Archive for the ‘Hunters’ Category

PvP tips for new Hunters

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending more of my time in battlegrounds and arena on my Rogue, as well as leveling yet another alt – a dirty Warlock. It’s only in the last couple of weeks that I’ve been able to find time for some regular PvP action. One thing I’ve noticed is [...]

The state of DPS following patch 4.0.6

Friday, February 18th, 2011

With Patch 4.0.6 now live for almost a week there is enough data starting to trickle through to take a look at and see just who benefited the most from the patchy goodness. Now, leading up to the patch, there was a lot of doom and gloom, particularly in the Hunter community, where the Survival [...]

Worgen or the case for aesthetics over numbers

Monday, January 24th, 2011

My recent post on choosing the ‘best’ race for the Hunter class caused me to reflect on my decisions. For min/max’ing there’s little doubt that the 1% increased chance to critically hit makes the Worgen the number one choice for Alliance Hunters. For non-min/max’ers there are other factors to consider though, and for me the [...]

What is the best race for the Hunter class?

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

The moment Cataclysm launched I immediately race changed my Night Elf Rogue to a Worgen. I’d been thinking about that change since Worgen were announced and a Worgen Rogue just made sense to me. The Worgen racial abilities also lent themselves to the Rogue class.

Hunter pets and raid buffs come Cataclysm

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

One of the big – and positive – hunter changes that came with patch 4.01 that I forgot to mention in my patch 4.01 QQ fest post is the introduction of raid wide buffs/debuffs from hunter pets.

Hunting in a post 4.01 world

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

It’s been a little while since I’ve written anything here. I guess there is really only one reason for that. Patch 4.01. For a while there I was running around in a virtual haze. My poor old hunter went from awesome to average in the blink of an eye. I played around with some of [...]

Demystifying armor penetration

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

One of the most common questions that you’ll hear asked by Marksmanship (MM) Hunters – as well as Warriors, Rogues and Kitty Druids – is “when should I start to gem for armor penetration?” The simple answer is, as soon as you can reach the hard or soft cap through gems, enchants and food. The [...]

Introduction to soloing old school heroic instances

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

With the Wrath of the Lich King nearing the end of its life cycle I’m finding myself increasingly bored with running the same heroic dungeons for emblems on my main and alts. I’ve reached the point where my main just doesn’t ‘need’ the frost emblems to the extent he did four or five months ago, [...]

Into the Ruby Sanctum to chase the Sharpened Twilight Scale

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Looking up some of the loot for Ruby Sanctum, which has now popped up on wowhead, the hunter in me is a little sad. Due to the size of my guild I’m probably only going to get into the 10 man version of the raid, unless I’m brave enough to PUG the 25 man version. [...]