Blizzcon 2013

 Mists of Pandaria, World of Warcraft  3 Responses »
Feb 192013
 

Blizzard announced today that the next Blizzcon will be held on November 8-9th 2013. I have never attended a Blizzcon and probably won’t try to go to this one, although I love the idea of doing a live Hunting Party Podcast from the event.

As we all know, Blizzard loves to announce big things at this event and I suspect this year will be fraught with major news. I would expect an update on the Warcraft movie, information about the next WoW expansion, and plans for WoW’s 10th anniversary in 2014. The big announcement that seems long overdue is Titan. What exactly is it, and will this be the WoW killer? Something I think we all want to know. Maybe this Blizzcon will shed some light for us.

I definitely would love to hear what Titan is all about, but I also want to know about the next expansion (return of the Burning Legion?) and all the cool things they have in store for the Hunter Class.

So what do you want to see announced at Blizzcon, xpac, Titan, Hunter changes?

The Hunting Party, Episode 3

 Cataclysm, Darkbrew, Hunters, Podcasts  No Responses »
Aug 272009
 

This week Euripides and I conquer some technical difficulties and manage to discuss,


  • Hunter changes from Blizzcon.


  • Pets and what Blizzard can do to give us more variety.


  • Stat simplification for WoW: Cataclysm.


  • Talent Changes and the Mastery system.


  • Icecrown Citadel.


  • Listener mail.



Enjoy and please send us your questions and comments.  E-mail us thebrewhall@gmail.com and outdps@gmail.com.

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Good Hunting!

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It’s a Start

 Cataclysm, Hunter Pets, Pets  No Responses »
Aug 252009
 
  • Hunters might be able to choose the talent tree of their pet to let them pick the pet that looks best to them…

One of the big gripes I have with the current pet system is that it locks pets into very specific rolls with very specific abilities.  As a result certain pets are coming out ahead and falling into a “best in slot” category.  For instance, almost every raiding hunter is running with a wolf.

If Blizzard wants hunters to be able to choose pets based on what the individual hunter thinks looks best, then they also need to allow the hunter to train specific abilities, such as Furious Howl, to the pet.

Being able to turn a turtle into a ferocity pet is nice, but unless you can train the turtle in Furious Howl, the wolf will still remain the top choice.

In patch 3.1 Blizzard removed Thunderstomp from gorillas and added it to the Tenacity talent tree allowing hunters to train any tenacity pet with that ability.  I loved that change as did most hunters.

A lot of us joked about how is it possible for a worm to Thunderstomp?  Yes the idea is silly and so is the idea of a crab learning Furious Howl, but you know what, it works.  I think we all have to recognize that this is a game, and certain elements have to be treated or accepted as such in order to provide a greater functionality to the players.

After all, we are hunters, the great beast masters.  We can train our pets to do anything.  Yes we’re just that good.

Now it’s off to see if I can train one of my cats to use the coffee maker.