Brewfest Tokens

Just wanted to share with you all what could be done if you put in some effort. Two days ago I obtained 823 tokens. This was with missing 3 days of racing and 2 days of dailies. Even with the event being extended you can obtain a good chunk of them by racing. Even though you can only do it once every 18 hours, it is the best means of obtaining at most 40 tokens a run. As long as you are not distracted by typing and focused you should do fine.

I avoided buying a new Brew of the Month membership and the new pet in order to save up tokens. I probably could have generated 1000 with the extension but doing 2 hours of racing on alts burned me out of racing every day.

Now to focus on Del and get him to 75!

PTR 3.3. Short Guide

I am noticing many questions as to what is going on with the PTR. I figure I post from my experience.

Character Copy:

While it is often suggested to copy your own character I don't suggest it for the time being. There is currently a bug if your character has done or completed the phased quests in Ice Crown. They will not be able to see the portals to test out the new instances.

Pre-Made Characters:

I do recommend you make two copies of a pre-made character. This is to experience both Alliance and Horde versions of the dungeons. When you first log on your character you will suffer a disconnection. Just relog to access the character.

Your character will be already duel spec'd but no talents have been applied. (unless paladin). Hunters have 4 pets, one which is a spirit beast.

A pre-made character comes with the Raven land mount as well as the Bronze Drake flying mount. Your reputation with almost every home and Northrend faction is exalted. You have the Argent Tabard so while you begin in your home faction city you can port yourself to the Argent Tourney without having to ask a mage for a port.

Once at Dalaran you can go to the city trade district to purchase glyphs from a vendor. You may also want to visit the Barber to change your appearance.

Your gear will be Tier 9, unenchanted and not gemmed. However all of your bags will contain other gear (PVP/PVE) as well as consumables. Your bank will have 20 of each epic gem, meta and enchantment materials. A grinder and rod are provided in your backpack. Your character will be a max enchanter and jewel crafter.

Everything you need to enchant a full suit is provided. However there is a but with the new Shatter so it is not recommended you take an Abyss Crystal for lower level materials. Either copy another character to the same faction and mail the materials or just settle for enchanting only one suit.

There are a few glyphs missing and there are no scopes. However considering you are decked out and testing a normal and heroic instance this should not be a problem.

Currently only POS (Pit of Sauron) is available for testing. It is located on a west wing of the citadel but will take some time to familiarize yourself with the location. The run from the graveyard takes some getting used to.

For those of you testing it out, have fun doing so! I'm on the PVE server on a Horde Hunter named Rizahawkeye, and I started an Ally hunter named Nakoruru (with her Poppy).

Kodo Mount & Northrend Orphan update

I've been blessed with the Kodo Mount. I've wanted this mount for over a year and I finally won a roll on it!

Update on The Northrend Orphan. I tried to eat an item from the list of required snacks for the achievement and did not get credit. This implies that you can't take this particular orphan to a battleground to get the other achievement done out of season. Oh well. There will be next year. ^_^

What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been!!!

WOOT! I had a piece of Brewfest regalia from last year. Finally got the Dark Iron Invasion done. and went to dance in Dal!

I have such a feeling of satisfaction right now... who needs sleep! ^_^

PTR: Patch 3.2.2. Hunter Bestial Wrath Change

It may seem that Beast Master hunters are getting more love from the nerf bat with a significant change to their bestial wrath ability.

Ghostcrawler however does bring to light the complete revision to the talent.

He states:

I love data-mined patch note day.

It should be no surprise to anyone who has been on these boards for long that we're trying to chill out abilities that convey offensive and defensive bonuses with the same button press. At the same time, BM damage was a little low and too dependent on the pet. With this change, hopefully, Bestial Wrath becomes more of a defensive ability while taking Beast Within will boost hunter (and just the hunter) damage at all times.

I call it more of a defensive cooldown because it now breaks all CC like a PvP trinket.

He continues:

Since the changes seem to be causing confusion, here is the new tooltip.

“Send your pet into a rage causing 50% additional damage for 10 sec (down from 18). While enraged, the beast does not feel pity or remorse or fear and it cannot be stopped unless killed.”

The tooltip doesn’t say this, but it now breaks all forms of CC that a PvP trinket would break (including Cyclone, Sap, etc.).

“Increases all damage you deal by 10% and while your pet is under the effects of Bestial Wrath, you also go into a rage causing 10% additional damage and reducing mana costs of all spells by 20% for 10 sec (down from 18). While enraged, you do not feel pity or remorse or fear and you cannot be stopped unless killed.”

So the changes are:

Duration lowered.
Passive hunter damage buff added.
Now breaks all forms of CC (whatever a PvP trinket breaks, including Sap and Cyclone).

I've never been Beast Master. I am considering it as a spec for my future tanking spec however I seem to recall Bestial Wrath made you immune to any form of crowd control. You could not be stopped, slowed, and were able to do it for 18 seconds. 18 seconds to me seems like a really long time in an Arena environment. I can understand why this has been changed to 10 seconds and how many are not happy with the change.

I recall that Bestial Wrath would not break you out of a Polymorph. It would break you out of a Sap or a Stun. With Ghostcrawler comparing it to a trinket it makes me believe that the ability will break a hunter out of Polymorph.

Is it me or does anyone else find it amusing that Ghostcrawler seems irritated at Boubouille for bringing this to light?

TribunalXHunter Solos Attumen Successfully.

I don't follow too many players on Youtube. Big Red Kitty, WOWHobbs and TribunalXHunter are the only ones I have kept an eye out for. With BRK having left the game TXH is the only hunter who posts videos I try to keep up with on occasion.

Some folks have heard I wish to work on a hunter tanking spec and gear set. What this involves is obtaining some stam items such as trinkets which can be slightly difficult as most often tanks have a priority on them. This does not mean it is impossible. On principle I will not roll on any item if a tank needs. I just need to have the luck of the item dropping and the tank not having any need for it. I have to research what I do require but once I do I will go about and work on obtaining the items.

I had watch TribunalXHunter attempt Attumen solo but his attempt was not successful. He stated he would try again later once he leveled up engineering and the changes to the profession went live.

I am pleased he finally succeeded in his endeavor! After my experience in Botanica I really want to see what I can push. I have not attempted Ony solo and a hunter has done it before. I did solo Bloodlord in ZG as a SV hunter and obtained a raptor mount that way. I'd like to see how far I can push Risa into clearing up her missing achievements.

Greetings!

Hey everyone. I decided to try out blogging about my more active hobby which is playing World of Warcraft with my friends in my guild "Soul Society" on the Proudmoore US server.

I've written/blogged on the web before on Live Journal when I was active in the anime/manga fandom but after I had to leave that industry, for the time being, I really lost my incentive to write.

I don't profess to be a professional or literate writer but I hope to share my thoughts and views with others who may happen upon my perspective.

For those wondering about my hunter, I named her after Riza Hawkeye from Hagaren. When I created her back during vanilla WOW and being Alliance a dwarf female did not have the appeal or the hair style I wanted for the character. Her name is Risa because Riza was taken on the server.

I hope to talk about my other characters but we'll see how things go and how often I will be active.

Thanks all for your interest!