Last night our guildmate Wiccan got the Legendary staff – Dragonwrath, Terecgosa’s Rest. Perhaps the only thing more legendary than the staff itself was him accepting the staff in his undies and wearing a Chef’s Hat.
Grats Wic, if anyone deserves a legendary, it’s you.
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It’s here folks! The ginormous 100th episode of the Hunting Party Podcast is now available for your listening pleasure.
For this milestone event Darkbrew and Euripides headed to the great North where we invaded Frostheim’s famous “Geek House”.
For those of you who didn’t listen to the live show, this isn’t our normal run-of-the-mill episode. We ditched the abacus and slide rule and replaced them with a bottle of god-awful Canadian Hunter Whiskey.
Michele Morrow helped co-host the show, until she mysteriously disappeared. We were joined by fabulous guests such as Zeherah, Dawn Moore, and BigRedKitty.
We drank, reminisced about the show and it’s origins, and lapsed into total absurdity as the day wore on. It was truly awesome to get to finally meet Euripides and Frost.
Oh and in addition to the main show, we’re going to make the post-show available for listening as well. This will be un-cut and virtually un-edited.
And don’t worry, this isn’t our permanent format, in episode 101 we jump back into the heady Hunter discussions you’ve grown to love.
Greeting folks. Today I’m blogging from 30,000 feet as I fly home from the big 100th episode extravaganza. I’ll post about that tomorrow, but suffice it to say a great time was had by all, although Minnesota was a little too cold for my tastes (yes, even at this time of year).
Today I wanted to briefly talk about the the T13 set bonuses that Blizzard announced yesterday.
No math or science here, this is just me “eye balling” it. I like that fact that the two bonuses compliment each other, and I think Beast Mastery and Survival will benefit greatly from them.
Think about it, more focus regen from Cobra Shot, means fewer Cobra Shots in our rotation. Fewer Cobra Shots means more Arcane Shots. More Arcane Shots means more haste, which in turn means faster Cobra Shots. As I said, this is very nice for BM and SV, but what about Marksman?
I think these bonuses will be less than ideal for Marksman. The problem is they will still need to cast Steady Shot in pairs to get the ISS buff. It may be harder for MM to reduce Steady Shots from their rotation, which means they may quickly find themselves focus capped more often than not.
Not only that, but they’ll need to fire Arcane Shot for the haste buff, which could reduce the number of Aimed Shots and make it harder to use Aimed Shot for their focus dump. We’ll know more once we start testing.
Anywho, this is all sleep deprived, sub-standard coffee, sitting in a cramped airplane speculation on my part. Be sure to tune into the Hunting Party Podcast episode 101 this week to get the full set bonus scoop.
Oh and if you find yourself traveling on a plane that offers wi-fi, just pony-up and pay for it. It’s so worth it.
Good Hunting!
That’s right folks episode 100 of the Hunting Party Podcast is upon us and trust me when I say “it’s going to be a really big shoe!”
First Euripides and I will be flying to Minneapolis and will broadcast the show with Frost at the famous “Geek House”. We’ll start at the same bat-time, but the show will be an epic two hours.
It won’t just be us though. We’ll be joined by some of our favorite guests. The lineup includes,
I’m really looking forward to this show, especially meeting Euripides and Frostheim for the first time. As always the show will begin 1pm Central / 2pm Eastern / 11 am Pacific.
See you tomorrow!
Over on the official forums Blizzard posted a request for feedback on all of the classes. I encourage you to head over to the Hunter thread (US), or Hunter thread (EU) and participate.
This just a reminder that starting on September 3, 2011 live broadcasts of the Hunting Party Podcast will now start at 2pm Eastern (this is four hours earlier than normal).
This schedule should make it more likely that all of the hosts are there for more shows (although not this weekend). It should also allow more of our European fans to tune. More importantly, however, it’s making our wives happier, and you know what they say, happy wife, happy life.
See you on Saturday!
Last night in raid one of our Hunters, Autoshott, whispered me and said “check out my new pet”. “What pet I said, all I see is you standing next to some fire”. Well it turns out that fire was his pet.
I guess no expansion is complete until we get our one quirky pet that’s not supposed to be a pet. This one is actually a raptor, that’s part of a quest. During the quest the raptor explodes and turns into the ball of fire. If you time it just right you end up with the fire and not the raptor. Oh, and you’ll need the help of a friend who is on the quest.
Now a few things to keep in mind before you rush out to get one, this is more than likely going to be nerfed. There are several issues with this pet including,
Blizzard is beginning to talk about patch 4.3, and they’ve announced some pretty cool stuff. One of the amazing things that’s happening is they’re giving us uncommonly good looking hunters the ability to become even more uncommonly good looking than we are now. Can you believe it? I think they’re handing out parkas in Hell, as I speak.
You can read all about this Transgentrification thing here. In short though they’re letting us take our current armor sets and give them the appearance of a different armor set. For example you could take your T12 gear and make it look like T5. If you want to view all of our past armor sets you can check out this thread on MMO-Champion.
At this point I’m rather fond of our current T12 and may just keep that as my look, possibly replacing the helm with goggles. There are two items that are definitively on my list of must haves.
The Wolfslayer’s Sniper Rifle – This was the first “real’ gun that I ever got in the game. I think it’s one of the best looking models, and I shall wreak havoc and destruction with it once again.
Legacy – I’ve always been fond of two handed axes and this is one of the better ones.
Both items drop from the Opera event in Karazhan. The bad news is I deleted these items a long time ago. The good news is I get to run Karazhan again!
So what’s on your Transgentrification list?
