No, no. It’s not up yet. Well, not as of the writing of this. But I am excited to see the PTR go up. Lately the blog content has been a lot of personal stories and relating things that happened in-game. The biggest change we had as a class in the last patch was the un-nerfing of some of our BM talents and the addition of Arcane Shot to Ferocious Inspiration which helped that talent tree out a bit but not enough to dethrone Survival.
3.1 is going to be a whole other ballgame however. We will see the adjustment of some MM talents, including our Deep Wounds-esque talent, as well as the new pet talents which are aimed at bringing BM Hunters more up to par again, although still having a deep reliance on pet survivability.
And with a guild that is intent on raiding Ulduar on the PTR it will be great to try the changes out first hand, see what Ulduar has to offer, and of course, bring it for you here on the site.
In-game I’ve been trying to get my little ‘ol healer geared up properly. While in the past I might have been able to convince some people to carry me through Naxx or something, we’re doing this right. Heroics, badge gear, and then moving on to Naxx.
Although I did get lucky. I got invited to heal a 25-man Naxx with just KT left. I warned them I was an alt and what my spell power was. They invited me anyways. It took 2 attempts, but he died, everyone was alive, and I was third on healing.
And then I rolled a 100 on the Helm of the Lost Conqueror. Mush to the dismay of some other folks, but much to the glee of my little Priest. And then, being the single role class that I am, I accidentally bought the shadow helm. What’s with these weird classes having more than one choice anyways? :P A GM said they should be able to fix that though. Hopefully.
I did want to re-test BM again, but was hesitant to spend all the money re-glyping to give is fair numbers. But I also would like to try and find Loque again, so when the PTR goes up I have a Spirit Beast to transfer over with in case BM proves to be top dog (or cat, badum ching) again. But that will require 51-points chillin’ in BM, floating around Sholazar Basin. Again.
Well, that’s really it for now. I think some Guitar Hero is in order for this afternoon. Thoughts, comments, thinks you would like to see covered in a post, put ‘em here.
I am excited to see the changes also and plan on some PTR time.
I don’t think we will see much of Uldar on the PTR. Something tells me they are not going to test it much so it will last us all a while. Bugs, mods not working but no ammo it will be so worth it. I am still curious how this will work, I don’t believe they are going to just give us unlimited ammo. I think something with durability, but who cares if we get another bag slot.
Gratz on guild sounds like having fun already.
I think I remember seeing a blue post somewhere saying that they’d only have Ulduar up parts at a time on the PTR, when they wanted to have something specific tested.
Gratz on your helm though, brings back memories of when the Sunwell badge vendor opened on my server, I’d stayed up all night just in case. When it finally unlocked at like 7 in the morning, I was so tired I bought the resto shaman pants on accident. The guild gave me a lot of shit for it, so I put them on during a boss fight in our SSC raid that night and topped dps, healing pants and all O_o
I’m wonder, what are your thoughts on Marksman? I keep hearing everyone talk about how Survival is top dog, but no one ever talks about MM. I am currently specced 11/55/5 and think it has a lot of advantages over Surv. There is no dependence on trap dancing or being at range (sniper training). It is also highly mobile – Arcane, Aimed, and Chimera can all be shot while moving. Heck, I can even get serpent sting set up while running into position on fights like VoA. Like survival, it doesn’t have a high dependence on pet survivability and can take advantage of the huge amount of haste found on our gear. It also gets a buffed volley. I haven’t found a Survival hunter that I can’t match or beat yet, but maybe I just haven’t found the right one yet. You can see my armory by clicking on my name above.
@Fnarth Survival and MM do have a lot of similarities in playstyle for sure. Sniper Training is really the only thing you could say is tying Survival down in one spot. I haven’t trapped dance with this build other than Thaddius since I am so close to him anyways.
This was brought up in some other comments, but the Survival shot rotation currently feels like a really bad game of Simon Says. Always having to decide whether you should shoot another steady Shot or just wait that last .6 seconds to fire another Explosive Shot.
Zenge mentioned that he specced MM (at least for one night when I spoke to him) and was happy with the numbers MM was able to do. I think the changes should help bring it up a bit more as well.
I am still running around as marks. My DPS has been fairly competative as it outshines other specs on some fights and falls short on others but overall I would say that Survival is more rewarding. If things stay that way I will likely go ahead and make the transition to survival once again.
I hope you don’t mean GH World Tour, because Rock Band > GHWT. ;)
Tora’s last blog post..Speaking of UIs…
@Tora To me, they are all the same. Just different song lists. :) People who played GH first like the GH guitar, people who played RB first like the RB guitar. But unfortunately, I was referring to Guitar Hero 3 for the Wii. I haven’t bothered picking up the others yet.
so excited bout ptr \o/ need patchlog
hope its up anytime soon…..the lvling of alts is a pain :[