The latest in my series on pet tanking, this one covers gear and glyph choices. I keep a separate “tank set” of gear, and while it includes many pieces from my dps gear, I switch out about half of my gear since what is best for dps will not always be best for tanking. Also, [...]
Archive for July, 2009So friendly hunters, what’s in your pack? I found that once I didn’t have to have a quiver, I could carry lots of other crap. But even whilst needing a quiver I carried a great deal of stuff. Only some of it trivial or useless. Right now (non-essentials) I carry: Orb of the Sin’dorei Mesmerizing [...]
It seems that over time the definitions of “hardcore” and “casual” have changed. Or maybe not changed, but they’re being used to mean many different things these days. If you put on your Frostheim goggles you’ll see these common definitions: Hardcore: someone who does better than me in raids. Since I don’t want to think [...]
Note: As of patch 4.0.1 armor pen is no longer available as a stat on gear or gems. There has been an increasing amount of talk of the value of hunter armor pen vs agility. The whole armor penetration vs agility debate started, as these things tend to, with the spreadsheet theorycrafters who found that at a [...]
Arust and I went backpacking last weekend, where I learned how shockingly, profoundly out of shape I have become. However, there were important WHU questions to discuss whose answers could only be found via a trek to the wild. So we hiked through deep boreal forests rich with the scent of peat, lush with ferns [...]
So friendly hunters, what’s in your pack? I found that once I didn’t have to have a quiver, I could carry lots of other crap. But even whilst needing a quiver I carried a great deal of stuff. Only some of it trivial or useless. Right now (non-essentials) I carry: Orb of the Sin’dorei Mesmerizing [...]
It seems that over time the definitions of “hardcore” and “casual” have changed. Or maybe not changed, but they’re being used to mean many different things these days. If you put on your Frostheim goggles you’ll see these common definitions: Hardcore: someone who does better than me in raids. Since I don’t want to think [...]
Note: As of patch 4.0.1 armor pen is no longer available as a stat on gear or gems. There has been an increasing amount of talk of the value of hunter armor pen vs agility. The whole armor penetration vs agility debate started, as these things tend to, with the spreadsheet theorycrafters who found that at a [...]
Arust and I went backpacking last weekend, where I learned how shockingly, profoundly out of shape I have become. However, there were important WHU questions to discuss whose answers could only be found via a trek to the wild. So we hiked through deep boreal forests rich with the scent of peat, lush with ferns [...]
