Tuesday

Ulduar

Forgot to post this. This was last nights Ulduar run wws report. Things didn't go quite to plan and we are still struggling to pull members into raids, so there was some swapping people in and out due to unstable connections and time constraints.For those who still think Beast Mastery is not a viable raid spec, it really is and still worth speccing. 2nd on over all dmg and I'm a Beast Master with Devilsaur is damn good in my opinion. The Survival hunter didn't have anything on me. Though he isn't as well geared as me which is a factor I know. But still!

I've revised some macros due to 3.1 (kill shot on GCD now so can't be added to the normal macro

Also tweaked my Survival pet macro for a better pet managment macro that includes Black Arrow, just so i dont have too many key binding cluttering up my bars.

#showtooltip
/cast Black Arrow
/cast rabid
/cast call of the wild
(you can add another line such as)/cast Serenity Dust for moths or other pet abilities.

This works well and means you can make sure Black Arrow is up when its ready as well as casting and pet abilitys that maybe available too as rabid is 30 sec CD and so is Black Arrow.

macro for Kill shot
/stopcasting
/cast Kill Shot

This stops casting steady shot if you are in the middle of casting it when Kill Shot becomes available.

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Noble Garden - The art of patience

Well, at least this world event was easy. Laborious and RNG driven but easy and relatively quick to do compared to some of the other events.

I hate the RNG (Random Number generator) which assigns a reward to each drop, be that the mundane 90% chocolate drops or the other less common or rare drops of pets, outfits or other goodies.

I’m pretty sure the RNG hates me with a vengeance as after 200 eggs (100 for the chocoholic achievement) and no drops of the rare variety. 100 or so eggs later and I ended up buying all the achievement items from the noble garden vendor. After that, the achievements came thick and fast with the exception of finding a cow and dwarf for “shake that money maker”. Though even that only took a few goes of wandering round Dalaran waiting for one to appear that didn’t already have “bunny ears”. All in all, fun and another pet to add to my collection which makes 68 in total.

Good tip I sat in Azuremyst Isle (Azure Watch) Round the back to the south, in between a bulkhead and a tree a good spot to camp, you are in good range of 4 eggs that spawn fairly regularly and most of the time the people that come sprinting past miss them more often than not.

I look good in my Easter, oops I mean Noble Garden outfit

Looking forward to Children’s’ Week I’ve been told you can get 3 pets during this event. These come from Stormwind Orphanage, Shattrath Orphanage and if you are in good reputation with Oracles in Sholazar Basin, another one from there too. This is all-good and will bring me that much closer to 75 pets for my Fawn.


Post wise things are a bit slow at the moment with lots of raiding going on trying to get bosses down in Ulduar and the tournament, which I have to confess I’m bored of the daily quests already with.

I am however doing a level 1-58 basics guide for new hunters and will follow this up with an outlands one. Should see this hopefully soon.


Happy egg hunting

Saphirestar

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Well hello there fellow blogger


Today was as ordinary a day as any other; I was browsing the forums as I usually do looking for posts I can help on. Scrolling down the page 1 at a time reading the various QQ threads; we suck threads, please help threads. When i came across a thread called PVE pets, a thread i'd posted on before to say what pets I currently use. Scrolling down the replies I see a post which I read as usual and as I normally down looked at the signature (which are eitther funny, lame or quite witty).
This one was different
Each day is a gift, not a right.
The signature read. Nothing differnet here? Nope i'd seen the signature before. What did catch my eye was what was underneath the first line

Inspired by Saphirestar;
my blog - http://thehunterspeak.blogspot.com/


OMG OMG OMG !

Then my thoughts tured dark is this a blog to parody me or to QQ me (dont flatter yourselfself I thought), so quite anxious I copied and pasted the blog address and indeed it's a great blog done very well by one Dothias of Regiment of Stormwind on the Darkmoon Faire server.

Kudos to you Dothias for starting your own blog I will be reading with interest :D

Thanks you so much for your signature. Love you loads Dothias and well done again.

Go on over to The Hunters Peak and have a look.

Happy Hunting
Saphirestar

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The 3.1 Wait


Now I know we all complain about 3.1 taking ages, and I can understand that Blizzard want to make sure pretty much everything works ok before it becomes live. Well enough so that they don’t have too much to fix when 3.1 breaks. Which it inevitably will as patches always do

Missing in Action
It seems to me though that guilds are really struggling with the wait for 3.1. I’m seeing a lot of people leaving wow for other games or just not logging on because they are bored with the content we have at the moment. Are other guilds having this issue too?.. yes they are. It’s sad to say that Wrath seems to be far to easy. TBC lasted for 7-12 months before most guilds had end game content on farm, how long has Wrath been out, 5 months or so and the guild I’m in has had 25 man Naxx on farm for months already.
For hunters and probably a few other classes have found that heroics and dungeons are just not challenging anymore. Gone are the times that traps are necessary, tactics are required, strategy and timing of chain traps, saps pulls and the satisfaction of pulling it all off and living to get the phat loot.
Remember the days of Moroes in Kara, god damn fight that was :P and having a good hunter to chain trap or even 2 hunters chain trapping 2 adds was hard to come by, and those that could pull it off were Hunters to hold onto. Or even Magister’s Terrace and the amount of cc, timing and strategy it took to live through that. Where has all the satisfaction gone? We nuke aoe tank, aoe damage and move on.
I miss the challenge as I’m sure the rest of you do too.
I’m hoping so very hard that Ulduar brings some of this challenge back for Hunters and raids in general. I’ve not been watching the PTR closely so I don’t know much about the raid to come and at the moment its so up in the air still things are still changing day on day, so who knows what it’ll end up like, or how long the new patch will entertain us for.

WTB Guildies
Have we all noticed the lack of guildies lately? Players sitting back waiting on new content. Fusion has been trying hard and kudos to Hopegiver and Manusdei for trying to keep our guild raiding every week, when we are seeing fewer and fewer members logging on. From what we can gather it’s the same apathetic thinking that we saw in the months before Wrath. People have all the gear they require and cba to keep raiding until 3.1 comes or feel that logging on to a game they’ve pretty much completed is just boring. It’s frustrating to see this happen yet again and I would have hoped that Blizzard would have learned something from the last time and kept the content challenging, but alas no.
With games like ROM, Spellborn and Darkfall, people are looking for other games to play and either leave WoW altogether or leave until new content is released making it that much more difficult for those few left behind to carry on raiding and enjoying the game or getting the gear they are still missing. Now I’m now Qqing here, I can understand people getting bored and burnt out by the gear grind World of Warcraft has become. My partner this month the invincible Hangman quit World of Warcraft this month because he has become indifferent to gaming and really struggles to get any enthusiasm for the game any more and I’m sure this is the same for a lot of people who have stopped playing wow or drifted away from it to another game. And here is where the cracks start to appear. As we try to keep on raiding we are taking on more members to pad out the raids and then when the older members come on they find themselves left out for the newer members that we have recruited. Causing stress and tension, bad feelings and feelings of being left out even though guilds try to rotate members. It’s a sad thing but its happening and guilds are breaking down because of it. It’s a real shame. Aerie Peak EU have seen quite a few big guilds go the last few weeks


Feel the love

It’s a hard balance this game is supposed to be fun for all if you find it boring its no longer fun and for those members left behind wanting raid it is no longer fun because they don’t have enough members to do so. I think what I’m trying to get at here, for those still playing but unable to raid due to dwindling numbers is be kind to your raid / guild leader. They have and probably still are trying to get members to get you all raiding again or continuing to raid. Give them some slack if you can’t go one raid then it’s not the end of the world, or if you are not taken to a raid but a new member is, don’t feel left out. Raid leaders and guild leader’s realms over are struggling to keep the balance and momentum going. Trying to gear up new members for the content available and raids to come is especially hard at the moment because those who have drifted away or don’t log on are now unknowns. Will they come back? will they start to play actively again? Have they gone for good? Who knows, and that what guild/ raid leaders are having to think about when getting raids together at the moment.
Love your guild leaders and raid leaders they have a hard enough task as it is. I say this as an ex guild leader and ex raid leader. Its a lot harder than it look. There is a lot of stress involved and they don’t leave people out of raids out of spite. If they could take everyone online they would if they could. You must also understand their frustration when there isn’t enough online and the feelings that they are letting you down as you rely on them for setting up raids.




I know 3.1 will be here.. Eventually.
Hang in there it’ll be here soon

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