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Greedy Hunters, more about Survival and Rotations, and your Character’s Song
Is it just me, or are Hunter’s greedy? Not all of us. Just a few. And I am not even talking about loot specifically. I was looking for a Karazhan group the other day, and I saw a lot of groups in the...
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Controlled DPS Tests
I ran DPS tests last night on Dr. Boom to determine which was best for me, personally, DPS-wise. The first test, manually weaving my shots, yielded this result:However, at the end of the fight a random...
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It’s Wednesday. So it’s like WoW Tuesday.
For some reason I equate Tuesday with the beginning of the Warcraft week. Since servers reset, fresh raid instances, and Arena rolls over, it’s like Monday. Only it’s not. We ran our weekly Karazhan...
View ArticleOh Happy Day! I am Survival again!
So Warbull got moved over to our new guild before I got home last night. With our real raiding schedule not planned to start till Tuesday, we still made an attempt to garner enough folks to go hit up...
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An In-Depth Look at Survival Talents
The Survival tree and the talents that work in conjunction with it are interesting beasts. Putting your talents into Survival for a raid setting will not provide you with the top place in the damage...
View ArticleInteractive Shot Rotation Tool
So I was thinking, perhaps I should put my Flash prowess to use and develop an interactive shot rotation tool in Flash/Flex. This would provide a visual and animated look at what the flow of your shot...
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Why Is Everyone Always Picking On Me?
Who is Dr. Boom and why on earth is everyone talking about him? Dr. Boom is a mob in Netherstorm that almost all ranged classes use to run DPS tests. Why is this so? If you remember leveling in...
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3:2 and 2:1 . . . . as Survival.
Last night I decided to run some rough tests on some shot rotations. I found myself missing every other Arcane Shot in my rotation due to the speed of my Crossbow. I later confirmed it was recurring by...
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Using Cheeky’s: Talents and the Gear Planner
Last night we had a great raid night in Black Temple instead of our usual Mount Hyjal. Eager to get back to Illidan, we put the first 7 bosses in Black Temple as our priority. And we came out with...
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Bow Showdown: Relentless Strikes versus Ancient Amani
On my last Zul’Aman run, I picked up the Ancient Amani Longbow. My question I asked myself was how would it compare to the Crossbow of Relentless Peacocks. The Relentless Strikes has to be one of the...
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Beta Testing: Initial MM DPS Tests Analysis
Down in the sewers of Dalaran a target dummy was added. He never dies, you don’t get any weapon skill-ups, and you can beat on him forever. What an awesome addition for us to test our DPS. And test we...
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How to handle new Shot Rotations
With the change to Auto Shot and the introduction of the new shots into our repertoire one of the biggest adjustments we, as Hunters, have to make is the modification of our shot rotations. Do our...
View ArticlePossible Specs after the Changes
First, don’t forget to leave a comment on THIS POST to enter the One-Year Blog Anniversary contest. Some people might think that it is too early to start deciding on new specs and talent builds. But it...
View ArticleWhat cometh in Patch 3.0.8
Finally the patch has come. Whether part of you is cheering or booing, it’s happening regardless. But what is a poor Hunter to do? What will change about our play style? Let’s just jump in shall we?...
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Some Numbers behind Survival
As we all know up until recently BM was owning face in terms of DPS specs. And along with it was an interesting shift in philosophy in the fact that gemming for Attack Power was proven to be more...
View ArticleRaid Recap: 25-man Naxx and Malygos
I am sure you guys are tired of linked WWS reports but I wanted to do this one at least, as it was my first raid with Really Good At This Game. I was eager to see how I compared to their DPS as a lot...
View ArticleHighlights from the PTR 3.1
This isn’t a complete list, but just some of the main things that caught my eye. The PTR continues to go through lots of changes. Documenting every single thing that gets changed would take more...
View ArticleThe Hunter Cataclysm Preview
Our beloved Hunters have had their Cataclysm preview posted up on the official forums. You can view the entirety of its changes here. Now keep in mind that this is a preview. We still don’t know...
View ArticleBreaking down Survival in Cataclysm
With the release of Cataclysm we have a new top dog in terms of which spec does the most DPS for us Hunter folks. And right now the king is Survival once again. Back from his short stint at the top...
View ArticlePatch 4.0.6 – The Good, the Bad, the Outlandish
The highly anticipated patch 4.0.6 dropped this week bringing significant changes that alter the dominant spec in PvE and PvP. Once again, Marksmanship is top dog. Oh how the winds of change come...
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