Just wanted to let those that actually read this semi-occasinally that I am still alive. Here's what I've been doing rather than playing Bzak:
1. Geared up Agravane to a respectable Pally tank. Joined Vacuus Reformo. Tanked my way through Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep, clearing all bosses except Vashj and Kael. Got bored with the tanking scene and put Agravane on the back burner. He is still in Vacuus Reformo but I haven't played him in about a month.
2. Geared up Daggitt to a respectable raiding Shadow Priest. Joined Legion of Procyons Eye. Dabbled in Mount Hyjal including downing Rage Winterchill a couple of times. Had a falling out with the GM of Legion due to my raid availability (I can't play past 12est, 10st, often enough for them). Stopped playing him about a week ago.
3. Rolled a new Draenai Hunter named Powny on the Dark Iron server. A couple friends from College play on this PvP server. Powny is level 29 and I've been doing Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin with her to get the required badges for Season 2 Arena gear for when she hits 70 (if she ever hits 70).
4. Played Bzak during last weekend's Alterac Valley bonus honor weekend. Had a blast playing with Lorrick (Jason) as we steamrolled some poor Hordies. Respecced Bzak back to Survival after buying the S2 Helm and Shoulders which put me over the required 600 Agility threshhold for Survival.
That's where I've been and what I've been doing in a nutshell. I think I'll be focusing on Bzak for a little while again and see if there is a raiding guild out there that needs a Hunter. I tried applying to Second Wind, but haven't heard anything back yet.
Well see, but it is what it is.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
I <3 WoWGemFinder.Com
One of the best sites out there.
Here is an example how you can embed a search, in this case Agility gems, into your website:
Pretty cool huh?
Here is an example how you can embed a search, in this case Agility gems, into your website:
Pretty cool huh?
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Lurker DOWN!
A new first for the Team Whiskers runs. Lurker was downed on our second attempt! Turns out with people calling things out, properly jumping in the water when he spouts, dpsing the spawns really fast, and just generally not sucking, he is easy!He was stingy with the loot however and I got nothing.
Progression tonight though was reward enough. TW is now 1/4 in TK and 1/6 in SSC!!!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Fresh Lewtz
Last night Agravane truly became a tank.
After getting into Karazhan a half hour later than expected due to RL issues, he successfully tanked Midnight, Romulo, Nightbane, Curator, Illhoof, Netherspite and Prince Malchezzar. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. Also, 4 (Nightbane, Curator, Illhoof and Prince) were first time tanking jobs.
The bonus of the night, and the reason I am posting this on Bzak's blog, is that the Stabilized Eternium Scope schematic finally dropped off of Attuman!
These are the must have scopes for raiding Hunters and to be able to make them at will for every upgrade means I will never be without one like when the Wolfslayer dropped and I had to ask Parfet to make me one (Thanks Parfet!!!!!).
After getting into Karazhan a half hour later than expected due to RL issues, he successfully tanked Midnight, Romulo, Nightbane, Curator, Illhoof, Netherspite and Prince Malchezzar. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. Also, 4 (Nightbane, Curator, Illhoof and Prince) were first time tanking jobs.
The bonus of the night, and the reason I am posting this on Bzak's blog, is that the Stabilized Eternium Scope schematic finally dropped off of Attuman!
These are the must have scopes for raiding Hunters and to be able to make them at will for every upgrade means I will never be without one like when the Wolfslayer dropped and I had to ask Parfet to make me one (Thanks Parfet!!!!!).
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
2.4 + 1
I thought I would take a minute to flesh out some of my thoughts on the new 2.4 patch for WoW.
I took some time last night to get to know all the daily quests and over my lunch break today, to learn the bosses in the new Magister's Terrace instance, and so far I am really happy. Expanding the daily quest cap to 25 was a great idea, the additional of Shattered Sun Offensive bags that could contain a Badge of Justice were cool, daily fishing quests! What more could someone's main ask for?
When I logged off last night Shadow Council was 32% of the way to unlocking the Armory, and I am eagerly awaiting this unlock because then I will be able to purchase some upgrades.
I will be inititally passing on the Crossbow of Relentless Strikes because it is better tuned for a Beast Master hunter, but I have my eyes on:
Scaled Drakeskin Chestguard
Leggings of the Pursuit
Angelista's Revenge
These three alone will propel me into some serious dps. I haven't really considered the Gauntlets of Rapidity, but they will not be completely overlooked.
More to come as the patch unfolds further.
I took some time last night to get to know all the daily quests and over my lunch break today, to learn the bosses in the new Magister's Terrace instance, and so far I am really happy. Expanding the daily quest cap to 25 was a great idea, the additional of Shattered Sun Offensive bags that could contain a Badge of Justice were cool, daily fishing quests! What more could someone's main ask for?
When I logged off last night Shadow Council was 32% of the way to unlocking the Armory, and I am eagerly awaiting this unlock because then I will be able to purchase some upgrades.
I will be inititally passing on the Crossbow of Relentless Strikes because it is better tuned for a Beast Master hunter, but I have my eyes on:
Scaled Drakeskin Chestguard
Leggings of the Pursuit
Angelista's Revenge
These three alone will propel me into some serious dps. I haven't really considered the Gauntlets of Rapidity, but they will not be completely overlooked.
More to come as the patch unfolds further.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Respeccing Survival
Not sure in all the confusion if I even mentioned that I decided to respec back to Survival for raids on Bzak.
With the surplus of Beast Master Hunters in the world, Survival Hunters are at a premium, and I've done it before and had fun, so I thought what the heck, let's try it again.
I was also prompted to make the change after reading a WoW Forum post by a Hunter named Alumatine (his blog is at nightdrifter.com) who gave a great and very in-depth discussion of the why's and how's of being a Survival Hunter. The best part was the he gave loads of suggested talent specs that he has tried and used with success in the past.
I originally tried his Improved Hunter's Mark (iHM) Barrage spec, which is a 0/28/33 mix, and gives you some high end dps with the Barrage talent and Multi-Shot.
After finally getting the Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle off of Big Bad Wolf on Tuesday night, I decided last night to switch to an Improved Arcane Shot (iAS) spec that still utilizes Scatter Shot, which I had forgotten how useful it was.
It will all require some more testing as I move forward, but I'm loving the big crits again and at first glance, it doesn't look like I am suffering too much.
More to come.
With the surplus of Beast Master Hunters in the world, Survival Hunters are at a premium, and I've done it before and had fun, so I thought what the heck, let's try it again.
I was also prompted to make the change after reading a WoW Forum post by a Hunter named Alumatine (his blog is at nightdrifter.com) who gave a great and very in-depth discussion of the why's and how's of being a Survival Hunter. The best part was the he gave loads of suggested talent specs that he has tried and used with success in the past.
I originally tried his Improved Hunter's Mark (iHM) Barrage spec, which is a 0/28/33 mix, and gives you some high end dps with the Barrage talent and Multi-Shot.
After finally getting the Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle off of Big Bad Wolf on Tuesday night, I decided last night to switch to an Improved Arcane Shot (iAS) spec that still utilizes Scatter Shot, which I had forgotten how useful it was.
It will all require some more testing as I move forward, but I'm loving the big crits again and at first glance, it doesn't look like I am suffering too much.
More to come.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Zul'Gurub and the Soulflayer
Last night was Retro-Raid Night in Zul'Gurub, an instance I haven't stepped foot in since before the Burning Crusade expansion came out. And to think that this was uch an insanely hard instance back in the day when I was level 60, now, with 10 decently geared people the mobs are cake.
We had 4 or 5 goals in ZG last night, the most important being me going after a Soulflayer for my new Wind Serpent pet. The consensus is that for a Survival Hunter with a crit rating of over 30%, the Lightning Breath attack of a Wind Serpent does the most overall dps, more than the Ravager, but only slightly.
So I organized a raid, with the condition that after getting the Soulflayer, we would take shots at the Raptor and Tiger bosses to see if they would drop either the Swift Razzashi Raptor or the Swift Zulian Tiger. The drop rates for both are insanely low, but higher than the Baron's mount. We also wanted to kill the Fish boss to see if he would drop the Tome of Polymorph: Turtle so that Josh (Solinterrus) could finally get that for his mage.
In the end, I gathered 12 people, tamed the Soulflayer, killed all three bosses, and got no intended drops. We did have a heck of a lot of fun, laughing and remembering how great some of the loot was back when we were 60. Our Guild Bank is now full of bijous and other ZG tokens.
The talk is that we need to do this stuff more often, and I agree.
Finally, a picture of my new, and still un-named, pet:
We had 4 or 5 goals in ZG last night, the most important being me going after a Soulflayer for my new Wind Serpent pet. The consensus is that for a Survival Hunter with a crit rating of over 30%, the Lightning Breath attack of a Wind Serpent does the most overall dps, more than the Ravager, but only slightly.
So I organized a raid, with the condition that after getting the Soulflayer, we would take shots at the Raptor and Tiger bosses to see if they would drop either the Swift Razzashi Raptor or the Swift Zulian Tiger. The drop rates for both are insanely low, but higher than the Baron's mount. We also wanted to kill the Fish boss to see if he would drop the Tome of Polymorph: Turtle so that Josh (Solinterrus) could finally get that for his mage.
In the end, I gathered 12 people, tamed the Soulflayer, killed all three bosses, and got no intended drops. We did have a heck of a lot of fun, laughing and remembering how great some of the loot was back when we were 60. Our Guild Bank is now full of bijous and other ZG tokens.
The talk is that we need to do this stuff more often, and I agree.
Finally, a picture of my new, and still un-named, pet:
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