Turp-who?
So we got an email from our old nemesis… we mean BUDDY Mike Shramm over at TIPoAA. Went kinda like this
“Dear BRK, I’ll have your children if you do our podcast today!”
Who are you again?
“Mike Shramm and Turpster!”
Turp…
“YOU WORKED WITH US FOR TWO YEARS!”
Doesn’t ring a bell.
“WoW Insider?! WoW.com?!”
Yeah… that sounds like… no, it doesn’t.
“You been drinking?”
Well of course. The proper question is: What have you been drinking?
“WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING!”
San Pellegrino Aranciata! The drink of Hunters!
“What happened to raspberry latte?”
It’s the middle of summer in Orlando. Can’t quaff coffee all day long.
“SO! Will you do our podcast today?”
Well sure. What’s it about?
“WORLD OF WARCRAFT YOU NINNY!”
So you want us to talk about what, specifically?
“…”
Hunters?
“Yes please?”
Certainly.
“4PM EDT today, Sunday 29 Aug 2010!”
We’ll be there.
“Awesome!”
Just one question: who’s your guest?
Best Buff Evah. ‘Nough Said
This is exactly why the Dwarves rock our socks. Snockered and ready to party!
Did Silithus Get Ported?
You know what there’s a lot of in Cata? Tentacles. There are tentacles everywhere. Now if there were some good marinara to go with them…
Volley, We Hardly Knew You
The first time we ever actually used Volley was in Lower Black Rock Spire. Or was it Upper. It was a broken kind of hallway leading to a long ramp that, at the top, we fought a ton of ogres. In that broken hallway, there were ants. Cockroaches. Oozelings. Jeebus we should pop over to WoWWiki and look it up, but pfft. It was in 2005 and who really cares. Leeroy Jenkins was the height of uber-cool and nobody knows who he is nowadays. Kids. They just don’t respect the classics.
Wait, we just totally tangentalized.
Volley. We did it in LBRS. Or UBRS. No, it was LBRS. Stupid ants.
Anyway, the entire concept was stupid. We hate Volley. Yes we used it to great acclaim with Gorlladin, but still; it was dumb.
Let’s break-down the DPS-classification to show you why.
Melee vs Ranged
Melee: Rogues, Paladins, DKs, Warriors, Feral Druids, and hunter-loot stealin’ Shaman.
Of those classes, only the rogues are pure-dps. Thus, they should be the #1 melee-dps class.
Ranged: Hunters, Warlocks, Mages, Boomkins, Shadow Priests, and more loot-whorein’ Shaman.
Except for hunters, all the other classes have really natural AoE-capabilities. Not necessarily “equivalent” in either power or effectiveness, but natural. You understand “natural”, yes? A mage using a wand is natural, a mage going stabby-stab-stab with a dagger is not. Yes the mage can hold the dagger, but actually using it to dps is dumb.
Hunters should not AoE; it’s not natural.
When it comes to a single-target, no class should be able to touch a hunter in terms of pure MQoSRDPS. We don’t need AoE because we are the masters of single-target destruction. Imagine a knife-throwing rogue being able to do 95% of a hunter’s damage and you’ll have an idea of how silly it is that a hunter be able to effectively AoE.
Yes, when over-powered, Volley was great fun. Especially with a good AoE-tank!
But that’s not where our bread is buttered. Hunters eat great big big tall hungry-man sandwiches of Single-Target Mayhem. If a hunter is permitted to stand still (and has Mana, (and soon to be Focus)), nobody should survive our onslaught.
Which is why paladins suck. Suck giant green pools of pukie cockroachy slime! But we digress.
Every class should have limits, both finite and definitive. Tanks tank, Healers heal, melee dps meless, AoE classes AoE, and Hunters kill the big, bad things that go bump in the night. Volley was an affront to our natural tendency to destroy targets one-by-one.
Are we going to miss Gorilladin and Volley slaughtering talbuks in Nagrand? Yeah, we are. But Cataclysm is coming, and AoE isn’t the name of the game anymore.
It might be a bit early to state as fact, but we think Movement is the next big concept. Karazhan was about Movement, and we think that model is going to be used as the foundation of all of Cataclysm. How can we be so sure?Look at this:
Can’t
AoE
Totally
Anymore,
Chester.
LoL!
You
Shall
Move!
Coincidence? We think not. So auf wiedersehen, Volley. It was nice knowing you.
You’ll get no tears, though.
Untamed Does Not Imply Tamable
So the latest zone, Twilight Highlands, is available to traverse, and we’re searching for beasts to tame. Quintuple-phooey that this guy isn’t tamable.
TH is a very nice zone, except it makes our Mac crash every three seconds. Plus there are almost zero NPCs, beasts, or much else interesting.
Guest-Post Time!
Pull up a chair, kiddies, as we have a substitute teacher today. Now I don’t want to hear any reports about you guys ditching, capice? Please give a nice BRK-welcome to Markco Polo of Just My Two Copper.
One word: Be nice or we’ll call your parents.
/gives up the soapbox
/gives last warning-look over the shoulder
/departs for the teachers lounge
The Top 10 Farming Spots in WOTLK for Hunters
Hunters are an interesting breed when it comes to farming in World of Warcraft. They tend to stick to gathering professions such as skinning or mining along with either leatherworking or engineering. Finding farming spots which fit the needs of these professions can be tricky but well worth the effort in terms of gold per hour.
The hunter class was literally designed for farming. Hunters have several class attributes which make them ideal farmers:
Here are my top ten farming spots of WOTLK for hunters. Enjoy!
1. Fire Revenants of Stormpeaks
Eternal fires remain the most expensive eternals on most realms, second possibly to eternal lifes and airs on a bad day, doubling their eternal cousins on a good day. Since wintergrasp can be a little hairy for farming these in such a crowded location, I therefore recommend either farming them at the spot in this video or in a cave north of the location. The spawns in the cave are weaker but also drop far less crystallized fires.
When selling eternal fire (if you don’t make use of the eternals for transmutes or other money making endeavors) be sure to break it up into the crystallized version first for additional profit. I can sell crystallized fire one at a time for far more than 1/10th the cost of a eternal fire.
There is a mining node and herb node along the edges of the forge.
2. Mammoth & Worm Meat of Storm Peaks
If you have cooking then this farming spot is a literal gold mine. Even if you don’t you’ll make plenty of gold selling the meats to cooks and if you happen to have skinning all the better! The packs of mammoths are in two groups, one on the west and the other on the east side of the gorge. Be sure to check for these packs frequently and when neither are up be sure to run into the cave for a ton of closely packed worms.
A miner, engineer or herbalist can also benefit from looking for nearby nodes here. Look for the frost chips as well for rep turn ins.
3. Never Ending Neutral Ghosts of Icecrown
Go to the location specified in the video and just sit there waiting for the dead heroes to run to you. They are neutral so you can take on as many as you feel you’re capable at one time with no additional mobs to worry about in the vicinity. Be sure to not stand too far south or they will disappear before you can aggro them. Once agrro’d they will no longer be capable of despawning. There is a lichbloom as well as a saronite node in the area which you should look out for if you have those professions as well.
This is viewed as one of the top skinning locations as well as providers of chilled meats. The gorillas are tightly packed even moreso than the worms and mammoths of stormpeaks but their meats are not as valuable. I was able to pick up an arctic fur about every 25 minutes here.
5. Shadow Revenants of Wintergrasp
Best place to find crystalized shadow by far, and if you have 310% flying you can easily skip from revenant to revenant for about 3 crystalized shadows per mob. The wandering shadows have a decent chance to drop one as well. Scattered mining and herbing nodes are in the area so be sure to watch for them while farming. I use the eternal shadows in belt buckles and titanium plating on my blacksmith.
I apologize for no video on these mobs, but you will find them just north of the eternal life mobs in wintergrasp which are in the southwestern corner of the map. Youtube decided to choke on the video but if you subscribe to my channel I will have it out within a week once I solve the issue with my recording software.
The infused essence is a 100% drop rate, 75 silver gray which falls off these mobs. There are also protodrakes which you can skin and humanoids which drop some cloth and relics of ulduar in the area. Not sure on mining/herbing nodes. There is also a trinket you can find on these mobs which will sell for quite a bit of gold.
Good farming spot but not for the leather as it comes in scraps from these rhinos (takes 5 scraps to get a single borean leather), but the real draw here is the Rhino meat which sells for a ton even if you don’t cook it into rhino dogs. I know there are some gold clover nodes in the area, not sure on the mining nodes but they would be cobalt.
8. Trapdoor Crawlers of Zul’Drak
Iceweb Spider Silk is used in spell threads by tailors and I was able to get about one per minute on a crappy geared level 80 shaman. Imagine how fast you’d pick these up two shotting the mobs on your pro hunter.
Talandra’s rose and cobalt nodes are scattered around this farming spot.
This spot was at one point the number one farming spot for engineer/miners in WOTLK. The fact that the mobs were flying around made it really easy for hunters to run around owning the place. Sadly the best drop on the scions, their relics of ulduar, are no longer worth anything this late in the expansion. Now the real draw to this cave are the engineering and mining nodes as well as the eternal airs found on the Scions of Storm.
I use eternal airs for my enchanting business.
10. Forgotten Depth Slayers and Carrior Fleshrippers
Great spot but you have to have not completed the quests in the area to have access to the mobs here. If you forsake the quest line however you will be rewarded with incredbily easy to kill mobs that drop lots and lots of nerubian chitin. The chitin is used for epic and rare quality leg armor kits which sell for plenty of gold. I am not sure about how many mining or herbalism nodes are in the area as I’ve never farmed in this phase with a gathering character.
Finally, We’re In
And if we find anything interesting, we’ll let you know.
Pretty boring so far, though.
Stupid Patches
Still downloading updates. Can’t get on WoW-Beta. 99% and the Launcher is still red.
/sigh
So here’s one last screenshot to keep you occupied for all of five seconds. Took us a while to remember why we took it, and then we went, “Oh yeah! We snorted our San Pellegrino!”
You may not enter snort-dom, but it’s all we’ve got right now.
Weekend Update
So we’re downloading all the beta-patches that were dropped over the past six days, and we’re not going to be making a movie tonight. Thus, we give you the last screenshot we made before our trek to Iowa.
Yes, this picture is in celebration of our complete and total victory over the genus-degenerates:
Dogs are not Wolves, they are Dogs.
Foxes are not Wolves, they are Foxes.
And our domination is so complete that Monkeys are not Gorillas, they are Monkeys. Frankly, we wouldn’t have pursued the Monkey Liberation Front, but it collapsed because of the purity and holiness of our Dog Quest, we’re certain.
A few things about Iowa, because that’s where we’ve been and we want to write something:
It’s hot. We’re from Orlando and we know Hot, but this was a different kind of hot. Perhaps because Iowa is in the center of the continent, it’s closer to the sun, or the flatness and lack of water, makes it like a popcorn bag in the center of the microwave. Yes, the the Iowa State Fair on Saturday was Hot. And when someone from Orlando give it the nom-de-guere “Hot”, you can be darn tootin’ it was hot.
Iowa. Hot. So sayeth BRK, so let it be done.
Des Moines International Airport. Seriously?
The All in the Family lounge, where my uncle’s band The Reflections tore the place up, needs to find a decent microbrewery and order something on-tap. Like some of this for instance.
We missed the Butter Cow. But we got all of Big D we could handle.
We bought no Hawkeye gear, but the boy got a Miami Dolphins 18-wheeler toy truck. He loves the Dolphins, and the poor truck wasn’t going to get a decent home in Iowa, anyway.
Yellow stretch bras with denim overalls are not as sexy as one might think. She wrastled that pig, though. Wrastled? We used that properly?
The Iowa Technology Park was a trailer with ten Internet-connected laptops. But it allowed the boy a few minutes to check out the new Club Penguin catalog, and it was air conditioned, so no more smack will be talked about the ITP.
John Deere, you had us at 9030. We’ll take it with the GPS-option!
OK, the downloading is done. Back to WoW-work.
/wow-work
And Neither One is Samantha
Just a cute shot of two foxes, both of which can be hunter-pets.
And a note: the Boy and I are going to the Iowa State Fair this weekend, starting today. So you can imagine that the ability of BRKWWA to produce WoW-stuff is going to be severely hampered due to our out-of-townness. School starts next Monday, so we’ll be back in the groove next week!
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