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!!!!!).
Saturday, March 29, 2008
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:
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
OH-EM-GEE It Dropped!!!!!
I got pulled into The Bane's weekly Karazhan run last night because Carlos wasn't able to make it due to getting stuck at work late.
Long story short, the Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle dropped off of Big Bad Wolf!!! This is the gun I have been patiently waiting for ever since I started doing Karazhan runs and had only seen it once before ever, and that was when I was tanking on Agravane instead and watched it get dusted.
Also, it looks pretty damn sweet in my hands if I do say so myself.
Long story short, the Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle dropped off of Big Bad Wolf!!! This is the gun I have been patiently waiting for ever since I started doing Karazhan runs and had only seen it once before ever, and that was when I was tanking on Agravane instead and watched it get dusted.
Also, it looks pretty damn sweet in my hands if I do say so myself.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Phase 3 - Complete
Bzak is officially a 375 skill Leatherworker.
For anyone else attempting this, start saving your Thick Clefthoof Leather now. To achieve 375 I had to make a lot of boots that required 20 per item. They were cheap enough on the Auction House, usually ranging 60g a stack, but I would rather farm it than pay for it.
Agravane is at 373 Engineering and is two skillups away from making his epic Engineering Flying Machine. The materials are all in the bank just waiting.
So to keep people on the same page, Phase 4 is Agravane hitting 375 Engineering and Phase 5 is Agravane making his epic mount and Bzak making the Ebon Netherscale Breastplate.
Then I can rest.
For anyone else attempting this, start saving your Thick Clefthoof Leather now. To achieve 375 I had to make a lot of boots that required 20 per item. They were cheap enough on the Auction House, usually ranging 60g a stack, but I would rather farm it than pay for it.
Agravane is at 373 Engineering and is two skillups away from making his epic Engineering Flying Machine. The materials are all in the bank just waiting.
So to keep people on the same page, Phase 4 is Agravane hitting 375 Engineering and Phase 5 is Agravane making his epic mount and Bzak making the Ebon Netherscale Breastplate.
Then I can rest.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
R.I.P. Gary Gygax
I just wanted to give the proper praise the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons deserved.
While I quit playing D&D in 1993, I still look back fondly on the times when I did play, gathered with some of my best friends, having great times, drinking Kool-Aid made with too much sugar and watching the indentation of Rich's butt grow deeper and deeper on the couch.
So, in memory, I say "Thank you." for the fun memories you gave me and my friends.
R.I.P.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Prince...
Yeah hilarious.
Bzak hasn't seen the inside of Karazhan in a little while so I decided to sign up for a Team Whiskers run. For those that don't know, I have given up my spot on Bane runs so that Rivtoff (Carlos) can get a shot at some of the loot that drops. Bzak really doesn't need anything from Attumen, Moroes, Maiden or Curator and all he would like from Opera is the Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle.
The Team Whiskers run was full of it's normal hilarity, and the funniest part was that nothing dropped for me from Attumen through Netherspite. We even got Big Bad Wolf, but he was stingy as usual with his drops.
On Prince however it did turn out to be my lucky day because the Sunfury Bow of the Phoenix dropped, as well as the Tier 4 helm token. The other Hunter with us, Kalihi, already had the bow, so it went immediately to me (I also rolled an 84 for the Need roll for it) and no one wanted the Tier 4 helm token, so I snagged that was well to turn in for a Season 1 Arena helm as soon as Patch 2.4 comes out.
All in all, what began as a frustration, loot-less night, turned into a big win for me.
Now, if only I had trained Bows...
Bzak hasn't seen the inside of Karazhan in a little while so I decided to sign up for a Team Whiskers run. For those that don't know, I have given up my spot on Bane runs so that Rivtoff (Carlos) can get a shot at some of the loot that drops. Bzak really doesn't need anything from Attumen, Moroes, Maiden or Curator and all he would like from Opera is the Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle.
The Team Whiskers run was full of it's normal hilarity, and the funniest part was that nothing dropped for me from Attumen through Netherspite. We even got Big Bad Wolf, but he was stingy as usual with his drops.
On Prince however it did turn out to be my lucky day because the Sunfury Bow of the Phoenix dropped, as well as the Tier 4 helm token. The other Hunter with us, Kalihi, already had the bow, so it went immediately to me (I also rolled an 84 for the Need roll for it) and no one wanted the Tier 4 helm token, so I snagged that was well to turn in for a Season 1 Arena helm as soon as Patch 2.4 comes out.
All in all, what began as a frustration, loot-less night, turned into a big win for me.
Now, if only I had trained Bows...
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