This week on the Hunting Party Podcast, Euripides and I talk to Jurgwena, the PvP writer for OutDPS! If you are a PvE hunter and are looking into the idea of starting some PvP, this is the show for you. You will find that many of the questions we ask are from a perspective of complete cluelessness in regards to PvP. In fact, you could almost call us “PvEtards”.
We also talk about patch 3.2.2’s changes, including Onyxia.
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I’m not a big achievement guy, but there are a couple in the game that really speak to me, and this was one of them. I started planning for this a year ago back when patch 3.0 was on the PTR.
By the way the clothing required for the Disturbing the Peace achievement functions the same way as badge gear, meaning once you buy it there is a a one hour period in which you can sell it back for a full refund.
As far as getting the Violet Protodrake goes, like I said, I’m not a big achievement guy. Maybe next year
This week on The Hunting Party Podcast, we had the great pleasure of interviewing Munken, hunter extraordinaire from Ensidia! For those of you who may not know, Ensidia is a premier sponsored guild (formerly known as SK-Gaming) who has many world firsts under their belt.
Munken is often the camera man for their excellent publicized videos. Anyone who wants to use the same UI that he does can look at it here.
This show, while normally G rated, contains a little colorful vocabulary on the part of our guest.
As always, here is the iTunes store link, the Hunting Party Podcast feed, and the direct XML feed. If you email us comments or questions, we’ll read them on the next show. Send an email to outdps@gmail.com or thebrewhall@gmail.com, and mention “podcast” in the subject.
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This week, we cover the news: faction changes, the armor penetration nerf, 3.2.2, bestial wrath nerfbuff, trial of the grand crusader difficulty, the tier 9 set bonus bug fixes, and Darkbrew’s theories on management. We then answered some listener questions!
Episode 6 of the Hunting Party Podcast was also the first live show, however this caused no end of trouble for our producer because the audio synch was much worse on Talkshoe.com than it is on Skype. Until we can find something with as much quality as Skype that allows us to broadcast our voices and provides a chat room, we’re going back to canned podcasts.
As always, here is the Hunting Party Podcast feed, or here is the direct XML feed. If you email us comments or questions for Munken from Ensidia, we’ll ask him on the (hopefully next) show. Send an email to outdps@gmail.com, and mention “podcast” in the subject.
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This weekend, we’ll be recording our first live Hunting Party Podcast at 5:00 PM EST on Saturday the 12th of Sept. Here’s the ustream link!
Ustream is worse than useless. Never use them if you can avoid them. We’ll be broadcasting on Talkshoe!
It should be starting a few minutes after the wow.com post show. The episode will be released on iTunes and RSS early the next week, like usual, so our awesome producer can get his hands on it and fix up the sound post process.
(Special thanks to Euripides for organizing all of this.)
Episode 5 of The Hunting Party is here. Unfortunately for me and perhaps good for you, I was unable to be a part of this episode. This week the role of Darkbrew was performed by none other than Brigwyn. Euripides started with the interview, and then went over the news.
I’ve been getting questions about the song we use- the song is called “Turn You Out” from the “Deliverance” album, and the band is called “Bionic”.
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Today I’m going to continue with my Eight Simple rules series, as I present to you rule #5 – Ventrilo and Addons. We require all raid members to use Ventrilo during raids. We also require that all raid members have certain addons installed, as well as require some role specific addons.
AFK’s will be raid wide and not on an individual basis. During each raid at specific times it will be called out to take a 5 min afk for the entire raid. There are to be no other afk’s (emergencies excluded) by individuals. The raid will not wait for an unscheduled afk. If you are caught afk when we move on or even start a boss fight, it will be started without you. If it happens more than once you will be removed from the raid and replaced. If it becomes a recurring theme with an individual, that person will not be invited back to raids. This is a very important rule, this allows the raid to run quickly, efficiently, and keeps everyone and everything on track. We will be able to maximize the 3 hours set out for raiding and everyone will be available for each and every fight. This includes running back when we wipe. Wiping is not a declaration for afk. If you die and it is a wipe, release, run back in and be ready to buff and go. Do not wait around for a rez, this wastes everyone’s time and you won’t be receiving it if everyone else is running back. If you have to have an afk for some reason, at the very least send the raid leader a tell as to why and how long.
Tell me if you’ve seen this before. The raid leader has just gone through a lengthy explanation of the boss fight and issues the ready check. Everyone responds but one person (a healer or tank of course). The raid leader sends the player a tell and asks in Vent. if they’re there. Nothing but silence. Someone has taken a ninja AFK.
Come prepared. This means multiple things. It is extremely important that you have your potions (healing/mana), flasks (stonesblood, etc), any specific gear requirements (frost resist piece for saph), individual food buffs in case a fish feast is not available, reagents, etc. Do not rely on others to have these for you and do not rely on the raid to get you through without them. Mana potions mean we can get maximum usage out of you during a fight, health potions make the difference between you dying and giving a healer those extra few seconds to hit you with a heal, frost resist means healers are working much less on the entire raid… I can go on and on, but suffice to say, these things are a *requirement*. This also extends to meeting the requirements to make it to a raid. In other words, if to arrive at a raid requires a flying mount, you must have one. The raid will not be summoning you every time we wipe. Finally, this also branches out to knowing the fights. If we are going to be doing content that is new to you, PLEASE spend the fifteen minutes needed BEFORE the raid night to go to a site like bosskillers.com to view the fight strategies and how the fight works. Just this *basic* knowledge will help you when the raid leader explains the fight and will help the raid get going much quicker. Come prepared to each and every raid. Read the rest of this entry »
Be on time. This is as simple as it gets. The invites start 15 minutes before the scheduled raid time. This means if the raid starts at 9pm, you need to be online for your invite at 8:45pm. Do not be in a heroic, do not be in Wintergrasp pvp’ing, be ready for the invite and ready to head to the instance. The first pull is expected to be at the time listed for the raid start. This means everyone there, inside the instance and buffed by the raid start time. The raids will be scheduled for 3 hours, this is a strict 3 hours from start to finish. We will begin on time and end on time.
Today I bring you another post from my Captain Obvious collection. The on-time start is about as rare as a hunter who has all three spirit beasts.
If there’s one thing I plan to drive home in this series is that raiding is a team effort. It’s not unlike being on a softball team or tennis team. Your attitude and behavior impacts the other players around you and their enjoyment of this game. Read the rest of this entry »
Protip - When using the self-checkout at the grocery store place heavy items on the belt first and softer items like potato chips last. DOH! 1 month ago
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The Brew Hall
