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A Note on the Request for Feedback
I see a lot of comments here and in other places like the Arena Junkies forums accusing these feedback threads of being deeply cynical placations of the playerbase. The comments question, “how could...
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Homogenization That Could Help
Class distinctiveness makes the game more diverse, strengthens class identities and increases replay value. We might therefore suppose that class homogenization is something to always be avoided....
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A Quick State of Hunter DPS
I haven’t seen any “state of hunter dps” posts in a while so I thought I’d throw one together. This post takes its data from DPS Bot and uses the default settings of a two week sample period and the...
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What a Hunter Tanking Tree Would Have to (and Could) Look Like
The Hunting Party Podcast and WoW Insider have each brought up the idea of getting rid of pure dps classes and making everyone a hybrid. While taming a pet that enables a healing tree is conceivable,...
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Steady, Cobra and Aimed Shot Cast Times Reduced on the PTR
We’ve received conflicting reports from the PTR on Steady and Cobra Shot cast times. Frostheim claims that our casted shots are “not changing at all” in the present PTR build; however, a thread over...
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Geography in an Instant World
I’m feeling a bit uninspired this week so I’m pulling some essays out of the `rainy day’ pile. These essays focus on in-game geography: how we have changed relative to it, and how it has changed...
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Using World of Logs to Evaluate Hunter Performance
Evaluating player performance is a fundamental part of progression raiding, be it analyzing how a recruit holds up, identifying where existing players on the roster can improve, or just considering...
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Deathwing Drops a Gun?
Initial reports of Deathwing’s loot table suggest that Deathwing will be dropping a gun. I know many hunters don’t like guns, but I, for one, am cheering after roughly two years of twigs and string...
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Shot Changes on the PTR
In the latest PTR build, cast times on Aimed, Steady and Cobra Shots have been reverted to their normal durations (they had previously been reduced by .5 seconds each). Also, Zeherah reports that the...
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News from Blizzcon
Blizzcon is done and you can find the highlights for hunters after the cut. New Race Blizzard will be making Pandaren a playable race for both factions. Pandaren can be hunters. New Talent Tree...
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Hunter Comp Wins Blizzcon Arena Tournament
The big news of the 2011 Global Battle.net Invitational is that a team with a hunter on it managed to come out on top. And it is news because, well, nobody expected any team with a hunter to do this...
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Zeherah’s Name to Appear on an In-Game Item
Zeherah’s name rests on a mail helm on the PTR, Zeherah’s Dragonskull Crown. There are two or three versions (depending upon where you look) of the raid-quality item in build 14890 on the PTR, and...
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A Few Updates Regarding the 4.3 PTR
After the cut you’ll find some recent news regarding the PTR: no more BiS gun, BM gets and AoE buff and FD updates to include 4.3 items. Nevermind on that BiS Gun It looks like a bow is going to be BiS...
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Hunter Tips and Tricks for Tier 12
It’s a bit late for a post like this, but I’m not sure that anyone else ever crowdsourced one for tier 12. If you have any useful tips beyond those already listed below (including those for hard...
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Friendly Reminders for Patch 4.3
Patch 4.3 is available for download, and so now seems like an appropriate time to offer some friendly reminders about the patch. You can find the patch notes here. Currency Conversions Valor Points are...
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Hunter News from the Class Q&A
Blizzard had a class question and answer session today. You can find the chat feed here and a transcript of the hunter-related questions and answers here (courtesy of WoW Insider). After the cut you...
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Blue Posts on Hunter Scaling and the Survival Rotation
Following the class Q&A the blues hit the forums in force to clear some things up, and some of those things related to hunters. One post, found here, relates to hunter scaling. Others relate to...
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Hunter Damage Reduction Cooldowns
Cooldowns? Plural? Yes, hunters actually have a several options for reducing damage taken in raids, for ourselves and for others. Take a look at the descriptions of Intervene, Deterrence, Disengage...
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Survival Rotation Changes
Survival is changing for the better in 4.3. Its DPS is going up both in relative and absolute terms, leaving it more appealing than it has been since its nerf after Cataclysm launched. What is there...
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MoP Class and Spec Abilities Previewed
Blizzard announced last night that it has released an MoP talent calculator. The thing that makes Blizzard’s calculator different from, say, Wowhead’s calculator, is that it includes lists of the...
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