I promised myself I wouldn’t get into this. People really seem to get divided over the issue and take it way more personally than I think they should. There have been several posts on both sides of the question that got debated endlessly, but I finally decided that I would throw my two cents in. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘raiding’
Beastmaster Raid Viability?
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged arthas, Beast Mastery, choice, dps, drooling facerollers, icecrown, min-maxing, pve, raiding, spec on February 24, 2010 | 76 Comments »
Hunting Festergut!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged boss, festergut, ICC, icecrown citadel, plagueworks, pve, raiding, strategy 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 [...]
Tanking Keleseth
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged blood prince council, hunter tanking, ICC, Keleseth, raiding, Taldaram, tanking, Valanar 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.
Preventable DPS Loss Addon? I Can’t Code!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged addon, dps, hunter fails, idea, preventable dps loss, raiding on January 28, 2010 | 35 Comments »
Not very well, at any rate, and not in Warcraft’s LUA language. That said, I have an idea for an addon. I’m sure someone out there either can do this, or has done it already. It’s an addon that tells you how many preventable losses of DPS you had during a fight. Picture failbot for [...]
Is Your Pet Lagging?
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged auto-cast, bad jokes that aren't funny, bite, bug, furious howl, pet, pve, raiding on January 18, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Or are you just happy to see me? Looks like our pets are not auto-casting as fast as they should be. If you leave an ability on auto-cast, pets apparently take a variable amount of time more than they should to cast it. There are reports of this going down to almost nothing in deserted [...]
ICC Macros
Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged blood beast, distracting shot, dps, focus, icecrown citadel, Lady Deathwhisper, macros, pettarget, raiding, saurfang, stings, taunts on January 13, 2010 | 33 Comments »
This post holds macros that you may find useful for Lady Deathwhisper and Saurfang in ICC. If they fit your play style, great; if not, don’t use them. Also note that these macros are at their bare bones. You should add in Kill Command, trinket activations, etc., as appropriate.
Hunting Lady Deathwhisper!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.3, adds, adherents, deathwhisper, dps, empowered, fanatics, ICC, icecrown citadel, Lady Deathwhisper, mutated, pve, raid, raiding, reanimated 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.
What Am I Doing Wrong!?
Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged beginner, dps, enchanting, ferocity, gear, gemming, glyphs, hunter 101, min-maxing, performance, pet, pve, raiding, shot priority, shot rotation, spec, spreadsheet, wolf on January 5, 2010 | 17 Comments »
There has been a surge in questions about the basics lately- people telling me that they are not producing enough DPS based on what they think they should do with the gear they have. I’m going to go over the basics today, and if you do everything you read here, you shouldn’t have that problem.
Hunting Deathbringer Saurfang!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged blood beasts, blood nova, blood power, Deathbringer Saurfang, how to kite, hunters, ICC, icecrown citadel, kite, kiting, kiting blood beasts, mark of the fallen champion, pve, raiding, strategy, tactics 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 [...]
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.
Icecrown Tips For Hunters!
Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged Deathbringer Saurfang, Gunship Battle, ICC, icecrown citadel, Lady Deathwhisper, Lord Marrowgar, Marksmanship, mm, patch 3.3, pve, raiding, Survival, sv 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:
Is Deathbringer’s Will Hunter Loot?
Posted in Hunter, Spotlight, World of Warcraft, tagged agi, ap, arp, crit, deathbringer's will, hunter loot, loot council, pve, raiding, rilgon on December 11, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Rilgon says so. His argument is that basically there are no hunters that won’t gain the full benefit of every single type of proc we’re eligible for (which is agi, crit, or AP), and there are other classes that could become ArP capped or crit capped. Go read his post- the whole story is more [...]
The New Misdirect!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged dps, marrowgar, MD, misdirect, misdirection, patch 3.3, pve, raiding, tanking, threat, threat reset on December 11, 2009 | 17 Comments »
I’m not kidding when I say that the new misdirect is probably one of my favorite changes in patch 3.3. Every time a tank says “holy mackerel- I had 20k threat on that boss”, I smirk. It’s a win win. For the cost of a GCD (the first one is free), you help keep your [...]
Boss Tactics Addon!
Posted in addons, Resources, World of Warcraft, tagged addons, boss tactics, pve, raid leading, raiding, strategy on December 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Welcome the the latest installment of Musings on Mods! Today, we’re going to talk about the Boss Tactics addon. Boss Tactics is an a phenomenal tool to make your raid run more smoothly. What it does is allows synchronized graphical walk through of boss encounters. “Huh” I hear you ask? Boss Tactics let’s you and [...]
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 [...]
A Mindset for Better DPS
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged dps, improvement, methodology, mind-set, pve, raiding on November 24, 2009 | 11 Comments »
The interview with Kripparrian in The Hunting Party Podcast #14 gave us plenty to think about. While the message that most focused on (that of stack your cooldowns) is important, I thought another of Kripparian’s comments also deserved its own post: that you need a mindset of self-improvement. In this post I will go over how [...]
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