The BRK Simile of the Week
“Dear BRK, what do say? I am writing this because I have thank you from the bottom of my little dwarven heart! You are my savior. Praise BRK! I stumbled into BRK-land via Google searching for kiting techniques. I read a post and became hooked.
“I am a born-again hunter. My main was a mage for a very long time, she and I are currently separated. She is a 70, but has, during my rebirth as a hunter, become nothing more than a glorified vending machine with crowd control capacity.
“The reason for my conversion started innocently enough. I started a hunter to test the waters. I loved it. She quickly rose up the levels and then in a fit of anger I left the game for several months, reemerging on a PVE server and starting a new hunter.
“However, as tranquil as that setting was, I didn’t know anyone and the game quickly became boring. I play wow for the social aspect, and returned to my original pvp server. Breana was there waiting for me with open arms. But because I wanted to play with my high level friends I unenthusiastically leveled my mage to 70, cursing all the way that as soon as my hunter hit 70 she was going to be my main. I did it about a month and ½ ago. However there is a problem.
“I am not as good I want to be. Unlike many other hunters, no one I knew had a high level hunter. Everyone was a rogue, warrior, pally, mage and so forth, but no one to call a mentor. Because of this, I languished in ignorance. Oh, I knew about some of the fundamentals like how to train our pets and the basics of traps, but had never really dealt with situations which called for chain trapping or kiting. I didn’t know the importance of one skill over another. This, of course, shows my [inexperience] since I am sure there were, but I just didn’t recognize them.
“I read forums and guilds but each were extremes of the two sides. One for the completely ignorant, which I had graduated from, and the other which expected you to be an expert. There didn’t seem to be a middle ground.
“Had I only found your blog three months ago! I switched to BM in my late 60’s. A recent hunter friend recommended it and since I had been MM for so long, I wasn’t sure about the change. Like I said before, ignorance. I switched and the rest, they say, is history.
“However I still felt this nagging insecurity in the back of my mind. Unlike mage, which you really just have to press a few things and keep the eye on the sheep, there is so much you need to think about when you are a hunter. Agility might be a stat we look for, but we also require agility of the mind to constantly use our myriad of skills and talents to effective use. I also realized late into my 60’s that I had no concept of really grouping with others and didn’t feel completely conformable in my mail while in an instance. Especially with X factors such as mages with no aggro-management and warlocks who are DoT happy. Somehow I still end up feeling like I was the one not doing my job.
“Then I found your blog. I wanted to cry. Reading your blog is like having the “birds and the bees” conversation with your mom after she found you making out with the boy next door. It can be extremely embarrassing at times but absolutely essential. [Ed: emphasis added]
“I am very eager to learn and to become the best hunter I can be. I won’t call myself a decent hunter, but I am not a total huntard, just in a state of growing pains. Thank you for make the maturing process as straightforward as possible. Yours Truly, Breana and Pookie
First, let’s say that Pookie is a fabulous name for a pet. We /applaud the choice. When we were a very young hunter, we had a stuffed bear named Pookie.
Then, of course, that sentence. We laughed, we cried, it became a part of us. +5 BRK Cool Points, natch. We love it!
Finally, some BRK Wisdom. Breana, you have BRK’s permission to call yourself a Decent Hunter. Just because you’re not the best chain-trapper on your server does not make you a bad hunter. Who do you want in your guild? A highly-skilled hunter who sports the emotional development of a howler monkey, or friendly and intelligent girl who practices her chain trapping in order to improve her skilset? There’s a h3ll of a lot more to classifing a hunter as “decent” than an ability to not break sheep, ya know.
And keeping your pet on Passive in kara doesn’t hurt either. /blush
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I demand that “Reading your blog is like having the “birds and the bees” conversation with your mom after she found you making out with the boy next door. It can be extremely embarrassing at times but absolutely essential.” be quoted under your banner!
Welcome to the pack… Hunter number 3 million 4 hundred 32 thousand 6 hundred 86….
/Blush. I am glad you enjoyed the letter BRK and I really appreciate the words of encouragement. That line is a small gift from me to you, use it as you see fit. Thanks again for everything you do, it really makes a difference and I am proud to be a new member of the “pack”, :P.
Changing WoW one hunter at a time…
I’m still not entirely convinced about going to BM spec but this has been a good source for hunter information. Though its getting harder and harder not to want to respec to BM.
“…emotional development of a howler monkey”
I like that - sounds like way too many members of my current, overly dramatic guild!