BRK Podcast Episode 14
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Who is yelling “Hello?!?” in the background?
whooo hooo thanks been waiting for this one
Woot! Thanks Big Red!
Have you checked out my site yet?
http://www.HolyHeals.com
One blogger to another, you’ve been tagged. I guess the bloggers are passing around this “Post your 6th screenshot tag thing.” I got ya bud.
http://epicdwarvenblogger.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/tagged-and-bagged/
Sorry. lol.
BRK TV on Project Lore? That is so great, BRK! Can’t wait!
Woohoo, BRK, it’ll be a blast!
Great podcast. Indeed, managing the pet is the best part of hunterdom, for me. Thanks for the moral support, I hates it when I am told BM is only attractive to folks who want ‘easy mode’.
I am still the only hunter in my guild with Loque’Nahak, even though there are several other BM hunters. He gets covered with drool whenever there is a guild raid or meeting.
Grrrrr….
You sound kinda sick BRK…. if you are get better soon!
I have a favor to ask. Please stop saying that SV hunters don’t care about their pets. My pet is at least 15% of my damage. If I want to top the meters, or at least beat all my hunter friends, I cannot let my pet die. It’s more important than any single shot I fire, and it’s more important than any other buff I might get (sniper training, I’m looking at you). I have to spec HotP because it’s that important. I do my best to keep him alive, but sometimes bad stuff happens and HotP means more damage faster after a death. It’s really a no brainer. I mean, if you had a 15% damage buff, wouldn’t you do whatever it took to get it back if it dropped in a fight?
You’re right about one thing – I can afford to bring utility pets to the encounter. Sting, my scorpid, gets to come out and play with us on Sarth3D. Our tank really appreciates it when Sting sacrifices to take 30% of a 60k breath. How cool is that? Sure, I take a bit of a hit on my personal DPS, but I actually get to use something other than a ferocity pet in a raid situation! Ironically, a BM hunter would take a much bigger DPS hit if they did that, since the pet represents a larger portion of their overall damage. So I actually get more use out of my pet friends than BM in this situation.
I enjoy all three hunter specs – each is a slightly different playstyle and its fun to learn this little intricacies of each one. But I’m a min-maxer at heart, so I play whichever spec brings the most DPS to the party and currently, that’s SV. As it turns out, it also brings more raid utility on the encounter where our guild needs it the most.
I really enjoy listening to you – I think your love of the game and the hunter class in particular is really fun. But please stop saying that SV hunters don’t care about their pets – that’s only true about the bad ones.
NVM previous comment. My bad.
Hey BRK,
I think you should do a segment on BM pet tanking. With the tenacity pet tree people are doing some amazing things. The added tier coming to 3.1 pet talents is only going to improve these tanks.
Specifically, Ihlos and Nordhbane @ http://bigredrhino.wordpress.com seem to be really pushing the envelope. (I realize his site name could be taken as a cheesy rip off, but I think it’s just a nod to the greatness of BRK).
Yet another great Podcast and I am really looking forward to hearing more about your live show. I think your Heizenberg Principle is actually the Hawthorne Effect, but you explained what you meant well enough.
Great Podcast BRK…
Super Stoked about the project….
What does it have to do with that local gaming store in Orlando??
That’s where we’re filming the show, foshizzle!
You should consider playing a druid :]
BRK TV: Epic Intro is required (The sort of thing you might re-watch it was that good)
Good to hear I can go back to BM, I was bad at Surv
Man, i have missed this podcasts!
Hope to hear more and often
BRK got lots and lots of really good ideas, why dont blizz listen…
Project Lore – where WoW and hairdressing collide :p
BRK, why not give us the ability to throw other traps for the 41 points, they gave us freezing arrow. but a range immolation trap, that would make trap dancing the best
There is a problem when you make “having pets” the defining aspect of a hunter. If “having a pet” defined being a hunter, you have the following consequences—only the Beastmaster tree will always be meaningful. As the tree’s name suggest, it will offer better pets and better pet synergy… as a result IF having a pet is the defining factor of being a hunter, then the other two trees will always, ALWAYS be on the losing end.
Yes, if they give more pet control options and more pet talent points, and probably pet actions that can be put keybindable action bars, I wouldn’t mind at all. Imagine have a “pet rotation” the way that we now currently have a “shot rotation”—it is a possibility that is desireable… but only if it is the defining factor for one tree and not the entire class. It’s like making the defining factor of mages to have Blizzard.
One more unfortunate consequence of defining a class by “having a pet” is that you necessarily denigrate the other two talent trees (you actually slipped in the podcast, 24:03, when you almost referred to a survival hunter as a “beastmaster survivalist”).
Saying that “you’re a hunter, not an archer” is not meaningful—in history, one didn’t have to be a falconer, or an English lord with hounds to be a hunter… very often, the only thing that made you a hunter was that you hunted, with or without a “pet”.
Saying that “if your pet doesn’t matter as much [in terms of DPS, or survivability, or controllability... whatever], then you’re a mail-wearing mage” isn’t meaningful. What if we defined a mage by the strength of it’s Blizzard spell? We don’t, of course… all magi have Blizzard, but Frost magi will always have the powerful spell and since they didn’t define the class around a single mechanic, then it is possible to do decent DPS as any tree.
The way you say it, it’s like the other two trees don’t even need pets… and IF the defining factor of being a hunter is “having a pet” then can you see where your scorn for them comes from? Can you understand the perceived sense of arrogance one gets when a BM can survive on a simple shot rotation as long as their pets are powerful? IF “having a pet” is the only defining factor of the hunter class, then the only meaningful spec is BM (even if they don’t do top DPS).
What you don’t see is that it is even more important for the other two trees to find the right pet than beastmaster—for a beastmaster, very much any ferocity pet with a bleed type attack or a buff type attack will do very well. Without the deep talents in BM, the other two trees MUST find pets that are not exotic that do very high damage on their own. Before the patch, we wanted scorpids because of the stacking debuff… now that it doesn’t stack, what do we do?
What should be the defining factor of the hunter class… OUR class is that we are able to HUNT our prey… and whether it is expressed in more powerful pets, or better marksmanship, or in better trapping is where all the balancing should go. In your podcast, where was the promised discussion in the HUNTER concepts? We got a discussion on beastmaster… and IF, of course, you define being a HUNTER as “having a pet” then, of course, discussing beastmasters is discussing hunters.
What am I wishing for finally? That Blizzard redefines the hunter trees according to their names AND NOT as you define it (as “having a pet”). Only then will we have the attitude that warlocks and mages have of “tree mobility”… I mean, nobody calls a frost mage who relies on their water elemental for dps as “a beastmaster wearing cloth”.
Yay BRKs permisision to swap specs…i loved bm in bc i got to 80 with it…with nax im sv 1 week bm the next…cant wait for the tv show
im a rogue yay for sucking at dps all through LK so far
“Best of the “Disengage” submissions” my butt
Firstly, as a fellow hunter who also cares enough to focus and do the best dps he can, i respect your views on the Hunter class and all the issues that Blizzard has with it. Sure we were the most popular class pre DK’s, but its always proven that Hunters are easy to play, difficult to master.
When you spoke of bosses and their range box… it struck a nerve with me and my hunter. The ONLY problem I have with my class is one that ills us all…
5 Yard Minimum Range
Why is it that we have this? What makes casters so damn special that they have no minimum range? On some boss fights I can’t compete, IE Malygos with his 50 yard melee range, so I am forced to sacrifice the pretty sparkly thing on the floor that ups my DPS.
I remember when it was 8 yards, and EVERY other class QQ’d about it being moved to 5, what make us so deadly with zero range? Can you give me your thoughts on this subject? Cause I honestly believe, Hunters would be MUCH more enjoyable to play without this cursed game mechanic >.>
BRK… I play a warlock, with a hunter alt. That is why I read your site.
I listened to your podcast, and thought about respeccing in the grand scheme of things.
Affliction is the Survival of Warlocks right now. It’s FotM, and it’s really, really good. Like, 7k theoretical DPS good. Except, it’s not really FUN.
But, I listened to what you said, respecced Destro for the first time since 3.0, and… I’m making love to the training dummies. I’m hugging Patchwerk. I love my life. Thank you, BRK, for opening my moldy, cynical warlock heart to the power of respeccing and Destro.
OK.. still reading through all the comments but I’m so glad that, If you are going to another project, at least its Project Lore. I’m watching them and loving it.
I’m saddened that you won’t be on WowIsider… that’s been my life blood (other than your show) for a while now but I’m pretty pumped to see how things work out with P.L. peeps.
*hugs* Keep up the great work Sensei!
Does this mean you wont be on WoW Insider podcasts anymore? Now that you dont write for them anymore?
Best of luck for the live webcasts.
Will we be able to view them after the fact? Because I’m not quite sure what time 2-3pm is in New Zealand but I’m assuming it’ll be really late or early here.
Dear BRK,
Do you pvp at all? If so, would you use Aimed Shot if it had a 2 second cast like Steady Shot? As a pvp hunter, I would… I dont use it because of the instant cast, I use it because of the mortal strike effect. Now, are you sticking by what you said, or did that come out wrong?
Lets do a small test, go to the nearest Disc Priest. You there? OK, good. Duel him, but wait… Do not use aimed shot once, take it off your bar. Replace it with multi shot if you need that extra shot. Tell me who wins.
And a big “Oh yeah!” for Positioning and Multi traps. We can give MM the ability to Dual Wield Guns
. Why is it so hard for Bliz to implement the most obvious?!
I am so looking forward to watch the BRK-show. The Voice really needs a visual expression.
Oh and for yur next Brain-BRK chat, can you plz introduce Ego and Heart? That would make a hell of a conversation.
So apparently I’m the only person who is having trouble downloading this.