Episode 33 of the Hunting Party Podcast, in which we talk about mastery bonuses and what that may mean for spec identity in Cataclysm, the return of BRK, and of course answer questions from the chat room and cover some other hunter news.
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Frost used the word adorable @ 9:25 …………little scary to be honest..
Those ferrets are named Kodo and Podo and I agree we should have killer little ferrets or Badgers of death.
Beastmaster movie is a classic, it stars Marc Singer. and features Rip Torn
3 things:
1: Beastmaster: Awesome. Haven’t seen that in AGES.
2: All I could think of, when you were talking beasts, was the SNL clip “Giraffes!!”
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/giraffes/810987/
3: Between you and Euripides, you actually have some really decent PvP knowledge. It might seem really basic, but a lot of us have no clue how to do the basics, so I think it might help.
PVP Lesson 1 : “How to kill a shaman”. I would love to know
i suck at PVP and basically rely at staying at the back of a group and blasting away at healers and other clothies. If i get attacked by somebody who is geared anywhere near the way I am , I generally die 
Lethon is a PVP realm so you can ( and do ) get attacked all the time. I would love to know some Hunter PvP tricks. I keep my pet on agressive when fishing so that the fricking rogues don’t sneak up on me. I lay down a frost trap if I see a Warrior or DK coming , but otherwise I just ‘hope for the best’
Omogon, Euripides has some information on outdps.com that he had a guest writer put up. In particular he has hunter versus class guides, which seems to be what you’re seeking. I think it’s pre 3.2 info, but much of it should still apply.
Don’t forget Tanya Roberts and her exit from the water. Incredible. Beastmaster is a classic. Don’t forget John Amos (dad fro “Good Times”). I was very disappointed in Euripides and Darkbrew for not knowing the true origins of the beastmaster spec.
a great way to get away from a warrior hugging u is scatter shot. unlike other ranged hunter abilities scatter shot doesn’t have 5 yard minimum range (very little hunters seem to have realised this).
I would like to see a porcupine tenacity pet with thunderstomp a static threat increasing ability like frost presence on a dk, also quills that would act a bit like hammer of the righeous for palladins and of course bite for a focus dump. That way we could possibly have a pet tank that could handel some heroics for groups. Prolly would be overpowered and tanks would hate hunters but eh I can dream cant I : )