We got a handful of surprises in the 3.3.3 patch notes. Here’s what we have… Beast Mastery Ferocious Inspiration: This ability is now an aura and provides 1/2/3% damage to all party or raid members within 100 yards and boosts the damage of Steady Shot by 3/6/9%. [Note: the in-game tooltip still shows that arcane [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Happy patch day and welcome to patch 3.3.3. The patch brings a chunk of nice quality of life improvements with the dungeon finder, AH, and other stuff. We also have some “bug fixes” that are a little bit of a pain in our side. More on that in a new post. Otherwise the only hunter-specific [...]
Hunter boss strats for the Frostwing Halls is now up over at wow.com. Hunter tips for dealing with dragons Valithria and Sindragosa. Having dealt with the goth boys and girls in the Crimson Halls, it’s time to move on to the big leagues and start playing with dragons. The Frostwing Halls of ICC bring us [...]
We were working on a new boss last week and going through our standard learning attempts. If the fight has complicated situational awareness mechanics, we’ll often go the first couple of attempts with no one allowed to do any dps to the boss at all. The idea is to get used to the rhythm of [...]
In this show (from about a week ago), we talk a little bit about the mastery system coming up, wolves position as the #1 DPS pet, shot priorities, consumables, debuffs, and trinkets. As always, here is the iTunes store link, the Hunting Party Podcast feed, and the direct XML feed. If you email us comments [...]
If a statement or question begins with the words “Everything else being equal…” it’s probably a safe bet that I’m going to be annoyed at what comes next. I get asked all the time my opinion of statements like, “Everything else being equal, your skill makes the biggest contribution to your dps – right?” This [...]
After yesterday’s comment from Ghostcrawler that BM wasn’t far behind SV and that they hope the patch 3.3.3 buffs will bring BM close enough to start seeing a spike of BM hunters raiding… well, he got a lot of responses. A lot of people pulling together a lot of different data sources to contradict it. [...]
Ghostcrawler responds to some hunter questions about BM hunters. Some of my thoughts and comments after the quote: If you’re talking best possible gear, we think BM is pretty close to Survival in 3.3.3. Marks is ahead, and that’s largely a function of armor pen, but again you are talking about absolute best gear. If [...]
As many people noticed, I finally got my Stakethrower from the Blood Queen, which filled me with feelings of happiness and comfort. However, the Stakethrower didn’t have as much raw dps as I remembered it having. So I was doing some calculations and discovered something disconcerting: Rowan’s Rifle of Silver Bullets is actually a DPS [...]
Latest news from the PTR: Hellscream’s Warsong and Strength of Wrynn now provide their bonuses to player pet health and damage, as well as the absorption amounts of Power Word: Shield and Sacred Shield. Wooooooo! We knew that the ICC raid buff, currently at 5% damage/health/healing, did not apply to our pets. For MM and [...]
Happy patch day and welcome to patch 3.3.3. The patch brings a chunk of nice quality of life improvements with the dungeon finder, AH, and other stuff. We also have some “bug fixes” that are a little bit of a pain in our side. More on that in a new post. Otherwise the only hunter-specific [...]
Hunter boss strats for the Frostwing Halls is now up over at wow.com. Hunter tips for dealing with dragons Valithria and Sindragosa. Having dealt with the goth boys and girls in the Crimson Halls, it’s time to move on to the big leagues and start playing with dragons. The Frostwing Halls of ICC bring us [...]
We were working on a new boss last week and going through our standard learning attempts. If the fight has complicated situational awareness mechanics, we’ll often go the first couple of attempts with no one allowed to do any dps to the boss at all. The idea is to get used to the rhythm of [...]
In this show (from about a week ago), we talk a little bit about the mastery system coming up, wolves position as the #1 DPS pet, shot priorities, consumables, debuffs, and trinkets. As always, here is the iTunes store link, the Hunting Party Podcast feed, and the direct XML feed. If you email us comments [...]
If a statement or question begins with the words “Everything else being equal…” it’s probably a safe bet that I’m going to be annoyed at what comes next. I get asked all the time my opinion of statements like, “Everything else being equal, your skill makes the biggest contribution to your dps – right?” This [...]
After yesterday’s comment from Ghostcrawler that BM wasn’t far behind SV and that they hope the patch 3.3.3 buffs will bring BM close enough to start seeing a spike of BM hunters raiding… well, he got a lot of responses. A lot of people pulling together a lot of different data sources to contradict it. [...]
Ghostcrawler responds to some hunter questions about BM hunters. Some of my thoughts and comments after the quote: If you’re talking best possible gear, we think BM is pretty close to Survival in 3.3.3. Marks is ahead, and that’s largely a function of armor pen, but again you are talking about absolute best gear. If [...]
As many people noticed, I finally got my Stakethrower from the Blood Queen, which filled me with feelings of happiness and comfort. However, the Stakethrower didn’t have as much raw dps as I remembered it having. So I was doing some calculations and discovered something disconcerting: Rowan’s Rifle of Silver Bullets is actually a DPS [...]
Latest news from the PTR: Hellscream’s Warsong and Strength of Wrynn now provide their bonuses to player pet health and damage, as well as the absorption amounts of Power Word: Shield and Sacred Shield. Wooooooo! We knew that the ICC raid buff, currently at 5% damage/health/healing, did not apply to our pets. For MM and [...]
