Amalgamation
The following questions were created from an amalgam of emails. We’re using quotes to separate the questions from our answers, not to indicate a direct quote.
We feel it’s important to point that kind of stuff out. Proper references, citations, and quoting is essential to blogging, people. You can be creative and silly and fun, but don’t steal ideas or content, even by accident.
“BRK, have you ever stolen an idea or content?”
Yes, totally. Basically, everything you read on this blog comes from Good Housekeeping and Bon Appetite articles that we morph to suit our own needs. ‘How To Make a Slipcover’ becomes ‘Ranged Weapon Comparison’ more easily than you can imagine.
“BRK BRK BRK!! Did you see the new thing on the PTR that hunters can do?!”
We don’t comment on PTR stuff. Our To-Do List is quite full enough without covering things that may or may not come to fruition.
“but…”
No buts! There are loads of folks who cover the PTR and gush endlessly about stuff that gets totally reworked come patch-day. We’re not joining that brouhaha.
“BRK, will you help me name my pet?”
No. That’s Mania’s schtick, and we’re not schtick-stealers. If Mania starts writing for Modern Bride, we may adjust our opinion on that.
“BRK, will you hate me if I spec Survivalist?”
No.
“BRK, will you hate me if I spec Marksman?”
Yes.
“Really?”
Yes.
“That’s kinda rude.”
Marksman kinda sucks.
“BRK, what’s the minimum stats or gear requirement for hunters to get into Kara?”
There aren’t any.
“What?”
You want to be a tank in Kara, you’ve got certain stats you must meet. You want to be a healer, ditto. You want to be a mage or any other caster class, you need your Spell Damage and Spell Hit stats at a certain level. For raiding, hunters are not gear-dependent, they are skill-dependent. Honestly, we believe a hunter in Auction House “of the Bandit” greenies could do good DPS in Kara.
/blink
And now we know what our next project is. Greenie-BRK Invades Kara!! /genius
“BRK, why haven’t you returned my email?”
Because we deleted it.
“You deleted my email?”
Probably. We received approximately 50 emails per day at the BRK Email Incinerator Facility and we read each one. Some get published as “Dear BRK” posts, some get personal answers, some get form-letter responses, and some get no answer at all. It happens, we hate it, but we have no other recourse. There’s just too much stuff for a one-hunter operation to handle.
If you have a question about your gear and you don’t enclose an armory link, you’ll more than likely get the can. If you have a relevant picture in your email, you’ll more than likely get a response. Shorter emails get more responses than long ones. L33t-speak will probably get you canned. Proper English gets attention, chat-speak gets ignored. Paris Hilton could invite us to Lake Tahoe for a 3-day weekend, but if it were typed in cell-phone-eese, we’d round-file it.
“BRK, did you just insinuate you find Paris Hilton attractive?”
We refuse to answer that and take our Fifth Amendment right of non-self incrimination.
But have you ever seen her in yellow?
“BRK, do you and TJ really talk to each other like we read?”
Most of the time, yes. Just yesterday, we got into a massive shouting match over the word “Hi”. We won when she totally contradicted herself. /high-five
“BRK, just how awesome is TJ, and how can you stand not being as awesome as she is?”
On a density-basis, TJ is one of the most awesome people we’ve ever met. Pound-per-pound, she packs more awesomeness into her furious frame that just about anyone we know. We’re totally not afraid to admit that.
And no, we didn’t just call her fat. Or short.
“BRK, what’s the deal with double-spacing after periods? Are you nuts?”
Double-spacing after periods is the reason the Roman empire fell. It’s why Genghis Khan’s descendents don’t rule the Eastern hemisphere. It’s why Napoleon was crushed at Waterloo. It’s how Cornwallis lost to Washington. It’s why Apollo 13 almost became a space disaster. It caused Mount St. Helens to erupt. And double-spacing after periods is why the next massive meteor strike is going to hit the Sahara instead of falling harmlessly into the Indian Ocean. That’s our “deal” and we don’t think there’s an opposition position that holds water.
“BRK, I hate both crafting and farming. How can I make money? Just dailies?”
Our recent experience being a Loan Shark has proven intoxicating. It’s something to consider. More to come on this subject, we promise.
“BRK, what’s your favorite and least-favorite 5-man instances?”
We love Botanica. It’s long, it’s involved, it’s hard. There’s opportunities for trapping, there’s some great hunter-loot drops. But Stratholm, Dead is a our favorite, by far. We ran that place into the ground and never got tired of it. It was Hunter-pulling Nirvana. If you’re a hunter and have never run Strat Dead, make a point of getting over there with a group and trying it.
If we don’t have a Pally-tank, heroic Shattered Halls is hair-pullingly maddening. Taking a Pally-healer in heroic Magister’s Terrace means wipe-fest city on the last boss and that’s no fun. But can there be a contender to challenge Gnomer? That place is, of course, the worst 5-man instance in the game; it’s hardly sporting of us to list it as our least favorite, but it is. A horrible place, just abysmal. Let’s just seal the leper gnomes inside and forget it even exists, shall we?
“BRK, if Blizzard buffs the Marksman tree in WotLK, will you consider spec’ing it?”
If MM becomes equal to BM, and WotLK is pet-unfriendly, then yes. If MM becomes equal to BM, and WotLK is as pet-friendly as Burning Crusade, then no. We need both things to happen before we consider leaving the BM tree.
Pre-BC, before level 70, the BM tree was sad, and we were an SV-spec with big-crits and our epic PvP set that we used for raiding Molten Core and AQ20. Then Blizz changed everything and BM become the schiznit, so we followed. If Blizz shakes everything up again, we’ll do likewise, but they’ve really got to shake it hard.
“BRK, why don’t you get that Badge of Justice crossbow?”
We are getting it. We have 102 badges and will give our impression of it once it arrives. Frankly, we’re not excited about switching from a gun to an xbow, but the thing has great stats. Great Elune, it’s ugly…
“BRK, what’s more fun: 10-man or 25-man instances?”
We like 10-mans. They’re just easier to assemble. WoW’s 25-man content is bigger and badder, but we’d rather do a full ZA-run than a 5/6 SSC clear any day of the week.
“BRK, when is the Orlando Hunter Meeting?!”
There is no Orlando Hunter Meeting.
“Why not?”
We have neither the time nor the wherewithal do organize an OHM. This just isn’t going to happen. We will stand in line at the Waterford Lake’s Gamestop at midnight when WotLK comes out, though. You can meet us there, if you’re nutty enough.
“BRK, can I be a troll for Orcapalooza?”
No. A Trolling Tour may be a future event, but only orcs this time.
“BRK, how should I train my pet?”
Max stamina, focus-dump, Growl, Dash/Dive/Charge, and resistances based upon the situation. PvP means Shadow-resist because warlocks love to DOT everything. A well-rounded approach for 5-man instances would be rank 2 of Shadow and Arcane, rank 1 of Fire and Frost. Don’t worry about Nature; you have Aspect of the Wild if necessary. No armor unless you’re specifically building a tanking-pet, but we don’t recommend that anyway. Boomkins and rogues can tank bosses and trash more effectively than your pet, unfortunately. Edit: And Avoidance and Cobra Reflexes!! /whew
“BRK, Warp Stalkers, yes or no?”
Yes, foshizzle! We loved ours.
“BRK, Scorpids, yes or no?”
No, not any more.
“BRK, Raptors, yes or no?”
Yes; they are essentially Cats now.
“BRK, birds/owls/bats, yes or no?”
As long as your tank doesn’t mind the flappin’, yes.
“BRK, Sporebats, yes…”
NO. No, no, no. No.
No.
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BRK, Crocolisks, yes!
The hidden message:
“Did you know BRK loves romance novels? No joke. Up his foshizzle.”
Scorpids only for arena drain teams.
What does he speak about the PTR? Where can I find info on neat things hunters can do?
Once and for all BRK fully admits he hates the MM tree as it currently stands.
I must say I agree unless you’re doing mostly pvp/arena. But even then I still like going red.
Yes for Marksmanship and yes for Scorpids if you want your S4 goodies that require rating!
BM for Arena means you’re on 1.5/2DPS, 2.5/3DPS, 3.5/4DPS teams which means already having T6+ equivalent stuff (which means you’re a top endgame raider as it is and should have no problems with respec costs) in hopes that the sheer damage of BigRedCooldown makes up for being a 1 trick pony.
Lol, I was wondering what that all spelled out and was about to jot it all down … thanks for posting it so I didn’t have to do any work
I love you BRK; you make me laugh. If I wasn’t so happy with my guildies, I’d totally be with you. Maybe someday……sigh
Dear BRK, if you organize the Orlando Hunter Meeting i’ll be there.
I live in Argentina
No joke
It was fun breaking that hidden message. Amazing that you can spot the letters in a big block of text
No to Cobra Reflexes, BRK?
@Contary, BRK has a section on CR showing that its better to have it, it increases DPS and Attack speed, the +30%speed beats the decrease in damage
Speaking of pet training…any chance up updating the list of recommended Resistances for the newer stuff you’ve been running? (ZA, Gruul’s, Mag’s, SSC, TK?)
“And double-spacing after periods is why the next massive meteor strike is going to hit the Sahara instead of falling harmlessly into the Indian Ocean.”
I don’t think anyone living along a coastal region would find the resulting tidal wave and impact surge harmless, although the current global warming might be enough to offset the global cooling from the new cloud cover that would be created by all the boil off such an impact would create.
@Mac - Aha, I see it. I thought I remembered reading something on this site about Cobra Reflexes so I was wondering why he didn’t mention that in the little blurb about pet training. =p
I (reluctantly) got the badge crossbow to replace my gun some time back. Looks are a matter of opinion, of course… I do think the firing animation is fairly cool, though.
Waterford Lakes, eh? One more clue to finding the home of BRK…
Mwahahahahahaha!
I’ll meet you there. =P
now i want to try running karazhan with my hunter clad in nothing better than greens…
i’ll bet i could still sustain 600dps on dem bosses, mon…
I did Maghteridon with a fully BRK compliant BM hunter in greens (okay, a few blues maybe). I was… in the middle of the DPS list. I expected to be below the tanks, was above some full purple guys…
Brohuld
Pally healers on heroic Kael are a bad deal indeed, but having one the other night lead to one of my best WoW experiences ever.
We had an almost full party wipe just as we were transitioning to floaty phase the other night with a Pally healer. Druid Tank Down, Rogue Down, Mage Down. Just me and the Pally left. . .
We burned that Glam Rock Punk down from just under 50%. Just the pally healer and I. It was AMAZING. I felt like a freaking rock star. Admittedly, having the whole party up at the end thanks to good party heals would have been better, but it sure was cool being the only DPS and killing that bastard from half life.
So, did TJ make the bold-marked secret message?
@ Rexfelis http://hi-voltage.blogspot.com/2008/04/pet-damage-and-resists.html that should cover you as far as pet resistances go!
BRK, I may just have to drive the 2.5 hrs to Orlando to wait in line for WotLK if you will indeed be there. It’s not every day you get to meet an internet personality, and I’m sure the significant other would completely understand. My mall in Gainesville just had a bunch of punk emo kids waiting outside for the TBC release, it made me feel old (and I’m only 20!).
Seriously I got halfway through that secret message when I figured someone wrote it in the comments… thank you secret message spoilarz comment guy for saving me the time!
Seriously, Dan, would you be mad if a bunch of your readers showed up where you were waiting for WotLK?
‘Cuz we might show up…
I’m there for WotLK watch 2008!
Is that a battle of Gettysburg map or something?
I have a Pally healer friend….
…he hates that instance, and has sworn to never set foot in it again.
I also live in Italy, and i just might be at that gamestop…..
I agree that pally healers have a harder time than many others with the last boss in MrT heroic, but as a pally healer it’s been my experience that it’s very doable if everyone agrees to run to the back corner as the bubbles spawn, wait untill they’re closing in and then run back to the front. Think of it as a kiting game
there aint no business like loan business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AJ0SkbPxAk and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuAVgWJ28Hw
I did the midnight stakeout for BC. I realize some people might find it hard to believe but southern California can get pretty chilly at night. I mean if the temperature wasn’t almost in the 60s then I’ll be Orion’s Pet!
@ Trollin’ - unless BRK has been misdirecting us with false information, it really shouldn’t be that hard to track him down. It’s not like he lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace
@Pablo Ah, perfect! Thanks!
Awwwww, the BRK soft, sensitive side…
It’s a diagram of the battle of waterloo.
Yes the badge bow is ugly, but those stats…
Honestly, after a while you get used to the toucan poop on your hands…
Waterford Lakes!? In Orlando?! I live like three lights away from that. lol. Thats crazy. Hell, I could have already run into you and not even realized it.