Many people held out hope that the absence of Volley from the latest beta build was a bug. Ghostcrawler just stepped in to confirm that it was deliberately removed. Yep. Volley was edging out Mult-Shot, even though we think the latter is the more interesting ability. Volley felt too much like a magic spell and [...]
Archive for August, 2010
I’ve talked before about how the BM rotation feels too simple and easy in the current beta incarnation. I was a bit frustrated with a lot of comments that a simple rotation was fine as long as the dps was the same (and more on that concept tomorrow). I’m concerned I somehow failed to explain [...]
Over at WoW.com today: New Hunter Pet Skins in Cataclysm Beta. Note that the super special guy at the end has already been fixed in the beta in Friday’s patch (this is the problem with doing articles on the beta — by the time they’re actually published, info may have changed!).
Episode 46 of the Hunting Party Podcast was a somewhat mournful affair, coming fast on the heels of the removal/oop! our bad! of the minimum range. We discussed the latest changes in the beta, answered chat room questions and caught up on our emailed questions. As always, here is the iTunes store link, the Hunting [...]
We did not remove the minimum range of hunter shots intentionally. If it’s happening, it’s a bug. Okay, deep breath. I will now kill myself, in one of the following ways: Drown myself in a used toilet bowl Get a hundred yards of rope. Tie a noose around my neck, and the other end to [...]
SWEET BABY JESUS YES!!! Tom Cruise — use your witchcraft to put out the magical fire of AWESOMESAUCE!!!! In the current beta build there is… NO MINIMUM RANGE ON SHOTS!!!! After wrestling with some odd errors I was finally advised to delete some random folders here and there and got into the beta… rushes to [...]
We’ve got a new beta build going on — it’s not even showing up on my launcher yet, but MMO-C has some starting notes. Here’s the skinny for hunters: Shots base range has increased to 40 yards (possibly ’cause we no longer have a talent to increase our range). Scatter Shot ranged increased to 20 [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve had anything to write about in my occasional spot here on the WHU, since Sindragosa was the biggest mountain to climb for Wrath tanking, and I’m playing far less now that my guild has downed Lich King (with the buff at 30%, alas). But I had a few parting [...]
The quintissential BM hunter ability — bestial wrath/beast within — has changed a bit in the current version of the Cataclysm beta. When you (or your pet) are big and red, you are no longer immune to crowd control. For the time being, big red pet still breaks you out of crowd control. Certainly the [...]
Today over at WoW.com, a big discussion of where BM is at: the many cool new things about the spec, and the current disappointing things: We’ve now covered what the MM Cataclysm rotation and the SV Cataclysm rotation are looking like in the beta, so it’s time for BM. Ghostcrawler, lead systems designer, recently identified [...]
I’ve talked before about how the BM rotation feels too simple and easy in the current beta incarnation. I was a bit frustrated with a lot of comments that a simple rotation was fine as long as the dps was the same (and more on that concept tomorrow). I’m concerned I somehow failed to explain [...]
Over at WoW.com today: New Hunter Pet Skins in Cataclysm Beta. Note that the super special guy at the end has already been fixed in the beta in Friday’s patch (this is the problem with doing articles on the beta — by the time they’re actually published, info may have changed!).
Episode 46 of the Hunting Party Podcast was a somewhat mournful affair, coming fast on the heels of the removal/oop! our bad! of the minimum range. We discussed the latest changes in the beta, answered chat room questions and caught up on our emailed questions. As always, here is the iTunes store link, the Hunting [...]
We did not remove the minimum range of hunter shots intentionally. If it’s happening, it’s a bug. Okay, deep breath. I will now kill myself, in one of the following ways: Drown myself in a used toilet bowl Get a hundred yards of rope. Tie a noose around my neck, and the other end to [...]
SWEET BABY JESUS YES!!! Tom Cruise — use your witchcraft to put out the magical fire of AWESOMESAUCE!!!! In the current beta build there is… NO MINIMUM RANGE ON SHOTS!!!! After wrestling with some odd errors I was finally advised to delete some random folders here and there and got into the beta… rushes to [...]
We’ve got a new beta build going on — it’s not even showing up on my launcher yet, but MMO-C has some starting notes. Here’s the skinny for hunters: Shots base range has increased to 40 yards (possibly ’cause we no longer have a talent to increase our range). Scatter Shot ranged increased to 20 [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve had anything to write about in my occasional spot here on the WHU, since Sindragosa was the biggest mountain to climb for Wrath tanking, and I’m playing far less now that my guild has downed Lich King (with the buff at 30%, alas). But I had a few parting [...]
The quintissential BM hunter ability — bestial wrath/beast within — has changed a bit in the current version of the Cataclysm beta. When you (or your pet) are big and red, you are no longer immune to crowd control. For the time being, big red pet still breaks you out of crowd control. Certainly the [...]
Today over at WoW.com, a big discussion of where BM is at: the many cool new things about the spec, and the current disappointing things: We’ve now covered what the MM Cataclysm rotation and the SV Cataclysm rotation are looking like in the beta, so it’s time for BM. Ghostcrawler, lead systems designer, recently identified [...]
