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Professions

Why Alchemy is better than you think

December 16, 2009

Alchemy is a great (and possibly the best) DPS profession because of one thing: versatility.
Alchemy offers opportunities to tailor your DPS output on the fly, fight to fight, even phase to phase, that no other profession can compete with, for example:
You’re fighting the Northrend Beasts, you blew your cooldowns on Gormokk right from the jump, [...]

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Epic Ammo Coming in 3.3

November 19, 2009

A new item of interest to Hunters was included in MMO Champion’s data mining report yesterday. Hunters will once again have access to epic ammo. It seems that there will be 2 plans for craftable ammo that will be available to engineers once they reach honored reputation with The Ashen Verdict. The plans are for: [...]

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Leatherworkers rejoice!

August 26, 2009

I saw news of drums making their return to leatherworking over at MMO Champion and it made me turgid…
Leatherworking

Drums of Forgotten Kings – Heavy Borean Leather x 8, Icy Dragonscale x 8 – Gives all members of the raid or group the Blessing of Forgotten Kings, increasing total stats by 8% for 30 min.
Drums of [...]

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Ghostcrawler Speaks and Other Hunter News

August 21, 2009

During the class panel at today’s BlizzCon festivities, Ghostcrawler announced some of the major changes in store for Hunters with the next expansion, “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm”.
They are:

Mana will be gone. Hunters will now utilize focus.
Intellect will be a needless stat for Hunters.
Focus will regenerate at a rate of 6 focus per second.
Steady Shot improves [...]

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PTR Patch Notes for 3.08

December 15, 2008

Looking over the patch notes today I saw a few more things of note. These being changes that mainly affect Night Elf Hunters that have Skinning as a profession, such as myself. Not to mention the greatest change of all…
Too long have I pained and agonized over the inability to open clams while riding a [...]

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Loque’nahak Camp Out: Day Three

November 29, 2008

Once I was about 2/3 of the way through 75 I decided to hit Sholazar Basin in search of King Krush. One of my favorite, if not my very favorite things to do as a Hunter is to set out and tame the rares. TBC sucked for rares which makes this new content all the [...]

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Five Levels In Two nights

October 19, 2008

FANGORIA, formerly known as Ressan the Needler, is now level 70 after two nights of bloodshed in the Netherwing Mines. This is a great place to grind pet experience. The mobs are plentiful and they respawn very quickly. Since I’m a skinner, I like to mow down the Ravagers and Flayers for their precious hides. [...]

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