If you respec from BM to MM (or I believe to SV), you may end up with a pet talent tree like this: The pet talents used with the BM spec remain in the tree, preventing the use of the new unspent talents on, say, Thunderstomp. The BM talents only exist in the talent tree and not in the pet’s Spellbook, though. [...]
Archive for the ‘Beast Mastery’ Category
BM to MM/SV Pet Talent Tree Bug
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged bm, bug, mm, pet spec, pet talents, pets, sv on January 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Blue Post Christmas List!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged blue posts, bm, buff, dps, mm, nerf, pets, sv, wolves on December 22, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Bah Humbug. Bornakk says: The spirit beasts are not the real issue from our perspective. We this spirit beasts are doing fine and we don’t want them to be the only choice for BM hunters since speccing BM should give a player more choices for pets (ideally) and not less. The problem mainly lies with [...]
How To Use The New Cower!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged awesome, cower, macro, mend pet, patch 3.3, pet, pve, pvp, raiding on December 16, 2009 | 12 Comments »
This patch contained a lot of awesome. One of the smaller awesomes, however, was that our pets gained some new functionality from cower and lost the old functionality. Today we’re going to go over the changes, as well as some potential use cases.
Culling The Herd!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged crits, culling the herd, dps, focus, go for the throat, pve, raiding, uptime on December 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As you guys probably know, we have a new pet talent replacing avoidance. Now that a 90% AOE reduction is baked into pets, culling the herd was replaced in the talent tree exactly where avoidance was. It provides a 3% damage done boose to you and your pet every time it procs, and procs from [...]
Hunting Yogg Saron!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged brain room, constrictor tentacle, corruptor tentacle, crusher tentacle, descent into madness, guide, induce madness, keepers, lunatic gaze, p1, p2, p3, phase 1, phase 2, phase 3, pve, raiding, sanity, sara, strategy, yogg, yogg saron on November 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I realized that I never got around to writing this boss guide, but better late than never. Yogg Saron is the final encounter in Ulduar, and this guide will go over the basics of the fight (although “basics” is a bit of a misnomer) and talk about a few things hunters can do to really [...]
Mana Saving Macros!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged aspect dancing, aspect of the dragonhawk, aspect of the viper, dragonhawk, efficiency, explosive shot, kill shot, macro, macros, mana, oom, pve, raiding, regen, steady shot, viper on November 4, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Mana management is not tricky. We all do it, and we’re all good at it. This post is going to go over a new macro that I believe could increase your damage throughput!
Hunter Off Tank Videos!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Spotlight, World of Warcraft, tagged pet tanking, warcraft hunter's union on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Go take a gander at this excellent post over at the Warcraft Hunters Union about using a pet to off tank Naxx :)
Even More 3.3 Hunter Changes!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.3, aoe, avoidance, explosive trap, lock and load, patch 3.3, point of no escape, pve, pvp, resilience, silencing shot, volley on October 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
MMO-Champion posted additional notes on patch 3.3. Of interest, here are the hunter changes:
Tentative Hunter Changes in 3.3!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.3, avoidance, buff, changes, misdirect, misdirection, nerf, patch 3.3, pve, pvp on October 1, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The patch 3.3 test realm notes were released today. Of interest: Hunter Misdirection: Redesigned. Instead of having finite charges, it now begins a 4-second timer when the hunter using Misdirection performs a threat-generating attack, during which all threat generated by the hunter goes to the friendly target. In addition, multiple hunters can now misdirect threat [...]
Excellent Article on Raiding as BM!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Spotlight, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2.2, aspect of the hare, Beast Mastery, bm, BM viability in raids, dps, pike, pikestaff, pve, raiding, spec, viability on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Pike, over at Aspect of the Hare, has put together an excellent post that goes over the state of beast master hunters in raids now, and gives some helpful spec advice!
How to Enchant for PvP!
Posted in arena, Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, pvp, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged arena, battlegrounds, enchanting, pvp on September 21, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Hey everyone, today I’m going to write a short post about enchanting your gear for PvP. It’s not as straightforward as you might think. What enchants you use obviously depend on your professions, to some extent, but hunters actually have a lot of flexibility and it’s important to know what you’re doing.
Hunter PvP 101!
Posted in arena, Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, pvp, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agility, arena, battleground, Beast Mastery, bg, focused aim, gemming, hit, Hunter, interface, macro, Marksmanship, mouseover macro, pets, pvp, resilience, spell penetration, spider, Survival, UI, wolf on September 18, 2009 | 21 Comments »
Hey everyone. Today we’ll talk about what it is the beginning pvper needs to know as far as gearing and setting up for pvp. I’ll try to cover the most basic things that everyone should know without favoring one type of PvP over another.
Slowly but Surely, Beastmastery is Gaining!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2.2, Beast Mastery, beast within, beastmastery, bestial wrath, bm, dps, enrage, Hunter, marks, mmo-champion, prt, pve, raiding, Survival on September 17, 2009 | 22 Comments »
Beast mastery is a fan favorite. It was also unbalanced for the first part of this expansion, and got nerfed hard in patch 3.0.8. After that patch, the majority of people who played BM in a raiding environment were people who really liked the playstyle, and had more skill with it than they did using [...]
S7 3v3 Comps
Posted in arena, Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, pvp, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3s, 3v3, arena, caster, cleave, comps, crowd control, dps, melee, pvp, s7, season 7, season seven, zoo cleave on September 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hey everyone! I’ve been experimenting a lot this last week with different comps and have a lot of tips and ideas. Today I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned :).
How to Spec a Leveling Hunter!
Posted in World of Warcraft, Hunter, Beast Mastery, tagged spec, Beast Mastery, bm, hunter leveling build, leveling build, talent points on September 2, 2009 | 16 Comments »
We’ve all been there, right? Most hunters start at level one, and have to get to 80 the long way. On that vein, I am going to answer a very simple question today. “What should I spend my next talent point on?” All the guides I’ve read (and certainly most of what I’ve written) seem [...]
Patch 3.2 Guide Post Updates!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Resources, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2, guides, patch 3.2, updated on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve gone and updated my 3.1 guides to be accurate for 3.2. As always, the links are on the right, but here’s the list of updated posts. Go ahead and peruse them, and if you notice anything wrong, comment or contact. Survival rotation Survival macros Wolf pet build Survival spec and glyphs (updated 8 Sep, [...]