Well, Paddle Our Tushie and Call Us Oatmeal

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We were cruising on over to the WoW Insider main page this morning and it smacked us in the face like a four-year old boy in the back seat of the Durango who wanted to watch Thomas The Tank Engine but all ya had was Little Einsteins. Kapow!

Well lookie at that, we have a banner over yonder.

So what do we make of this? One, the Editors are totally not resistant to our crying fits of egomanical demands. We shall keep this information ready for future use. Two, we’re getting some good traffic on our column. How good? Glad you asked.Keep in mind the BRK the Blog has been online since January 4th, so in a little less than six months we’ve had 73,000 hits. BRK on WI has had 38,000 hits in 30 days. Sheesh that’s cool. And just who is visiting BRK on WI? Again, glad you asked because it runs the gamut:

“Stop posting this sh!t column, please. This is just that stupid hunter stroking his BM ego. Different doesnt mean useful.”

“I have been a mark spec hunter with some points in beast to make my pet a better solo tank. I’ve played a hunter since release. After reading your posts I re-specced last night into BM and LOVE IT! My damage has gotten better, my aggro management has gotten better…the game is totally different now. I have had to re-learn some things, but overall I am able to do MUCH more than I used to.”

We’re writing our next WI column in our poncy little noggin even as we type this, but we have a question. Should we include a “Best BRK-Insult Contest” or not?

Seriously, we’re leaning towards it.

WoWInsider | May 24, 2007

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11 Responses to “Well, Paddle Our Tushie and Call Us Oatmeal”

  1. Sylvina Solaris on May 24th, 2007 2:44 pm

    I think it’s awesome you’re doing so well. Why are you so popular? I think it’s simply because you’re just so controversial. You’re like the howard stern of WoWinsider. Now all you need are some lesbian mailbox dancing elves and you’re set.

    You have this whole different writing style and aura around you, you crack jokes most people wouldn’t, you occasionally tease the other specs of your class, and you just provide a great read. You actually inspired me to blog, so… kudos to you.

  2. Kelektra on May 24th, 2007 3:11 pm

    heh, anyone who goes LOOKING for a flamefest has some rawkin style! Keep up the good works BRK!

  3. Misfit on May 24th, 2007 3:42 pm

    I’ve got one for ya Damh.

    Our guild has been slow getting everyone keyed for Kara siince a nasty split about 2 months ago. We finally got to 10 players and we started strategizing (is that even a word?) for Attumen. We ran into a problem…class makeup. We had 1 Priest, 2 Dr00ds, 2 Rogues, 2 Pallies, and…3, yes 3 Hunters. When I went outside the guild for advice on Kara strats and I mentioned this make-up I was told that it wouldnt work cause having more than 2 Hunters will hurt you more then help you and to not attempt it. Well, this was an instant challenge and since this guild has always been Hunter-heavy we went ahead and gave Attumen a try.
    One of the our Rogues wasnt able to show up in time, so it ended up being a 9-man (2 women in there :)) that one-shotted that bareback riding douche. All three Hunters topped the charts with me (a 0/21/40 SV Hunter) on top. The Marks Hunter and I were just about even, but I inched him out by about 0.7%. Of course all the loot was leather, but we’ve made our way into Kara and are going to carry this momentum to Moroes on Saturday. We are still trying to figure out how to deal with Moroes with only one shackle available, but I’ll let you know how the mass trappings go :).

    Cheers,

    - Misfit

  4. Anonymous on May 24th, 2007 3:49 pm

    With 3 offtank pets and multiple ice traps, I doubt you will have much issue with crowd control on Moroes! I am usually the lone hunter in the raid during Moroes, and often I have my bear offtank the first target to be burned down while keeping target number two trapped. Then, after target two is burned down, I keep traps between the shackled targets and the priests just in case one breaks unintentionally. With three hunters and a priest, keeping the third and fourth adds cc’d while Moroes is burned down ought to be a cinch!

    -Dunmirik

  5. Joe on May 24th, 2007 4:13 pm

    Flame contest huh? Guess that means I’d better start hitting the dictionary.

    Oh, and get back to the training courses!

  6. Anonymous on May 24th, 2007 5:14 pm

    i all ready have a good start

    your column is the reason the whales went the wrong way and are stuck in the river….

    your column is why they had to faked the moon landing

    had to throw that in =)

    so lets get this flame contest started……

    Adrus

  7. Misfit on May 24th, 2007 5:54 pm

    Reading your blog has made me sterile…

    Thanks!

    But dont tell the wife ;)

  8. Damh on May 24th, 2007 7:33 pm

    +5 BRK Cool Points to Misfit. We laughed so hard our boss checked up on us.

  9. Byron on May 25th, 2007 3:43 am

    I’m a wow noob (since last Oct) and even more of a hunter noob (since Feb), and love your column and website. I want to learn as much old-school hunter know-how as possible. I’ve never been so bad as to mistake my class for a melee class, but other basic things like kiting and chain trapping I’ve picked up on from your writing and from some posts in the WoW hunter forums. Open the spigot, attitude and all! And /second the insult contest idea, they usually end up doing more damage to the insulter anyway.

  10. Samuele Scettri on May 25th, 2007 8:23 am

    I was going to ask you to forget about flames, because I really want you to give all these nice infos, but I am in jail now because of YOU!
    They say that I have painted my cat red, tossed him into crocodiles cage at the zoo while I was under uncontrollable rage, just to see how he would tank…

    And that’s your fault! :)

  11. Moony/Kala on May 25th, 2007 12:11 pm

    LoL. Poor kitty.

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