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Heroic: The Plagueworks

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on September 13, 2010 | 6 Comments »

You can find my guide to ICC’s first wing heroic modes here. This post addresses playing a hunter in the plague wing’s heroic modes.  It assumes that you are already familiar with the fights on normal mode.  Fortunately or unfortunately, the plague wing hard modes offer few changes that affect hunters in a unique way [...]

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Heroic: Storming the Citadel

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Now that Kingslayers are becoming fairly common, it seems all the more appropriate for OutDPS! to address hunting ICC’s heroic modes.  This post will go over the first wing, focusing on the changes in the heroic modes on the assumption that you have done the normal modes.

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World of Logs DPS by Class!

Posted in Hunter, Spotlight, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , on May 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Do you want to know how hunters stack up on average to other DPS classes? Take a look at the article that OutDPS poet laureate Frostheim painstakingly put together for wow.com. Interesting data. A visual cue that might help you is that all hunter specs are in green.

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ICC Buff and Cataclysm Token Preview!

Posted in World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , on April 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Oh god, so much news! First off, relevant now, MMO-C tells us that the ICC zone buff was extended again. 11 wasn’t enough louder than 10, evidently. Hear that? That’s the sound of progression without any change in skill or gear! Next up, it looks like there’s been a preview of the way progression tokens [...]

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Can Survival Raid? Pshaw!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 18, 2010 | 54 Comments »

My old buddy (and OutDPS poet laureate), Frostheim, posted today about some things Ghostcrawler said about BM raiding. In his analysis, he dropped a hint that he had been planning a “can survival raid” post, so I figured I’d clear the air a bit about the whole survival and marksmanship comparison. I’ll say it right [...]

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Pets Now Eligible for ICC Buff!

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , on March 15, 2010 | 7 Comments »

From Zarhym: “Hellscream’s Warsong and Strength of Wrynn now provide their bonuses to player pet health and damage, as well as the absorption amounts of Power Word: Shield and Sacred Shield.” I’m happy :) edit: well, I will be in 3.3.3!

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Hunting Festergut!

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , on February 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Festergut is usually the first boss a raid will attempt once they get past Saurfang and his merry band of blood beasts. He is as close to a patchwerk fight as you’ll see in Icecrown, but there’s still some hunter strategy involved. Assuming the tanks and healers are able to keep everyone alive, this is [...]

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Tanking Keleseth

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , on February 1, 2010 | 26 Comments »

As a hunter you may be called on to tank one of the ICC blood princes, Keleseth.  While there are a number of approaches to tanking him for different classes, this post will describe how a hunter can do it and do it well.

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How To Manage Hit Rating!

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , on January 26, 2010 | 18 Comments »

I’ve seen this a fair bit lately: hunters with double (and even triple!) the hit rating needed to never miss a raid boss. How did they get there? What can you do to avoid getting there, and how can they get out?

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A Little Tip on Blood Princes!

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on January 24, 2010 | 15 Comments »

Luponero from Zuluhed-US posts that your pet alone might be enough to keep a kinetic bomb off the ground. Makes sense- the things only need to be hit when they’re close to ground level.

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Hunting Lady Deathwhisper!

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 6, 2010 | 12 Comments »

Lady Deathwhisper is the second boss in ICC, and while this fight was recently nerfed, it is still a challenge. Especially on 25 man. Hunters have a few unique roles in it too, so today we’ll go over what it takes to take down Deathwhisper.

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Hunting Deathbringer Saurfang!

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 29, 2009 | 41 Comments »

This encounter is the glock-block encounter designed to test your guilds’ hunters’ kiting skills, as well as your healers and tanks and everything else. Doing this fight feels like rolling a boulder up a ski jump- that last 3% takes more work than the first 20%. Haven’t kited in a while? Read on for the [...]

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Icecrown Tips For Hunters!

Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2009 | 38 Comments »

I am preparing a couple of proper guides for the new ICC encounters, but in the meantime I am going to share some of the wisdom I’ve absorbed learning these with my guild:

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