Heroic Shadow Labs FTW!
No Kara on Tuesday so the gang decided to take out Heroic Shadow Labs. Not that hard, actually. No wipes until an assassin made an unscheduled appearance during the 5-pack mob pulls before Blackheart. We wiped on Vorpil once thanks to Brigin da Uber Tank being banished and being unable to get aggro back from Tredezar da Crit-Happy Boomkin. But otherwise, heroic SL isn’t bad at all.
Four badges and phat hunter loot, too! No, not the Sonic Spear, perish the thought. But a Primal Nether and this!
Ain’t it purty! We’ve had our eye on this for a loooong time. What does it do for us? Well it busts our +Hit all the way to 8.5% for starters. Jeebus, we could go Marksman now. Heehee! As for the rest:
We love the fact that our tooltip DPS is over 330 and our RAP is in the mid-1700s. Hooray for epic purplez and phat hunter loots!
/do a little dance
/get down tonight
Chromaoran on 29 Aug 2007 at 4:01 am #
wowwiki to the contrary, I found the heroic murmur experience unenjoyable. How do you find minimum range while staying close enough in to avoid TS?
remo on 29 Aug 2007 at 5:44 am #
I got sonic spear and wrathfire handcannon on my first shadow labs run tother day
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Anonymous on 29 Aug 2007 at 6:28 am #
N1 BRK!
Shadowlabs isnt that hard /agreed …done so many times already but still no bloody Girdle of Ferocity .. Im hoking to get something from Illhoof tonight..Have you tried Pandemonium in Mana Tombs Heroic? I think he is the most difficult boss on Heroic..
Senzagakhona.EU.Stormrage
Lance on 29 Aug 2007 at 7:12 am #
@Remo Dont bring up the Sonic Spear its a sore subject for BRK.
Hawk on 29 Aug 2007 at 8:30 am #
You forgot the
/make a little love
Traz on 29 Aug 2007 at 11:00 am #
Gratz on your epic belt.
I guess you won’t want to make the Ebon Netherscale Belt now. I have the ENS belt and it’s probably about equal to your new one. Hard to say which one is best really.
Both would be nice…
Less on 29 Aug 2007 at 12:52 pm #
What addon gives the Stat Summary? Thanks
BRK on 29 Aug 2007 at 1:21 pm #
The addon that gives the stat comparisson summary is Rating Buster! /cheer
Toolio on 29 Aug 2007 at 1:31 pm #
You dawg, I want that belt! (only ’cause I’m too cheap to pay for the Ebon).
GJ!
Brigin on 29 Aug 2007 at 1:32 pm #
Senzagakhona
I was able to get through Pandemonium in Heroic Mana Tombs with no problem. He is the void walker/1st boss right? He does something that reflects all damage done to him I think. My grouped wiped the 1st try but after we knew what was happening, everyone just stopped dps and we killed him with no problem. I had more problems with the last boss prince than the 1st one.
Adrus on 29 Aug 2007 at 1:43 pm #
go out of town for 1 day and you go crazy with new posts…..
i don’t know why you are having so much trouble getting the sonic spear i got mine on the first time through there…..
got me something to make grinding a lot more fun…got me a 30gig ipod and borrowed my friends collection of heavy metal CDs nice collection including warlock a couple metallica dio and even some rammstein a killer German band i don’t speak German but they sound great….
Adrus on 29 Aug 2007 at 2:02 pm #
i have a quick question anyone know if arcane armor kits sell it is the only thing i can make that is yellow and can level my lw up on but the 4 primal mana sell for 16g each plus 4 heavy knothide thats 70g easy in mats but i put one in AH for that and no buyers it still has a wile to go if it does not sell on this one i will put it back on this weekend but is it worth putting back on????
p.s. about the sonic spear yea i do have one but everything else i have sucks so yea im going to bug you about it =P
Anonymous on 29 Aug 2007 at 2:16 pm #
big grats! for those like me with no loot luck the veteran’s chain girdle is ftw. takes about a week to grind.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32797
Anonymous on 29 Aug 2007 at 2:32 pm #
@Anon
The pvp pieces are nice but the issue with using pvp gear in pve is that you generaly are dropping any hopes of a decent mana pool and regen. AOTH for the full fight is a ton of extra dps 11dps or so not counting specials, and tons more if you go ImpAotH. The extra crit on that piece is not going to make that much of an improvement. Get yourself decent regen and become a master of your pot CD.
Shifttusk
j on 29 Aug 2007 at 2:46 pm #
Chroma,
There is a safe location for hunters just on the inner top portion of the raised semi-circle ring. From there the “run out” during the sonic boom is a cinch and you are able to stay just outside the melee range and avoid the damaging aura outside of the ring.
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Ebon Netherscale belt is still superior if you have the other two pieces to go with it. The nice thing is you can max out on 4 of 5 t4 pieces (minus the chest) and still keep your set bonus for Ebon Netherscale pieces. It’s probably the best 7 piece combo for hunters until T5 (not including survival as Agil gets a bit gimped). I would still suggest making the ebon’s and going for Helm, gloves, legs, and shoulders in T4. The +20 hit bonus is pretty invaluable in my opinion.
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Most Heroics have a “Resistance Gear Check” bosses. Mana tomb’s is Pandemonium (shadow). Sethekk Halls is Ikiss (Arcane). Mech - Sepethrea (fire)… well you get the drift. The recommended minimum amount for all raiders is 200+. If you can stack that minimum amount, the fights become trivial. The more you have the easier it is ofcourse. Basically, collect any green resist gear you pick up that are level 68 and up. If you are still short, just head to the auction house and buy them cheap. You can fight these guys in some green gear. If you are lucky and have guys in your guild that can make the FR and AR gears from scryer and Aldor, even better.
Oh, while I’m on the subject of collecting green gears - Mages if you guys have aspirations in going for High King Mulgar, don’t pass up X of the Stamina Gear. You’ll need a lot of stam and you’ll do your guild a nice favor by being prepared ahead.
j on 29 Aug 2007 at 2:52 pm #
Oh by the way…
“Jeebus, we could go Marksman now. Heehee! As for the rest:” - BRK
I knew you always envied us. Thou doth protest too much.
In your blog perhaps you have to tout BM so much, almost like a mantra, to reaffirm that it’s a good build. All in the mean time, I know the truth to be in you that says, “Damn, I wish I can crit huge like a MM….”.
Sonvar on 29 Aug 2007 at 3:27 pm #
But is Hobbes past the 170DPS mark yet? Must not forgot about the pet as you need to ask how much benefit did he get from your Girdle of Ferocity.
Rhust on 29 Aug 2007 at 4:32 pm #
grats on the new belt, I got my veteran’s chain girdle yesterday… 1 week in the battlegrounds for a nice ass epic…
+30 Agility
+45 Stamina
+20 Intellect
critical strike rating= 16 (0.7%)(1.47% with agility)
resilience rating = 21 (0.5%)
attack power = 32(62 including agility)
I’m still not keyed for lower-city instances… and hate regular Shadow labs, so I can’t imagine liking the heroic… damn 6 pulls!
Grimia on 29 Aug 2007 at 5:08 pm #
Since someone mentioned Illhoof, I’ll say the last time our guild tried him we did like 4 wipes (new Lock and time on chains) and I had to call it. 5th time the guild got it and my belt dropped. At least I’ve had the PvP belt for a while now, but (and not using Ratings Buster, maybe I should) it seems the Telaari Hunting Girdle is better, for PvE at least than that.
Rhust on 29 Aug 2007 at 7:46 pm #
telaari hunting girdle > the vet’s belt?
Veteran’s Chain Girdle:
+30 Agility
+45 Stamina
+20 Intellect
critical strike rating= 16 (0.7%)(1.47% with agility)
resilience rating = 21 (0.5%)
attack power = 32(62 including agility)
Telaari hunting:
+24 Agility (.60 crit)
+17 Intellect
attack power = 50(74 with agility)
Equip: Restores 6 mana per 5 sec.
vet’s has a loss 12 AP, but gain 450 health, 45 mana, .87% crit
maybe you mean the girdle of the prowler?
+25 Agility (.63% crit)
+21 Stamina
+22 Intellect
Equip: Increases attack power by 48. (73)
Equip: Restores 6 mana per 5 sec.
Equip: Improves Hit Rating by 17. (1.08%)
the prowler has the hit rating and 11 AP, .84% LESS crit, 240 less HP, 30 more mana
I say the hit rating, makes it about = to the vets belt. but the vets is way better than the telaari
Mirshalak on 30 Aug 2007 at 10:02 am #
Your crit chance there is awesome, BRK. I still need to work on that more.
Zemulos on 30 Aug 2007 at 2:08 pm #
W00t! My tooltip dps is now 337.9 with crit chance of 26.39% with only TSA and AotH up! 7/41/13 FTW!
Rhust on 30 Aug 2007 at 6:09 pm #
@zem G-d DAMN! how much RAP are you up to?
I was up to 2100RAP when I respecc’d and wasn’t above the 300 mark. course I’m barely above the 300 mark now.
/bow
Xizang on 31 Aug 2007 at 10:34 am #
Which buff is that, giving you 2% Damage? You are in IF as far as I can tell…
Rhust on 31 Aug 2007 at 6:56 pm #
you get 2% for having your pet active with 2 points in kill command talent
3% more for FI
Xizang on 01 Sep 2007 at 5:41 am #
Thank you. I just figured that out as well.