Triple Play!
We are Io, Hobbes is Figaro, this was Serpentshrine Cavern and the killing of Hydross, Lurker, and Leo the Blind.
We out-DPS’d a warlock on Hydross and nothing could make us prouder than that. /mega-preen!
After Hydross dropped his Ring of Lethality, for which we lost the bid, the quasi-Hunter-loot PvP ring, the Band of Vile Aggression was auctioned. We could’ve taken it, but didn’t want to waste the points. However, we equipped our PvP gear to make a RatingBuster comparison of our rings against the BoVA and forgot to swap our raiding gear back on until after we saw a Steady Shot whiz past a trash mob. +Hit FTW, yes?
Oops. We are a noob.
Lurker has no hunter-loot, so bah on him. Hobbes behaved perfectly by himself, though, and that rocked.
We took three tries to get Leo down, but then wiped him out at 8 minutes, 55 seconds and everybody standing with no combat rez’s used.
Our DPS on Leo is always below our traditional level, but that’s because we don’t use our pet during his humanoid-phase. Hobbes is much more valuable to us against our Inner Demon than losing him against a Bleed. Double Champion tokens and a Tsunami Talisman that made a rogue very happy was the best loot of the night, by a long, long shot.
This leaves SSC clear for us to take out Fathom-Lord and learn Morogrim on Sunday!
/happy little dwarven dance of joy!
Iornshaft on 13 Mar 2008 at 8:46 am #
BRK,
What is your current shot rotation? I looked at your reports and I am kinda confused, shouldn’t you have been able to get off more steady shots compared to the number of auto shots you had? Are you slacking BRK?
-Ironshaft
Kestra on 13 Mar 2008 at 9:08 am #
Good luck with learning the Morogrim encounter
Val on 13 Mar 2008 at 9:50 am #
/still has no clue how to read those damn stat thingiemabobbers
but outdps’ing a warlock always calls for a..
/cheer ^_^
Zahana on 13 Mar 2008 at 9:50 am #
Morogrim is a pretty easy fight to learn, probably easier than Fathom-Lord, and definately easier than Leo. Good Luck!
Ahoni on 13 Mar 2008 at 10:10 am #
Morogrim is very healing intensive. Very very.
A Pally tank and multiple warlocks make it a lot easier to deal with the Murlocs. Our bear tank dropped to 200hp last night before all the heals landed at once and he sprang back up to 20k.
Took a look at the WWS. Don’t get too excited there BRK, you out DPS’d an Affliction warlock, and an Affliction warlock who forgot to use half his DoTs. Why he is not using all his DoTs is another question. Also, he died with 3 minutes left in the fight. If you didn’t out DPS him I would worry about ya.
pelides on 13 Mar 2008 at 10:11 am #
The only thing with tidewalker is tank positioning and how you round up all the murlocs. Once you get those two things down, all you have to worry about is mana as the fight is loooooooooong.
If you guys have Karathress down, Tidewalker will be a piece of cake. As a hunter, prepare to be bored. It’s just point-shoot-feign-shoot for us. And you need to heal the pet very little as he will take almost no damage the entire fight.
p.s. Make sure to get your tranq shot out! You’ll need it on the bazillion murloc trash you need to take out! Enraged murlocs!
Dulcea on 13 Mar 2008 at 10:20 am #
Lurker has the pretty Choker of Animalistic Fury (or something like that), that has so much sexy crit on it. And stam. I love it on trash, and Karazhan (farming up badges for 2.4 *yawn*). But yeah…wouldn’t spend DKP on it.
Gimmlette on 13 Mar 2008 at 10:34 am #
A guildie started posting these on my guild’s forum. I’m with you Val. I haven’t a complete clue how to read these things when I’m on Gimmlette. BUT, when I run my Discipline priest, it seems clear.
I’m curious, BRK. How has running these stats changed your shot rotation or reinforced that something you were doing is correct?
And on a complete side note, ran a WSG BG last night. I hate that place but I go because my guild’s #1 MM hunter is a friend and he loves it. We topped the BG damage. He edged me out for #1 with two more kills, but we were pretty even the whole game.
At one point, the two druids on the team gave up trying to help the warriors and the rogues and started following the two of us around. Finally, one of them said, “I am glued to you guys. You know what you’re doing and are damn good hunters.” When I said, “Well, I read BRK so I can’t take credit for learning this on my own.”, one druid said, “Ah…of course. No wonder you guys are so good.”
/blush, preen, kill horde and buy BRK several rounds.
Iornshaft on 13 Mar 2008 at 11:34 am #
For me, the WWS reports are more of a check to see how the other hunters in my guild are doing. There are sometimes when you can see glaring problems (i.e. we have a huntard who does not use steady shot at all, she says it gimps her playstyle..lol) and other times you can see things that need minor adjustments. A good example was a guild hunter who doing great DPS but not being able to sustain it throughout a whole boss encounter due to mana problems, showing him some minor tweaks to his rotations, getting him to burn more specialty items, and recommending a few addons, he is now providing great dps throughout the whole encounter.
Advice on how to read the WWS reports: go to the WWS forums, great tutorial up there. Most importantly, don’t be intimidated by all the numbers, you only need to be concerned with a few of them and do not need to be a math geek to figure it out.
Papelbon on 13 Mar 2008 at 1:46 pm #
Leo is always a fun fight for hunters. I usually keep my pet with my until demon phase and after he enrages, and I still do plenty fine dps. Not saying you don’t though =P
jumb on 13 Mar 2008 at 5:48 pm #
The entire WWS site looks kinda broken :s
bestsurviver on 13 Mar 2008 at 6:45 pm #
Dear BRK,
my guild is starting Kara soon, and I suggested the SWAPS thing to them, but it seems to be too much writing for the guild leader, how does your guild do the SWAPS thing? I would really apreciate an answer,
sincerely, Bestsurviver & IcyGlare
Onslaughtz (kilrogg) on 13 Mar 2008 at 10:57 pm #
Just a tip thou. If the pet gets the bleed effect, you can unsummon it. When you resummon it , it should come back full health.
( Try waitin for the timer to end before resummoning )
Waynebrady on 14 Mar 2008 at 1:41 am #
Oh wow Onslaughtz nice tip lol. My pet only got hit like 1 or 2 times with WW ( wasn’t really paying attention) when we used to do him but it’s a real nice tip to the hunters who are about to do the fight.
Oh yeah moro, like someone said earlier is a pretty boring fight depending on your strat. At first before we got a prot pally I used to lay down frost traps. After we got the prot pally though I stopped doing that and the whole fight for me consisted of using my macro and….well using my macro and mana pots lol.
One good thing about is that you could get some pretty high single target dps on moro.
Celi on 14 Mar 2008 at 4:04 am #
You could probably keep your pet in on Leo during his human phase if you are using a boss timer (and you are ofc!), simple pull the pet out 1-2 seconds before the timer runs out like the rest of the melee, and he will be fine.
Leo ain’t that melee friendly fight in general, as there is only a few seconds dpsing him between some whirlwinds… but then melee won’t wipe the raid by grabbing aggro (*cough* lousy warlocks *cough*), they will just die
Ashuna on 14 Mar 2008 at 3:29 pm #
Are there mobs immune to windfury or something? I can’t figure why the Enh shammy is using flametongue weap and windfury. Should be WFx2. I could be missing something, why I ask.
Anonymous on 17 Mar 2008 at 12:46 pm #
Pfft.
You out-DPSed an Affliction warlock on a fight that, in common practice, (your raid’s mileage may vary, of course) suggests non-use of DoTs that can’t be overwritten because they can cause aggro management issues during the tank transitions.
/golfclap
/wink
Anyway, that might explain to the rest of the class why the Affliction lock may have “forgotten” half his DoTs.