We Love Your Stories
“Dear BRK, for the past year or so I’ve played a Tauren hunter on Bloodscalp as my main. He’s got a fine black cat named NinjaNed, who I acquired in the barrens - Humar, I’m sure you know him - and we’re very happy together. I’m a part-time, casual player. I lead a busy lifestyle for the most part but I am I dork by nature, so I go through stints on weekends mostly where I’ll sit down and play WoW with my guildies for a good several hours at a time.
“Unfortunately I’d never really learned about the dynamics of being a hunter in an instance. My guildies constantly helped me through the ones I needed to go through for better gear. So they of course would plow through everything and I would pick up the falling debris in their wake. After more than a year, I’ve finally come close to hitting 70. ‘m at 62 right now and I’m noticing a distinct change. What I do… well, it actually MATTERS.
“Now granted, when I run through Blood Furnace with even one level 70 guildie it’s still easy, but I’m noticing that strategy still has to be implemented. I have to lay down Freezing Traps. I need to off-tank with NinjaNed. I need to watch my multi shots. Blah blah blah.
“So I started reading your blog because I needed to learn more about strategy from the experience of others - I get so little of it on my own to be of a benefit - and I’ve been very satisfied. Your unique writing style reminds me of a lot of my friends’ writing. I seem to surround myself by writers, hell, I’m marrying one. But I digress. The point is your stuff is extremely beneficial to me, the casual player.
“Last night I was in a PUG for Bloodfurnace as I’m trying to get the Legionnaires Blunderbuss from the second boss. We were a pretty good group: Rogue, two Druids (feral and resto), a warlock and myself, a BM hunter. I wanted to do a PUG because I figured it would be a good opportunity to get my skills up to par.
“I made my fair share of mistakes. Almost the first fight we had, Ned aggroed a second group while we fought the first. My group consisted of good players so we handled it well. I told them it wouldn’t happen again, and it didn’t. I broke a freeze trap here and there but I remembered the tenants of BRK and took the hits while pinging away at the Tanks target. I did not dump aggro on the healer, so I made up for that.
“But the crowning achievement that I felt I accomplished in the run was on Keli’dam the Breaker. I had done BF just once before and I remembered to stay back when he did his big AOE and I called back Ned, but he still took the hit and dropped dead, poor Ned. Most of my party must have forgotten to clear back because all but myself and the healer took the hit as well. The Tank was down really low but he continued to wail on him. The other two were dead. I dropped a pre-emptive FD (once again, taken from the notes of your pages) to drop aggro on the tank and continued pinging away. Keli’dam was down to a sliver of life but the healer was out of mana; he couldn’t save the tank from Keli’dam’s final strike. Keli’dam looked towards me… And I sighed. Was this… The End?!
“Luckily I had been reading your guide. I was about to get a crash course in kiting. Run. Jump. Arcane Shot. Wow! That wasn’t so hard! Sh*t, out of mana. Keep running. Wait for mana to regen. 190 mana, good. Run. Jump. Arcane shot. Crap. He’s too close; I only have 300 life. I don’t have enough time. Turn around. I won’t die with my back to a boss. Auto shot, auto shot… Boss Dead!
And then I get healed! 
“It was one of the coolest moments in my WoW life. My party gave me huge gratz. I tipped the tank and healer and went on my way. Worst part was I didn’t even get the blunderbuss. 
Thanks BRK, you’ve helped me quite a lot. Grazeland - Tauren Hunter on Bloodscalp”
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Wow you really are trying to play catchup!
We’re trying to makeup for basically three days of nada, as well as get some really great reader-material the recognition it deserves.
BTW,
Great story!
BRK: Winning over casuals and nubs everywhere.
-guy
Not to mention casual nubs like me!
- Thar
Nice story, I’ve always felt that Battlegrounds give a good crash course in playing a hunter. BG’s force you to be very aware of everything going on around you.
Also for a more pve training, when leveling up and grinding mobs, it does be fun now an then to pulling lots of mobs at once, 4-7, instead of the usual 1-2. Pull them and figure out how to kill them on the fly
Really nice story gratz BRK for the work on this blog..it pays off imo.
As said before BGs are a very goog place to practice your class and get to know every ability. I enjoy playing arena because you use all you got…Even Scare Beast…that long forgotten ability.
What is this … scare beast … that you speak of?
lol