Hunter Class Feedback

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , on September 12, 2011 | 8 Comments »

This post is just a heads up that Blizzard is requesting feedback on all classes, including hunters.  You can find the US thread on hunters here and the EU thread on hunters here. Note that the blues have specific questions they want players to answer.

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Resources for Extreme Soloing

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , on September 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Transmogrification is likely to breath some new life into extreme soloing for hunters as they venture into old dungeons and raids in search of snazzy duds.  However, extreme soloing for its own sake is still going strong as well.  After the cut you’ll find a compilation of links to resources for hunter extreme soloing.

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Episode 97!

Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft on September 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »

This episode, we discuss the future of the hunter class. 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 [...]

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Competing Interests in the WoW Playerbase

Posted in World of Warcraft, tagged on September 6, 2011 | 8 Comments »

The maintenance of the WoW playerbase has been a popular topic of late with the release of figures relating to the decline of subscriptions since Cataclysm’s launch and the publication of two prominent pieces, one being IGN’s interview with Blizzard about WoW’s future and the other being Gamasutra’s examination of WoW’s future prospects.  Both articles speak volumes about WoW’s future.

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Working with Tanks and Healers Revisited

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , on September 2, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Early on in the expansion I wrote a pair of posts that were aimed at how to work well with tanks and healers.  Several major content patches later, and with the final major patch of Cataclysm on the horizon, we might wonder what, if anything, has changed.

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Episode 96!

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

This episode, we discuss the future of the hunter class. 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 [...]

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