It starts...

It happened, today I OFFICIALLY became a part of the Garwulf team over at Huntsmanslodge

You can read my first real official post Here....

To be honest I was a little stunned and shocked at the amazing honor of being able to write for one of the most well known hunters out there occasionally. Garwulf rates right up there in my eyes with those like Bigredkitty and the like. When I saw that he liked my work I was thrilled to pieces, even started writing this thing occasionally to fill in between the times when I won't be writing over there.

Hope to see you all over there!

Halls of Reflection...Err Retardation?

Yeah that's right you heard me, I said it. The Halls of Reflection, the Third and final dungeon in the chain of new dungeons and the current bane of my entire existence as a hunter. Well, I take that back...It was the bane of my priest until I beat it into a couple poor little pugs that CC is Yummy.
It tastes like chocolate...if you were wondering.
Amazing how that works isn't it? Half a dozen wipes and the priest says. "CC plx?" suddenly it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Yes Thank you, I'm the winner of the Ms. Obvious contest. *gets a hat and t-shirt for her efforts*

Really though in all honesty? WHAT is so complicated about standing in the middle of the room, or by the door and using some good old fashioned crowd control? Most of us know what that is, a large amount actually uses it. So tell me why as a hunter or a priest, you're making me stand in the corner and get cluster%$#^&@ by AoE damage, rogues, Tormented Rifleman's 12k shots after a ice arrow and those terrible terrible warrior things who hit my poor priest for more health then what she has. Pug's are the worst at this, I can say in the over 2 dozen times I have run this instance, there have been 2, I count them again for you. TWO! pugs I have been in who don't get me killed at least twice. Generally speaking, it's a wipe several times over before they get the hang of it. Leaving my little self sitting in the corner, pleading with them to get out of the corner and to stop being so completely lazy about it, usually to much failure and tears on my end when they refuse to listen. On the priest, I gave up. I stopped healing them in the corner and purposely let a couple of them die when they were being silly little aggro whores. I don't even get asked to try and trap anything the bulk of the times I am in there, they just go "oook LoS, we is good. Noob Smash!" In my mind it's usually accompanied by a mental image of them looking large, green and slightly orcish to fully illustrate the inanity of the situation.

I seriously feel more and more like this hall of reflection brings out the stupid in us. I never understood why it was a smart idea to back yourselves into a corner and hope for the best while something big bad and ugly wants to smash you into little horde pieces into that same said corner. Maybe he's redecorating? Besides the point, the HoS is a great instance. I actually love it. It's one of my favorites...When done in a way that doesn't make my hunter think about putting her head between the jaws of Errtu and telling him to bite down hard.

Undead CAN BE CC'd people...Traps, Shackles, Repentance, Turn Evil. That crazy aoe undead move that stuns undead that pallies do...yeah that works as well. Not every pug you run of HoR is going to have a tank and healer of the 5k+ GearScore range, hoping to skate through every single time is just teaching you bad game play techniques.

If you're having issues with this instance or know those who are, when are you in a group with someone who cant CC at all? Almost never I can assure you, then perhaps you could pass this little number onto your friends and neighbors...Because I am about to bedazzle you! *jazz hands*


that was too much wasn't it...


Halls of Reflection...A How to Guide to keep your friendly neighborhood priest happy, alive and not willing to sacrifice you to save her repair bill.

• One of the most simple elements of this fight is that you can position yourself in a ideal way to deal with them. As a priest the most effective way I have found was standing on the anvil in the center of the room on the dais. It means anything that comes for me has to go through one of my 4 party friends to reach me in a more ideal situation. It also allows me to zoom out ridiculously far, spin around in a 360 degree spike and shackle as freely as my little heart desires.
• Standing near the door is another appropriate means of dealing with the undead in this room. Allowing you to SEE what is heading your way with a nasty look in his glowing undead eyes.
• ALWAYS CC the Riflemen. They hit, hard. Dealing a nasty ice block stun and followed by a huge crit that is available after said iceblock. I've seen it one shot clothies. You were warned. If you have the abilities to, do it. Dont wait for permission. These guys have been the number one cause of wipes. Some healer get smashed on by these as they are shooting through the wall.
• Healers can CC too?!...I was serious there. Not only are you now a leet healer for doing so, you can prove you can multitask! Channel your inner PvPer!
  
• Don't go past your tank into the room. Unless it is for a CC purpose, they will aggro to the closest one they spot and if that is you. Enjoy the flight back to your corpse.
• Watch the mage's. If there's more then one who is capable of CC these are the second priority to keep locked down. Their AoE is nasty and they love to go after the clothies, healers and little hunter's who seem like easy targets.
• I repeat, Do NOT expect someone to save your @ss in here. After the first boss it's hell on wheels and you not only have to watch what you are doing, what you are CC'ing but you have to be extremely aware of what's going on with the tank. He can't pick up every single one of them usually on that 7-8th wave of undead. It gets hectic, make sure you are capable of watching out for your own hide at that point. Using any means of threat reduction, threat dropping, or threat transference you have at your disposal.

I listened to WoW.com's broadcast the other day. If you haven't you should go check it out, they brought up a lot of valid points. Bringing up things that the general community can be doing since blizzard is bringing CC back. I fully agree, we are the ones who need to change our habits from what we've learned this Expansion. We need to function as our role and class and learn how best to use what we have readily available to us. Blizzard has already made it ridiculously easy for people to gear, raid and so on. But we can't expect them to make this easy for us as well or we might as well just be saying we'd rather go play Neopets or the like. Blizzard has issued us a challenge, to step up to the plate and bring CC back into the fold.

I know I intend to answer the challenge. How about you?

It's about time...

After several months of running around with my Staff of the Plague beast from Naxx 10 I finally got an upgrade. Yeah, a severely significant one. This being of course the sexy new staff from normal FoS. Is it not a ilvl 232 item? No, not really...but well. beggars can't be choosers and Dk's need to stop winning the epic polearm from H HoR off of Me. So Here I am, happy as a clam with my hunter today as She has gotten not only a few upgrades, but about half her gear has recieved a much needed boost from crafted/ ilvl 200/ badge items.

First up on the yum factor? Yeah a sexy new bow that had my name all over it. I still had the crafted engineering gun because I never got the ToC H one to drop. Of Course though wouldn't you know it... two heroics later and guess what drops....


A nice new Staff, which I desperately needed I will add...


A ring, A neck and 2 peices of t9 just to round the deal out...


I don't know, I must say, I think she looks alot better now. I am definitely enjoying this LFG system, despite it's severe drawbacks being things I don't wish to discuss at the moment. Well I will let you decide on the matter. How many badges have you gathered up lately? On how many different toons? How long is it taking you to gear up an really low level alt if you work at it? Currently I am sitting on about 250 for my priest and 200+ on the hunter. And to think, sometime I can do this for my druid, Paladin and Mage too. YAY me?

\cringe



yeah yeah, gotta love my t7 legs and chest eh? Classy right?

Looking back this week at Patch 3.3

Yes, everyone and their dog is writing about patch 3.3 currently. Even I had to jump on the bandwagon and play my little tune to the beat of my own drums. Here's some of the things I've noticed and appreciated since the patch was released.

• - New LFG System
• - Severe changes to dungeon/heroic badges
• - Uber Hunter buffs
• - Disenchanting party-wide option
• - Ability to laugh at a DK while going "neenerneener neener" at him in battlegrounds. (This is one of my favorites personally.)
• - The Battered Hilt for your very own version of the Quel'Delar. (I still have not even seen one of these by the way)
• - Wonderful profession changes
• - New method of Reputation gaining Oh yeah, I've gained like 5 exalted reps in the last week.
• - Fun little Badge of Frost bug
• - Demon Puppy of Doooom!!

I wont bother talking about all of these, but I will sit and talk about a couple points that I really feel good about and was extremely happy to see as well as a couple I was less then pleased about.

As you may have noticed, the new LFG system is insane. I mean, it's bonkers. In 3 days I've regeared my priest and partially the hunter, just casually doing this. On my priest as a healer i click the LFG button and it's damned near instantaneous for a group. I am really not exactly sure if using the LFG system is supposed to be bugged or not, as I am not really getting saved to any instance. Yesterday alone I was in a heroic ToC 3 times, a Heroic HoR 4 times and a Violet hold twice. It's kinda crazy. I'm wrangled up about 200 badges total between the two toons I am playing like I won't have game time in a week and it's wearing me thin I must admit. It's fantastic that in the span of a few days with chain running 15 minute heroics you can regear even the shoddiest geared alt of yours to t9 or more.

On the patch morning I sat there impatiently waiting for my server to come back up. When it finally did I was thrilled, I logged on. Got my fabulous new Core Hound Pup in the mail. However, this wasn't the only new thing. My server was up...hmm maybe 20 minutes? Before it went down and went down hard for about another 2-3 hours. It came back up *eventually* And when it did I started doing what every sane person in their right mind would be doing. Thats right. Heroics. After a couple runs I noticed something very very strange however. That was that after every heroic I finished, I was getting an extra 2 badges of Frost.

Wait, huh? Say that again? Yeah you heard me right.

It was shocking to say the least. I followed the forums a bit, saw a couple blue posts on the matter but mostly just alot of complaining from the people who didn't have the bug and were irate at the rest of the ones who had the bug. Here's what Malkorix said over Here.

Thank you for the heads up, Blutritter. You are correct in that this is not how Emblems of Frost are intended to be distributed. At this point, our staff are aware of this issue and investigating. It is not clear what will occur with the Emblems of Frost that have already been accrued, but it is probably best to ignore them for now.

As long as you don't actively make use of those emblems, it is very unlikely that anything untoward will occur regarding an account suspension. I hope that eases your mind on the subject a bit?

Well, I am really not sure as of yet what they intend to do with the bugged out badges, considering my priest yesterday was sitting on a lofty 32 of the things and I wasn't even really trying to get them. After a reset and a few hours it seems the issue was resolved, complete with alot of griping in the guild, forums and server. Not to mention plenty of ideas on how to keep said badges due to the cunning use of game mechanics.

One of the great new things about this patch is the Disenchanting option if you have a Enchanter of the appropriate level in the party. It's not only made Enchanters obsolete as profession whores, but it's opened up a whole new level of farming. I logged an alt account to sit there in Dalaran while a guildie ran low level instances for Enchanting mats. Yeah. It doesn't matter where you are, what level you are or even if you're looking at the screen, your enchanter has now become a bot for everyone's gain but your own. Aren't you feeling special right about now?

On a less then positive note I wonder if it's working properly. I've lost a few things to enchanters I could have used for a offset by greeding on it. Well, it seems the system is still a little borked and needs to have the bugs shaken lose out of it. Watching a very nice bow get DE'd because I chose to greed it for my pvp set then need it for my main set. I was the only one who get even use it in the party and got to watch as "XX receives loot: Abyss Crystal". I'll tell you, I think my little hunter heart up and died on me after seeing that.

All in all while there is a lot to be said about the patch, some good and others not so much. Will there be changes implemented to fix some of these issues? Praise Gamer Gods, let it be so. Will I get to keep my badges of frost? Pretty please with Gnome ears on top? Will the queue for LFG be more affected or less for DPS? It's almost worse then the BG Queues.

Guess we will just have to wait and see huh...

Wouldn't you know...

So I was doing my random heroics yesterday, Utgarde Pinnacle. Not one of my favorites as a hunter. We did great, smashed through. I got to sit there and preen cause I was tearing up the damage meters with my 4100 gearscore against people far more geared then myself. I love this new system, it's a bit of a pain as a DPS but not completely intolerable to work through. 3 upgrades by badges alone in a day. Woot?
Hunter's as a whole seem to have gotten a rather healthy buff to their damage with Culling of the Herd and all thsoe other juicy little tidbits.

oh yeah, 3.8k DPS. I felt freaking fabulous. Considering it was at least twice what i was doing before the patch.

Well we get to Him. Yeah and guess what. it dropped.



Blue Proto-Drake

I would like to point out I have now seen and won this mount, twice. Once on my paladin and ended up giving it away to a friend, to which he was extremely grateful for.
Oh did you notice something? Oh yeah, in the screenshot see the fabulous little red text on the item?

lol. Yup, you are correct. My hunter doesn't even HAVE epic flying, she cant even use one of the prettiest mounts in game in my opinion.

Oh well? It forces me to farm 5000g for her so she can.

wait...that's not very fun.
/sigh So much for my Mechano-hog.

Founds this randomly...

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=6286790064&sid=1&pageNo=1
Written by Nezaros. I think it just about sums it up...dont you?
1. In the beginning was the breakfast cereal.
2. Never fight anyone who has a clue what they're doing.
3. Feel free to exclude any and all squishies from the above.
4. Not my fault if you get pwnt.
5. Frostmourne is a hunter weapon.
6. Druids should be tamable.
7. You are still a ninja at heart.
8. Law 8. Now with 50% more bran.
9. 50% of all hunters are huntards.
10. The rest are gold farmers.
11. Marksmanship > Survival
12. Survival > Marksmanship
13. Beast Mastery = lol
14. Contradicting me is punishable by being lynched by a gnome. On a rabbit. Wearing a tu-tu.
15. Everyone hates rogues, but even Jeebus hates Death Knights.
16. Your non-heart-of-the-phoenix-having pet will die when you need it most.
18. 17 does not exist.
18. There are still 2 #18s.
19. The cake remains a lie.
20. Everyone will always hate hunters.
21. Likewise, when your guild goes off to kill Arthas, leaving you behind, and they wipe from incompetence, you will STILL be blamed.
22. Your traps, feign death, and viper sting will always be resisted when you need them most.
23. Ironically, playing dead is still the best option.
24. Your friend's pet is still better than yours.
25. Your friend also has better gear.
26. And better talents.
27. In fact, your friend is better at everything than you.
28. Sucks to be you, don't it?
29. The below statement is false.
30. The above statement is true.
31. Any proc that can go off, will go off the second your target dies.
32. When you run out of ammo before the final boss, any and all engineers will have forgotten their vendorbots.
33. Misdirection is THE raid wiper.
34. 'Tis also the gnome killer. Even Horde can misdirect them.
35. Everything is a hunter weapon. Including gnomes.
36. Pie > Cake.
37. Warriors, Warlocks, Shamans, Death Knights, Mages, Rogues, Priests, Druids, and Paladins will always win the roll for your loot.
38. There are no all-Hunter arena teams above 1300. All that violate this shall be mauled by a mad Death Knight.
39. If Rogues do it from behind, Hunters do it from 40 yards away.
40. Mongoose bite will never be useful.
41. You will never have the best pet.
42. This remains the ultimate answer.
43. Your friends don't dance and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine.
44. Brag about achievements.
45. Brag about damage you deal during the Battle for the Undercity.
46. Brag about camping 30s in Hillsbrad.
47. Bragging will earn you eternal scorn.
48. Not FRAPSing a misdirection wipe is punishable by law.
49. There is no Cow Level.
50. Kiting isn't cheating, it's creative use of game mechanics.
51. Cheating is always considered creative use of game mechanics.
52. Kite big, angry mobs to soft, unsuspecting towns.
53. Only kite in the event your pet dies.
54. Kite whenever you can.
55. Attempting to kite a Death Knight is a terrible idea.
56. Kiting is for scrubs.
57. So are shot rotations.
58. Val'anyr is a hunter weapon.
59. Hunters will always win.
60. Hunters will always lose.
61. Hunters will always lose to Death Knights.
62. Everyone will always lose to Death Knights.
63. Attacking a hunter is punishable by law.
64. Actually, everything is punishable by law.
65. Don't daze me, bro.
66. EVIL.
67. Moo.
68. Evil moo.
69. All hunters are either Night Elves or Blood Elves.
70. Hypocrisy is a myth.
71. Being overpowered is a myth.
72. In other words, you were just killed by a figment of your imagination.
73. The Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and in fact, cannot speak.
74. In the event that it does speak, you are advised to disregard its advice.
75. Your passing shall not be mourned.
76. Despite hunters not getting a reroll ability, the Death Knight class is a good substitute.
77. There are no good hunters, only cheaters.
78. There are no bad hunters, only huntards.
79. Breaking CC is your job.
80. Therefore, even if you weren't there, that broken polymorph was still your fault.
81. You are the bane of everyone else.
82. Everyone else is the bane of you.
83. Hunters are rock. Blizzard is paper. Death Knights are sledgehammer. Paladins are now mushroom.
84. Behind every bad tank is a hunter.
85. There are no lies, only varying degrees of sarcasm.
86. Survival may or may not exist depending on your religion.
87. Canadian Bacon.
88. Hunters will never get stealth.
89. This is not the final law.
90. There is always someone worse than you.
91. Still not the final law.
92. The IWIN button is a myth.
93. Keep lookin'.
94. Ask for Salv, then say you don't have enough mana.
95. Ask for Wisdom, then say you keep pulling aggro.
96. When you cause the raid to wipe, blame the Paladin.
97. Not only will it not work, but you will also get kicked from the guild and be forever scorned by your server.
98. Everything a hunter does will earn them scorn.
99. Hunter itemization is no longer decided by a 3 year old. That person is now 4 years old.
100. This may or may not be the final law.
101. Do you know why it wasn't the final law?
102. 'Cause this is filler, filler night...
103. When a warlock's DoT breaks your freeze trap and the healer is murded, you will be blamed.
104. Hunters continue to spend more money on ammo and food than their mounts.
105. Everything in WoW is working as intended.
106. The next expansion will be released *Soon*.
107. Thou shalt not kill.
108. Thou is unable to anyway.
109. Thou shalt not steal.
110. That's the Rogue's job.
111. Our T8 gas mask is called foreshadowing.
112. Elves are for people who don't care for the opinions of others.
113. Warlocks are for people who like to fruitlessly fear a big red wolfy.
114. Engineering is for the pyromaniac in all of us. You know it's there.
115. Women and bovines first.
116. Always look on the bright side of life.
117. 'Cause I sure as hell won't.
118. Dragons will never be tamable.
119. Having one as a mount doesn't count.
120. Having a certain achievement does not make one leet. Everyone else already has it.
121. Aspect of the Pack is for raids only.
122. Female Dwarves are a myth.
123. Male Blood Elves are a myth.
124. An arrow a day keeps the rabbits away.
125. Spirit Beasts are a myth.
126. This is Sooba.
127. Bruce Campbell is forever long a hunter.
128. Engineering has a device for everything. EVERYTHING.
129. Hunters are responsible for the Violet Hold bugging up.
130. There is no problem that can't be solved with the appropriate application of gunpowder.