Archive for June, 2010

Here it is, the first episode of the Wipe Recovery Podcast. Here we introduce ourselves and our raiding and raid leading experience, discuss some thoughts on the coming Cataclysm changes to raiding, discuss the difference between “casual” and “hardcore” raiding, and finally answer some emails. Overall I think we got off to a good start. [...]

Fire Festival Done

Posted: by Frostheim in General

I may have mentioned before that I hate most achievements, and holiday achievements more than most. However, holiday achievements are tied to one of the only actual in-game advantage rewards — the 310% mount for What a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been. As a result I’ve been studiously slogging my way through the holiday stuff [...]

HPP ep 38: Pig Roast Edition

Posted: by Frostheim in Podcasts

Episode 38 of the Hunting Party Podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. I was actually at a pig roast during this show, but I managed to borrow a laptop and had the pleasant experience of podcasting outdoors and flagging down the lovely daiquiri girl every time she passed by with a new batch [...]

Tanking Sindragosa

Posted: by Arthemystia in Pet Tanking

Hunter tanks have always had a few key things going for them. Tank pets take the biggest heals in the game. They ignore 90% of AoE damage. They have incredible natural resistances. Our threat has never been as good, our health pools not as large, our taunt cooldown is annoyingly long, and kiting bosses is [...]

Gearscore Throttling

Posted: by Frostheim in General

Blizzard just announced that they are implementing a hotfix that will throttle inspect requests. After the next set of rolling restarts, Blizzard will be implementing server-side throttling of inspection requests from addons. This may cause any addon that uses player inspection to not function properly after the restarts. This throttle is being activated in order [...]