FIVE HUNTER GROUP OF AWESOME EXTREME MQoSRDPS, UTILITY, AND ALL AROUND DEVASTATION

So a few weeks back, PIE mentioned that he came up with a great idea for the ultimate power team.  Pie has pretty much been sucked into the black void that is our usual group of friends, now fairly firmly ensconced on Cenarion Circle, and so, we are planning to level in WOTLKEE as a group.  A FIVE HUNTER GROUP OF AWESOME EXTREME MQoSRDPS, UTILITY, AND ALL AROUND DEVASTATION.

We’ve talked a bit about it further.  So I’m just gonna give a bit of a rundown here. 

PIE (Gorilla/Bear/Rhino) He’s gonna be our tank with the Tier 5 bonus!
GRIM (Wolf) AP buff and dps
ABA (Wasp) Armor debuff and dps
NIM (Moth) Dps. Nim’s also planning to go MM for TSA
VRU (Ravager) Stun and dps.

So none of that is set in stone or anything, but I’m pretty sure that 3 Ferocious Inspirations, a True Shot Aura, Armor debuffs, AP buffs and a built-for-any-situation tenacity pet is going to bring the pain Hunter style!  I don’t think we’ll be able to do 5 mans without a true healer, but for general questing in Northrend, nothing is going to stand a chance!  The choice of pets isn’t set in stone or anything, but we’ve been keeping up with the BRK podcast trying to find out which pets have some of the better abilities and how we might make the group synergy that much better.  If you have any suggestions, let us know!

We may do some re-jigging as well if a couple others in our group, Khaza and Spiffie, both ding 70 on their hunters before WOTLKEE hits, but for the moment, the 5 Hunter Group of Awesome Bonanza-Ganza is something that’s got me extremely excited for the expansion. 

As a hunter enthusiast, this idea sounds like so much fun, I can’t wait to get out there and get to huntering!

 One last thing.  Vrugore, one of my RL friends, is the first character that he’s gotten to 70.  He’s my friend that I recruited through the recruit a friend promotion, and he ding’d 70 for the first time a few days ago.  So a great big grats to Vru from tha INTERTUBZ!  Also, Spiffie, an RL friend of Sylus has recently hit 60 on his hunter, and has ventured into Outlands for the first time.  So a Grats to him, and keep on leveling, you’re getting close!

– Fikkle

May the Horde be with you!

WOTLKEE ZOO! WHICH IS FOR YOU?

EDIT 1: Well, gotta head back to work, so no time for links at the moment, but I’ll get those in there later tonight.

EDIT 2: Corrected a lot of errors that I forgot I had to double check before I posted.  Thats what I get for writing this after midnight from memory and thinking, “Oh, I’ll double check that before I put it out for all the intertubz to read”.  I also changed pet #6 because I was waaaaaay off.  Nuff Said.  Links still  coming soon.

EDIT 3: Links are finally in.  If anyone notices any mistakes still, let me know, I was sleepy when this one was written.

With all the changes coming out about Rash of the Itch Thing for Hunter Pets, it’s a veritable zoo and exciting to say the least.

BRK is once again at the business end of the Dwarven Hand Canon when it comes to passing great info about Wrath, having obtained a spot in the ßeta, he’s eagerly testing things out and putting out videos like they’re breath mints.  Speaking of breath mints, if you haven’t given any to your pet lately, you may want to.  Its bad enough they chew the faces off of our enemies, the least we can do is make smell pleasant for them when our pets are panting on them.  He’s also recently posted a ‘who’s who in the zoo’ (See what I did there? Yes, I did go there).  He talks about the (pet) winners and losers in Wrath and even lists a few that are in between at the moment until more info comes out about how they perform.

Mania is also ever-vigilant in keeping Petopia updated with as much Hunter Pet info as she can find.  She has an amazing FAQ up about new WOTLKEE pets, hunters and screenshots with many new pets and skins coming in Wrath.  A great big thanks on behalf of all of us Hunters who appreciate the hard work that both BRK and Mania (as well as anyone else in the ßeta that is putting this info out for us to munch on).  Whether or not everyone else agrees, I couldn’t say, but I know that their tireless effort is much appreciated and a thank you from those of us not lucky enough to get a key never hurts.

So, since I can’t hope to devote enough time to match their efforts, (nor do I see any reason to duplicate them), I’m not goig to go into the news of the ßeta with respect to pets.  I am however going to discuss what my stable will look like in Wrath.  First off, one of my favorite changes in the ßeta is the addition of two additional stable slots.  /thankgod.  What does that mean to me?  Well, I’m now going to be able to keep 5 pets, instead of 2 while leveling and 3 at level cap.  That is just full of win (if it makes it live of course).  So this is going to be my top 6 Wrath Hunter Pets and why.  (6 because I’ll likely use one for leveling and change it at level cap).

1. Pet: Devilsaur (Ferocity)
Skin: White. I just like the way this one stands out.
Why: This is a sure thing for me.  Blizz could totally nerf <Monstrous Bite> and give them Dino Fart that caused a RAP reducing debuff on their owner and I’d still take it.  But its not likely that they will nerf it and MB seems like a great talent right now.  With the Devilsaur being a Ferocity Pet, its likely going to be right up there for top raiding pet post patch 3.0.
Reason: COOLNESS FACTOR & RAIDING

2. Pet: Hyena (Ferocity)
Skin: White or Black
Why: Of all the special abilities that have been released in ßeta, this one is the most exciting for me.  <Tendon Rip> (slows enemy movement for 6 sec; 20 sec cooldown, 25 focus) seems like it gives the most bang for its buck.  The movement impairing effect lasts six seconds, which gives a Hunter plenty of time to get away (4 more than intimidation currently) and being on a 20 sec cooldown, it can be reapplied quite often.  Nor does it cost the lion’s share of his focus (yes, I went there as well).  All that said, I’ll probably turn off his focus dump and use him mainly for BW/TBW and his kiting effect while pvp’ing.
Reason: PVP

3. Pet: Crocolisk (Tenacity)
Skin: River / Marsh
Why: <Bad Attitude> is full of win.  Period.  As an AoE tanking pet, the Crocolisk is going to be able to deal some pretty sweet AoE damage to anything that hits it.  If Mend Pet can keep him alive and he can survive multi-mob attacks, this is going to be easy mode.  I expect to use the Crocolisk as my leveling pet from 70 to 80.
Reason: BAD ATTITUDE (Okay, AoE / LEVELING, but Bad Attitude sounds so much better!)

4. Pet: Rhino (Tenacity)
Skin: Slate
Why: Aside from the Devilsaur, I think this is one of the coolest additions to the Zoo.  I have yet to watch the video BRK put out with this bad boy, but I’ve seen the screen shots (and the video as well now).  Under Beastial Wrath he looks just freaking huge.  And destructive.  Might as well call him <Mammoth> (Dibs on that name, btw).  Provided their special ability (when it comes out) is viable, I’ll likely use this beast whenever I don’t NEED to be using something else.
Reason: COOLNESS FACTOR / DAILIES / GRINDING / INSTANCES

5. Pet: Wolf (Ferocity)
Skin: Frostwolf (Dire Wolf Skin Light Blue)
Why: While BRK termed this pet a toss up due to its buff <Furious Howl> only affecting melee, I’m likely going to have one anyways.  Grimshott’s from the Frostwolf clan, yo!  EDIT:  Much thanks to Drotara at Less QQ, More Pew Pew for pointing out that Furious Howl does now affect the Hunter which is a nice change! 
Reason: RP

6. Pet: Chimaera (Cunning)
Skin: Blue
Why: First off, I’m sorry Bre, I know you have this whole tryst going on with the Chimaera, but I think these things are ugly and I can’t believe I’m actually considering this.  But if they can get the <Froststorm Breath> working properly it might be like having your very own Frost Mage/Ele Shammy pet running around with you.  Kiting plus lightening?  I’m in, even if the thing does look like a rat lizard with wings and too many heads… Let me tame a real dragon and I’ll be happy!
Reason: ABILITIES ARE BETTER THAN IT LOOKS (and by it I mean the pet, not the ability).

SO SAY WE ALL!

 

– Fikkle

Beta Flava’

I am drooling over the talent trees that blizzard has put up on their wow homepage. I’ve been sitting at work all morning building, and rebuilding multiple builds. I’m so wanting to stay with a BM build, as I am in love with the idea of new “exotic” pets. Some of the talents seem so worth staying!!! Then, I start playing around with mm, and sv builds. wow. All of the trees look like they have gotten some serious loving. I will definatly be playing around with them when they come live. I’m just hoping for a grace period where it won’t cost me an arm and a leg to try out several new builds!

Now, I could have gotten into a ton of details about each and every talent that has been added, or revamped, but fikkle has this thing for not wanting to hear about the stuff yet. Me, I’m drooling over all of this. I unfortunatly will be starting back to school in about 3 weeks (I’m not a youngin, just going back for a second bs degree….)

So, play time should be down, but blog time will be higher, as I have three 1 hour breaks during my class schedule on mwf. So, I may not be playing as much as I would like to, but, I hope to be writing about every minute of play time!

So, until next time, stay classy Azeroth!

~Uncle Sy

Some follow up pictures

Fikkle’s post about his week was very entertaining to read, but I thought a few visuals for some of those stories were in order. So, here is a quick update on those. First, khaza didn’t get his tabard of the scarlet crusade, but what a site to aggro a whole instance and down them all in one spot, it was hilarity!

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Next, here is a picture of Abadon, his first time in ZA!!!! While Fikkle bowed out, I stuck around and got to down the bear boss for my first time ever! And to top it all off, I was second on the DPS chart with 923 dps!!!WOW I never expected to see those kind of numbers!

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And finally, I found Fikkle’s epic duel picture! *Sinse he didn’t post it yet, I decided to take it unto myself to take care of it!

DOUBLE PWNAGE!!!

Hope you don’t mind me havin a little fun with ya fikkle!!!

And, in sad news, I’ll be totally away from the interwebs for a week, starting in about 1 hour. I’m taking a bunch of kids away to a church camp for the week. It will be fun, but no posts for me.( suddenly I feel like the post nazi.) Anyway, have a good week, get some gold, and down a boss or two, and remember, FOR THE HORDE YO!!!!

~Sylus

We Didn’t Leave a Legacy, We Took It Home With Us!

So our guild has started to set up Kara raids for Thursdays, meaning… Last night was Kara night.  And O, t’was it a good night!  It seems that the Kara god loves Grim!  If you recall, my first time through, I picked up a very shiny new bow, and this time was no less rewarding!  Group make up was extremely good.  For tanking we had two Prot Paladins (guildies).  On heals we had a Holy Priest and Resto Shaman (PUGs) and on dee pee ess we had two 1337 BM Hunters (lolz), a Rogue (guildie), Fury Warrior (guildie), a Boomkin (PUG) and a Demo Warlock (PUG).  So a 6 person guild member run with 4 PUGs, a couple of which are friends of our Raid Leader Pally.  I think the composition was pretty good, as we had some serious pew pew and only a few times did anyone actually die.  And two prot paladins in Kara? Holding aggro wasn’t an issue. 

A lot of decent loot dropped, and I don’t remember it all, but only we only had one void crystal when we ended for the night, so most everything was being used by someone.  Attumen dropped the Worgen Claw Necklace, a very nice neck piece.  I rolled a 1.  Abadon then rolled a 44 and we both lost to Reav, the Fury Warrior.  On to Moroes and it was my first time having to trap one of the adds for this fight (Abadon’s first as well I think).  But we were both assigned to trap one target, so /nosweat.  It broke after the other kill adds were down and by this time we couldn’t pull aggro back, so we all burned him down without a problem.  We’ll have to work on maintaining aggro in between trapping so that it doesn’t beeline for the squishies.  Anyways, Moroes proceeded to go splat and left us with Edgewalker Longboots.  Both Abadon and I rolled (iirc) and I won.  On to the not-so-virtuous Maiden and she was another one-shot, leaving the Bracers of Maliciousness.  I was the only one they were an upgrade for, so grats to me!… again!

After we beat them into a few nice shiny red stains on the ground, we went to the Opera for the evening show and were treated to the Wizard of Oz.  First time I’d seen this event, so I was pretty excited, although a little disappointed since it was the one that I’d wanted to see on my Mage.  Fire Mage tank ftw!  Strawman be warned!  Anyways, one-shot later, the old Crone decided to leave behind a Legacy, and Grim took it home with him! This was truly the highlight of the night for me, obviously!  So I was pretty stoked about it and I remember whispering to Abadon “wow” about five or six times and then “speechless” once or twice.  Luckily for me that Abadon has his season 3 2H Axe since I only rolled a 2! :s

Anyways, we easily took care of them and moved on to the Curator.  First attempt was a dismal failure and ended in our second wipe.  The first wipe occured minutes before when I was apprently standing too far away from the wall while killing trash and managed to catch aggro from the big guy himself. Anyways, on we went to attempt number two where we had him down during the second evocate, as opposed to dying during the fifth.  :s  Curator dropped the Tier 4 gloves for Paladin/Rogue/Shaman I believe and not sure what else.  Grats to our Guild Leader Savageblade on picking up his gloves!

After Curator, we pushed on but our Boomkin dc’d on the way to Aran, and never returned.  We attempted Aran with only nine people and had him down to about 20 or 30% - ish before we wiped.  Since it was late we decided to call it and re-attempt tomorrow night.

So, all in all, this was an amazing night for me.  My Hunter got some serious upgrades and is itching to get back in there and down some more of those potential blood stains.  And for all of the Hunters who’ve drooled over Legacy through many a painful Kara run, I’m sorry and don’t mean to rub it in, but WE HAZ LEGACY EH!

Remind me to sacrifice a few Gnomes to the loot gods as payment!

Wrogged into the Long Toon…

Wow, what a week I’ve had. I feel like I’ve barely had a minute to myself, yet alone a minute to devote to Azeroth. I take that back, I have had a few brief stints in Azeroth over the past few days, just not enough time to blogg about it! Well, today folks is your lucky day! I’m going to catch you all up to speed on what’s up in the wonderful world of me!

Lets start with where I left last time. On Friday morning of last week, I went to the far off wonderful land of El Dorado Kansas, well, 40 miles on the other side anyway. There, I visited with the inlaws and decided to lvl my real life fishing skill. First of all, apparently This area was above my skill lvl, because I couldn’t catch a dang thing in the creek. Later that evening we went to a pond they owned and I was catching them like crazy. I caught 7 in 20 minutes! I want to say they were all deviate fish, but in reality they were all small sun perch and one midget bass. Well, he wasn’t really a midget, but he was small…

Upon returning home that Sunday, I caught up with Fikkle, aka Grimshott. He was neck deep in the Arathi Basin, defending the lumber mill against termites, alliance toons, and genetal warts…well, maybe just the alliance, but hey, we can all think he was doing his part to scare off the warts and termites too. I told myself I have about two hours before I have other commitmetns, lets jump in with him and see what kind of mess we can make.

An hour and a half later, I had racked up some impressive numbers. I had earned 3085 honore, had 24 Arathi Basin marks, and six Alteric Valley marks. That’s not bad for an hour and a half, but, the real impressive numbers are still to come! Of the seven Arathi Basin we were in, we won all seven. Wait, there’s still more..of those seven wins, five of them were five caps!!!

Fast forward to Monday of this week. I did a few more BG’s, turned in some marks for greater honore, and wala, I am now the proud owner of my galdiator shoulders. As of today, I have almost 8k honor, and am saving for my helmet next. I should have that by the end of the week, even though I have very limited play time this week. I’m also itching to get my alliance toons some play time as well.

Tuesday night I ended up running 2 battlegrounds to get my daily out of the way, wsg….I hate wsg. Then I logged over to see what Alg and Goz of the Alliacne were up too. Alg was in a tired mood, and wanted to hang out in Astranaar a bit longer, so I logged over to my hunter, Goz. His little dwarfness wanted to go get his pet, and he was only lvl eight at the time. So, he ran around the icy terrain of the dwarf zone outside Ironforge with no coat on. I tell you, one day he will get a bad cold doing that crap, and he’ll be stuck in some inn somewhere with the sniffles, while I want to go raid Orgrammar or something…selfish Dwarf.

Fikkle was on lvling his alliance hunter last night as well. He told me some surprising news, About a week back, I had left a comment at Twisted Nether that was a question for anupcoming interview with the famous BBB. Apparently the question got asked on the podcast! I haven’t heard the cast yet, but plan on listening to it right away, I wonder if they say my name right? I bet they did, Fim and Bre are doing a great job on their new podcast, I am looking forward to seeing what heights they can reach! Shoot for the stars guys.

By the end of last night I was so tired. I was running on redbull and twinkies…well, maybe not, but It was pure fumes for me. I had found out that their was almost no copper on the auction house, so I logged my bank toon to put up several stacks that were just waiting for the price to be right again. When I was logging back over to my hunter I accidentally logged in my paladin(All dwarfs look alike). I proceeded to tell fikkle over vent that I was sorry, I had Wrogged Over to the Long Toon. WOW, I was way out of it, and we both got a huge laugh over the fact that I was mixing up my words, and all but falling asleep at the wow.

Well, enough rambling here, Imma go get a cup o’ coffee! Until next time Azeroth bloggers, stay sexy!

~Uncle Sylus

PvP Pointers for the BM Hunter

So with my recent BG insanity, I figured I might as well post about some of the lessons I learned while banging my head on the desk working toward my season 1 set.  Anyone who is a seasoned pvp’er will likely not find anything new here.  But if you’re looking for a few pointers, keep reading.  Oh, and while I realize the title says for the BM Hunter, most will apply to all Hunters and some of it is generic for anyone doing pvp.  But I play a BM Hunter and this is my post, dernit (Old Man Franks ftw!)

DO’s:

- Get your Medallion of the Horde/Alliance.  (The 2 min CD on this trinket is a godsend.  Get it.  Love it.)

- Get some Sta/Resil gear.  (Get the Rep gear if you have to.  Being able to survive long enough to allow a healer to land a heal or to get that 1 last shot in to kill your enemy DOES make a difference).

- Work together as a team. (If someone is taking the lead and suggestion a strategy, go with it.  A strategy > No strategy.)

- Control your pet.  (Your a BM Hunter right?  So master your beast and learn to control it.  Don’t let it LOS away from you where it can be burned down easily by your enemy.  Keep it within LOS to be able to heal it.  There’s nothing worse than having Intimidation and Beastial Wrath available as Kill Command procs and having no pet to use any of it with.)

- Use your stings effectively. (Serpent is especially great against Rogues, making them visible again after they’ve vanished.  Viper is effective against healers, whether they be a priest, pally, druid or shammy.  A healer with no mana isn’t.  And if you want to maybe gain an extra miss or two, throw Scorpid on that Warrior who’s trying to smush you.)

- Use Feign Death.  (Its not going to fool them for long, but a well timed Feign may be enough to cancel a spell cast or attack that avoids a major crit.  Its also good for making another Hunter’s pet turn around momentarily buying you some time, especially if their pet is big and red too.)

- Trap! Trap! Trap! INTELLIGENTLY. (Know which trap to use and when.  Snake traps are useless against mages and paladins that can AoE kill all the snakes instantly.  They are good for kiting Warriors though.  Frost traps likewise are great for kiting, warriors, rogues, feral druids.  And a well timed Freezing trap can be just what the doctor ordered if your adversary has some reinforcements on the way and you need to disengage and get far enough away to bandage up, or get back to friendly lines.

- Use Flares.  (They will likely be avoided by druids and rogues, but if used in conjunction with traps in a strategic area, you can force an enemy to walk right into one of your traps.  Then you can get the jump on them.  I love the smell of irony in the morning!).

- Track.  (Switch between your different tracking abilities to make sure you have a good picture of what is going on around you.  Use humanoid to see where the enemies are around you, beasts to see if any feral druids are running around and hidden if you’re in close looking for a stealther.  Situational awareness = survivability.

- Turn off Growl.  (A bit of motherhood maybe, but sometimes you just forget.  Make sure to turn it back on if you want your pet tanking any NPCs in AV.)

- Use Eagle Eye.  (Scouting ahead can also build on your situational awareness and is especially effective for knowing where the weak points are in AB.  I always try to control LM, because from there, I can see any place on the map, including mine.  Use Eagle Eye to target the mountainside above mine and it will allow you a picture of what is going on down there.  In turn, you can then direct your teammates to the enemies weak points, breaking their ability to gain resources).

- Run the Flag.  (With Aspect of the Cheetah and Track Humanoids, you can generallty see if there any immediate threats in the area.  Its especially effective in Eye of the Storm.  If you get caught, you can always use your Beastial Wrath and send your pet after your attacker with Intimidation).

DONT’S:

- Use Beastial Wrath and Intimidation together. (Unless you absolutely have to.  BW keeps you from getting CC’d and increases your damage and your pets damage.  It rocks.  Intimidation can also keep you from getting CC’d by controlling your enemy for a few seconds.  Using them at the same time can waste those few extra seconds, which we all know in pvp can be the difference between needing to bandage and needing to wait for the respawn timer.  Use them in sequence so that you can control your enemy for the longest time possible).

- Waste your cooldowns first. (Again, if you don’t absolutely have to.  Its nice to use BW when you run up against a lone enemy and totally dominate him.  But its even nicer to save it for when you have three targets on you and you manage to take out two of them before they get you).

- Resurrect your pet.  (… if you don’t have to.  When you’re killed your pet will auto res with you and without the unhappiness debuff.  Obviously if you have the time and the mana, as well as the team support while you’re vulnerable, go ahead, but if its a tight situation, go without it and wait for the spirit res to save yourself a lot of wasted time and pet happiness).

So that’s pretty much all the Hunter pointers that I have for today.  Hope some of them can help.

On each of the Battlegrounds, I do have something to say though.

WSG:  The new concept of everyone zerging each other’s bases and then trying to get your own flag back as you cross midfield is different, but has seemed to work for the majority of the time.  This also means that defence is pretty much a wasted effort as 10 v 5 is still going to be a slaughter.  And to those people who stand midfield, honor farming while the rest of your team is getting owned and your flag is getting capped, please, please server transfer out of my battlegroup.  kkthxbai.

AB:  Controlling LM is one of the keys that I’ve found to winning in AB.  Whenever we don’t we invariably lose.  When two of us continually attempt to retake it to solidify our position in the BG, and 10+ of you are at Stables fighting, a little bit of the Horde dies inside.  FORGET ABOUT STABLES if we don’t control LM!  Oh ya, one more thing.  WTB Mod that erases Stables from all Horde maps.  kkthxbai.

AV:  If you’re on offense that’s wonderful.  We need people to kill their general.  If only 10 people stayed behind to play defense, don’t expect them to hold off the 30+ Alliance zerg on the Relief Hut.  If you then proceed to QQ about how the defence sucks and can’t do anything right, you need to DIAF.  Seriously.  If you wanna play O, fine.  STFU about the D.  If you want to bitch about the D, play D.  Nuff said.

EotS:  Actually, I don’t have any gripe with this BG.  We generally play this to the best of our ability, and when we do lose, its because the Alliance just did better than we did.

So that’s my 2c on BGs and PvP.  For the Horde!

Some More Recent Hunter <3

So a while back I did a post about some good ole Hunter <3.  Well earlier I came across a link to my blog and went and checked it out. 

Aurik, over at /hug has apparently found a name I suggested for Bre for her cat.  Bre decided to go with something else, so the name was just sitting there, waiting to be ninja’d pickpocketed by a rogue-at-heart kinda player. ;)  So Aurik grabbed it up.  Drop on over and say hello to Monsoon!

Glad you liked the name!  Make sure all of your enemies enjoy the *ahem* Crapstorm *ahem*! :D

 

Much Hunter <3

Four Agonizing Days, One Satisfying Moment

So four days ago I posted about this.  Since then, I’ve put my Sidhe Devils character on the back burner in order to focus on getting some season 1 PvP gear for my Orc Hunter, Grimshott.  Well, after four painful days in the battlegrounds, I managed to come out looking like this:

I have to say, after all the cussing and cursing and the banging my head against the desk and the one time that AB was going so poorly that I /afk’d to get out and take a break, this moment was well worth it.  Grim is a sexy beast now! 

When I started 4 days ago, Grim had around 1,000 HKs.  I hadn’t done any BGs with him prior to level 60 and still very limited BGs after that.  So it was quite a bit of work to get him to where I wanted him, considering the only PvP rewards he had were the Insignia of the Horde and the Medallion of the Horde. I still need to work on getting him the epic version of the medallion for the Resil bonus, but I’m likely going to put that off for a while.  Anyway, he finished off with this:

He’s now at 3061 lifetime Honor Kills and managed to get 13,424 honor for the day (691 kills + Mark turn ins.)

So the three pieces that I picked up included:

Gladiator’s Chain Armor for 14,500 honor and 30 AB marks.

Gladiator’s Chain Spaulders for 11,250 honor and 20 AB marks.

Gladiator’s Chain Helm for 14,500 honor and 30 AV marks.

So, now that I have some cool S1 gear before its gone, and still have about a week before S4 begins, I figure I’m going to try for some more items and get as many as I can.

1. Vindicator’s Chain Sabatons for 17,850 honor and 40 EotS marks.

2. Vindicator’s Chain Bracers for 11,794 honor and 20 WSG marks.

3. Vindicator’s Band of Triumph for 15,300 honor and 10 AV marks.

4. Gladiator’s Chain Gauntlets for 10,500 honor and 20 AV marks.

5. Gladiator’s Chain Leggings for 14,500 honor and 30 WSG marks.

 

I seriously doubt I’ll be able to get everything on that list before season 4 hits, but if I can get at least 2 more I’ll be happy.

Finally, with all the new gear, Grim’s stats have improved quite a bit.  I forgot to get a screenie of what they looked like before, but this is where they are sitting now:

Grim’s DPS was at about 290-ish before I got the last piece.  Its now up to 304.6.  His RAP is now 1421 with AotH and Crit chance is 22.24%.  His hit rating is a bit low, I know, but I can live with it for now.  Also his resilience is now up to 210! Woot!

So anyways, its been quite an agonizing ordeal, but well worth it.  Oh and to the NElf Priest that I went one on one with for 5 minutes straight in WSG earlier tonight, /salute.  You are one tough SOB!

This Just In

Megan over at Out of Mana has a great post talking about the release of Season 4 of Arenas with a link to a Blue Post by Eyonix giving the details.  Its a great post with some pretty solid advice.  June 24 is the planned release date, so mark your calendars.

With the changes to the way the honor rewards system is going to work in S4, some pieces of armor will require an Arena rating to be purchased with honor points.  Drysc talked about that in this post.  Lately, I’ve been giving the Alliance toon I created most of my attention, especially since I’ve been having a ton of fun with the Sidhe Devils.  However, now that the release date is confirmed, I’m going to be scrambling in the BGs as much as possible.  I’d like to pick up some of the S1 gear for Grim (my Orc BM Hunter) before it goes away.

And I’ve got my work cut out for me.  I’m currently sitting on just over 10k honor, and I don’t have any S1 or better pvp gear since I just hit 70 not too long ago.  So, I’m going to be looking to pick up at least two and hopefully three pieces before S4 hits the stores.  Right now I have the rep pvp gear except for the chest and head pieces.  Those will be my first purchases.  If there’s enough time to get the honor required, I’ll be looking to pick up the shoulders as well, as they are one of the easily identifiable pieces to any set.

Megan mentioned that these pieces will still be able to be purchased with the Tier tokens, however, Grim has only been to Kara once, with a PUG, and I don’t know when or even if he’ll ever get the chance to get all of his T-4 tokens for PvE gear, let alone PvP gear.

 

I’m also going to think about getting him on an Arena team, most likely with Abadon.  I neve got a chance to pick up the S3 Axe that was available, and with the changes, I’m not sure whether its going to pick up a rating requirement if it does.  Either way, I’d still like to pick up some arena points to hopefully be able to get at least a few upgrades throughout the season, and I’d most likely be looking to replace my pants and gloves.  The S4 pants have a rating requirement of 1550, which shouldn’t be too hard to get.  The gloves don’t have a rating requirement, so I’d be able to pick those up with enough points.

Either way, we’re one step closer to the release of WotLK as this will bring in the final chapter of Arenas before the expansion.  Exciting times call for exciting measures, no? 

 

/get pie