Woot My Anniversary Woot

I just realized that i have been playing this game for more then a year now. I remember way back when I started Hollow's End was happening and I was so wanting to take on the Headless Horseman but couldn't because I was to low of level to do so. So I have been able to take on the headless Horseman a couple of times not only on my level 70 hunter but also on my level 67 Holy Paladin. Not to bad for a guy who steadfastly (dont know if this is a word but im using it) refused to play a game that i had to pay per month. Now I'm hooked and from now on Hallow's End is my anniversary date.

The Invasion

So WoW is experiencing a Zombie Invasion right now. Being a fan of Zombie movies I'm not so sure as to which side is more fun. Being the Infected or one of the last survivors. Im liking how if you do turn into a zombie you take a direct hand in the chaos and carnage instead of being forced to only take one side and watch the events unfold against your character. It adds greatly to the immersion effect of the whole event. It does not matter if your chewing on someones arm or reloading your crossbow for another shot at the horde of mindless flesh eaters, you are taking a more active role in how the event effects your enviroment and thats always good in my book.

The To Do List.

This is a list of things i need to do before Wrath hits:

1. A mass 1000 or more gold to have some kind of buffer for the next expansion.
2. Explore both Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor so I can easily explore northrend at level 80 or before and then get the achievement World Explorer and get my second title (the Explorer)
3. Get my Dwarven Paladin as close to 70 as i can, he is right now sitting at level 62.
4. Decide on what pets I actually want to play with. So far i got a Gorrila, a Core Hound, wanting a Worm but might put off getting till I get to Northrend (cooler looking worms), a Chimerra (which I believe I will use for pvp) and then a Devilasuar. Although i really want a Rhino but got to wait for them and might get rid of either the Core Hound or Devilasuar.
5. oh yeah buy the expansion when I can, probably not getting it right away, maybe for an earlier christmas present to myself.

Personal Choice

My most favorite talent of all the ones that hunters can get is Spirit Bond. I know that alot of Hunters look at it as a pretty useless talent other then for leveling but there is a two main reasons why I will always run with this in any BM hunter build. The first reason is more of a roleplaying reason then anything, Spirit Bond is what links a hunter and a pet together, its a joining of the two beings which makes the whole more survivable then the individual parts. The second reason that I choose it, is because anything that makes me and my pet more survivable adds to the sustainable ranged dps that I can dish out. So if your like me and have some odd choices for were you put your talents, just remeber its your character and don't let anyone tell you that because you have something makes you a noob or that you need to learn to play. Although it is always good to know your class and what benefits it most because it allows you to make an informed decision. But remeber its just a game and have fun with it.

Epic Flying!!!

So a couple of days ago I final got enough money together to buy my epic flying moutn skill. It was along road of grinding dailies, selling everything and anything that was just sitting in my bank and grind rep for Sha'tari Skyguard. The reason I choose to grind the Sha'tari Skyguard was because when I decided to go for my epic mount it was cheaper in the long run with the discount I got from exalted for the actual Silver Riding Nether Ray mount then it would have been to buy the normal griffen epic mount. Not to meantion I was already pretty close to getting exalted with them anyways. So is getting an epic flying mount worth all the time and money? Yes, I cant say how much Im enjoying it. I have basically for the last couple of days just been enjoying flying around in Outland looking for gas pockets and mineral nods and not doing much else. There just something about Flying with a epic mount that makes it enjoyable were as before flying seemed like a chore and I would only do it when needed or when I did not want to run into any mobs. So my suggestion is if you feel your well enough geared go grind the dailies and whatever else you need to do to get your epic flying skill because once you have it, you will not reject it.

Mr Big

Ever since I started this game I have wanted a pet that was bigger then my toon. When I First say the Devilsaur I was like cool that getting more like it and so I was so the sure that would be the pet I would be playing with most. Then I get a glimpse of the Rhino and I was like WOW, so my attention shifted gears. From the video's that I say this thing is massive. This is a Mr Big chocolate bar were as all the pets are Mars bars (both are as far as I know are Canadian Chocolate bars so if you dont get the size comparision sorry). It may be kind of bland in the texture and overall shape, but it makes up for it in size. Im keeping my fingers crossed that this thing makes it onto the WotLK release, so when I load it up I can go and tame it right away and then when Im able to I will go a get a Devilsaur. But it is going to be a toss up as to which pet I will roll with most and it might be neather, who knows what I finally decide to go with but so far these two are my top choices.

Um... Okay?

So here I was reading about were all the pet families fall into the three classification of pets: Ferocity (DPS), Tenacity (Tank) and Cunning (Utility). When I noticed that Ravagers, one of the best Dps pets as of now is not consider a dps pet in Wrath of the Lich King but that moths, the ugly cousins of the butterfly, are consider a dps pet. I was like um ... Okay? Well I guess im going to have to wait and see how my trusty Ravager Loki performs in dishing out damage compared to a moth to see if I will give it up. Actually scratch that even if the Moth does more damage Im going to spec as Beast Master and go for the Devilsaur [http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?pet=39#screenshots:id=88494] if its still consider an exotic pet that beast master can only aquire. Just looking at the size of thing makes it awesome measured up against a Dwarf.

WotLK BM final hunter talent

So i was looking at the supposed hunter talents for WotLk on wowhead and being a BM specced hunter I went straight to the last talent availble and was pleased to see this...

Beast Mastery [NYI]
You master the art of Beast training, teaching you the ability to tame Exotic pets and increasing your total amount of Pet Skill Points by 5.

from a completely conceptual basis this talent fits perfect with what a BM hunter is all about. As a BM hunter out pets are not only our allies but also our greatest weapons as well. We are the Tarzans of the game and this talent allows not only to a way to visually distigush ourselves from other types of hunters it also makes any pet we do choose to roll with that much better. I hope that this stay and is implemented in the release version of the game. Now to find out what type of beast are consider exotic and then decide on which one I will want to play around with.

Tinker Time!

So lately I have been running an idea through my head in regards to what I believe Engineering is missing. I believe engineering should have a way to deconstruct finished engineering products into there parts. I dont know if Im the first to suggest it but the concept would make sense. An Engineer basically gets a schematic, which tells what parts and mats he needs to make the end product. After the engineer makes the parts and aquires the mats he needs, he then construct the end product. For example we will use Gyro-balanced Khorium Destroyer.


[Gyro-Balanced Khorium Destroyer]

Khorium Bar (20)
Felsteel Stabilizer (4)
Hardened Adamantite Tube
Primal Fire (12)
Primal Air (12)
Primal Nether

All these parts and mats are needed to make the Gyro-balanced Khorium Destroyer so what the deconstruct ability does is allow engineers to brake down the finished product. The general guide line would be that only the parts would be salvageable. Right away we will take the Primals out because there not parts, there mats. An engineer did not make them so hypothetically we could say they were lost in the process of making the thing. We will also take away the Khorium bars because they would also be said to be lost in the process of making the Gun. We could make an arguement that the metals could be remelted back down into bars again but that more something a miner could do and not all engineers have mining as there second professions. So that leaves the Hardened Adamantite Tube and the Felsteel Stabilizer. It makes sense at least to me that when you take something apart that you would be able to still use some of the parts for something else and the rest of it goes right in the trash can. I really dont know how viable this is to put into place but I can always hope.

So you want to be a Engineer?

Okay I would like to say welcome to any aspiring Engineers out there. Its a fun Profession to level, it allows you to have many more tricks then your class would normally have by itself. It allows you to mimic certain abilities from different classes. Like opening locks like a rogue, bubbling like a Paladin, slow fall like a mage and even trap like a hunter. What these gizmos and gadgets do is basically give you that little extra edge in a fight being either a pvp fight or pve fight. Engineering is broken into 2 types of specializations, Gnomish Engineering and Goblin Engineering.

First on to Gnomish engineering, which basically allows you to alter the world around you, through things like Gnomish Mind Control Cap, World Enlarger or Gnomish Harm Prevention Belt. Basically from what I can see is that Gnomish Engineering is more about crowd control and gizmos that have cool effects. Which is a great benefit to class that are lacking in forms of crowd control.

Now onto Goblin engineering, which is more about Blow crap up. I mean it the majority of stuff that you learn from Goblin Engineering is all about making the biggest explosion or using explossions to power other things. A couple of examples are Goblin Bomb Dispenser, The Big One (a bomb) and Goblin Rocket Helmet (which rockets you towards an enemy stunning both you and it. There is one thing that Goblin does have over Gnomish engineering is the Goblin Jumper Cables and there superior version Goblin Jumper Cables XL. These items are great in that any Engineer can us but only Goblin can make, so it is not really a deal breaker if you decide to go Gnomish.

A warning for both Gnomsih and Goblin engineering is that they both have a chance to have side effects associated with them. Also do not expect to make a whole lot of money with this Profession until you are leveled completely maxed or unless you have recipe some one is looking for. Most of the stuff you can build is only usable by other engineers. If you do want to make money the guns, scopes and bullets you can make are were you are going to. Although on my server the Mats usually cost more then I could resell finished product for. Although if you farm all the mats that becomes a non issue, Im just lazy and only farm when I really need to.

Hunters Easy to Play?

Sadly the answer is that a Chimpanzee could learn how to play a Hunter if properly trained. Hell those chimps are smart if we dont watch them real close were going to have a whole Planet of the Apes going on and then were would we be without our WoW fix. But seriously to the point of this ramble. Yes it is easy to learn the basics of playing a hunter. On the other hand thou it takes skill and dedication to really master the class. There is alot of micro managment that is needed to play a successful hunter. The skill set includes many things from tanking, crowd controling, healing our pet as well as manageing our pet in battles, drawing aggro away from the squishes when a mob is lose even if it means the death of your toon, and finall being a dps and a kiter. Not to meantion doing many of these things at the same time. There are many sites a that will explain how to develop your skills like chain trapping (crowd control), or jump shotting(used in Kiting a mob). My suggestion for fellow hunters is to go google BigRedKitty and watch his tutorials on these things it will really expand your skill if you dont know how to do these things already. My Point in this rambling is not to say that Hunters are harder to play then any other class or even that it is an easier class to play but when you run into a Hunter that is half way competent, throw us some love.

Great Quote

Ok you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?

Ash (Army of Darkness)

Im think this is a very hunter appropraite quote. Dont you? ;)

Toon News

From now on my dwarve hunter Turdin is officailly: Turdin of the Shattered Sun. The reason I forked over the 1000 gold came down to, it was the simplest way to get a title in the game. I was always a fan of the old pvp titles which sadly I could never get because I started playing WoW after the took them out. Not to mention the other PvE (Hand of A'dal and Champion of the Naaru) titles were just to hard for me to get because of the effort and the time needed was above what I could give it. Did it hurt the pocket book to get it, you bet it did, but I think it was worth it. As well when the new expansion comes out it may become unavailable to get. Its something only a few people will fork over the gold for so its kind of like a statues symbol. Im just hopeng its not a symbol of idiocracy on my part.

Woot Ironman Woot

So i just went and watch Ironman on Tuesday. All I got to say about this movie is wow. This movie rates as one of my top three superhero movie favorites. This is how a superhero movie should be made. The acting was stellar from all involved. The action was intense but not over done. The story made sense from beginning to end. The Graphics were amazingly done. Ever part of this movie just worked so well. Is it going to be considered a modern day masterpiece no but for a superhero movie it did what it was suppose to do very well, entertain. This movie makes me have high hopes for Marvel Movies to come, that are produced by Marvel. Before this most of the marvel superhero movies have been good to puke but none in my opinion have been this great.

Oh yeah I'm more of DC comics fan to begin with but i might have to look into some trade paper backs of Ironman. Also my three favorite superhero movies are: Batman Begins (my favorite one), Hellboy and Ironman.

Great Quote

I just had to pistol whip my way through a million rats the size of St. Bernards because of you people...
Everybody get in line for your beatin'!!

The Goon (created by Eric Powell)

The Other Me

So about me in regards to WoW. I am the guild master of a small guild, named Control Alt Elite on the Blades Edge server. I have one 70 lvl Dwarven hunter named Turdin as well as a couple other alts that i may write about later. Right now I will focus on introducing Turdin. Well Turdin is a Beast Master Specced Hunter. His Professions are mining and Goblin engineering both maxed at 375. Hes pretty epiced out for the time issues that i have impossed on me in real life. With Turdin i do a bit of pvp and pve. On the Pvp side i mostly stick to 2v2 arenas were as on the Pve i do heroics and dailies. On hindsight I should of probably thought of a better name then Turdin. I get a lot of comments like "Hi Turd". "Turd Come here" and other ones that are less appropraite to say. My general come back to that is to laugh it off and say "Thats Mister Turd to you". So why a dwarf and why the hunter class. Well for the first question, I just like dwarves in general from the first moment I read about them in fantasy fiction. From that moment on I have always played a Dwarf character in any games that gave that option. As to the second question, the reason I picked Hunters is because they most closely resemble the ranger class from Dungeons and Dragons which is my favorite class concept from that game.

Hello

This is my first blog. I want to say thank you for coming and reading it. This is basically a place were I can be able to rant and rave and more then likely ramble about playing a Hunter in Blizzards World of Warcraft and about World of Warcraft in general. I will also talk about other things that catch my interest. Such as movies, comics, other video games and books. Please bear with me I'm no were near a good writer but hopefully with time I will become one.