Hunters rejoice! Or ignore it. Either one. Evidence now exists for a two- roll system for hunters. The basics of it is this: One roll determines hit or miss while the second roll determines if it's a normal hit or a crit. This link will take you there so you can see what I mean. More reason than ever for you hunters to be hit- capped.
On a slightly related note, I was able to hop on my hunter for an hour or two yesterday. Sadly my 2s partner was nowhere to be found, and I instead jumped into a normal SLab run. I love that place, especially now that I seriously overpower it. It was me, a Fury warrior, holy pally, prot pally and elemental shammy. Buffs galore. Since we had a pally tank, I figured I could do without Salvation.
Trap breaking, pet dying, bad pulls (because the pally wanted to), insistence that I CC on three- pulls that the pally could have dealt with. And the tank couldn't hold threat. Pally tanks are front- loaded. Lots of aggro generation off the bat because they have blue rage bars instead of red ones. So I wait five seconds and begin my rotation. Arcane shot crits, Multi crits, I have aggro. I Feign and go back to my rotation. I pull the mob again before it dies.
New tactic. Wait longer. Mob is half dead before I start DPS. I pull aggro before the mob dies. I don' get it. Because the tank can't hold aggro, I'm kiting and chain- trapping and pet- tanking two and three mobs every pull. I'm sure the party thought I was a nub. Click "Inspect" on the pally tank. Great. Greens and some quest reward blues. Great. Auto-shot city.
Sadly (or perhaps not?) I wasn't able to finish the run, instead stopping after downing Vorpil. I learned my lesson, however. No more instance runs with tanks I severely out-gear. And have a lot more HP than. At least until they make Blessing of Salvation stack.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Too Much Lovin'
Last week I found out my guild leader and her wife were taking a break from WoW. This made me a bit sad because more awesome people I have yet to meet. They had just recently leveled their first 70s and I got to see them do it (and help now and again). Of course the fact that they made up part of my 3v3 and 5v5 Arena team didn't help.
Then I found out my 2v2 partner was taking a break as well. She's a sweet little enhance shammy named Iroha. I like talking with her and we just have an utter blast killing things (and being killed). She said she was leaving. I was a sad panda. And, on a completely selfish note, it would've totally erased any chance I had at getting some Arena points.
But Iro said she was going to stay a while. This makes me a happy camper, even if my play time has been severely cut into as of late. At any rate we've managed to bring this 2s team up to a hair over 1300. Yes, up. When Iro and I joined the team was ranked 1011. Seriously. And while we don' take it or ourselves seriously, it's nice to be able to do better.
And we did a few matches. What were they like? Something like this.
1 - Shammy/ warrior in BEM. An aside: I hate BEM. A lot. At any rate, trap the war and we go to work on the shammy. I nub it up, break my trap and the warrior proceeds to pound Iro into a pulp. We almost had it except I dropped out of LoS on the shammy and Iro missed a shock. Shammy heals to full and we get polished off easily. 0-1
2 - Mage/ no- show. Yeah. It was a race to see how quickly the squishie would die against us. 1-1
3 - Warrior/ pally. Ruins. Another aside. Ruins is my favorite. My ]scorpid (Mishaizi) on the pally, Viper Sting on the pally while Iro and I start working the warrior. I see my scorpid crit a few times and my multi- shot crits the pally too. Drop an Aimed Shot on the warrior and switch targets to the pally. He hadn't blown his bubble yet and there's no way we can hurt two plate- wearers. Pally almost dies, bubbles so we go back to the warrior. Bubble wears off, I down the pally while Iro does the right thing and pulls the warrior out of LoS. Pally dies hard and I rush over to help her. I get a couple hits before she goes down. Drop trap, Intercept, I laugh and start moving. Wingclip, Concussive, Serpent Sting, traps, go OOM. Switch to AotV and keep going (because I was a nub without mana pots). Iro's yelling over chat "Kite him! Kite that elf!" So I do. 2-1
4 - Warrior/ Shammy. BEM. Same team. This time we do worse. 2-2
5 - Mage / Rogue. BEM. Remember the solo mage? Yeah. She brought her partner this time. Have I mentioned how much I hate this arena? Regardless, we wait, mage dies on the bridge before her partner can steath up to us. Not smart. We wait for the rogue, so I mount up. He interrupts my summon. Perfect. Pet + Enhance shammy + Bloodlust + TSA + MM hunter = a smear who was once a rogue. Perfect way to end a day. Since we already had more than our ten for the week, we call it. 3-2 and a slightly higher rating than when we started. Go us.
Then I found out my 2v2 partner was taking a break as well. She's a sweet little enhance shammy named Iroha. I like talking with her and we just have an utter blast killing things (and being killed). She said she was leaving. I was a sad panda. And, on a completely selfish note, it would've totally erased any chance I had at getting some Arena points.
But Iro said she was going to stay a while. This makes me a happy camper, even if my play time has been severely cut into as of late. At any rate we've managed to bring this 2s team up to a hair over 1300. Yes, up. When Iro and I joined the team was ranked 1011. Seriously. And while we don' take it or ourselves seriously, it's nice to be able to do better.
And we did a few matches. What were they like? Something like this.
1 - Shammy/ warrior in BEM. An aside: I hate BEM. A lot. At any rate, trap the war and we go to work on the shammy. I nub it up, break my trap and the warrior proceeds to pound Iro into a pulp. We almost had it except I dropped out of LoS on the shammy and Iro missed a shock. Shammy heals to full and we get polished off easily. 0-1
2 - Mage/ no- show. Yeah. It was a race to see how quickly the squishie would die against us. 1-1
3 - Warrior/ pally. Ruins. Another aside. Ruins is my favorite. My ]scorpid (Mishaizi) on the pally, Viper Sting on the pally while Iro and I start working the warrior. I see my scorpid crit a few times and my multi- shot crits the pally too. Drop an Aimed Shot on the warrior and switch targets to the pally. He hadn't blown his bubble yet and there's no way we can hurt two plate- wearers. Pally almost dies, bubbles so we go back to the warrior. Bubble wears off, I down the pally while Iro does the right thing and pulls the warrior out of LoS. Pally dies hard and I rush over to help her. I get a couple hits before she goes down. Drop trap, Intercept, I laugh and start moving. Wingclip, Concussive, Serpent Sting, traps, go OOM. Switch to AotV and keep going (because I was a nub without mana pots). Iro's yelling over chat "Kite him! Kite that elf!" So I do. 2-1
4 - Warrior/ Shammy. BEM. Same team. This time we do worse. 2-2
5 - Mage / Rogue. BEM. Remember the solo mage? Yeah. She brought her partner this time. Have I mentioned how much I hate this arena? Regardless, we wait, mage dies on the bridge before her partner can steath up to us. Not smart. We wait for the rogue, so I mount up. He interrupts my summon. Perfect. Pet + Enhance shammy + Bloodlust + TSA + MM hunter = a smear who was once a rogue. Perfect way to end a day. Since we already had more than our ten for the week, we call it. 3-2 and a slightly higher rating than when we started. Go us.
Ruu
Great day in the morning. It has taken me forever to get back to this blog. Life has been coming at me hard and fast for the past few months and I'm still reeling from the blows. At least I have a roof over my head again.
But no one really wants to hear about that, now do they? Instead I'll talk about other things.
With the coming of 2.4 and Arena Season 4, I'm thinking about un- retiring Zball. That means suffering through the land of no resilience again, but I can take it. Save up all that honor and start buying S2 when it becomes available. But why? Because I want to transfer Zball over to my hunter's server and get started there. Apparently Moon Guard has no good mages and I'm too lazy to level up another Zball... on anywhere not Drenden.
Yes, I'm tempted to roll on Drenden just because. I think they might need my dashing good looks and the sexiest gnomes this side of your front lawn.
Now that I have two Alliance 70s, it's time to play the other half of the game. I have a 24 orc warlock and a 23 tauren shaman. The warlock I could take or leave. It's boring. The shammy? Oh my. I love it. Well, now that I'm not leveling as resto, at any rate. I had thought about starting a troll hunter but who knows?
Also, BRK has issued a challenge. He posted some screenshots of him topping damage and kills in AB. Then he asked "Why MM?"
1) A potential 41- yard ranged Silence.
2) 5 spell interrupts in one minute.
3) Increased burst damage (RWS, Barrage, Imp Barrage, etc).
4) Non- dispellable AP aura.
5) Improved traps (from the SV tree).
6) More efficient mana drain.
7) Talented snare/ root resist (From SV tree).
8) Deterrence (from SV tree).
9) Reduced reliance on a pet for maximum DPS output.
10) Nothing on a two- minute cooldown.
Anyways, my hunter has been going around kicking ass whenever possible. Like this one time in AV.
I was headed down to Frostwolf Graveyard to assist the mighty Alliance forces in capturing it. Just north of it I see a nelf boomkin fighting a holy/discipline priest and a ret pally. I dismount, send the kitty after the priest and proceed to Viper Sting her while I get the pally off my soon- to- be best friend boomkin.
Get a wingclip on the pally, drop a freezing trap and ice her right before she hit the boomkin. The priest starts to run. Concussive Shot, Entangling Roots, Viper Sting, pew pew. I see a bubble and take it away. She drops like a rock. But another pally comes up, this time ret.
Holy/prot pally (let's call him Devil) runs in and goes after the druid while the ret pally (let's call her Cakewalk) comes after me. That lasted for about a second. Send the kitty after Devil...
who then proceeds to attack my kitty instead of me. Surely he couldn't be serious. He was. I stopped and chuckled, dropped a Mend Pet and proceeded to burn through Cakewalk with my boomkin. We head for Devil, who is getting his ass kicked by my kitty, and he dies a lot more quickly than others of his kind tend to do.
Damn pallies. I swear they're cockroaches.
But no one really wants to hear about that, now do they? Instead I'll talk about other things.
With the coming of 2.4 and Arena Season 4, I'm thinking about un- retiring Zball. That means suffering through the land of no resilience again, but I can take it. Save up all that honor and start buying S2 when it becomes available. But why? Because I want to transfer Zball over to my hunter's server and get started there. Apparently Moon Guard has no good mages and I'm too lazy to level up another Zball... on anywhere not Drenden.
Yes, I'm tempted to roll on Drenden just because. I think they might need my dashing good looks and the sexiest gnomes this side of your front lawn.
Now that I have two Alliance 70s, it's time to play the other half of the game. I have a 24 orc warlock and a 23 tauren shaman. The warlock I could take or leave. It's boring. The shammy? Oh my. I love it. Well, now that I'm not leveling as resto, at any rate. I had thought about starting a troll hunter but who knows?
Also, BRK has issued a challenge. He posted some screenshots of him topping damage and kills in AB. Then he asked "Why MM?"
1) A potential 41- yard ranged Silence.
2) 5 spell interrupts in one minute.
3) Increased burst damage (RWS, Barrage, Imp Barrage, etc).
4) Non- dispellable AP aura.
5) Improved traps (from the SV tree).
6) More efficient mana drain.
7) Talented snare/ root resist (From SV tree).
8) Deterrence (from SV tree).
9) Reduced reliance on a pet for maximum DPS output.
10) Nothing on a two- minute cooldown.
Anyways, my hunter has been going around kicking ass whenever possible. Like this one time in AV.
I was headed down to Frostwolf Graveyard to assist the mighty Alliance forces in capturing it. Just north of it I see a nelf boomkin fighting a holy/discipline priest and a ret pally. I dismount, send the kitty after the priest and proceed to Viper Sting her while I get the pally off my soon- to- be best friend boomkin.
Get a wingclip on the pally, drop a freezing trap and ice her right before she hit the boomkin. The priest starts to run. Concussive Shot, Entangling Roots, Viper Sting, pew pew. I see a bubble and take it away. She drops like a rock. But another pally comes up, this time ret.
Holy/prot pally (let's call him Devil) runs in and goes after the druid while the ret pally (let's call her Cakewalk) comes after me. That lasted for about a second. Send the kitty after Devil...
who then proceeds to attack my kitty instead of me. Surely he couldn't be serious. He was. I stopped and chuckled, dropped a Mend Pet and proceeded to burn through Cakewalk with my boomkin. We head for Devil, who is getting his ass kicked by my kitty, and he dies a lot more quickly than others of his kind tend to do.
Damn pallies. I swear they're cockroaches.
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