Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.1, black arrow, dps, DPS spreadsheet, dual specs, explosive shot, frost trap, global cooldown, glyphs, haste, kill shot, kill shot macro, lock and load, macro, macros, patch 3.1, pve, quiver haste, quivers, raiding, resourcefulness, serpent sting, sniper training, spec, steady shot, theory crafting on April 15, 2009 | 27 Comments »
I was so excited about this post, I used two exclamation points in the title. That’s one over my budget, but I’ll just have to try and save one from another post sometime.
Well, the servers have been up and down like a toilet seat. I haven’t been able to play for long, and we couldn’t raid or anything, but I got my auctions up. Today I’m going to go over the raw changes to the hunter class and start laying the groundwork for how to hit top DPS in this patch. (more…)
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.1, ammo, ammo stacking, ammunition, battle shout, blessing of might, dps, dual specs, furious howl, haste, longevity, patch 3.1, pets, quivers, raiding, spec, talents, tamagotchi, ulduar, wolf on April 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m going to write a little about 3.1. Not all the changes because they’re mostly still not ready, but certain things that are of importance now.
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged aimed shot, blink, disengage, distracting shot, dual specs, earthbind totem, explosive shot, frost mage, frost nova, frost trap, gluth, gluth kiting, huntard launcher, infected wound, mage, multi shot, naxx, naxxramas, pve, raiding, snare, timing, trapping, zombie chows, zombie kiting on March 13, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Editor’s note: If you are lucky enough to win the key to the focusing iris from Sapphiron even after you repeatedly murder that ugly cat in cold blood (and everyone knows that killing that cat guarantees a /roll of below 10 for the key), don’t forget to start the quest before you have your guild first Malygos kill. Even going back to Dragonblight to pass in said quest will not allow you to finish the follow up. You have to have it in your log at the time of the Malygos kill. The more you know.
Well, here comes another delay in my series about trap dancing. Nobody can procrastinate like a hunter.
Today I’m going to write about one fight in Naxxramas: Gluth. Why am I writing about one fight among the many end game encounters? Because this one will tell the people you run with whether you’re a button mashing, key turning huntard or a hunter extraordinaire. (more…)
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged alchemy, blacksmithing, dps, dual specs, enchanting, engineering, gold making, herbalism, inscription, jewelcrafting, leatherworking, mining, profession, pve, raiding, skinning on March 11, 2009 | 12 Comments »
I’m sick. I feel like Mike Tyson sucker-punched me right between the eyes. And I’m sneezing. So instead of continuing my series on trap dancing, I’m going to use this professions post I’ve been holding onto and go back to bed. I’ll write up a few bosses in the trapdancing series tomorrow.
Your professions can make you money and help you raid. Deciding on which ones you want is important, because if you change your mind, you could waste a large sum of money. You need to figure out what you’re looking for. Are you trying to get a dps bonus for pve? Are you trying to make money? Do you want to be able to fill a specific roll in a raid? Sometimes your guild will ask you to pick up a profession because they need someone to have it. For example- enchanting allows you to shard drops that nobody needs, and the abyss crystals from those disenchanted epics can be used for some of the most expensive enchants in the game.
To start with, let’s go through some of the serious pve bonuses you get from professions. (more…)
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.0.8, comparison, dps, dual specs, PTR on February 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hunters won’t need dual specs when it comes out. We only have one spec, and that’s the “Awesome” tree. Put all your points into it, and you’ll top the dps charts.
Just kidding, we have 3 trees to put our talent points in, and the reason you won’t need dual specs is because no matter what you do, you’ll fail at any PvP more serious than battlegrounds. Moving on (and it’s not easy, I know), the three trees we can choose to allocate our talent points to are: Beast mastery, Marksmanship, and Survival.
I’m not going to try to characterise each tree with a metaphor or generalization. I’m not going to tell you that BM is for levelling, marks is for pvp, or whatever other nonsense I’ve read about on the net, I’m going to tell you which of these trees is (currently) all about topping the DPS meters in end game raids. (more…)
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