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Hunter Progress, Gaming news

Roberto — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:01:19 +0000

I’ve finally found a little bit of time to take my hunter out to Northrend and level up. The quests seem fairly easy and at most times solo’able with a hunter and a gorilla pet. I really enjoy what Blizzard has put on the table with this expansion. It is unfortunate to mention that my account has expired and won’t be updating until maybe late December or early January. I feel like it’s time for me to start reading a little more and be less distracted to get certain goals done.

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I find myself with a Death knight

Roberto — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:38:27 +0000

Somehow after all the preaching of me quitting WoW for a few months to take a break, and read a couple of books that have been sitting around on my bookshelf, I some how ended up owning a copy of Wrath of the Lich King and enjoying the new Death Knight class. On the friday after the release I went with my little brother Best Buy so that he could purchase his copy of Burning Crusades. While we were there I came across the shelf that had various copies of WotLK sitting around. It was a bad idea to carry the $20 Rewards Zone Coupon with me. I was sold into buying the new expansion.

Though I am not familiar with the class I find myself enjoying it a whole lot. From the quest line to getting rotten tomatoes thrown at me while walking into Ogrimmar. As always I chose the Blood Elf race, as I’ve been fond of since the release of Burning Crusades (yes I have played other races before*original toon*).

In all honesty I’m currently far more interested in leveling my DK over my hunter. Maybe my decision will change later but it’s where I’m standing at the moment.

All in all good luck and good gaming in Northrend.
http://deathknight.info/ – Death Knight resources.

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Of raids, and World of Warcraft

Roberto — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:28:57 +0000

Ever since the release of 3.0.2 there has been a whole bunch of people “pugging” Vanilla and Burning Crusade raid content on a daily basis on the Sentinels server. I am guilty of doing the same as I’ve done Onyxias Lair, AQ40, and some others. It also amazes me that people are on a crazy badge of justice collection spree, knowingly that their gear will be phased out in less than a week. In a sense it is great to see this because a whole lot of people who otherwise wouldn’t have ever seen the old or current high end content are actually given a chance to experience it. People are being a little more social, and united for these causes. Heck I’ve even see attempts at the opposing faction leaders. It’s great, it has brought life back into the game. Though its unfortunate I won’t be purchasing the expansion at release I am looking forward to more endless questing and a never ending To-Do list of achievements to complete.

World of Warcraft Latino!

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Beast Master

Roberto — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:36:03 +0000

I noticed a whole bunch of Hunters not being able to produce as much damage as they should be doing while in raids or instances. Though it really is not as much needed right now as it may be during the Wrath release, I feel like they should be practicing for the next-gen raid content. So far I’ve been able to out DPS everyone in my group (including those with the 51 point BM specs), and it’s not really due to the fact that I have a better weapon or what not, because some are better geared than me. It’s just the use of their spec and skills. I also noticed a whole bunch of hunters running out of mana midway through raid boss fights like with Nightbane in Karazhan or any of the ZA bosses. My quick fix to this has been using my haste drums or using rapid fire in combination with Aspect of the Viper. Of course you can always tweak your spec a little to also gain mana by using the Invigoration, Cobra Strikes combination.

In any case here are two different specs that I’ve been experimenting with for current pre-wrath raiding. I’m sure you’ll want to respec when Wrath is out to a more leveling spec.

Current Spec , Raiding Spec (needs more testing)

Remember to check out other hunter sources as well:

http://www.qqpewpew.com/
http://www.bigredkitty.net/
http://elitistjerks.com/f31/

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Interest in WoW falling

Roberto — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:17:29 +0000

Though the new patch is out and looking amazing, I must say that I am slowly losing interest in the game more and more. Last night we had a fairly nice Karazhan run, one shot everything in the instance. Though it was fun and simple, I just miss the challenge behind the game. Being able to run Heroic MgT in under 30 mins, and watching people in all green gear clear through heroics and raids just doesn’t work well for me. I spent so much time gearing up and now that I’m at a point where I can run some T6 content with ease I don’t really find it as big of a deal. It may just be because most gear will be nerfed once you reach Northrend, so it is in a sense a wasted effort.

In any case I found a neat web app for those who are hardcore into raid stats. It’s WoW Web Stats, a web app that uploads your battle log and parses it into some nice stats. It has been recently updated to support 3.0+ and fairly neat for those numbers guys like myself.

Tanking, a whole new perspective of WoW

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3.0 coming tomorow

Roberto — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:55:11 +0000

I’m having mixed feelings about the new patch that’s due out tomorrow. Mixed by either making the game far better than what it is right now or having failed on my expectations and making me completely lose interest in the game. I’m also not looking forward to the new hunter trees mainly because there is not much data yet to determine what the best leveling spec, and raid dps spec would be. Just as the cookie cutter 41/20/0 spec on BM is considered the best on the dps charts, there is no means of telling what it will be tomorrow. I am looking forward to some of the mechanics, and even the new calendar system.

meh all in all its just the wait.. i hope blizzard doesn’t disappoint me.

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Beast Lord Set

Roberto — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:18:48 +0000

I’ve been doing some heavy heroic instance grinding almost every day trying to get badges for some of the new 2.4 badge gear. In this time I have successfully collected the full Beast Lord armor set, and a whole bunch of epic items. In this time I have been working on hard on trying to develop my chain trapping skills, and CC skills in general (yeah there is more to it than just freezing traps). Though I have been running Karazhan on a weekly basis, and collected a couple of epic item upgrades from there I still can’t see myself dropping two pieces of the beast lord set from my bags. The extra 5 seconds in cooldown for your traps is the best armor set bonus I have experienced yet the only thing better than this would be the item bonuses from the Rift Stalker armor set (yes the Demon Stalker set bonus is horrid). In any case, I would highly recommend any hunter to at least pursuit any 2 pieces of the Beast Lord set and be able to show off your amazing CC skills.

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Hunter Macros I currently use.

Roberto — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:14:27 +0000

Lately I’ve been trying to write macros for my hunter to make life a little easier. Going through the web and sort of picking out things from here and there I have managed to make a few macros to make things a step or two shorter.

Focus Target
/focus target

This I use in combination with Assist Focus and Pet Assist Focus on the Main Tank. If you in an instance or raid and are afraid of breaking Sheep or other CC, you use this macro first to get focus on your tank then you use the Assist Focus which will start using Auto shot on your tanks target, or Pet Assist Focus to send your pet out to your tanks target. Keep in mind that you only need to focus on your Tank once during the instance, irregardless of having a wipe or what not.

Assist Focus
/assist focus
/cast !Auto shot

Pet Assist Focus
/assist focus
/cast Hunter’s Mark(Rank 4)
/petattack

The Pet assist Focus can be useful in other situations as well. For example you are given the trust of Freeze Trapping a target what you do is after the initial pull you use this macro to have your pet start attacking while you freeze trap your target.

Distracting Shot
#showtooltip
/cast Distracting Shot(Rank 7)
/stopcasting

Using a Distracting Shot macro makes it easier for anyone who has auto shot go off automatically after using a Distracting Shot, when trying to pull a mob onto a Freezing Trap. This will help you avoid breaking your own traps by using the /Stopcasting command right after.

Feed Pet
/cast [nocombat] Feed Pet; [combat] Mend Pet
/use [pet:Bear/Boar/Wind Serpent, nocombat] Conjured Manna Biscuit; [pet:Cat/Ravager/Wolf, nocombat] Smoked Talbuk Venison

This Feed Pet macro is somewhat self explanatory. It checks to see if you are in combat, if you are it will Mend Pet, otherwise it will feed it a specific food accordingly by pet race. Currently I use a Wind Serpent on 25 man raids, like taking advantage of the free food a mage can conjure for you via a table or spell. On the other hand I use a Ravager for my instance, and heroic runs and like using the cheaper of the two high level vendor meats.

Self Bandage
/use [target=player] Heavy Netherweave Bandage

This is self explanatory, it will use a Heavy Netherweave Bandage on you.

I’m sure there are other useful macros available out there, such as shot rotation macros, and even for equipping specific gear for certain situations.

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Huntard Progress..update

Roberto — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:21:12 +0000

I’ve been using my hunter a little more often now trying to gear him up a bit. Seeing that WoLK won’t be out until Q4 of this year according to WoWInsider, I’ve decided to give a little life to my hunter and started running various Heroics and regular instances. I just can’t see myself doing daily quests at the Isle. Overtime I’ve managed to upgrade almost all of my armor from the original PVP gear I was utilizing to something more useful for PVE.

I also managed to reach revered status, and close to exalted now with Cenarion Expedition which enables me to obtain better arrows than the ones sold by the merchants at the major cities. I also placed a Glyph of Ferocity on my headgear, Inscription of Vengeance on my Shoulders, and a Cobrahide Leg Armor on my Beast Lord Leggings. Unfortunately after 10 runs at Shadow Labs I have not been successful at getting my Sonic Spear. With all these upgrades I should now be right in the good radar of a full Karazhan run. Of course I could always use upgrades but that’ll just happen as time goes by. The only issue I have now is that I’m not in a guild right now, so it’s mainly Kara pugs that I’m looking at until I find a guild that I like.

Hopefully I’ll have more upgrades soon.

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World of Warcraft Latino!

Roberto — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:12:21 +0000

We are just 3 days away from the July 25th release of the official World of Warcraft Latino American Servers. Unfortunately I won’t able to participate in this event seeing that I don’t have my account activated at the moment and probably won’t for another three weeks or so.

On a side note, I have gone through the Latino server forums and have noticed a lot of chaos going on about the release because only a select few US servers are going to have the option of being able to transfer their characters to the new server;

Agamaggan
Andorhal
Burning Blade
Burning Legion
Hakkar
Kalecgos
Lightning’s Blade
Shadowmoon
Skullcrusher
Smolderthorn
Spinebreaker

I see it being a bit unfair as there are a lot of players in other servers whom I’ve met before that are from South/Central American countries. I personally would have liked to transfer my main Hunter onto the Latino servers. This would have helped me work on my spanish skills really well. I hope Blizzard comes to their senses and decide to give everyone an equal opportunity to transfer if they want to.

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