It’s funny, I spent all that time figuring out what was causing havoc on the site so I could get it running nice and smooth. And now that I do, I can’t think of anything to cover. The blog has become very raid-centric and there just hasn’t been too much to cover that hasn’t already been beaten to death.
My guild is working on hard modes and as we get them down I want to make some narrative videos going over what’s going on. Tomorrow is another night on Thorim hard-mode, and after last week I am feeling really confident about our performance and the possibility of killing him. Which opens up a world of “holycrappleasedropthecrossbow.”
So until those videos are ready, are there topics people would like to see covered? It doesn’t matter if it’s about Naxxramas or other older raids, certain game or class mechanics, or anything because as it stands, I am drawing a blank.
Leave your thoughts or suggestions in the comments.
Drotara (or BehemothDan) considers himself a geek on many levels. A web developer and programmer by trade, he has no shortage of geeky hobbies. Whether it's trying to stay current in World of Warcraft raiding, playing competitively in the WoW TCG, Magic: The Gathering with friends, or a night at the local shop playing DnD, it's all good to him!
Did you do Yogg already? Any practical tips? I know what the fight is supposed to be like, but the couple of times that we reached him we didn’t get through phase 1.
To Shy:
http://www.qqpewpew.com/2009/05/14/yogg-saron-with-commentary/
To Drotara:
How about taking another look at how the Shandara’s Spreadsheet functions? Take the pro’s and cons of it, why the best spec / DPS on it isn’t always going to be the best DPS on a specific fight, etc. Maybe take a look at min / max’ing and the little things even casual guilds can (and should) do to do better? Maybe even going back to some basics that involve soloing instances, how to do group CC efficiently or solo Mage-Lord Urum.
We could discuss the pet stats for if and when they let pets scale with all ratings next patch, and how it in particular affects BM hunters.
Two things on my mind:
1. Will agility gems replace ap gems because pets will scale with crit?
2. Will armor pen scaling let BM soar back to the top dps spec? (I can now ignore 30% armor with my “BM set”.)
It’s funny. This whole thread (and the blog as a whole in the last couple months) has been a microcosm of the hard core raiding mentality as a whole: You raid and do nothing else.
I guess surfing a blog while at work counts as raiding too? Raiders have full time jobs too.
Is there any doc on what heals pets, i.e. the passive/AoE heals? Things like healing stream totem, pally holy light glyph, shaman chain heal, shaman ancestral healing, priest and druid stuff. I.e. when should healers, who have the chance, heal the pet and when will the free/auto/passive heals work?
I know alot of this is covered other places, but how about a quick summary of “important” hunter drops in Ulduar10/25 and hard modes? I personally raid mostly as our guild’s go-to-tank, and as such I am expected to be the most informed person out there on plate tanking drops and where they come from. Unfortunately, that has severly limited my opportunities to browse around for the various hunter loot available and where I can get them.
I’m not looking for a best-in-slot list here, but mostly a quick list of some items from say Ulduar10 that are far better than they appear (for example if there is a 2H drop in early Ulduar10 that will last you until Ulduar25 hard modes or soemthing).
One other thing I wouldn’t mind is a comparison of the new dps specs. Again, with lack of hunter time I’m not up to speed on alot of things. In the past you’ve done dps comparisons between the specs when changes have been made, and I think things have settled down more than enough for another quick look into the Ulduar-level of them.
Thanks for all of the ideas. Definitely some stuff to get me writing about. I will start putting some new posts together and have a new one up as early as tomorrow.
I’d definitely like to see something about soloing older instances like MC or ZG.
Ooh, another good idea. Lehnis. I have been soloing the Tiger and Raptor boss in hopes of the mounts. Time to start recording.
I would like you to talk about two topics:
Survival Raiding vs. marksmanship raiding.
whats better, what do you prefer, what are the numbers like for each.
and should i use Fury of the Five flights or keep mirror of truth.
That’s a fun one, I’ve been toying with both a lot.
The cool part? It’s fight specific. I respec MM for Vezax. CA and Arcane are both affected by pools.
Hodir I’m still debating on. It sure feels like MM should be king, but ExS I think makes Surv win there. The ticks are huge.
I’ve toyed in the Spreadsheet, and MM isn’t that far off Surv once you’re up there in gear. I’ve tweaked it to within a couple hundred DPS. I think.
I’m not the matheagician Dro is.
I can definitely write up something about that. Like Remua said, I have been switching specs depending on the fight as well.
maybe make a post about how you think Hunters perform in Arena and BG’s in general atm? i understand you focus alot on Raiding atm(so do we) but perhaps PvP would be a nice side-step? that or pick up a spell in your spellbook that YOU use alot, but you think WE dont use enough, and then write about WHY and WHEN you use it, or maybe give us some tips about how improve our dps in certain fights, forexample last time i went to VoA i was fighting this other hunter from the best guild on the server(and he is like the only hunter they hunter almost) i almost beat him even tho i was carrying my stupid Naxx10 gun(gief better:() and rest only ½ decent gear. anyways, the trick was to turn arround and use my Aimed/Multi shot cooldown on the adds with Multi shot, and then turn arround and keep shooting the boss, Turn->Multi->back to boss, during the whole during just turning that millisecond to dps the adds instead really increased my dps alot :D
whasen’t really a help for the raid, but made me for sure look better on the dmg meter. *flex* ^^