Warpstalkers can’t fly
But apparently they occasionally try to…
There I was attempting to complete that Netherwing quest “The not-so-friendly skies” and I happened to be using the warp (due to helping some casters quest earlier, he is after all my tank pet) - anyway every time I shot at the flybys the warp would simply disappear, all attempts to recall the sod indicated he was dead.
It took three cases of this before I worked out what was going on.
The silly lizard was warping up to (or behind) the orcs adragonback … and then dropping to his death.
Because we happened to be standing on a chunk of floating rock out in the middle of nether space.
Bah, the ditz.
More blog pointing… about blogs even - howzat!
Hmmm I forwarded Out Of Mana’s lastest post on how-to-blog around to just about everyone I know who does blog, because it was classic… and sooo true - even better I read all these guys (which made it twice as funny.)
On that note - you want a resource for developing some unique blog slang to call your own? Try the Urban Dictionary = slang out the, errr “wazoo” so-to-say. That’s right this is the place I send people who can’t understand me, those who are unable to relate to my true self, those philistines who cannot see the true art in my brilliantly distorted, mashed and miss-spelt english/slang/l33tspeak.
*Insert maniacal Mwahahahahahhahahaaahaaaaaaaa here*
Thats RIGHT! I spell Bad cause I WANT tooooo! I Talk bad too! Everything you ever taught me about proper English and punctuation and Grammer? I ignore it all! I even miss-use proper Auzzie slang. Heck I use slang that would make any true blue Australian cringe with shame, “Why must she say Dunnyhead” they say “Can’t she just say shithead like everyone else”.
It takes a lot of effort to be mildly annoying in a well-rounded manner. ^_^
Bah - Currently all I am up for WoW-wise is reading other peoples stuff and saying ‘oh yeah that’s a nice post everyone should read that’. I am looking forward to feeling well enough to type something more significant, damn this office blergh - la sigh.
Personal pet reviews
Now all hunters should know that if they want pet information (how good is it? how bad is it? does it work in pvp? when and how or does it even get to learn dash? … yadda yadda questions) they can find whatever the need over at either Petopia or TKA Something (like info on the new Dire Ravens for example.)
For Sure.
But what I love are a hunters personal opinions, ones that crack me up are even better, take this quote about the loveable sporebat:
“They slowly swim through the air to the mob, and play pat-a-cake with it for a few moments before you pull agro.”
That gem came from Mystic Hunter’s Pet Family Reviews - I certainly recommend reading the rest of the sporebat entry for a laugh.
<3
You know what I love about Mania… and Pike… and BRK… and well all you guys linked over on the right? Its all the bloody hard work you put in on behalf of the hunter community… and because I am secretly crazy for people who can crunch numbers XD
Anyways back to the point of the post - Mania has been running some tests on the growl issue for clarification since opinions are all over the place - her results look pretty solid to me. The Blue rather bluntly smacks this down, probably because they are having no luck working out where the problem is (think positive - they will probably fix it quietly.)
The Mystic hunter smacks back (man this blogger has some read-worthy rants in them *Waves*) and it looks like the blue has moved on to the next topic on the board (kill command macro freezes) with no real growl solutions for us all.
End of the day: well it looks like I will be off to hunt myself a scavenger bird for the extra aggro they generate with screech, this may replace my ever so strange looking, eyeball licking, dragon tanking, but not very threatening warpstalker.
Damn someone got me first o_O
Search Term: ‘petlust’
hmmm…well when a hunter loves a pet very very much, or a pet loves another pet very very much, or a … no.
No I just cant do it.
Brought by the letter ‘G’
GROWL
Looks like the upcoming patch will be messing with our pet’s abilities. Pet attacks will ‘scale’ with pet AP and growl will scale with Hunter AP? or is that no longer scale with pet AP? It’s all very ambiguous all I can tell is “things be a-changing kid”
Go read up at Mania’s Arcania for the news. The Mystic Hunter has a nice rant about it too.
GEAR
Just finished upgrading my farming gear which all gets equipped with Aspect of the Viper when I need to regen mana.
- The Mushie Trinket
- The Zangarmarsh PVP Trinket
- The +22/24int axes (AH greens) with +30int enchants
- And a random +20int ring that fell outa a demon pig… or something - can’t recall
This process was mildly costly because I had to buy the shards for the enchanting (20 gold a pop and I needed four of them.)
And I suffer from the personal belief that enchanters get gipped a fair bit, what with the handling of expensive matts and then getting ‘tipped’ for less than the materials are worth… I mean why not nab the matts and do a runner? Someone’s blog (can’t recall whose) has obviously influenced me greatly because I remember a post on this issue. So anyways I try to pay well, anything from 50-100 gold an enchantment, more if the enchantment is rare/hard to get.
I now no longer have a mana problem, despite being a MM spec build – been utilizing the survival hunters tactics, no really they seem a fairly mana conscious bunch.
- There’s Mishalak’s guide to using trapsto conserve mana while farming
- Chain Trap has also been posting on the issue
- BRK (beast master) has also gotten into the issue from a raid point of view. As he defends his stance on raid dps and mana-up solutions. I think the previous post he made had video footage showing how it all works.
Thanks to the research, the gear, and my change in play, mana hasn’t really been much of an issue lately. Going back to stings and traps was rather brilliant (as a BM the pet did most the work on farming trips, stings were kinda a PVP or instance thing) as I now pull a heck of a lot less aggro from the pet.
GOSSIP
However it looks like the coming patch will also buff Aspect of the Viper to make up for the damage that the changes to spirit have caused. Not that this will affect pets - there didn’t seem to be any mention of fixing that pitiful +55 health regen my cat is suffering from these days due to the spirit changes.
GUIDES
Did some researching on hunter 2V2 tactics for arenas - I think I need to make some maps actually.
- Survival Hunter in Arenas
- Therst’s Hunter/Druid 2v2 Guide on the WoW forums. Brilliant comprehensive guide! It even has a nice quote for our unexplainable wins against the unbeatable druid combos
”Rogue, Druid: This is a pretty easy fight, not one you should ever lose. The only way I can really see this team winning is if your druid is poor on CC, their druid is excellent, and they burst you down. Between roots, cyclones, abolish poison, freezing traps, wing clips, and everything else you have that their druid can do absolutely nothing about, you can kite their rogue all day long.”
So apparently this an easier combination to win against (well if their druid is bad at CC - and I am guessing the bunch we faced were) … the wins still surprised the heck out of us.
Getting on the bandwagon
There appears to be a current (and most amusing trend) of bloggers directly supplying answers to those “search engine terms” people use to find their way onto a blog. First seen (by me) over at For the Horde (split my sides laughing) and noticed (by me) yet again over at The Rabbit and the WoW.
- To the dude who wants to buy a Twisting Nether PVP team. Err mate you don’t want my scrub team… no really…
- To that other guy who wants to know how much a level 70 hunter sells for. I have no idea. Probably less now that players can pay 25 bucks to roll on the arena server and get level 70 with uber gear in a snap.
- To the typer who wants free macros. I would slap the sod that’s been making you pay for em, and go visit wowwiki.
And is it just me or do warp stalkers just get searched for an in an extraordinant manner?
…Green Hunter dithers off and offers no real information (not enough coffee in me – la sigh)
PS: ya know, if you really want to know something I recommend Yahoo Answers - that is one interesting online community.
Big WoW Weekend
Being Queen of the Ogres inspired me … or something. As a new queen I went on a few diplomatic excursions:
I handed in a few shattered sun dailies to finally top-up to Exalted (been slack about them since I brought my epic fly because money no longer matters so much.)
So now I have a pretty new tabard, and an increasing lack of bank space. Frankly I need to gear up for heroics as some of the new badge vendor gear looked nice (understatement of the year.) The Isle is still the gankiest hole on the server at the moment.
I went time-travelling over at the Caverns of Time and saved Thrall from imprisonment, o_O and helped open the Dark Portal… because I am pure chaos like that. Rocketing all the way from nothing to honored with only three instance runs.
Loved these instances, loved my pug groups. I had a lot of fun trapping and the instances seemed pretty straight forward, went in better prepared. But still found I need to rearrange my macro/action shortcuts on the ‘usually crafting’ action bar because my solo PVP setup was kinda all around the wrong way. It has been fairly recent since my last keybinding reshuffle so I hadn’t taken instances into account. Messing with this probably dropped my dps a fair bit but no one seemed to mind/notice/say anything :p.
I went out and whacked Zuluhed the Whacked over the head with an axe and cashed in a couple of batches netherwing dailies so now I am all friendly like with the dragon folk.
Poisoning Orcs made me feel dirty – they was all like “Mutton in my Tummy!” and “Yum” and then they would drop dead saying “You is bad Orc” and I would be like “No. You is bad brother! Oh wait… I poisoned the meat, sacrilege! I am a bad Orc” … damned talking mobs. On and off at this time I was also farming nether dragonscales on neutral to friendly nether dragons (clicking at war baby), which was actually kinda relaxing because they just stood around and let me slaughter them in a very good natured way which didn’t hurt my reputation with that faction at all.
I was a very bad orc.
I loved the booterang quest where you get to chuck a flying pair of boots at disobedient peons, complete with flying boot animation.
… I have realised that I am less than 10 hand-ins away from being revered with the Aldor faction, so I should probably get my act together and farm a few demons.
Updated Addons (KISS style)
(they got thinned out after the last patch)
