I’ve had a few people ask questions about measuring cast times in game recently. The question here isn’t how to calculate the cast times based on haste effects, but instead is how do you actually measure it in-game to verify that the math is correct? This is a question I landed on early in the [...]
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Contents: 1. Talents+Glyphs 2. Pets Beast Mastery Talent Spec 31/7/0+ Pros: High burst damage with Bestial wrath. Cons: Poor sustained damage. Lack of a ranged interrupt. Rely heavily on pet for damage. Poor pet management and the death of your pet will render you almost useless. Beast Mastery Glyphs: Prime: Kill Shot (Must) Arcane shot [...]
Contents: 1. Talents+Glyphs 2. Pets Survival Talent Spec 3/3/31+ Pros: – A high percentage of damage is non-physical, make your damage consistent, fairly high sustained on plate – Incredible CC with 22 second cooldown traps and Wyvern Sting – Tap’s favourite spec. Cons: – No ranged interrupt – Burst can be quite RNG Survival Glyphs: [...]
I’m working on getting the Hunter Poster Friday stuff together, but it’s going to be a little while. In the meantime, here’s an entirely unrelated bit of Friday humor that the D&D gamers should appreciate: Balthazar, the D&D World Champion. Bonus points for anyone who spots the connection to the WHU. Hunter poster Friday coming [...]
Today at WoW Insider, I go over some of the lessons we hunters have learned the hard way that other classes could benefit from: All classes have their secrets — their little tricks of the trade that are passed from player to player in the hidden hangouts of the class. I can imagine the warlocks [...]
On Monday I said I’d be doing a Q&A post answering whatever questions you wanted to ask — and we got a lot of questions, so this is going to be a long one. But more amusing is that just about any question that was an optimization question was promptly answered by someone else in [...]
WoW Insider recently did a feature that I think was pretty cool, where they just answered tons and tons of questions related to WoW Insider — I actually found it pretty interesting reading, despite that I actually work for them. So I figure it’d be a fun feature to do here on the WHU as [...]
Okay, I think I’ve got all the WHU guides now updated for patch 4.3.2. Most of them were unchanged, obviously, but the SV rotation has been updated as well as a couple I apparently missed from 4.3 — including reforging and gems, which are both now updated (epic gem info on the gem guide — [...]
Euripides has an update on the various Hunting Party Podcast woes that have been causing delays: Hey folks, sometime recently, our FTP server stopped working. It was bound to happen eventually, but I suspect our hosting provider simply turned us off. We were doing 50GB a day of FTP traffic on a virtual private server, [...]
Today over at WoW Insider, I have my second interview with Ghostcrawler: This is not actually an interview with Ghostcrawler. I did not ask him any of these questions, and he did not answer with any of these answers. But in a deeper sense, a more spiritual sense, Ghostcrawler and I are two lost souls [...]
Okay, it’s well past time to get moving on the WHU events! We will have the next WHU event on Saturday the 18th of February, at 6pm Icecrown server time. Not that this may well be different from your time, or the time in the Dungeon Finder! This event will be open to everyone, though [...]
Patch 4.3.2 is going live, along with its collection of lovely hunter buffs (and Dragon Soul nerfishness). Click to see a full list of patch 4.3.2 changes. Here’s the really fast rundown of what you really need to know if you have not been paying any attention to 4.3.2 news on the PTR: Every hunter [...]
In some interesting news on the Blizzard front, they’ve just announced that there will be no Blizzcon in 2012. And they announced it in an interesting way, as an after thought to a post about the Battle.net championships. Specifically, at the end of the post about the championships Blizzard said, In light of our jam-packed [...]
On a recent Hunting Party Podcast we were talking about the survival Lock & Load rotation, and the difference between firing two Explosive Shots back to back with a 0.1 second delay (plus global cooldown) vs. weaving an Arcane Shot in. I said something to the effect that the 0.1 second delay is theoretically better [...]
Kruf, a hunter from top progression raiding team Dream Paragon, was our guest on the Hunting Party Podcast last weekend. We talked to Kruf about the state of hunters in very top tier raiding, and there were a lot of great reader questions for Kruf as well. I don’t know exactly when Euripides will have [...]
Contents: 1. Talents+Glyphs 2. Pets Beast Mastery Talent Spec 31/7/0+ Pros: High burst damage with Bestial wrath. Cons: Poor sustained damage. Lack of a ranged interrupt. Rely heavily on pet for damage. Poor pet management and the death of your pet will render you almost useless. Beast Mastery Glyphs: Prime: Kill Shot (Must) Arcane shot [...]
Contents: 1. Talents+Glyphs 2. Pets Survival Talent Spec 3/3/31+ Pros: – A high percentage of damage is non-physical, make your damage consistent, fairly high sustained on plate – Incredible CC with 22 second cooldown traps and Wyvern Sting – Tap’s favourite spec. Cons: – No ranged interrupt – Burst can be quite RNG Survival Glyphs: [...]
I’m working on getting the Hunter Poster Friday stuff together, but it’s going to be a little while. In the meantime, here’s an entirely unrelated bit of Friday humor that the D&D gamers should appreciate: Balthazar, the D&D World Champion. Bonus points for anyone who spots the connection to the WHU. Hunter poster Friday coming [...]
Today at WoW Insider, I go over some of the lessons we hunters have learned the hard way that other classes could benefit from: All classes have their secrets — their little tricks of the trade that are passed from player to player in the hidden hangouts of the class. I can imagine the warlocks [...]
On Monday I said I’d be doing a Q&A post answering whatever questions you wanted to ask — and we got a lot of questions, so this is going to be a long one. But more amusing is that just about any question that was an optimization question was promptly answered by someone else in [...]
WoW Insider recently did a feature that I think was pretty cool, where they just answered tons and tons of questions related to WoW Insider — I actually found it pretty interesting reading, despite that I actually work for them. So I figure it’d be a fun feature to do here on the WHU as [...]
Okay, I think I’ve got all the WHU guides now updated for patch 4.3.2. Most of them were unchanged, obviously, but the SV rotation has been updated as well as a couple I apparently missed from 4.3 — including reforging and gems, which are both now updated (epic gem info on the gem guide — [...]
Euripides has an update on the various Hunting Party Podcast woes that have been causing delays: Hey folks, sometime recently, our FTP server stopped working. It was bound to happen eventually, but I suspect our hosting provider simply turned us off. We were doing 50GB a day of FTP traffic on a virtual private server, [...]
Today over at WoW Insider, I have my second interview with Ghostcrawler: This is not actually an interview with Ghostcrawler. I did not ask him any of these questions, and he did not answer with any of these answers. But in a deeper sense, a more spiritual sense, Ghostcrawler and I are two lost souls [...]
Okay, it’s well past time to get moving on the WHU events! We will have the next WHU event on Saturday the 18th of February, at 6pm Icecrown server time. Not that this may well be different from your time, or the time in the Dungeon Finder! This event will be open to everyone, though [...]
Patch 4.3.2 is going live, along with its collection of lovely hunter buffs (and Dragon Soul nerfishness). Click to see a full list of patch 4.3.2 changes. Here’s the really fast rundown of what you really need to know if you have not been paying any attention to 4.3.2 news on the PTR: Every hunter [...]
In some interesting news on the Blizzard front, they’ve just announced that there will be no Blizzcon in 2012. And they announced it in an interesting way, as an after thought to a post about the Battle.net championships. Specifically, at the end of the post about the championships Blizzard said, In light of our jam-packed [...]
On a recent Hunting Party Podcast we were talking about the survival Lock & Load rotation, and the difference between firing two Explosive Shots back to back with a 0.1 second delay (plus global cooldown) vs. weaving an Arcane Shot in. I said something to the effect that the 0.1 second delay is theoretically better [...]
Kruf, a hunter from top progression raiding team Dream Paragon, was our guest on the Hunting Party Podcast last weekend. We talked to Kruf about the state of hunters in very top tier raiding, and there were a lot of great reader questions for Kruf as well. I don’t know exactly when Euripides will have [...]
