Archive for 'Hunters'

Aug200915

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The Spoils Of Patch 3.2

The Spoils Of Patch 3.2Since the day Patch 3.2 was released I’ve been diving head first into running as many Heroics as I can fit into my schedule each day. The number of Emblems of Conquest I’ve managed to rack up since that day is right around 150. Not only was I hitting the older Heroics hard but I’ve also made daily trips into the Trial of Champions as well.

Anyway, since the patch I’ve managed to snag the following gear upgrades on my Hunter through Emblem purchases, lucky drops or cold hard cash:


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Jun200915

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Would You Kill Loque’nahak?

Loque'nahakI’ve been spending a lot of time doing Frenzyheart Tribe dailies and mining in Sholazar Basin now that most people are so busy in Icecrown with their Argent Tournament quests. The one thing I can’t get out of my head as I’m flying around the Basin doing my quests and stuff is this question: would I kill Loque’nahak if I happened to stumble upon her?

I should mention now that I only have one spec on my Hunter and it is Marksmanship. So if I did happen to catch Loque’nahak out of the corner of my eye (because I’m searching for Minerals on my radar, and not Beasts, by default these days) would I “do the right thing” and announce her location in General chat? Or would I be selfish and just kill her off myself for the loot and the chance to cross one more name off on the Northern Exposure achievement?


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May200927

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My New Hunter Pet

Vargul BlighthoundI’ve traditionally used Cats as my Hunter pet of choice. This goes all the way back to my taming of the pet I exclusively used until the release of Wrath: Humar the Pridelord. After my brief fling with the Beast Mastery tree during my leveling to 80, I went back to Cats for DPS purposes once I started running Heroics and the occasional Raid as a Marksman.

Well, I recently made the switch from Cats to Wolves thanks to Furious Howl. The only problem I had was finding a decent looking Wolf to tame. The generic ones in the game just don’t do it for me and I’m not even that into the Shattered Hand Warhounds inside Hellfire Ramparts.


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Mar200910

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Hunter Interest In Dual Spec

Am I the only person playing a Hunter who doesn’t much see the excitement over Dual Spec? Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s absolutely awesome for people playing classes with hybrid talent trees (like my Priest, for instance) but on my Hunter I just don’t see the point or can’t get overly excited by the new system.

I remember hearing BRK talk about this during one of his appearances on the WoW Insider show a few weeks ago. His basic point was that it will only be useful to Hunters as a means of quickly testing switching to another spec on a full-time basis. To him Dual Spec sounded like an easier way to test things out on the training dummies.


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Jan200919

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Pet Food In Wrath Needs Buffed

There’s a recipe in Wrath called Spiced Mammoth Treats that gives your pet a 30 point boost to Stamina and Strength for the period of one hour. That sounds pretty great but the materials for these are pretty steep. Each Treat takes one Chunk o’ Mammoth and one Northern Spice. On my server that translates into a cost of about 7 gold per Treat.

That’s pretty pricey for some pet food. Fortunately, there’s an alternative from the Burning Crusade you should go back and check out. The pet food is called Kibler’s Bits and it offers the same buff as the Mammoth Treat but it only costs one piece of Buzzard Meat to make. That might run you less than one gold per Bit on Greymane right now.


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Jan200906

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Pre-Raiding Hunter Trinkets

Trinkets were one of the few item slots that I was constantly upgrading as I leveled my Hunter throughout Wrath. My other gear, while nothing exceptional, was very difficult to replace until I started to reach the higher levels of the game (77+).

For Hunters, there are several trinkets that are easy to obtain and are pretty much “must have” items. These trinkets aren’t from raids so they should be relatively simple for most casual players to come across. At worst you’ll need to grind some dailies for a few weeks or, if you can stomach the PUG scene, run some Heroics to get these trinkets.


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Dec200813

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Licking Your Wounds Too Fast

Here’s a neat bug/feature associated with Lick Your Wounds that I just noticed: if your pet is summoned or appears as you dismount and is instantly attacked it will perform Lick Your Wounds (assuming you have it on autocast) immediately before the game has a chance to set the pet’s health to 100%.

As most hunters have surely noticed, summoning a pet comes with a slight delay as the game sets the health to maximum. This normally isn’t a big deal except in the above mentioned scenario where your pet instantly appears in the middle of a combat situation.


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Dec200811

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Humar’s Identity Theft

I ran with Humar the Pridelord as my main pet from level 25 until level 70. I’ve since moved on to other pets but Humar remains in my stable waiting for his chance to come out and get to level 80. Humar is, or rather was, one of those rare pets with a unique skin that had to be camped and fought over in order to tame.

Well, with the release of Wrath, those days of uniqueness are unfortunately over.


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