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The Beginning and End
How many Taurens does it to lag a server almost to oblivion? We had at least 373 baby bulls rev’d and frothy, not including those people who weren’t in Guild Moo. Like the people from European servers who couldn’t join a guild, we couldn’t count everybody.
So what do you do with 373 baby bulls when the prescribed Shatt-port fails due to lack of mages? You raid Ironforge of course.
Can 373 level 1-3 Taurens really raid IF? Well of course not, take a look.
Actually, a good majority made it to Eastvale Logging Camp, where they proceeded to reform and take out Hogger, we kid you not!
We’ll be doing our Big Honking Movie as soon as our fingers recover.
And the donations for Sharvan…
/bawl
You people are beyond the best. We are humbled to be among you. Be proud of yourselves, and Sharvan has probably not yet stopped laughing.
If you post pics, movies, or commentary about the run, let us know and we’ll link to you here!
Guns and Gorillas
Thank you, Zul’Aman timed event! The Stat Summary is comparing this beaut against our Barrel-Blade Longrifle.
It’s at this point where we point out the Rating Buster has problems with the scope. And then we seem to think that a bunch of people will write in and say, “You noob, it works like this…” But we don’t remember “this” and it really does look like RB is not taking the crit-scope into account in its equations…
But both guns have the scope, so it’s irrelevant.
Are we going to get into the, “This gun’s too slow!” argument? Perhaps, but we wish to do some research and testing ourselves. What it does do is make us drool for the Tier 5 leggings we know are just a quick four-SSC boss clear away. Then, we can put our haste-shoulders back on.
Now here’s a pretty gorilla! She’s done a great job getting this guy to 70, now if we can only convince her to stop meleeing.
Yes, Lolliy, we totally went there.
He’s Like Joan Rivers… Only Not
Irwin has been with BRK a long time. He’s not a big-time raider, he’s not a PvP god.
He’s a croc-man. It’s his thing. /salute
Do you have to have Tier 6 gear or full Season 3 epics to have fun in WoW? Nah.
Would we recommend a croc to someone who asked for pet-advice? Never.
Are we gonna jump up and down and tell Steve to forgo his love of crocs? Never!
Rock on, Irwin. Way to be.
Cr@p We Spent A Lot Of Gold
Al’ar down. Yahtzee, foshizzle! AC is now 3/4 in Tempest Keep, Kael and Vashj are all that stands between us, Mount Hyjal, and a clear conscious.
The hunter trinket dropped. We screwed up our DKP-bidding and the hunter who has everything from SSC and TK got it. We would’ve punched the computer into a new dimension if we could have. We were madder… d@mn it this is a game and we were so mad… we shouldn’t have gotten so mad, but we did… we’re pathetic sometimes, we admit it.
/sigh
After three wipes on the very-buggy Void Reaver, we got him down and the hunter loot flowed. First off, we got these for a song:
They were a cheap, small upgrade, so we took them. We were not planning on taking a shot at one of the two Hero tokens that dropped, so we didn’t see a problem with spending a little DKP for a pair of leggings that would let us re-gem properly.
As we said, two Hero tokens dropped, but we weren’t going to bid on them because we really wanted the T5 leggings. Our new shoulders that we just spent more than 1000 gold on were fine with us, and we weren’t going to outbid the other hunter who has had horrible loot-luck along with us.
We stayed out of the bidding until he got outbid at a low price, and we couldn’t pass them up so cheaply. We got a pair and here they are compared to our “old” Leatherworking shoulders:
The big thing with Tier 5 for hunters is the 2-piece set bonus, which we now have: gloves and shoulders. Healing our pet 15% of our damage is insane. We can’t wait to see this in action.
And what kind of damage are we going to do? We gemed our shoulders and leggings and regemed our gun. Another Greater Inscription of Vengeance for our shoulders. A Nethercobra Leg Armor for the new legs. The meta gem is still active, all socket-bonuses are active, and although our Hit Rating is a little low for our taste, the encroachment toward 2000 RAP makes our mouth water.
Exalted Sun Toys
First off, it’s a bitchin tabard. Best since the Scourge Invasion, no doubt. We’re still a jumble of colors, but that’s to be expected.
And this is the necklace a hunter can purchase once he reaches exalted with the Shattered Sun Offensive, the Shattered Sun Pendant of Might (SSPoM). You’ve got to be exalted with Aldor/Scryers to make the proc work, though. Don’t bring your newbie 70 to MrT, run your rep to exalted with the Sun O, and expect to get this necklace working right away.
What’s going to happen when it procs? Well, it looks like this:
For us Aldor folks, the buff it gives is called Light’s Strength and it increases RAP by 200 for ten seconds. Want to see it working in a raid setting? Well, here ya go:
No trinket-popping, our RAP is a purty, sweet-smelling, raid-buffed 2496. Jenga, beyotches!
We one-shotted Morogrim in a little less than 10 minutes. Personally, we were sent to our Watery Grave one time. That took us out of combat for, what thirty seconds? In 9 minutes 30 seconds of pure, unadulterated DPS, how many times did our SSPoM proc? Well WWS has got that covered:
Light’s Strength proc’d twelve times in 9 1/2 minutes, which is the same frequency as Improved Aspect of the Hawk. That’s a pretty healthy proc-rate, and thus we don’t mind dropping our Hit Rating to 125 to keep it.
We Missed one shot against Morogrim in 9 1/2 minutes and gained 120 seconds - we’re assuming the LS-procs more than likely didn’t proc on top of each other - of an extra 200 AP. We’ll take it, cuddle it, and feed it puppy-treats. We likes our new necklace, we do, we do!
The SSPoM gets the BRK Growl of Approval.
And because we just can’t let a good epeening moment go by, here’s the WWS report from the Tidewalker kill. We are Phobos.
We would be remiss if we didn’t give props to the mages, especially Crucio who brought the Murlock-Smashing, AoE-Ban-Hammer in the form of 2001 DPS. Dude, you’re all uppity, and you earned it.
MFGDBHPCLMLN
We rolled into Iceblood Graveyard and found the nearest Horde priest defending the pass. He started to cast Psychic Scream, we popped Bestial Wrath. That Horde priest ran and ran and ran, but Hobbes took him down. It was beautiful. You know how it feels, don’t you. Alliance captured IBGY, we stayed to guard it as the others went for the two towers and Captain Galavanger.
And then that chat rolled by, and we just knew some Horde hunter had done the exact same thing to an Alliance priest that we had done earlier. We laughed and laughed. Golly it’s great to be a hunter.
Note: Tonight we realized that our screenshot preference had been reset to TGA. We have now put it back to PNG and expect much better quality screenshots again.
How does one accomplish this? By modifying one’s config.wtf file, like so:
Five of Six
Tidewalker down, Aetherial Circle is 5/6 in SSC. Hunter loot? Please.
We didn’t gear sent to a Watery Grave once, just massive DPS the whole way. We were the #1 non-AoE DPS for the fight, and we’re feelin’ groovy.
Can we get a WooT?
And here’s the WWS report of our kill, we are Thetys. Those mages and warlocks got to AoE the murlocs, so their DPS should be above us; our ego is intact.
We Lost, But We Won
Are you a post-Burning Crusade-only battleground player, or did you do old-school Alterac Valley? Do you remember the matches that would go on for hours? Do you remember summoning your druids and your shaman, and if you were really good, summoning your “God”? When was the last time you saw him?
We saw Lokholar on Easter Sunday!
The first strategic decision of an AV is up to the Horde. If Horde defends Iceblood Graveyard, Alliance will be crushed as they stream into the pass one at a time, as is their habit.
Alliance must group up and fight on the flag. If we kill all the Horde that are in the pass, they’ll just rez and attack us as we’re trying to take the flag. Fight on the flag FTW.
And in this particular AV, Alliance actually did just that, good job Alliance! We then took Galv and the two towers with ease. Nice, this should be a quick win.
But those rambunctious Horde defended Frostwolf. OK, when this happens, the most crucial thing for Alliance to do is to guard Iceblood Graveyard. If we lose that, we’ll be spawning at Snowfall and be practically guaranteed a loss, (unless we take Stonehearth, but that’s a different story).
Alliance shoved and pushed but couldn’t take Frostwolf Graveyard. “Go around to RH! Make them split their Defense!” we yell. We do, but as we keep our watch on IBGY, we get left alone. D@mn. Never leave IBGY minimally guarded, ever.
And of course we get ganked by three stealthers, although we manage to kill one before succumbing. “Get IBGY back now!” we scream, but nobody listens. Alliance worked so well to get it, but then just basically abandoned it. Not holding the graveyard is a horrible mistake. We lose our graveyard, Alliance Offense is destroyed, and we all end up on Defense.
Defense? Yes, it turns out the Horde made their own greedy mistake by taking an undefended Snowfall Graveyard. If the Alliance Offense had spawned there, we would’ve streamed into IBGY one at a time again, Horde Offense would’ve eventually overrun Alliance Defense, nice win for the Horde. But now you’ve got 40 angry Alliance people all on Defense. It only takes one person to screw up a perfectly good win, doesn’t it Horde.
So Alliance D and Horde O stalemate at Stormpike Graveyard. Horde is going to win because Alliance steathers refuse to go ninja the Horde’s towers and force the Horde to send ten or more people back on Defense and break up their assault. Horde rogues, on the other hand, keep flipping the Alliance bunkers, North then South, then North again. OK fine, don’t send mages to do a hunter’s job.
We run back, pop Track Stealth, and hunt down and kill three of them. BM Hunter against rogues in the bunkers, we do quite well. Snake Traps, Stoneform, our lovely PvP trinket, and Bestial Wrath cause most rogues to just Sprint away when they realize they can run and jump and go out of our Line-of-Sight, but Hobbes is going to chew them up eventually.
“THERE’S A HORDE FLYING! HOW DID HE DO THAT!”
Well there’s something we haven’t seen in a while. “That’s not a horde, it’s a Wing Rider bombing us in our own bunker. Ranged DPS, gather at the north bunker, let’s nuke it!” And nuke it we did, burning it down in about one minute. Two hunters, two mages, and a warlock can put out 150,000 damage pretty quickly nowadays.
But while Alliance was being kept busy at both SPGY and our own bunkers, those smart Horde summoned Lokhalar The Ice Lord. Nice work, that’s a guaranteed win.
Someone else who has played the game gets everybody’s crystals and medals and turns them in, and our druids are summoned. A little late, but what the heck.
What, you’ve never seen The Ice Lord? Well here ya go!
The Ice Lord cometh, yes? “JUST KILL IT!” we bellow, and Alliance proceeds to do just that. Alliance engaged the Ice Lord at the bottom of the hill leading to SPGY, and by the time it reached the top, we burned that piece of shitte into the ground.
Want to know why we killed it so quickly? Aside from our massive DPS, the Horde didn’t heal him! Perhaps they didn’t know they could. If the Alliance hadn’t seen one, it would be safe to assume the Horde weren’t 100% up-to-speed on how to use the guy.
Well, we would lose this battle in 57 minutes. That’s an f-ing long Alterac Valley, especially when we’re accustomed to winning in under 15 minutes. But killing that “god” was tremendous fun and something we’ve never done before. And perhaps this seems to indicate that, with the current firepower each side is capable of producing, summoning Ivus or Lokhalar isn’t worth the trouble anymore.
Although we need to add a new Ivus-pic to our collection soon.
Readers Ask, We Answer
“Dear BRK, I’m rerolling a hunter, and would like to know what pet would do good at leveling with the BM talent spec you recommend?
“Also, should I have two or maybe three pets for different situations like instances etc, or could just one pet serve me well when leveling from lvl 10 to 70?
“And lastly, could you recommend what abilities should I be leveling up for the pet? Any help is really appreciated! Jussa”
Boars are far and above the best leveling pets, bar none. Get a boar as soon as you can, keep it forever.
After boars, any pet with Dash/Dive is great for getting to your target quickly.
After Dash/Dive pets, pick something you like. In fact, pick something you like over boars if you want to. There’s nothing more fun than seeing a level 70 turtle in Alterac Valley.
Do you need different pets for Azeroth? Nah. Outland? Sure, if your pet is going to be tanking 5-person instances. Get a big-armor, big-health pet for off-tanking and enjoy the fun. Once you start doing heroics and Kara, off-tanking pets don’t work any more, so stick with the DPS-pets or whatever you love.
“Dear BRK, have you tried AG Unit Frames? Jon”
Nope, but we’ve heard good things about it. Why just the other day, Justo sent us a screenshot of his UI using AG Unit Frames. This guy is full Tier 6 geared and raiding Black Temple like it was Deadmines!
“Dear BRK, what should be the standard of pets for raiding? Jack”
Your pet should be able to help your raid, not just you. Work with your tank to determine if he can work with a big flapping bird in his face, don’t just show up with one. Screech is a great raid-spell for pets, but not at the expense of your tank’s sanity.
If you are frequently put in a physical-DPS group, a wolf and Furious Howl isn’t bad at all. The high-end DPS pets are, of course, perfectly acceptable. Focus-dump pets like cats and ravagers, pets that can learn Claw or Gore, are all about bring the Pain.
“Dear BRK, I posted about [a Feign Death Bug] on the PTR forums, and now I’m getting semi-flamed by other people who can’t be bothered to test themselves but are perfectly happy to criticize every conceivable mistake on my part that could have caused the problem…
“I thought maybe you could take a minute to read over the thread and check the scenarios I’ve already tested to see what you think. If you agree that something seems off, perhaps throw in a post and maybe someone will take the situation seriously? Kailope”
We’ve read up on it and we don’t think you’ve found a bug.
When your pet attacks, you are put in combat. You attack, you rise on the mob’s threat list. You FD, you are removed from the mob’s threat list and are out of combat. If your pet is still attacking when you quit channeling FD and stand up, you will re-enter combat. Let your pet die before standing up, and you’ll be out of combat when you stand up.
Do you all read The Crafter’s Tome?and Kailope’s blog? You should!
“Dear BRK, what would you suggest? Should I keep engineering and start grinding for gun/schematic drops? Or would I be better off just going double-gather and grinding for the actual guns themselves? Rades”
We’d recommend dropping engineering while you can, but be aware that those in the Engineering Clan will respond with “ROFLCOPTR FTW!”
If you love gold and all the stuff it can buy, double-gathering is the schiznit. If you love having Tier 4 and Tier 5 gear before your buddies even start Kara, leatherworking pwns. And if you love the Toys engineering brings, then by all means stick with it. It all depends on what turns you on.
“Dear BRK, does Hobbes have any troubles holding Aggro when you are spamming your 1 to 1 macro? Or do you use FD often to avoid that issue? Tom”
We no uses da macro! Nein macro! Nyet macro! No no no!
/frustrated!
We allow Hobbes to establish aggro, about 1.5k worth on the Omen meter, before we let loose with DPS. When grinding, we don’t do much more than Serpent Sting and Auto Shot, maybe an Arcane to finish the mob off. Yes we’ll FD if the mob is a persistent b@stard and doesn’t die in four seconds. Use Omen when grinding and leveling and you’ll have no problems letting your pet maintain aggro.
The sooner one becomes Omen-proficient, they better a hunter one will be.
