Archive for July, 2010

Okay, we have some blue posts. First of all, it’s masteries! Beast Mastery – Increases the damage done by your pets by 20%. Damage increased further by mastery rating. Marksmanship – Grants a 16% chance for your ranged attacks to also instantly fire an additional ranged shot for 80% normal damage. Chance increased further by [...]

Beta Focus Update

Posted: by Frostheim in General

While I can’t really test much in the way of shot rotation stuff in the beta atm with arcane shot all messed up (and other costs not adjusted) I did strip down and start re-measuring other stuff for the new build. The good news is that the base focus regen rate now appears to be [...]

Latest Beta Patch Updates 7/30

Posted: by Frostheim in General

Okay, here’s the patch notes/datamined changes for the latest beta buil 12644: Beast Mastery Cobra Shot now generates 9 focus. Up from 1 focus. Mend Pet no longer costs Focus. The Beast Within is now a Tier 6 talent. up from Tier 5. Animal Handler is gone. Improved Mend Pet is now a Tier 2 [...]

Returning to Gahh!

Posted: by Frostheim in General

After many lovely days spent in the woods engaged in all manner of lazy lounging and campfire cooking, (and, of course, because it always happens — getting rained on — this time by truly impressively massive storms) I have returned. And very much as I feared, it looks as though a new beta build came [...]

Today over at WoW.com (and still blogging from the past! Woooo) a discussion of the disease known as huntardism, how to identify it, and how to cure it. The term “huntard” stretches all the way back to vanilla, when all the gold farmers were hunters (and actually farmed). While usage of the term has died [...]