Sorry folks no Hunting Party Podcast again this week. Too much real-life collision again. We should be back on track next week to discuss patch 5.1, the new raid, and Hunters in general.
Oct 272012
Oct 192012
We, the hosts, have too much stuff going on this weekend so there will not be a podcast this weekend. Last week’s episode should be out soon, and I’m pleased to tell you that we’ll be releasing last week’s post show with BRK sometime next week.
Thanks for listening.
Oct 172012
Patch 5.1 testing continues and Blizzard is now starting to release some of the class balance changes that are inevitable once players migrate into end-game raiding and PvP. Hunters are getting a huge buff to their mobility in patch 5.1. According to MMO-C, Steady Shot, Cobra Shot and Barrage will be useable while moving. I’ll say it again, Steady Shot, Cobra Shot and Barrage will be useable WHILE MOVING.
There’s no mention of Aspect of the Fox in the patch notes, but one would assume that it will be redesigned or removed all together. I suspect the the latter myself.
If this is indeed the direction that Blizzard is going with these abilities then it’s a very nice change. The benefit for PvP is that Hunters can now be in Aspect of the Hawk 100% of the time, rather than Fox 100%. For PvE this means no more aspect dancing. Ultimately Hunters gain more from this change in PvP than PvE, but it’s fantastic for both.
It was pretty well known that Blizzard wasn’t happy with Aspect Dancing. During the MoP beta they tried to address it by putting Aspects on the GCD, but this was unpopular and they reverted it.
In Episode 141 of the Hunting Party Podcast we talked to Zumio who had a pretty negative opinion on Hunter aspects in general. He even went so far to suggest that Blizzard change Steady and Cobra to fire on the move. It appears that Blizzard agrees with that assessment – for now.
Sep 272012
This Saturday, September 29th, Big Red Kitty will be our guest on the Hunting Party Podcast. We’ll get the scoop on what he’s been up to, his thoughts on Mists of Pandaria, Hunters and what his plans are for this expansion.
- When: Saturday, September 29th, 2pm EST.
- Where: http://huntingpartypodcast.com
Thanks for listening and we’ll see you on Saturday!
Jul 142012
Hi folks, unfortunately real-life has conspired against Frostheim, Euripides and Darkbrew so there will not be a podcast today, July 14th, 2012. We should be back with a new show next Saturday.
As always, thanks for listening.
Mar 172012
Happy St. Patrick’s day to you, and happy blogiversary to me! It’s hard to believe that it was three years ago today that I decided to throw my hat into the Hunter blogging ring.
Now back in March of 2009 the blogging landscape looked a lot different than it does now. BigRedKitty was still active and sitting atop the Hunter blogging throne. Sites like Aspect of the Hare, The Hunting Lodge, and Slow Wolf were also going strong.
OutDPS was only about a month old and The Huntsman’s Lodge and the Warcraft Hunters Union were picking up steam. It was an intimidating pool to dive into, but I’m glad I took the leap.
This has been and continues to be a great ride. I haven’t written much during the course of this expansion, mainly because I found Cataclysm to be somewhat uninspiring, and the podcast is a great outlet to talk about things. Some highlights from the last three years are -
- Deciding to just blog.
- Doing the Hunting Party Podcast.
- Getting a chance to meet Euripides and Frostheim in person.
- Starting a guild with Euripides that has lasted for almost two-years now.
- Darkbrew Lager.
- Finally winning a Cataclysm beta key after writing many a haiku and losing many a contest.
- Getting a chance to talk to people who know a lot more about Huntering that I ever will.
My favorite post that I wrote was this one.
My two favorite screen shots that I ever took were -
In fact WoW Insider stole the Lich King one for this article :P .
Thanks to all of you who continue read this blog and listen to the podcast. I’ll be here for Mists of Pandaria, and I hope you will be too.
Feb 022012
Euripides posted an update regarding the technical issues we’ve been having with our podcasts. We apologize for the delay in getting them out to you. The good news is things should be resolved and all of our episodes are published and available for download. Currently your best option is to get them through iTunes. We’ll get the official site updated, but it looks like it will be a manual process. You can read Euripides update below.
Hey folks, sometime recently, our FTP server stopped working. It was bound to happen eventually, but I suspect our hosting provider simply turned us off. We were doing 50GB a day of FTP traffic on a virtual private server, and I think that’s the definition of a “bad neighbor”.
We toyed briefly with an account at uploadingit.com, who advertises 100GB per day of transfer (probably enough most days), and to their credit, they even privately offered us an increase for the days we publish the show so long as our average stayed under 100GB. Unfortunately, they’ve been fraught with downtime lately, and as we were uploading the show to them, they went down. Right after I posted that the Kruf episode (116) was working again.
We considered cloud storage from a few different vendors (Amazon, and the likes) but with our monthly 1.5TB of FTP traffic, it’d have been way too expensive. We also considered Libsyn and Podbean and other types of unlimited bandwidth podcasting hosts, however they charge by the amount of shows you have available at one time, and we wanted to keep the whole show downloadable. Also, their pricing structure seems to reflect that they do most of the legwork involved in setting up a new podcast, but we don’t need any of that. We only needed someone to serve our files.
Anyways, I remembered that the space upgrade at wordpress.com was in fact considerably cheaper than a lot of the other hosting options out there, and while they had had flakey downtime and latency issues two years ago when we used them, I’d heard good things about them since. Long story short, we’re going to be using the wordpress.com hosting service from now on. If you ever have issues playing the podcast, please get in touch with Euri by email.
Dec 212011
Let me start with a quick apology for last week. I fully planned on being there for episode 111 of the Hunting Party Podcast, but Skype did not want any part of it. I think the technical issues are resolved, so if we’re a go for Christmas Eve, then I’ll be there. I’m also working with Euripides to get some of these episodes cut and out the door.
I’m on my second week of raiding since coming back from vacation and things are moving along nicely. I’m in that awkward 12.5 stage. I’ve acquired a few good pieces of T13 gear, but haven’t quite shed all of the T12 yet.
Between the raid finder and our normal runs I’ve acquired six upgrades including weapons and the 2-piece set bonus; can’t wait to see that in action. It looks like I’ll acquire two more items from badges this week. I just need to decide which two.
Getting all of this gear is great, but with everyone running LFR with their alts, gemming and enchanting this stuff is a nightmare. There isn’t much on the AH, what is there is exorbitantly expensive. All told I need nine red gems, a yellow gem, 2H weapon enchant, chest enchant, leg enchant, shoulder enchant, glove enchant, eng. tinker for gloves. On top of that I’ll have reforge everything.
In many ways it’s no different from any other tier. It’s just that in the past I don’t recall the upgrades coming so fast and furiously. Good problems to have, unless you need to have it all ready to go in about 30 minutes.
Good Hunting!
Dec 032011
Chuck Norris and patch 4.3.
Here’s the site where we host our shows live.
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You can now stream our show onto any mobile device through Stitcher.com, for those of us who prefer something like Android to the iPhone. 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 huntingpartypodcast@gmail.com. Also, we love iTunes reviews. So please drop by iTunes and mention what you thought of the show.
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Nov 172011
This week, we discuss the deluge of Hunter news that Blizzard cast upon us. We have an update on the fate of the Serenity addon, and we clear out the mailbag.
Here’s the site where we host our shows live.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
You can now stream our show onto any mobile device through Stitcher.com, for those of us who prefer something like Android to the iPhone. 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 huntingpartypodcast@gmail.com. Also, we love iTunes reviews. So please drop by iTunes and mention what you thought of the show.
If you don’t do syndicated podcasts, and just want to download this week’s MP3 and play it on your player of choice, click here.