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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

New Home!

So check it out, I've decided to get back into the blogging game but with a twist.

We're hooking up a brand new pvp casual blog. I'm working on it as a collaboration with a friend. And whoever we can con into posting for us haha! If you somehow ended up on this semi retired site and want some new hotness head on over to:

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

New Interm Main - Easylay!

Long time no post!

What have I been up to you may ask? Finally after a year plus of playing hunter pretty much exclusivly shift has been abandoned to once a week arena play.

I am leveling finally an alt. I'm going 100% a new way with this alt. On the PTR its always other PvP class/specs. All my other alts in their 20-30's are enhancement shamans or frost mages. This guy is going to be my PvE homeboy. What class and spec you ask?

Protection Paladin baby!

I'm reading up on the goodies at http://www.ardentdefender.blogspot.com/ who I need to add to my sidebar woohoo. I watched a few videos of mid 30's-40's prot paladins AOE farming 7 or so mobs and I was impressed. I mean its like feral but different. I get to have a very solo viable spec even if its a bit slow and I get to learn how to tank. So far my little wonder in just a few days (IRL not /played) has successfully cleared RFC, WC and SFK and is pimped out in the sexiest tanking mail available! Pally tanking is absolutely a blast expecialy the more mobs there are. I seem to excell in large pull mayhem.

The things I like is its a cool cross I'll be a spell dmg tank. I get to stack stats I never used on shift. The huge thing is I'm enjoying PvE in a different roll. You get very bored of wait for threat, pew pew pew. As the pally I get to control the pace of an instance. I get to run right in and start up the brawl.

Things I'm still getting used to are mostly the pally taunt. Its a pain to have to split second pick the party member rather than the mob. I'm pretty bad with catching it before it hits them which won't cut it say at 70 in a heroic.

I'm really pumped up playing this class. In a few days I've ground out the entire BE starting area (which is way better done than the other horde areas), tanked a bit (and not to shabby!!) and I even ran WSG last night at 24 (lol). I actualy scored despite being under the level cap for the bracket I has BOK to stam me up some and plus good armor/block and +3% hit from my tree and -6% dmg from imp Fury. I was a pain to bring down baby! I even smoked a twink hunter. Granted I used Bubble and LoH to do it but hey. He went down like what!

More updates coming soon. Hopefully I can finish my pally quest out in BFD tonight!

Monday, February 11, 2008

What I Like About Teh Hunter

So everyone and their mothers have been ranting about some blog topic consortium or something and the topic of the month is.

Why I like to play xxxxx!

So why does shiftnoobs like playing hunter? 5 Reasons I got that. Many people are taking things from the PVE perspective this is mostly from my pvp side. For raiding its pretty easy to like the hunter. You help tanks, you help dps and you look good when you smoke the rest of the raid dps while doing it. PvP is different. Its about what you can do that your opponents can't. Things unique to how your class is played. That list of factors that the opposing team is contimplating when you walk into Blades Edge Arena and they go "Oh Shit Its a XXX Hunter".

Reason Number 5:
Pets! Now sure locks have them, mages can coldsnap them. But ours need food and have names! Theres nothing better than someone having to see "Bowner hits you for 145" in their combat log. Seriously bowner in the face! But really, our pets are a huge part of our utility in arena. They allow us to easily keep a second person in combat while fighting their dps. Stopping drinking is huge. They hide our poisons or in the case of our boars give us time to get that last kill shot in. One of the key parts of playing hunter is the need to master pet control. Boar charge isn't nearly as devistating if you don't know how to micromanage your pet with stays and hotkeying that one clutch charge to los a healer and get a kill. Without pet skills your scorpid would be mace meat in arena making what was a 2v2 into a 2v1.5 as you no longer have the help of your trusty best friend. Our pets help out farming keeping us from having to blow mana full nuking. They let us show some style. Plagued swine may not be pretty but you can't get such a cool visible tool on your warrior!

Reason Number 4:
Underdog complex! While hunters have always done well in BG's since the release of the BC hunters have been crying that their class is riddled with pvp issues. While some changes have helped with this I still like playing the underdog. I wouldn't feel nearly as satisfied finishing high 1800's in season2 playing a maces warrior or ar-prep rogue. I'm sure teams were hugely agitated to drop to a hunter drain team before they were popular. Much like the Giants blowing up the pats I love slapping the easier to succeed classes in arena. Screw your skillherald. Scattershot FTW!

Reason Number 3:
Complexity! While many classes fall back on a few maneuvers in pvp I find that you do a ton as a hunter. Seriously compare a warriors fight to a hunters. Charge, MS, Bloodrage, Hamstring.... Wack Wack Wack intercept if shaken. Piercing howl or aoe fear in case of emergency. Now the hunter is wingclipping the warrior and his healer to prevent mobility. Selecting the right trap every 30 seconds, snakes for poisons, frost for team kiting, freezing for CC when no dispellers are around. They're alternating steady multi for dps while throwing up arcanes to dispell key buffs from opponents. We're managing our pet and dismissing to save it from dmg! Scattering to get our teamates freedom from mele. Silencing a healer/caster. I forgot to mention swapping aspects and weapons to maximize mana regen, our offense or our defense. Oh yea we can fear druids and hunter pets and stupid travel form shamans.

Oh yea and vipersting for your mana! You're ass is oom!

The ammount of tools I can be using as a hunter is awesome. Much like a warlock or druid there are tons of things you can be doing at any time to give your team the win.

Reason Number 2:
Being a huge pain in the ass! You're in combat cant drink and have a viper sting draining the crapole out of your mana. I'm silencing you. CCing your mele. Forcing you guys to blow CD's left and right. A well played hunter is a huge X factor in a game combining a bunch of abilities to really shut down the opposing teams momentum. Given enough time a hunter will make you pay for ANY mistake on the battlefield. With our drain, dispell and ability to control your team via aoe slows and snares and roots and short CC we are truely masters of the battlefield when used well. Master tactician isn't in your trees for a reason other classes. You aint the masters!

Reason Number 1:
It aint easy shootin bows! Its hard to be good at hunter in pvp. Any schmuk can spam an auto-steady macro at Leotheras! Not many hunters can successfuly jump shot concussive a rogue to get room while vipering his healer and dropping a frost trap. Being an effective hunter requires you to be the master of your shortish cooldowns, a master of movement from strafing to jumpshotting as well as having a good sense of what is going on around you to select the right trap and shot to turn the fight for you. In any given match you have an additional player to keep track of (pet). Miss any of the above and you're not bringing your A game. Bring them all? Some rogue priest team is gonna be bitching about you in vent all night.


So theres my take on the hunter. And yes I do have a boar named Bowner.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

A Public Service Announcement To The Nubbies of Anetheron

Dear all (2) level 67 mages who may be questing with a level 70 goatman hunter in BEM,

It has come to my attention that you're idiots. A hunter with the exotic spiked shoulders is not ample protection for a squishball such as you. The next time you observer a troll hunter land and mine ore near Gruuls Lair where you are questing; I have the following recomendation. Don't throw a wimpy 900 fireball at me while I fly away. I'm waiting for a raid invite and bored, and I have my pvp gear in my bag. I am going to land above you, put on 400resil and 13k hp and come back to toast you. I'm sincerely sorry that my aimedshot crit you for 4.5k and one shot you and also that I killed your oh so cute gnome twin before he found his iceblock button. I'm also so very sorry that your bodyguard hunter took so long to figure out what happened that he managed to shoot me once before he bit it as well.

So just for your future reference I enjoy having my sexy purple troll mohawk singed about as much as you enjoy having my size 11 shoved up your tiny gnome arse. So next time, just leave me to my adamantite and I'll leave you to sucking. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Shifttusk, Troll Hunter, Purple Hair, Now of Anetheron

PS. Thanks for the 60 honor
PPS. You really need to learn where iceblock is on your action bars.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

I'm Angry and I don't know why

So, I'm burning some time at lunch today reading blogs and I check mine for comments. I like when people drop by and say whats up! So I look into my last thread and see a comment from

"http://goldsoon-goldsoon.blogspot.com/"

I pop onto the site not thinking and its a gold seller's blog. Not only that they have been harassing MR large furry rear area!

"http://bigbearbutt.blogspot.com/2008/01/please-kneecap-goldspammer.html"

But I click onto this site and what confused me the most was that there was what looked to be a well written post about nearing 1850 in arena in 5v5 and killing Tidewalker in SSC. But for some godforsaken reason it seemed so familiar. It was 100% like seeing a girl and not being able to remember why she was so familiar. Turns out she was the one you hit on all sloppy wasted last night. Only with blogs and stuff. So I'm reading, and not working and going hey wait WTFHSAUSE!

From our goldspammer's site (without quotes or credit):

"Tidewalker was downed on Monday. I wasn't there, I ran on very little sleep over the weekend and wasn't up to raiding. Apparently it was one of those wipe wipe wipe nights and then "one more try" became the killing one. Grats on the hardwork, the fight for me will still be new as I have yet to play the same toon in that fight for back to back attempts. "

And from Meg's site:

"Tidewalker was downed on Monday. I wasn't there, I ran on very little sleep over the weekend and wasn't up to raiding. Apparently it was one of those wipe wipe wipe nights and then "one more try" became the killing one. Grats on the hardwork, the fight for me will still be new as I have yet to play the same toon in that fight for back to back attempts. " http://outofmana.blogspot.com/2008/01/random-update.html

So not only is this asspie trying to sell gold and have fake anime pictures of purple half naked women. He's ripping off quotes from Meg who is cool and like Big Bear Behind Butt Boy has a pictures of backsides on her site!

I was pissed to say the least, I enjoy reading the stuff alot of other bloggers write like Mabd and Megs and even Huge Druid Bootay! To see some scammer ripping them off is a joke. I hope you all read BBB's post and report the blog as he recommended. Not only is it material against the rules for WOW, this person is ripping off peoples blog text. Its pretty damn silly.

Goldsoon, be warned, you're a douchebag

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Grrrrrrr!!

Hey peoples, sorry for the lack of posts, the begining of the year is a busy period for me at work so I've been a bit swamped. Anywho... so... don't be shocked surprised or freak out... but theres going to be some changes to the blog. I've decided to yes continue doing arena (mostly 5v5) but I'm also getting back into pve. I messed around with survival from the advice of Guy (of BRK fame) and have been having a blast badge farming kara and going to a few SSC runs with a friends guild. I closing in on the magic 800 agility number unbuffed and have been having a blast with it. Anyway expect to see me specced 0/20/41 alot of times on logout but expect some goodies from SSC and Blades Edge arena moving forward.

I'm thinking of re-titling the blog but I'll keep everyone posted. I'm thinking next post. Some sort of PvE vs PvP specs. Back to werk :( Cyas!

Monday, January 7, 2008

Megs Motivates Me Again

So, I'm supposed to be working, but I was blog reading...

Whoops!

I was reading up a thread Meg posted and it got me thinking about my pvping and arena play. I was wondering how often I fall into said tunnel vision. I find in a BG my tunnel vision is turned off generally 100%. But I realized this is entirely a function of my survivability. When I was a fresh level 70, I was like a flea in BGs. Find something in cloth with a red name tag and latch on till it died or I died. Now I sit back and survey a situation from the top of an objective and only act when it’s needed. I calmly sit and think about the best course of action regardless of if I'm taking heat. I was wondering what the big cause is.

Then it hit me. I'm a complete bitch for most BG scrubs to kill and I have the time.

Survivability in a way leads to a clearing of tunnel vision. Now obviously a bad mentality is not going to be fixed by gear BUT fear of impending doom certainly is relived. When I was a fresh 70 nub cake despite my 20k pvp kills I ran into level 70 BGs in fear. Frost mages could kill me in 2 shatter procs. A rogue could drop me without blowing any cool downs. I had 7,xxx hp and like 30 resilience. That xxx wasn't 999 either :(.

So from that my recommendation to some of the newer players would be to play as though you were decked out in full pvp gear. The mentality of taking the time while steady shot is channeling to look around rather than going ZOMG MASH ARCANESHOT IM GONNA DIE SOON will really help you get some perspective. You'll be more alert to what other classes are up to and be able to pick apart a fight and say well here is where I should have trinketed. And when you have your 400 resilience you'll be better off.

On a less serious note later in her post Meg posted some of her key binds. And while knowing that when I face Meg in fives she’s pressing Shift+1 to fear me while pressing just 1 to fear my paladin. It doesn’t really help us hunters bind our crap very well. So here are most of my binds.

Post yours and junks!

My Focus Macro Format For Bar Saving Justice!
#showtooltip Silencing Shot /Cast [modifier:shift,target=Focus] Silencing Shot; Silencing Shot

ESDF Baby!!
E - Forward
S - Strafe Left
D - Back up
F - Strafe Right

` - Ventrillo Talkey
1 - Raptor (Rawr) Strike
2 - Hunters Mark
3 - Auto attack On / Off
4 - Aimed Shot Target
5 - Steady Shot Target
6 - Arcane Shot Target / Shift 6 For Focus
7 - Multishot... lots targets
A - Concussive Shot Target / Shift A For Focus
Q - Silence Shot Target / Shift Q For Focus
W - Wing Clip R - Scatter Shot / Shift R For Focus
T - Freezing Trap
Z - Frost Trap
X - Snake Trap
V - Viper Sting / Shift V For Focus / Alt V for rank 1 to mess with people
8 - Serpent Sting / Shift For Rank 1
9 - Scorpid Sting
Shift + B - Band-Aid Self

Aspects are bound to F1-F7

I have a few others that aren't as important like S1 For Rapid Fire SF1 For Bloodlust Brooch and random situational crap like my Pet->Totem Owner Macro.

Anyone else ESDF?

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Happy New Year A Much Needed Update

Long Rambling Done Through Out My Work Day Post Inc!

Ok so I warned everyone. First off happy new years! I hope everyone celebrated and had a fun time!

So whats been up with the lack of posts Shift?

Well a few things first and foremost Teh BRK has put up a new version of his site and added some forums so I've been at my best ranting with people and bickering with Guy. I'd suggest everyone bookmark the site: http://www.bigredkitty.net/forums/index.php as its a nice forum and has alot of good info coming in without sounding like math class like elitist jerks. Oh and your Shifttusk is moderating the UI/Macros forum so come stop by and post obscenities so I can delete them and LOL. Other than that I was enjoying my holiday and playing with my new toy http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/ . It Is Awesome. Since my phone carrier doesn't support the new iPhone yet this is my alternative. It has wireless internet so I'm able to check my email while outside having a smoke and watch YouTube while taking a.... uhm... eating dinner. My first request to you commenters. Post your favorite gift from this year!

On the wow side. I'm now 3pc vengeful+axe. I spent the dough for the S3 Chest this weekend. I'm now working JC up and or bucking up for BT gems to really pimp it out. I'm rocking 2x8AP+6Sta and an 8Resiliance gem fer now. I have enough points saved for my pants as well but I haven't decided if I should get to 4 piece and then start banking/working towards rating gear or start at it right now. The S3 Legs are a nice upgrade bringing my AC ignore up to over 500. I think this will really make a difference vs rogue/mage teams giving me way nice dps as well as make killing SL pets easier. I think I'm going to buck up once I have another 1k pts in the bank. I will at the very least get the s3 weapon. Its a rating I've hit before and I'm not to intimidated by the higher level play.

Not too much serious news on the arena side I've just been playing 2s with a friends alt priest to get him some points and messing around with a 3dps 3s team to get me some points each week. No active 5v5 yet as we're searching for the lost component. A resto druid. I don't know about you but on our server they are uber rare. We're looking at running an uber drain team with only two lineups and the druid is the elusive component:

Lock (felguard+draintalents), Hunter (MM), Druid (resto), Priest (disc), Pally(holy)
swaping to
Lock, Hunter, Rogue (ar Maces), Druid, Pally for 2mele 3 healer teams to lock down half of their dps.

Back to work for me. Look for a post about using your wasted time in arena (GCD's you're not using after unloading your instants) later today or this week.