tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49528618034820231962024-02-02T09:18:30.930-08:00Kael'thas HunterXimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-51643455777204602132009-03-02T08:34:00.001-08:002009-03-02T08:53:43.585-08:00Pox Arcanum Group- My new warriorOk, so I joined a Pox Arcanum group being made by Dax and other people. I was a little hesitant at first since the premise of a Pox Arcanum group is to level your character to 10-12 as normal, and then begin strictly running instances with a set 5 man group. You are not supposed to quest at all to lvl which kind of seemed like taking the fun out of WoW, but it is only a small time commitment per week so i went for it. I also have been getting a bit burned out in raiding since thats all I ever do. So I was the 5th member to join a group which is as follows:<br /><br />Daxenos, Prot Pally<br />Healrender, Holy Priest<br />Unacha, Mage<br />Aliix, Boomkin Druid<br />Tayuya, DPS Warrior <---- This is me<br /><br />Since I was last to join, the classes to choose from were a bit limited since i wanted to try something different with a different race. So I chose to make a DPS fury warrior that is a dwarf female. My professions are Blacksmithing and Mining since I hear warriors are a pain to level due to their large gear dependancy. I am currently lvl 10 and my skills are about 45-50 for each. <br /><br />I have found the leveling of this toon to be of moderate difficulty. For example a hunter and a ret pally are so simple, whereas a rogue can be hard because u are so squishy. I have not died yet while leveling, but I came darn close a couple times. Warriors have this weird balance of needing health and rage. Obviously i cant do my damage abilities without rage which i get by hitting things or getting hit. But if i go single mob to single mob i will always be rage starved. So i try and take a couple at a time or go real fast between pulls to keep my rage stacking. This presents a problem if I am killing a group and get down to about half health onto to have another mob aggro while im rage starved. So i have little health and little rage so its bad. I have potted a couple times to save myself but it has been real close. Anyways, i just learned bloodrage or whatever which gives me a rage boost at the start of the fight so it is a bit easier now to generate rage for pulls. <br /><br />So thats about it. Only two more lvls to go and then we will start on the deadmines quest chain next week. Hopefully it goes well.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-32786832545653903172009-02-26T09:46:00.000-08:002009-02-26T10:00:56.551-08:00When hard work and luck meetSo as you are aware, I have been hunting the spirit beast with great effort for probably the last week. Sure i have spent a lot of time prior to that looking and spamming macros, but i never really caught a scent of Loque'nahak. But times had changed over the past week starting with a couple sightings of King Krush, the big green devilsaur. I even killed him once to get my northern exposure achievement. That set in motion some hard core looking and hunting of the spirit beast since the rare spawns are thought/known to come in succession on a 6 hr repop timer. Knowing what time zero was, I had to come back at 2am to look. Alas, i only caught a blip of Loque with my macro before it was gone. I had continued for a couple days to look with great ferver spending a few hours a day/night in Sholazar Basin searching around the times when i estimated a spawn would be coming. I had even started to get my guildies involved who i think were beginning to pity me for looking so long without getting it. Now as you can probably tell, and see, last night at 5:40ish pm EST I was just flying around SB and spotted Loque. Its funny because i was not even really looking too intently on finding him. I was just kind of casually flying around killing time. Sure i was still hitting my macro, but i wasnt focused on it as a mission. Sure enough I see him in the location just south of Pitch (black lion) on the map. I starting shaking and flipped out. I came in to a land and didnt see a soul around. All my other sightings occured with someone killing it already or having just tamed it. So here I am alone with Loque, I hurriedly dropped a trap and dismissed my raptor. I was shaking so bad i even missed the tame beast button once. But i got it the next time and he came right in to my trap, and i knew he was as good as mine. I was geeking out pretty good at this point just watching the taming channel count down until he was mine. Thanksfully, a guildy Burritoman was in SB also herbing so i yelled over /g chat for him to come over and look. I had him turn on his speakers and everything so he could hear the roar and see the moonfire ability that Loque has. It was kind of nice to have someone else be there to share in that moment of trying out a new pet. Thanks Burr. After that i went to dalaran to parade my new pet around and taunt the horde a little by beastial wrathing by their bank. I pretty much told everyone i knew that i have it. Now I just need to get it lvled up to 80 so he can come to Naxx. I also havent settled on a name yet. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDo-vjn7Im9SjFcxkt69VZu0Oz7iSeFLt-BMjl2x3pkZSEnFkB6ihJt2tJM9z7MzCUna0iQ319Vabv8JNFMOBGLrGAjdwYnVfke14WO5Fr75RkIErxPmODeYDAFnzr7WYQWwuWxUXK2A/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_022609_081442.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDo-vjn7Im9SjFcxkt69VZu0Oz7iSeFLt-BMjl2x3pkZSEnFkB6ihJt2tJM9z7MzCUna0iQ319Vabv8JNFMOBGLrGAjdwYnVfke14WO5Fr75RkIErxPmODeYDAFnzr7WYQWwuWxUXK2A/s320/WoWScrnShot_022609_081442.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307165054267254226" border="0" /></a><br />Additionally, we tried Malygos 10 man again. We wiped 3 or 4 times before giving up. I have at least seen all 3 phases now, though we barely got into phase 3 before the enrage. Stacking sparks and moving Maly seem to be hard, but im sure we will get it eventually. We will need to start focusing a bit more on 25 man naxx for some gear upgrades, but most of us are geared through 10 man naxx now.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-5465237720327613442009-02-24T06:13:00.001-08:002009-02-24T06:40:12.958-08:00Naxxramas ClearedOk, so my group which is group 3 of blood for bloods naxx 10 mans ran on saturday. I intially didnt know what to expect since we were planning to two heal it up through 4 horsemen and patchwerk as well as bring along a guildy who is a prot warrior but still low on gear. It worked out really well though since the prot warrior got a lot of big gear upgrades since our MT and OT dont need any gear. We cleared everything with relative ease and a decent pace and finally came to the 4 horsemen where through experience we know we require a 3rd healer. Fortunately, a leet resto druid friend of the guild signed on who only runs 25 mans, and he popped into the group in the place of the prot warrior and on we went. We two shot 4 horsemen then one shot the rest of the construct quarter. This was mind blowing to me since we had at least one pug mage in the group who was learning the fights, though he had real strong dps. Somehow we just kept going and kept downing bosses without any major highups. We then ported up to sapphiron and one shot that ice dragon for our 3rd key to malygos. Onto Kael'thuzad who our group had never downed before, and i had only attempted once. Now conceptually, this is not the most difficult fight. Simply survive phase 1, then once KT strikes you engage him and have two very simple rules. Heal anyone who gets iceblocked immediately, and stay out of the red void zones. Thats all you have to do. If you can do those two things and have reasonable DPS, KT will eventually go down. The problem is that the margin for error in those two things is very small. The window to heal an iceblock person is 3 seconds so the healers really have to fire off some flash instant heals. The red stuff you need to get out of real fast or you will instantly die. This is a huge problem for our raid members who have some lag. Needless to say, getting up to the learning curve took 4 or 5 times, but we got him. I think i gave myself carpal tunnel clicking buttons so hard those last 10% of KTs health. I was freaking out. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzAR9APDc8U-y3Rl83te0k1O5WviSBGz9cBUx-BspyDkUYfBziocho6pxgFBPmYO4TmUiOdW0SFgF_-pVdCMJ4WYMVgLhBaevP-bH4kxkVjxrx277fate5FCXDPHx8MKGHVG6nG9q-iZ4/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_022209_014058.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzAR9APDc8U-y3Rl83te0k1O5WviSBGz9cBUx-BspyDkUYfBziocho6pxgFBPmYO4TmUiOdW0SFgF_-pVdCMJ4WYMVgLhBaevP-bH4kxkVjxrx277fate5FCXDPHx8MKGHVG6nG9q-iZ4/s320/WoWScrnShot_022209_014058.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306369542058175410" border="0" /></a><br />The night turned out well for me on the gear front as well. I got the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39419">Nerubian Conquerer</a> as well as the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39221">Wraith Spear</a>. Now I for the longest time as a NE hunter have mostly refused to use guns. I always thought it was too much of a dwarf thing and that the loud concussive banging would bother me. But if you look at the gear in Naxx, there really arent any good bows or crossbows as weapons, but only guns. So i decided for the first time to level my gun skill and use a gun as a ranged weapon. I know I dont play on a RP server, but sometimes i like to dabble in it. A NE would never use a gun, but this time it will be an exception. My bow strings simply can not withstand the frigid cold of northrend, so I had to move to a gun.<br /><br />Also, I am still on the hunt for spirit beast and rare spawns in Sholazar Basin, and I finally got one. I spotted King Krush (large green dino) and nuked his big green butt down. It was a bit harder since i had recently tamed a lvl 76 raptor so with him as my tank holding aggro was a tiny problem. I did manage to kill King Krush relatively easily still, and got myself the northern exposure achievement. Unfortunately, I had to log back on at 2am EST to see what would spawn next for rare spawns at the 6 hr repop timer. So i logged back on and was circling. For one second my targetting macro went off for Loque'nahak and I spun around spamming my macro, but it was gone. I dont know if someone beat me to the tame, whether it was a pet of someone already who didnt change the name and mounted up, or what. But i got that huge adrenaline rush only to have it gone instantly. Oh well, i will find it eventually. It took me weeks and weeks just to see Krush alive, so i think i am getting closer and the hard work is going to pay off soon.<br /><br />I also did my first Strand of the Ancients BG which was interesting. I expect now in full PVE gear to get obliterated by PVP players in season 4-6 gear. I simply cant match their survivability normally. But it was sweet that I actually managed to one on one kill some people. Sure it was normally a lock who wasnt looking and i would drop an intimidate on them and nuke. But it was good to do some PVP again. For those that dont know, when i turned 70 and was still a solo leveling noob, i was told i was too weak for heroics, so in order to get stronger i just did BGs and PVPed for what seemed like months at a time. I had full S2 gear, when that was still good, and had really gotten pretty good at it. Maybe i will regain some glory eventually. LOL, i even joined a guild 5v5 team. Hunters are notoriously bad at arenas due to the whole moving around thing, but we'll see. I have never done an arena, and dont have any PVP gear other then something i got off of Archavon. It will be painful.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-24799218876468222732009-02-18T10:29:00.000-08:002009-02-18T10:39:35.398-08:00Why do you torment me so spirit beast?OK so as all 1 or 2 of my readers knows (if anyone even reads this), I have been looking for the spirit beast Loque'nahak for weeks if not months. So i am doing my usual flying around SB last night spamming my targeting macro when what do i see? My macro yells at me that it has found its target and i zoom in to find the spirit beast has already been tapped and IS BEING KILLED by a rogue who was just mining ore. At least they got the achievement, but god my luck sucks. The one time i fly the opposite direction of my normal route and i am 1 minute behind to taming this beast. This was like catching a glimpse of my dream just to have it being killed in front of me. Stupid rogue who will remain nameless unless you zoom in on the pictures. I have screen shots to document that i have at least seen the spirit beast. Unfortunately this is probably the closest that i will ever come. fml.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigTIkZ0iJvNEgafDdOgn5nz6ZDKV6j2y_5XyPpuaF5YR8SALsIb3Ax28BdCQD-kEHCvuoQENDL04A2VRihmlwT1Vr_l66nHJMItzapYTIUxZG6CX5bzKLB9eo4Pem9Dsvfffk9EkpiO-I/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_021709_195403.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigTIkZ0iJvNEgafDdOgn5nz6ZDKV6j2y_5XyPpuaF5YR8SALsIb3Ax28BdCQD-kEHCvuoQENDL04A2VRihmlwT1Vr_l66nHJMItzapYTIUxZG6CX5bzKLB9eo4Pem9Dsvfffk9EkpiO-I/s320/WoWScrnShot_021709_195403.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304208416346239858" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZUDtzoDOcAP8JME-jkXWEWmjuEPXOieyYNCi3-bM0Inm5XSlXfGEDy0sBe9QKeQk5lmDDY8yFDciAB37sgziVCRe3Jc5RyCPy3FtIwl50FbDTE4vi-rXf1ar_Sk2f8wiLV0fwtcTl60/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_021709_195327.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZUDtzoDOcAP8JME-jkXWEWmjuEPXOieyYNCi3-bM0Inm5XSlXfGEDy0sBe9QKeQk5lmDDY8yFDciAB37sgziVCRe3Jc5RyCPy3FtIwl50FbDTE4vi-rXf1ar_Sk2f8wiLV0fwtcTl60/s320/WoWScrnShot_021709_195327.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304208277122613122" border="0" /></a>Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-89505394140684848292009-02-11T11:22:00.000-08:002009-02-11T11:26:58.022-08:00Naxx cleared by guild<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOkYyJIYQgZwnhcquce8vorOk0-nfZryWhWfF40fo6AN_Mg33BB9Tf2bAgIk8Rdb1FLhfiqLoIc5otIe3Wp_DVNN24E6vx8OPLqxh5SRfEctbnkUsA3iQ1HiOMk5RVmri12xyjLL-jSNU/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_020709_232701.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOkYyJIYQgZwnhcquce8vorOk0-nfZryWhWfF40fo6AN_Mg33BB9Tf2bAgIk8Rdb1FLhfiqLoIc5otIe3Wp_DVNN24E6vx8OPLqxh5SRfEctbnkUsA3iQ1HiOMk5RVmri12xyjLL-jSNU/s320/WoWScrnShot_020709_232701.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301622722534041522" border="0" /></a><br />Ok just some pics from my groups run of naxx showing us doing our first guild downing of Saphiron. We only have KT one shot since we knew people had to leave, and we got owned by ice blocks and red stuff. Not to be outdone, guild run #2 cleared naxx and took down KT. That group is mostly composed of Team Awesomesauce. Good job for them, soon i will clear naxx and now onto Maly.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-12406671233418624242009-02-05T10:49:00.000-08:002009-02-05T10:53:52.454-08:00There is no justiceSimply put, there is no justice in WoW. Here i have been searching for the spirit beast for weeks at a time and spending 30min to an hour a day, every day circling scholozar basin spamming a targetting macro to catch a glimpse of a rare spawn. And what do i see yesterday in dalaran, a freaking lvl 77 hunter running around with spirit beast. They said it was their very first time in SB ever and they saw spirit beast and got it. That shows there is no justice in WoW, no benefit for hard work, it is nothing but a game of luck. That is the last straw, and i am no longer going to be spending hours upon hours looking for a stupid pet that someone who doesnt even know what the thing is, is just going to tame or kill.<br /><br />p.s.- B4B has cleared all 4 wings of naxx. Only sapphiron and KT yet to down.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-68225584098318930332009-01-27T11:37:00.000-08:002009-01-27T11:47:14.246-08:00longest boss fight everthis will be short and sweet. So we took a 10 man group into naxx last night just to continue a weaker effort from earlier in the week. We were plowing through until we came to heigan the unclean. Now for those people who had been in naxx prior to the patch knew that there was a couple ways to sort of cheat the fight mechanic to avoid dancing. Unfortunately, those cheats have been fixed and you have to do the fight as intended with the tanks and melee dancing the entire fight and the ranged dancing during the fast stage. So on the first fast stage, everyone in the raid died but 3 people. Myself, the tank, and MT healer. 25 minutes later Heigan was dead. We actually 3 manned a Naxx boss!!! While doing the fight it didnt seem like it was that long of a fight, but it assuredly was 25 minutes long. It takes a while for one dps with a dead pet and a tank to do 9.3 million hp worth of damage. Geez i just looked that up, and didnt realize it was that high. Hmm, maybe that is from heroic, but whatever it is a heck of a lot for 1.5 dps to do. I feel bad for the people who died within the first minute, but we got him down. <br /> As a guild we also did our first completion of the military quarter. We plowed through the first two bosses and came to the horsemen. After many immediate AOE wipes and some members leaving and new ones coming on or getting on healing alts we slowly started getting better. It then came all together and we downed them. It is a very neat fight mechanic stressing group coordination and movement over dps. I would have gotten the T7 chest if i didnt have it alreadt from probably and archavon drop. All in all it was a long, but good raiding night, too bad we did it the night before the reset lol.<br /><br />Note- I am still BM since i love my pets damage and even post nerf i am still doing a decentamount of damage. Im not 2700+ like i was, but still 2200+ i think which is decent.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-51972294078427123402009-01-19T11:49:00.000-08:002009-01-19T11:56:32.381-08:00Hunter SpeccThanks to BRK and his past two podcast with both Lienna and Nassira, I am now much more informed about how to put together all my hunter specs. As some people know, but mostly none of you do, i leveled 1-70 as MM and then switch to raid as BM for Kara and have been BM ever since. Now with the nerf to BM coming, I really do not want to have to respec to either MM or Surv. I can not imagine a hunting spec other then BM being the top DPS. It just doesnt make sense. The BM hunter is the definition of huntering. It is a hunter and a pet working as one to cause as most damage as possible. One is nothing without the other. Heck, my cat does almost 40% of my damage on some fights and if it was possible for my cat to be alive without me it would have no focus for its special abilities. Sure the other specs use pets too, but they are more of a superfluous addition and not incredibly important. I mean they really just use the pet for the stats they gain, not the damage a pet can do. So how a BM would drop in DPS below a Surv or MM is just beyong me. Please dont do it Blizzard. Hunters dont need to do arenas and be great PVP, dont nerf our PVE raiding to fix PVP. A little nerf is OK and needed, but if im getting killed by MM or Surv hunters you are going to force there to be no more BM hunters around in raids. And everyone knows they will miss seeing devilsaurs and spirit beasts tearing up the mobs.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-32247091317019089092009-01-19T11:09:00.000-08:002009-01-19T11:48:59.895-08:00Guild Update- Getting Some Stuff Off My ChestOk so lets get the more mundane out of the way first. I have gotten a couple of gear upgrades since I last posted. You can armory me or whatever, but I am up to 3 pieces of T7 gear now which is nice and I also bought a emblem belt. So I did manage to get the "superior" achievement for whatever that is worth. I really just need to get some new boots, the wraith spear from mexxna (lost the roll twice), and eventually get a new helm. I have the best hunter helm short of a full naxx clear so im not worried about that. Still looking for spirit beast, but according to BRK's blog Loque'nahak on the PTR is not despawning after only being up 10 min, but is there till tamed or killed for the achievement. <br /><br />In other news, this weekend the guild decided to put one of the strongest groups we could together to try and down some naxx bosses we have never tried or seen. We were even fortunate enough to have Kabel, a great resto druid, join us. We were rolling there for a while after clearing the plague and spider wings in 2 hours. After that we went to patchwerk and crushed him even with only about 9 ppl since a melee took a hateful strike early in the fight. So this was about all i had previously seen. I have seen all the fights in detail on tankspot.com. I recommend people go there and learn about fights. So anyways, we spent about the next hour at least on Grobbulus. We were just struggling with the fight and we could get him down to about 500K then wipe. He starts doing his mutating injection twice as fast and it just got real messy. Anyways, we killed him last night after only like 3 attempts. I lost on a sweet ring roll to a DK. Since we struggled with grobbulus, we decided to move to the military wing and do instructor rezuvious. After an initial tank mishap wipe, we downed him pretty easily. Again this wing we had never done before. After that was downed Gothik in a one shot zerging. We owned him badly. Next was 4-horsemen. Now funny enough, hilarious even, is that I sort of became the explainer of these fights, just based on the videos i had seen. Admittedly we did not havea great group composition for the horsemen, so we died a couple times due to potentially some poor communication by myself, but then the crap hit the fan which brings me to the stuff I need to say.<br /><br />First, WoW is a game that when i play i do not want to deal with infighting between members of the group. I understand personal interactions happen, but try to keep your personal feelings for another raider OUT of the raid. It just becomes a distraction to the group and crushes morale which is already fragile enough taking on new bosses and wiping late into the night. I am not trying to be insensative, but everyone is trying to have fun and progress as a GROUP, and when individual issues with another player prevent that it doesnt result in good things. Needless to say, we had a couple members leave the guild after that raid which was sad, but expect in all honesty. <br /><br />Next issue involves PUGGING people for 25 mans. Our guild does mostly 10 man content since we do not have the numbers to put together a 25 man without filling several spots with friends or pugs. Friends in general are cool and some are basically honorable guild members, but unknown pugs are terrible. We were doing 25 man Arch and OS. Arch went well so we moved onto Sarth. During the clearing of trash, we had a couple members DC, and this is where the issues come up. 1) if you are a pug, consider yourself blessed to have been invited and keep your negative comments to yourself. NO, we will not pull more trash while a couple ppl have DC'd, especially one being the lootmaster/raid leader. And after the 5th time of explaining why we are not pulling, LISTEN to the reason. We heard you when you said you were in a time crunch and had to go soon, but you are the PUG in a guild run and we are not going anywhere without OUR guild members and the raid leader. If you have to go...go. The hard core raiding guild would not even tolerate that kind of complaining and vocalization, and to be honest i probably would not have either. Fortunately for them, we are in between casual and more serious so they were allowed to stay. Next issue with this pug is that we were trying our first attempt ever at keeping a Drake up while fighting Sartharion. We had a great healer from OOB with us who had done it and was explaining the fight. Needless to say, people were not listening so that idea had to get scratched and we eventually killed Sarth no problem.<br /><br />Onto the next item of annoyance. YOUR DPS IS IRRELEVANT IF YOU ARE NOT GOOD AT FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS. Case study, this pug had you know some crazy dps that was 3500+ but oh...he got hit by flame wall FOUR TIMES. You can hit like a truck and have great gear, but if you cant move to stay alive you are worthless to the raid. I would much rather have an undergeared person that I know can follow instructions instead of someone who is going to go off as a lone wolf and crush the damage meter but end up dead. And do not think about blaming the healer for your own death. <br /><br />Ok i think that is it for the basic rant, but seriously people, this is a game, but you are not the only one playing it. If you want to be solo then dont raid or even be in a guild.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-19484929988868747342009-01-05T11:54:00.001-08:002009-01-05T11:59:50.501-08:00just some random screen shots<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd7EKmz5frAPnQAV8L7R3gkxrrsjXTRb_LalIRvuErMcQ4r-uZ1O7bZ6bqShKPLjBroUsyAq9FOM3UUpAWitLroHY-5JRTgW1pLkAklNgT930mSGhWAikxsy0pjP0hD3RDn6j1BCK0ryk/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_122208_123747.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd7EKmz5frAPnQAV8L7R3gkxrrsjXTRb_LalIRvuErMcQ4r-uZ1O7bZ6bqShKPLjBroUsyAq9FOM3UUpAWitLroHY-5JRTgW1pLkAklNgT930mSGhWAikxsy0pjP0hD3RDn6j1BCK0ryk/s320/WoWScrnShot_122208_123747.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287900702660462866" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">First pick is from a FOR THE ALLIANCE achievement to get the black war bear mount where you have to down all of the horde bosses. I think this was our last boss having to kill the Blood Elf guy. This was more fun though since it was winterveil and we had a 40 man gnome christmas elf raid going on.</span></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkZGahGmm58b3RaaU7WMl_uc5m5Au-DQUsAmpG-rvVTSjTuvuvQn3UFY2JJzlKTcN2DtM7pm_cfQpB3e2KaOGjAW1xl7gLlZuLqg2YoAARTPTIspcaZFZ31u0yLOuLAa8uGIofzwrS_4/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_010309_213224.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkZGahGmm58b3RaaU7WMl_uc5m5Au-DQUsAmpG-rvVTSjTuvuvQn3UFY2JJzlKTcN2DtM7pm_cfQpB3e2KaOGjAW1xl7gLlZuLqg2YoAARTPTIspcaZFZ31u0yLOuLAa8uGIofzwrS_4/s320/WoWScrnShot_010309_213224.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287900595407195634" border="0" /></a>This next one was in naxx just showing the damage meter. I know hunters are supposed to be the top of the damage meter, but it is good to see. I have some epics but not all for sure so it is good to break 2k dps. Plus i could always send it to bigredkitty.net and he would be please to see. I think this meter was either for the whole run or just post Grand Widow Faerlina or whatever her name is. Boss #2 in spider wingXimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-16785052383267868512009-01-05T11:40:00.000-08:002009-01-05T11:51:25.568-08:00Clearly I Can't DanceSo we went back to Naxx last night to see if we could get anymore of it done having downed the arachnid quarter, noth the plaguebringer and patchwerk the night before. So we were basically coming in to wipe a ton of times trying to learn the Heigen dance with the exploding poisons. It took 3 or 4 wipes before at least the tanks and healers were surviving. Soon after people started following the tanks and another couple dps survived most of the fight. I on the other hand was never able to survive. I am not exactly sure, but i would get just clipped by the poison either in front or just behind. If you get hit you will die. So i was never grotesquely in the poison, but i didnt make it despite having watched many movies about it. I guess doing is different then watching, even when i try and stay on top of the tank. Downing heigen was a first for the guild so that was a good thing. After that we tried moving to Loatheb. This guy proved to be a problem since his necrotic aura prevents all healing from occuring at any time except for a THREE SECOND WINDOW. My dps was through the roof, near 2700 for that fight thanks to the spore 50% crit incease buff, but we still always wiped. After 3 or 4 tries people had to go after getting a late start including myself. Guild note- we need druids and shaman badly<br /><br />On other notes, my LWing is nearly maxed out with only two remaining patterns to buy. I can make it all once i have those patterns. I also did manage to get my epic flying mount. I finally saved up enough money for the training then did icecrown quests till i got the 200g or whatever to get the epic flyer from SMV. Let me tell you, the epic flyer makes a ton of differenec. Still on a spirit beast hunt, but there has not been any sightings or it or even a whisper of its appearance. I have seen a couple hunters on the server one, but they certainly are not running rampant. Also with the coming nerf to cat dps, i will be leveling a devilsaur. I named it Unseen, i dont think she knows and it is probably for the best. :)Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-14771211826155830092008-12-29T08:47:00.000-08:002008-12-29T08:53:42.504-08:00LWing 440So i hit LWing 440 which means i can now make all the epics. Well i can make the ones i have patterns for at least. Still going to take a lot more leather and arctic furs before i can get all the patterns. Just need to make myself the icestrike cloak and giantmain bracers and i will be good to go. Got some great legs out of Halls of Stone so i dont need the giantmaim ones anymore. I really need to replace trinkets and rings, but they are so expensive to get. Oh well, in time i suppose. I also got in on my first naxx run. It wasnt stellar by all means, but it was the day after christmas so our group composition was probably not ideal. We downed 3 bosses which is less then they normally get, but hopefully i can get in a couple more runs just to see more then the arachnid quarter.<br /><br />I also hope that new patterns will come out. I think the patterns available now are for basic raiding gear, but i personally like the rare pattern drops also that came in some later raiding such as in The Eye. So basically what we have now is good for the casual player and those wanting to get into Naxx, but as content is added hopefully there will be some pattern drops or something to keep the crafters from getting bored.<br /><br />p.s.- still working on the epic flying mount. I have about 4000+ gold so im getting close. Once i ge the training hopefully i can get a free mount from H-culling or a proto drake from the oracles egg or H-UP.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-70890383996556885572008-12-23T10:03:00.001-08:002008-12-23T10:23:48.961-08:00Level 80So since i returned to playing on wednesday of last week, I have done some serious playing. I did a lot of leveling and questing finishing scholozar basin which i love for skinning, and then pretty much finishing everything in storm peaks. Now not to do any spoilers, lets just say i felt completely owned and like a douche once the story unfolds for storm peaks. Now I am level 80 and really trying to get myself geared up to join B4B in Naxx. To do this i have mostly been doing serious leather farming or heroic runs. LWing is up to 425ish and i would love to get up to the giantmaim pieces at 440. I got some new swiftarrow gear that replaced my T5 stuff, but dude it is like intro PVP gear. It has resilience and good stats, but has absolutely no hit point. My hit points are in the tank and that really needs to change. Plus none of my gear has sockets on it, and that sucks. So back to feeling crappy about being weak like i did for months when i dinged 70. <br /><br />Additionally since i powerleveled 75-80 in 4 days the only pet i have close to 80 is my gorilladin sepharose. So zn additional thing i need to do is get on leveling or obtaining new pets. I have a worm which i can get a new one from storm peaks which will be like lvl 79. But my main need is as a dps class, to get a dps pet. Now i found it odd that there were no cats in the game according to petopia that are higher then 76. This was odd since i got a lvl 69 cat from skettish before. Anyways, so since im stuck with a 76 cat i might as well get a cool skin so i wanted to tame Pitch in SB. Funny thing, the frenzyheart still hate me and there are like 2-3 elites guarding Pitch. I did manage to fly to a raised area where i could trap him without aggroing them. So i have Pitch and he is 77 or 78 or so now. Of course the ultimate accomplishment will be spirit beast. So while i am farming leather i am absolutely /target loque to hopefully find it by accident. <br /><br />All this work is to hopefully allow me to get some money. I NEED AN EPIC FLYING MOUNT. Ximera is my first toon and my only high level toon and as most new players can attest, it can be hard to make money at first. I still am monetarily challenged. I bought the cold weather flying so at least i can fly, but it is so slow. Storm peaks with a slow mount was painful. Anyways, as a result of the training being 5000g or something crazy still plus mount costs, i am praying for a free epic mount drop. I could really use a proto drake from either oracles, time-lost proto drake, blue proto drake. Something so i do spend all my money at once. I only have about 3k gold. <br /><br />Also did a 40 man raid for the black war bear mount "for the alliance". that was fun too. <br /><br />Anyways, this was really scattered so hopefully i can gear up, make money, and get pets to accomplish the above goals. And i will leave you with this thought. Where have all the healers gone?Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-18180780648860937152008-12-17T11:14:00.000-08:002008-12-17T11:15:30.981-08:00im backok proposal is finished. presentation done and over. it went very well. now i can return to leveling since i havent been able to for the past near 3 weeks.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-57867677190914871002008-12-16T06:00:00.001-08:002008-12-16T06:03:41.971-08:00almost backMy committee meeting proposal presentation is tomorrow. It is kind of a big deal since it is the first time my committee has met and will get a chance to see what it is i am proposing. Hopefully that will go reasonably well. Tomorrow night though, i am back on WoW and will ding 76. Ximera is gonna be powerleveling like mad to 80 since im so far behind. Hopefully i can catch <a href="http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/mobs/mob_loquenahak.html">Loque'nahak</a> on the way, but if not ill stalk her later. If you dont know what she is, you are clearly not a hunter. Ok so hope to see you all tomorrow night and i will resume in grizzly hills most likely before heading to the basin to really ramp up my LWing.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-67900814452952258912008-12-09T16:43:00.000-08:002008-12-09T16:48:04.323-08:00Nerfed to the floor baby...well not reallySo as stated in <a href="http://www.bigredkitty.net">BRK's</a> blog, ghostcrawler has put up some nerfs that may be coming the way of the hunter which can be found <a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/13275172587-upcoming-hhunter-changes.html">here.</a> Now to be honest, some of these are needed since especially BM pets are doing way too much damage. It is great to feel OP, but i know balance is key to the enjoyment of the game, so ill go with it. Just sucks to be knocked down, even if you were way up in the ceiling to begin with. I just hope since they decrease volley damage they better fix the volley damage issue otherwise weapons will be going even faster since we will be using volley even more.<br /><br />OK that is all. I need to rewrite me entire research proposal tonight. Hope to be back on WoW by the 17th i hope if im not out celebrating my meeting being over.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-77227268463666024632008-12-06T07:47:00.000-08:002008-12-06T08:05:39.141-08:00Thanks FalSo i havent played WoW in about 10 days, but last night was the first time i signed on and though it really wasnt efficient in how the time was spent, it turned out well. I am lvl 75 and i completed the dragonblight achievement so i thought i should move on, and sholazar basin seemed to be a good level to start except i couldnt find any quest givers. Someone said you may have to be 76 to get quests there and something about it starting in dalaran to send you there, but regardless i roamed around SB for a good amount of time without luck. So then i wentto dalaran to try and find said quest giver to see if i could go at 75. The only quests i found were for violet hold and in my nubishness i didnt realize it was the northrend version of black morass. HAHA i tried to solo a dungeon and wondered why the first elite mob out of the portal creamed my pet. So i ran towards the exit to find the door blocked, popped a feign death and just sat there till the dragons open the door and ran out. I followed and somehow i didnt die. that was so noobish. So wondering where i can go next, i decided to shoot over to grizzly hills since i hadnt been there. Popped over there and killed some elk for a quest, and who waves at me but Falromord, one of Graimerin's alts. I read on BBB's blog that Grai made him a couple <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41182">savage cobalt slicers</a> so i just asked what the mats were for them. He linked them and just said lets go find an anvil. He runs outside and bang bang bang he whips up 2 of them on the spot without asking for mats. And let me say, i feel like he gave them to me cheap. So i just wanted to say thanks to Grai again. These two will replace my legacy for the time being. I only duel weilded swords once before around level 60 so i need to get used to the look. Needless to say my sword skill was a bit low around 320 so i went to HF starting zone and just womped so of those continually incoming guys for a while. It was fun, i felt like a melee class. I set gorilladin on aggressive so was just charging all around dropped thunderstomps like crazy. Of course being 74 and the mobs on 68 or whatever, he was barely hurting. I would just run and follow and start swinging. Was a good time. Still need to get the swords enchanted, but i will have Camila do that later once i get mats and am back to playing. I still wont be on much due to writing my grant proposal for my PhD committee meeting, but oh well. I will power level to 80 as people are starting Naxx and probably get carried through like last time making vast gear upgrades on my first run. Here is the screen shot with the swords and sepharose my gorilla.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55i7C2TsrDlgDkJI3cW50FWPAj4FfTffZi-JbJgENNYzPPl1KjZu8Q3a9r2FNEzkV_rtNokgJm5_rTH-rJuKDzbpOIPPEMAOaehyphenhyphen4qbH1cWJKKhzjcPpdzuN8gL4Q-_gDToV28w3IGFc/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_120608_110321.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55i7C2TsrDlgDkJI3cW50FWPAj4FfTffZi-JbJgENNYzPPl1KjZu8Q3a9r2FNEzkV_rtNokgJm5_rTH-rJuKDzbpOIPPEMAOaehyphenhyphen4qbH1cWJKKhzjcPpdzuN8gL4Q-_gDToV28w3IGFc/s320/WoWScrnShot_120608_110321.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276708757300054418" border="0" /></a><br />p.s.- if you ever see me on i will make any leather i can for you for free. Im level 405 nowXimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-15475815798978204442008-11-25T10:31:00.000-08:002008-11-25T10:39:23.203-08:00Another break in the actionSo i took last week off from playing and then came back with all my rest and tried to burn through it on friday, saturday, and sunday. I managed to get mostly through it, but i never got rid of it completely. I dinged 74, got a new worm pet from dragonblight, and have been hanging out in dalaran. LWing is lvl 404 or something. Kind of slow going since dragonblight doesnt havea ton of skinnable mobs. Anyways, i will again be taking this week off since i will be going home for the holiday and i have to finish the rough draft of my committee meeting proposal so my boss can look at it next week. Once thats done ill probably make my rested push to 77 or so i would imagine. Guess im going to have to start looking more at the quest reward gear now since im getting to that level where i may be swapping some stuff out. I also know i need to do a complete revamp of my abilites bars since they have basically been unchanged since well, forever. BTW, worm sundering armor plus aspect of the dragonhawk is a pretty sweet combo. Gorilla + volley = best leather farming combo there is. Oh also, the embossing LWing abilities are sweet. 114 AP on bracers, are you kidding me!! Thats amazing and i got it. Also made myself some nerubian leg armor since i never got the rep up for the nethercleft pattern. LWing is pretty sweet so far, just tons of patterns every 5 lvls it is pretty cool. Not that they will ever be used, but im starting to get into the blue patterns now and i also havea sweet druid cape pattern i think. I will do any LWing for free while im leveling so find me and its yours if i can do it. Anyways thats about it and the scattered observations so far. Its good. Dragonblight is a pretty cool place. Be back on when i can.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-34109269389471656852008-11-19T08:47:00.000-08:002008-11-19T08:51:45.050-08:00Taking a hiatusOK so just a quick update here. I, like everyone else got into Wrath the first day it came out and did some leveling and just enjoying things. Let me admit, it is weird not knowing where the heck you are going in a place. I fell to my death a couple times just because i didnt realize how far down things were. Anyways, i did probably 1/2 of what howling fjord had to offer and 1/3 of what borean tundra has to offer so far. Im lvl 72 at the moment, but that is where i am going to stay for a while. I have to write a grant proposal for my thesis committee meeting over the next couple weeks so until that is largely done and my boss thinks im at least at a low level of compentence i probably wont be back. School has to come first on this one, so i know i will fall behind but i will come back well rested andf shoot up to 74 or 75 at least pretty fast. Pets are leveling as well. Got my gorilla and cat up to 71 and climbing i think, and i picked up a rhino for fun.<br /><br />p.s.- i made a blood specced death knight on Kael'thas as well and his name is Heme. Yeah, its nerdy but its a solid name for a blood spec. Anyways thats it for now until i return to game in a week and a half or so.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-59063448043912679312008-11-10T05:34:00.000-08:002008-11-10T05:58:49.484-08:00Kael'thas Sunstrider is DEAD in The Eye<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCdLFGxgZ9y0THCV_Sep1-M3RttohMO0A91_sRgJRvmfudORQL1mc3-gVe_ocTIw7t0vSeOsxGO-yLokAyDYz_tlfPmi14-paESsioZtssacJfNkwxp1IUElCTYmZml9Od1uZAqji-uzY/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_110908_145626.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCdLFGxgZ9y0THCV_Sep1-M3RttohMO0A91_sRgJRvmfudORQL1mc3-gVe_ocTIw7t0vSeOsxGO-yLokAyDYz_tlfPmi14-paESsioZtssacJfNkwxp1IUElCTYmZml9Od1uZAqji-uzY/s320/WoWScrnShot_110908_145626.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267025918985725138" border="0" /></a> So this weekend I got a pst from a former guildy of Exiled Elite named Skystrider and he was in charge of putting a group together with Legendary as the base to attempt to finish Kael'thas in TK and Vashj in SSC. So being more then willing to help see content I had never saw, myself and some others from Blood for Blood decided to come along. With the group being a pretty big pug it was surprising how things ended up. Anyways, first up was Kael'thas in TK. This was a completely new fight to me and it was pretty awesome. We wiped several times mostly because of people not focus firing on the correct targets, Capernian conflagrating the wro<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS7P7kuO-mPvCGY0lvzC9uXxPaFV6iduSLAqehI_8zHFXoKzI9JN8ZZ5KH3Lta0-Mk6xhNRT_SwWFd8JKcPWViQqu0ocEwR3GbQWe3hkPMHKZ1A3HOkOY2y2o95LESod732axl17yuMcs/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_110908_150709.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS7P7kuO-mPvCGY0lvzC9uXxPaFV6iduSLAqehI_8zHFXoKzI9JN8ZZ5KH3Lta0-Mk6xhNRT_SwWFd8JKcPWViQqu0ocEwR3GbQWe3hkPMHKZ1A3HOkOY2y2o95LESod732axl17yuMcs/s320/WoWScrnShot_110908_150709.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267025832986680210" border="0" /></a>ng person and messing things up, or i think there was also a fire pit from Kael or something that killed all 4 tanks at once. I think it took about 4 wipes, but on round number 5 all things came together. What was so great is that once we got on Kael with our nice new stolen weapons, Kael is not that difficult. Another perfect timing thing is that tanks were slowly falling one by one and Kael was ticking down. Just as the 4th tank went down 5 seconds later kael was down. We said screw that phoenix and kill kael and down he went and all the people rejoiced. He are a few pics of the conquest and showing the inside of TK for those who have<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gXA5YhZQsapWoh3vU7CHd6NmKealYjyOxLwDktkuBg1DYnvBxLecub-dyo9l9e2mQY5sI575CH40ulqdan14N25j4Bvmk_7ctdSrvzsOQUgK-nz_2_hjqjuhKIWIK0f1ymG9aND2U88/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_110908_150725.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gXA5YhZQsapWoh3vU7CHd6NmKealYjyOxLwDktkuBg1DYnvBxLecub-dyo9l9e2mQY5sI575CH40ulqdan14N25j4Bvmk_7ctdSrvzsOQUgK-nz_2_hjqjuhKIWIK0f1ymG9aND2U88/s320/WoWScrnShot_110908_150725.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267025725825379490" border="0" /></a>nt seen it. <br /> After TK we decided to go try and take on Vashj in SSC. Wow was this fight a lot harder then i thought it would be. Needless to say we continually wiped and never really got anywhere. This fight is just complex. You got elementals coming, striders being kited around, nagas running around, then u have to worry about killing tainted elementals. If you killed them maybe you got a tainted core which they you have to throw around to finally get it to someone close enough to smash onto one of those thingies. Bottom line, this fight was far beyond us and our group composition and was just mass chaos. It was great to see Vashj i wont lie, but dang this was the opposite of TK where the fight proceeds processively with Kael having talking interludes etc. Oh and did i mention that i got my first token period. Let alone gettting the sweet T5 chest token <a href="http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=30139">Rift Stalker Hauberk.</a> This thing is money especially when i put exceptional stats and my ZA stam gem, plus 2 +5crit +10 AP pyrestones on it. This turned out to be a great time. Thank you skystrider, Exiled Elite forever.<br /> After that we had a guild meeting which i think many things that needed to be said were said, but this isnt the place to discuss those things, so i will call it quits with that.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXmHlc7kMM8hblLd2WB741z-hMiBFADhEeZDgxLlQxgERopLkxqoXaQGLWpPUIvcPMWPtXI5af50Uyg1XaHT31IAbS6MpPFevY1U2RAQwDOWcQ_YqRaHcSdrt7cDBE-lDPGwYytRYRZZU/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_110908_145626.jpg"><br /></a>Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-18641275067045781182008-11-07T07:14:00.000-08:002008-11-07T07:46:57.753-08:00huntering observationsSo there has been some changes i have noticed with huntering since the patch came out, and others seem to be bringing them up as well, so i figured i might as well give me two sense directly. <br /><br />Ok so exotic pets are cool and all, but are they really that awesome as they are. I would say that the answer is only a conditional yes. If you are going to be fighting a lot of casters, corehound will own them. Just ask vadecent the boomkin. LOL. As far as DPS goes, devilsaurs are fine but a cat is probably just as good (i personally am holding off on a devilsaur). Everyone knows how awesome a gorilla is but thats not exotic. If the damage of the ferocity exotic pets was increased sure they may become more valuable, but then BM would again be the sole raiding spec and i dont think Blizz wants that to happen right now. I like having a MM and Surv hunter ina raid now because of trueshot aura and the expose weakness. Bottom line, have exotic pets is cool more for their abilities in certain conditions then they are for overall lvling etc. <br /><br />Another thing which was brought up in Grai's blog was that pets seem to be running wild now in raids. This is mostly due to the altered "defensive" stance that pets have and not bad hunters. Previously a hunter would have to tell his pet to attack a target, but now the pet is more intelligent and will attack what you attack automatically so you do not have to continually be tabbing and resending the pet to attack. It will do it automatically. This is good except it seems that the pets get a little over zealous sometimes and start running after mobs they have no business attacking. During the nerf you can normally overcome those wrongful pulls, but with Wrath that will mean a wipe so i fully expect the huntard name calling to be back in full force. The three very good hunters in our last Kara run were all having issues with pets attacking targets before they were really supposed to be. I personally think that the improved defensive stance is much better when multiple mobs are there. It was just a pain to always have to tab, then send pet since it was running back to you after last kill, just to start shooting again. I had gotten to the point where once a mob was about down to 10% i would switch my pet and start shooting at the next target to avoid losing dps time for it to return and be resent. Now those issues are solved. So in conclusions, pets are smarter in attacking what you are attacking, BUT they sometimes need to be reigned in because they are more powerful now and can aggro a lot more then they used to. Example. You would think that a gorillas thunderstomp would be ideal when pulling large non elite trash mobs in the banquet hall before moroes to do max AoE damage. The PROBLEM is that pets automatically go behind the target, and unless the trash was pulled far enough down the stairs, that thunderstomp will generate a ton of threat and pull another group and then go running off into them. So in a perfect AoE fight i couldnt use my pets strongest AoE because it pulls too much. Ghostcrawler was even asking for peoples opinions on the new pet defensive stance which you can find the link to by going to maniasarcania.com. <br /><br />On a side note, my gorilla (Sepharose) hit 70 last night after doing a bunch of dailies. So now i have 4 lvl 70 pets. DPS machine- Qiagen (cat). Tank- Sepharose (gorilladin). Tank on the bench cuz he is worthless- Blink (warp hunter) and Casters Doom- Char (corehound). My plan for now is to probably replace the warpstalker with a worm as a single mob tank since it sunders armor and will do much more then just warp at mobs. Also a devilsaur could be in the future as well but i may be content with my cat and pick up a Rhino since everyone knows, baby rhino= win and stampede would be fun in PVP. I may take a few days off from WoW just before the X-pac because i have some work to do thats needs to get done, but other then that i will be tearing up northrend.Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952861803482023196.post-62243373009897040072008-10-27T08:39:00.001-07:002008-10-27T08:57:38.516-07:00Zul'Aman runOK so as this is my first post I might as well introduce myself. My name is Ian, 24 year old grad student at Duke. Ive been paying WoW for almost a year now, so all i have ever known is the burning crusade. My main toon is of course, Ximera the NE hunter. I also have some baby toons like a lvl26 pally Shetank and lvl43 rogue Etec all on Kael'thas server.<br /><br />Alrighty, so me and the Blood for Blood people went to ZA last night. Most of us had been there before and are pretty good with the first couple bosses, but some people in the raid had not cleared the entire thing before. None the less we stormed past the bear and eagle boss as expected meeting the timers and then moved onto the lynx boss. We used some nice shortcuts, took out the pats and approached Halazzi. We one shot halazzi with our OPed overhealed group withouth much trouble and got the third timer. This was a first for me to get all of them, since the bear mount in the 4th chest is gone now so i hear. From there we picked up the chests and i got a nice primalfury shoulder piece. Finally something to increase my RAP over my S2 gear. Im around 1930 with AoTH on. Next we finished all the needed quest chains that everyone needed so that they could all complete the needed chains. From there we took down the dragonhawk boss without much trouble. Tons of AoE plus controlled bird release equals win. Think only Laris the priest died at the very end. Next came Hex Lord and he too fell by the wayside without much trouble. Adds were CCed or taken down and then hex lord was cake. Finally came Zul'jin. Actually one of what i think is a conceptually easy fight if you understand the phases. He too fell to Blood for Blood without much problems. Unfortunately no Berserkers Call trinket or bow dropped. The nice thing about clearing the place was that once Zul'jin was down there was a dance party in ZA. Some crazy tribal drums and chanting started which was pretty fun. Finally the Amani Trolls have been vanquished!!!Ximerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16363156161274859769noreply@blogger.com2