PvP tips for new Hunters
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 [...]
Hunter pets and raid buffs come Cataclysm
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. Read more...
Does the Alliance still suck at PvP?
A couple of months ago I posed the thought provoking question, Does the Alliance suck at PvP?". Back then I was still fence sitting, I was levelling another Horde to 80 Read more...
Hunting in a post 4.01 world
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 my alts, to see how the 4.01 world was treating them, some for the better, some relatively unchanged, but none had taken the hit that the hunter had. Read more...
Hitting the caps
If you believe that your damage per second (DPS) isn't quite where it should be, and that you should be pulling higher numbers than you are, then one of the first things to look at is whether or not you are at, or above, the various stat caps. One of the keys to maximising your DPS is to make sure that you are hitting the enemy as often as possible. Read more...
Does the Alliance suck at PvP?
It was a tough weekend for battlegrounds. I spent a significant portion of my game time trying to grind out honor for the Medallion of the Alliance on my Rogue. The random battleground finder was not my friend. Over the weekend I was thrown in to a total of 11 Eye of the Storm matches, for 0 win 11 losses. Read more...
Demystifying armor penetration
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 problem is the simple answer is not always the best solution. Read more...
VoA LFM roll or role?
On the odd occasion that the Alliance actually wins Wintergrasp on my server it's not unusual to see a flood of LFG or LFM VoA spam. The one thing I noticed on the weekend is that there are a lot of people out there that don't know, or realise, that the words 'Roll' and 'Role' mean two very different things. Read more...
Introduction to soloing old school heroic instances
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, so I've stopped running the random daily. So, when I'm not taking my main into Icecrown Citadel how do I pass the time? Gathering achievements and trying to solo Burning Crusade heroic dungeons. Read more...
Into the Ruby Sanctum to chase the Sharpened Twilight Scale
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. This is a shame, because the 10 man version of the Ruby Sanctum is very thin on for the hunter loot. Read more...
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