Woodrun - BM Hunter in WoW

Bye

2009-02-26T14:21:00.000-08:00

Just leaving a note to say goodbye. I know noone ever read this blog but me (and Mrs Woodrun over my shoulder).

I am leaving WoW altogether. It was a fun run but life carries on.

Thanks to BRK, Rilgon, Tarr, TarrJr, Oddman, Megs, and all the others I have met.
You all made this one hell of a ride.

Thanks...

PvP

2009-02-19T08:33:00.000-08:00

I dont like PvP normally. I dont liek PvP abnormally. I dont like PvP at all (really)

Having said that I decided to start a character on a PvP realm just to see what its like.

Now my main is a Horde Hunter, so I figured lets follow the extreme opposite rule.

So I created a Ally Pally. Now I have ranted before about Pallys and how hard they are to kill etc etc.

Well I have found that they are fun to play (omg did i just say that???)

The server I picked (at random I might add) has a 2.56 Horde to 1 Alliance ratio...o goody!
This is after I have a bank alt setup, and Pally at lvl 17 and a Hunter (surprise) as well.

Once I get into area where there are likely to be Hordies we will see what its like.

If there is alot of corpse camping and ganking I may say screw it, but the experiment is ongoing.

What?! an instance?!

2009-02-18T10:04:00.000-08:00

I got invited to another instance last night ( wth is going on?! )
Heroic CoS - which was fun (see crazy) and I bad pulled on the timed run (damnit)

Maybe next time we can try for the Bronze Drake. Im still holding out hope for the Green Proto-Drake from the Oracles egg. So far the egg has given me 4 minipets (all the same) some Aged Yolk (yippee!) and some other PoS that I didnt want.

Ah well, as you may know from my Loq posts my luck in this game is far from good.
I dont get many drops. And loq remains elusive.

P.S. As a Loq note I saw a Hunter (who shall remain anon) in Org with Loq whom he had named "Spirit Beast" OMG that broke my heart. Lvl the beast all the way to 80 and dont give him a name?!?!

Im choked...

On and On

2009-02-17T10:57:00.000-08:00

In a bizzare twist of fate I was /w by a friend last night to help with the last 2 bosses in the Occulus.
Now I dont do instances...like ever. This was my third foray into an instance in Northrend and it was also Heroic! Bizzare for me to say the least. We downed the 2nd last boss on second try, and the last boss Eregos (sp?) was well fun! Riding the drakes to burn him down was a nice and different way to tackle a boss.

We wiped o i dont know about 8 times (luckily my friend said take all your gear off to save on repairs and boy did that work!)

We got him to 21% twice then we nailed him. Time stop was fun ( Iwas on an Amber drake).
I also got my first 2 emblems of Heroism (well the secret is out now)
but since I only participated in 2 boss takedowns no achievement :(

However if those 2 bosses were the hardest Ill have to go back and run the whole thing as I found it fun and not really terribly difficult ( a great Drood healer ftw )

Back to fishing for now...

Fishin' up a storm

2009-02-12T06:32:00.000-08:00

The fishing trip continues!

Hit 350 last night, hop to Dal to get the Grand Master training.
Nagrand and Zangar are my next targets, particularily the Elemental Plateau, which I fished last night (with a lure ofc) and did very well in the Pools of Pure Water.

Signing off from Nagrand.

Absenteeism

2009-02-09T08:19:00.000-08:00

I spent a week solid in Sholozar, no spirit beast :(

So I have decided to level my fishing skill instead.
I am at 290 now after 2 days and I even made it to the Straglethorn Fishing Extravanganza!

After that I will be doing the cooking levelling as well.

See you in Straglethorn!

More DK stuff and Loq...

2009-01-31T11:06:00.000-08:00

Well, my DK is almost 68 (3 bars). I am wondering if I should ding 70 before hitting Northrend or should I just land there right at 68 (Borean Tundra is my fav starting spot.)

If I stick to 70 I can get some 70 gear from Mag'har Quartermaster, the http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29137 is a nice Axe and not hard to get Exalted with this faction, plus they have the Riding Talbuks which I like as a mount.

I will tackle it tonight and see how far I get, if I can ding 70 quickly (which I figure will be 3 days give-or-take a day) then I should be darn close to Exalted by then.

I will be grinding Dailys with Woodrun trying to get enough Gold together to offer a substantial reward for finding Loq in SB. I figure a 1500Gold reward should be enough to get a bead on him if he has spawned.

As a BM Hunter I can tell you that this pet I want! I had Echeyakee, kept him till 70 and I had the Ghost Saber as well. I am a Cat person in RL so this Spirit Beast (I know not a cat but really a cat model!) is the ultimate to me.

On my server (Aman'Thul) I have seen a total of 4 Spirit Beasts. 2 in Dalaran (1 ally 1 hordie), and 2 in Org, which were posed side-by-side and looked absolutely awesome!

Till next time...

Death Knights

2009-01-30T06:24:00.000-08:00

I didnt start a DK until I reached 80 with my Hunter.

I cant believe how OP they seem. Elite mobs that I used to have trouble with (i.e. The Naga Leaders in Zangarmarsh) were no sweat! Now I know that OL mobs had their health reduced to make it easier to level to 70, but I find that Elites are, well, easy!

So far so good - I hit 67 last night should be 68 by end of the weekend. Then its off to Northrend!

I cant wait, Northrend has some good rewards that can be had quite easily.

My Hunter probably replaced most of his gear by 75, all with Northrend greens/blues.

Cant wait....

Alts

2009-01-29T06:22:00.000-08:00

As a solo (alot) player, I have a few alts.
I have also deleted quite a few. I have basically tried every class to at least 20 (except Rogues - I cant seem to get into Rogues).

I have a 66 DK (in progress), a mage (11), a lock (20), a second Hunter (surprise!) 32
and a couple of bank alts.

Now on another server I have a Pally (I know how much I have spewed against Pallys but well have to try right?) and a Druid, both in the mid-teens.

Whats your fav alt? Me - Im enjoying the DK right now, mostly because its the exact opposite of a Hunter. Hes Melee, likes to get up close and personal. I very rarely use the Ghoul, usually only when I aggro a few more then I should have or if there is an Elite up.

For my main, its just dailys and looking for Loq right now. Once I get Loq I will go back and continue other quest lines and things that I havent finished.

Current pets

2009-01-28T11:32:00.000-08:00

My pet collection is as follows;

1. Runeblazer, Wolf, 80
2. Frostus, Cat, 80 - Mrs Woodrun named this one!
3. Sharkbait, Worm, 80
4. Pepper, Gorilla, 80
5. Triangus (Spirit of Atha from an Oracle daily, which is no longer tameable (i believe), Crocolisk (tho he is a Hydra), 80 - Mrs Woodrun named this one too!

Now if Loq comes up, as I am sure he will, then I will drop any of the ones above I have with me (excepting the Hydra, which will stay in my stable till I find Loq)

Excuse the brackets...

Return to BM

2009-01-28T11:16:00.000-08:00

I respecced to BM again last night, after trying to find a time-card from EB Games.
First place I went to said "Sorry, sold out." Second location, same response.
Back to work. Called the third location in my area, and, woohoo! They had 3 left, please hold one for me ok? My name is Dave, Ill be in later to pick it up.

Arrived at said location, thankfully they saved it for me, cause, you guessed it, they were sold out of the others they had.

So after going a day and half without WoW (which Mrs Woodrun didnt mind so much) I returned and respecced to a 51-point BM build again.

Since I dont raid and I like to solo, BM it is! According to Ghostcrawler on the WoW forums they realized that the hammer fell pretty hard on BM and they will be reviewing it to see about adjustments.

My solution? Give us our pet damage back. Keep the other 'nerfs' in place but re-up the damage to what it was for pets. This will again, imho, make BM a decent spec again.

Having said that, maybe there will be less Hunters looking for Loq in Sholozar Basin and make it easier for me to get the one pet I have wanted the most in the game.

For those who dont know, Loq spawns every 6 (roughly) hours but he shares his spawn with 2 other rare creatures, King Krush (dino) and a bird (which I am not a fan of birds in general as pets as tehy wingspan makes me a little crazy when Im trying to loot a corpse)

So...he doesnt spawn very often. Thats obvious, so my new plan to camp and grind with some whatever pet that I can drop at anytime (worm? probably) I will grind leather till the Taurens come home to get this damn beast!

Marksmanship

2009-01-22T06:32:00.001-08:00

Well I changed to MM last night. Unreal the crits I hit 4 over 4200+ in less than 15 minutes.

Rilgon is the man! I will be MM for a while I think, going to test it on lvl 80 dailies tonight and report back.

Patch Bitch Slap

2009-01-21T06:36:00.000-08:00

Pre-patch test on target dummies - no trinkets just rotation and BW - 2550 average.
Post-patch test on target dummies - no trinkets just rotation and BW - 1950 average.

This test was conducted in Silvermoon City, no one around must be like the Exodar - same build same gear - cat pet.

A loss of 600 DPS on average, wow the hammer fell hard eh??

Rilgon must be giggling himself to sleep...

Away

2009-01-20T11:35:00.000-08:00

Sorry have been away (not that anyone reads this other than me anyway but...)

Have been working on alts while the patch is getting ready to drop.

I will have to try out Rilgons 7/57/7 MM spec to see if that works for me.

I have a gorilla (Pepper) grinding and a Wolf (runeblazer) for raiding and a cat (Frostus - thanks to Mrs Woodrun for that name!) and a Worm which may get dropped for the MM spec.

Props to Rilgon for providing lots of great info about MM and how mis-understood it is.

2008-12-16T05:00:00.000-08:00

Well, a couple gear upgrades...1 via AH 1 via Rep Reward has us at a nice tidy 10K mana and 16.8 HP. http://www.wowhead.com/?item=36999 - found these on the AH for 50G (cheep!) plus this http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44109 from the Frenzyheart Tribe in Sholozar Basin has us rocking!

With Xmas right around the corner, we are crazy busy with our kids and the Missus so we wont be updating much over the next 2 weeks.

GL and see you after the madness!

The Grind continues...

2008-12-11T08:17:00.000-08:00

Wow, the grind carries on. We are currently trying to raise enough gold for the 20K mammoth with the two-vendor two-seater option. Phew! Made 3K over the last week, grinding mats and doing quests at the same time.

Pets continue to come up to 80, Frostus(cat 80), Pepper (gorilla 80), Runeblazer (wolf 78 1/2 ) and RazorWing (WindSerpent 77)

Still searching for the Spirit Beast (but not too hard)

More updates later...

Pet Update

2008-12-04T11:46:00.000-08:00

Pet update as of Dec 3 2008.

1. Wolf - Runeblazer - hes half 76 and will get some work when I run some Heroics
2. Cat - Frostus (thanks to the Mrs for that name!) - hes almost 80 and is great!
3. Gorilla - Pepper - hes half 77 and always fun to take out just about anywhere!
4. Wasp - Wisp (yes thats the name not a typo) - hvaent used much but tamed anyway cause they are HUGE, the wasps dont seem to shrink as other pets do.
5. One empty slot for the Hydra (see post just below this one)

Absenteeism

2008-12-04T11:31:00.000-08:00

Phew! What a week! Had to do some moving and get some Xmas s***e going so havent played much. (Although I did find some time to start my DK and have him at 60 already ).

Targets over the next month or so include:

1. Run some Heroics, Im lvl 80 with 196 Hit (which is capped for 80 with 3/3 in Focused Fire)
2. Look into the Spirit of Atha which is a summoned mob for a lvl 80 daily.

Link - http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/mobs/mob_spiritofatha.html
A side note on this mob : I have tried a crocolisk once and wasnt really impressed
however, for a semi-transparent Hydra I may be willing to try. /smile

3. Grind out some more leather, I can sell stacks of Heavy Borean Leather for 400-450G per stack.
I figure 40 stacks should net me the 3-person Mammoth
Link - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44234

I did one hour in Zul'drak and I got 3 Arctic Fur (which sell for 50-75G per), 1 1/2 stacks of Heavy Borean Leather, and enough grey trash to net me over 550G for one hour worth of work! OMG and I didnt even have out my Gorilla, just the Cat.

4. Help out some of my guildies who are just scratching the surface of Northrend.
5. Get to Storm Peaks, havent even entered the Zone yet LOL.

Well thats it for today, Ill try posting once more this week, but may not happen till Monday.

To my one reader, have a Great Weekend!

Ding!

2008-12-02T05:08:00.000-08:00

Level 80! Hit 80 on Saturday, not bad 15 days to go from 70 to 80.

Now its a matter of running Instances to get our gear upgraded.

Heroics here I come...

Pets updated

2008-11-27T11:43:00.000-08:00

Well, new week, Pet updates!

Cat (Cursed Offspring of Harrkoa) is half 77, Vargul Blighthound is 76, Gorilla is still 75 and Wasp is 76.

Sticking to Cat and Wolf for now, new Gorilla to be tamed this weekend and I will be hunting down the Spirit Beast as I have always liked having rare pets.

Rares I have tamed...

Takk the Leaper, lvl 19 Raptor, Barrens
Echyachee lvl 18 Cat, Barrens
Death Flayer lvl 11 Scorpid, Durotar
Nuramoc, lvl 70 Chimera, Netherstorm
Zaricotl, lvl 55 Vulture, Badlands

I kept Echy and Death Flayer the longest, running Echy to 60 and DF to 70.

Takk is still with my second Hunter and will be for a while I imagine, Nuramoc I had for a month? and Zar I kept for a couple months, but frankly the flapping wings and the blocking that they created over targets just got to be too much.

Ganking and Goodies

2008-11-27T11:33:00.000-08:00

I was doing the Dahlia's Tears quest as part of a chain that lead to a nice ring reward,

http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=44039

Now I am bad for just accepting quests and reading them as I go along, so I wasnt paying close attention and landed near a bunch of 'alliance defenders' killing Undead. Now I had Undead tracking up and didnt realize that their were Alliance NPCs so close to me, they killed me and I became flagged.

After running, dying and rezzing, I went to fly to the appropriate place and a Nelf rogue came up behind me (I had Undead Tracking on not stooopid Ally tracking on) and he wiped me at rrez level health (see 30%) and no pet as I hadnt had time to whistle up my cat. He killed me with about 4 hits, slash rend stab etc etc etc then laughed at me and left. /sigh

However, I finished the quest and got the ring, which is one of the only socketed rings I have ever seen the game.

So the end result is /win for me!

Pay attention

2008-11-26T11:56:00.000-08:00

I just realized that I am honoured with The Kaluak (sp?) and I can get the Polearm from their Quartermaster that is +69AGi and +106 Stam with 40 to hit. SIlly me...Ive been flying alot in part trying to get my hands on the Spirit Beast in Sholozar Basin.

I have yet to see this pet with any Hunters on my server (Aman'Thul) so maybe Ill be first...

Till next time

Cheers!

Ding!

2008-11-26T06:36:00.000-08:00

WoWo - level 78 already - two weeks into the Xpac! I have been fortunate to meet great players recently who have been very helpful with elites and the harder 3/4/5 quests.

I can take on alot of elites with just my pets but having that second player has been great (can you say Shade of Arugal??) That bugger was hard but myself and an orc rogue took him and his spawns down.

BRK continues to amaze me with his levelling and gearing.

If you are a hunter http://www.bigredkitty.net/ is the place to visit for an exmple of an awesome BM hunter.

~ Hunter Noob? BRK Fo'shizzle!

Flight!

2008-11-24T06:39:00.000-08:00

Well we finally hit 77, and that means cold weathe flying training!
1000 Gold later we are back on our Veridian Netherwing Drake and cruising the skies over Northrend.

I quickly flew over Grizzley Hills and Howling Fjord to get the exploration acheivements for those zones. We also finished the Hemet Nesingwary Quests in Sholozar Basin over the weeekend and got the Gun reward, http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39486.

I completed a boatload of quests over the weekend and managed to get from half 75 to 77, so in 10 days I have made it from 70 to 77. 80 should be done by the end of this weekend coming (end of November).

Also picked up 2 new pets and ditched an old one. Had Nuramoc the purple skinned chimera from Netherstorm, but dropped him and now have a Vargul Blighthound from Zul'Drak (wolf - same basic skin as Plaguehounds in EPL but with wicked fire runes and flaming feet!)

Also in Zuldrak picked up the Cursed Offspring of Har'koa, which is the black spotted skin but his eyes glow a wicked red! Looks awesome. Have levelled Runeblazer (the wolf) to almost 76 and the cat is already 76 so I will be alternating Wolf and Cat and will probably tame a new lvl 77 Gorilla once I get 78, that will save me 3 levels of levelling the Gorilladin!

Quest : The Battle for The Undercity

2008-11-21T06:33:00.000-08:00

This is the end of an amazing quest chain that has an awesome cutscene featuring the Lich King.
I wont give anymore spoilers as it really needs to be seen to be believed.

Personally, my jaw dropped when I went through this part, it was sooo awesome!

The loot reward is quite worth the quest too.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Aman%27Thul&n=Woodrun

The above is my armory link, but I dont have my new leggings on yet...I will be hitting 75 tonight for sure! Not bad for a weeks work since the release of the Expansion.

Pets

2008-11-20T11:53:00.000-08:00

With the new expansion, we Hunters are now (finally) able to have 5 stable slots which allows alot more flexibility in our choices for pets.

I currently have 4 slots filled with the following;

Ghost Saber (lvl 68, from Darkshore, found by hunting in Northern Darkshore in the Naga infested ruins) - Ferocity Pet
Chimera (lvl 70, Nuramoc, purple skin from Netherstorm - rare and tricky to catch) - Cunning Pet - requires 51 point BM Pet
Gorilla (lvl 75, Groddoc Thunderer from Feralas, the orange/orangutan skin was my fav and my main pet) - Tenacity Pet
Devilsaur (lvl 70, Tyrant Devilsaur from Un'goro Crater, same as gorilla love the red/orange skin) - Ferocity Pet - 51 point BM Pet

I did have the Green Core Hound but I dropped him in case I find something in Northrend (can you say Spirit Beast??) for that 5th slot.

Other Blogs

2008-11-20T11:50:00.000-08:00

I follow bigredkitty.net, not only because he is an AWESOME BM Hunter in WoW, but because he writes great posts with a ton of humour.

His skill in WoW is something that I try to emulate and really work on day-to-day.

Welcome

2008-11-20T11:39:00.000-08:00

This is my first blog - welcome to everyone, especailly WoW players and other MMO players too!
To be clear, I only play WoW...I dont even use my Playstation anymore due to time constraints from RL commitments.

I will post here with fair regularity, again, as RL can get in the way sometimes!

Thanks and Welcome!