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This episode, we discuss transmogrification of guns, tank threat, and (surprisingly), pvp. 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. [...]

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The recent Dev Watercooler explains a rather significant change to threat.  Read on after the break for more.

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This is a companion post to Working With Healers and has a similar purpose: discussing tanks and hunters in the opening tier of Cataclysm.  While it’s true that healers have the toughest job right now, tanking still ranks above huntering in terms of difficulty.  Tanks are expected to know new fights inside and out, and a lot more hangs [...]

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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 [...]

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This is a short guide to help people get started raiding. Much of the advice is not class specific, however it was inspired by an email I got from a fresh level 80 hunter, who had never grouped for an instance.

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As promised, here’s my guide to Thorim. We beat our head against this guy so many times learning him that I understand half of our healers are off with mild concussions.

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We’ve all been there- you’re doing a fight with multiple tanking targets, and possibly multiple tanks. Healers can generate a lot of agro. Some of them don’t have clutch agro reducing abilities. Sometimes they get something pounding on them, and like all of the weaker classes, get mulched in short order. Today I’m going to [...]

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I’m going to go over misdirect today because there’s a few subtleties that some people may not know.

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