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Hunter DPS Pets

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I published a new guide today on DPS pets, ie: PvE pets for raiding, heroics, etc…

One of my most viewed posts on the site is one about the 16 point Ferocity pet build, so rather than update the old-ass post, I instead elected to draw up a more comprehensive GarsNotes guide for it. 🙂

In the tradition of the other guides in the series, they’re pretty all-encompassing, yet not overly bloated. In other words, I offer up a bit more than:

A) Get a wolf

B) Spec him like this

So anyway… check it out. Hopefully it helps a few of you out there.

Cheers!

Best DPS Pets

Ruby Sanctum Hunter Loot Preview

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Ruby Sanctum Hunter Loot

06/24/10 – Ruby Sanctum Loot Table Update: Post updated with announced heroic loot. Scroll down to see the goodness. 🙂

Here’s a look at some of the hunter loot that will be dropping in Ruby Sanctum. Although patch 3.3.5 is scheduled to go live this week, Ruby Sanctum is not. The instance will be included in the patch, but it won’t be available until a later date. Blizzard is delaying the release of Patch 3.3.5 outside of North America, which means they won’t be allowing access to the instance until all realms worldwide are ready to go live with it.

Anyway, here’s a look at some of the sweet hunter loot dropping soon in a Ruby Sanctum near you…

25 Man Ruby Sanctum – ilvl 271 Hunter Loot

Returning Footfalls (Boots)

Returning Footfalls Hunter Boots

These boots are basically Rock-Steady Treads V. 2.0. For those of you who can’t afford to craft the aforementioned boots, well… you’re in luck because these are free, provided you’re lucky enough to win the roll. 😉

The itemization is practically identical to that of the Rock-Steady treads, but just a little bit better. Also, you get a yellow socket in these bad boys, in place of the blue one on the Rock-Steady Treads. All in all, a slightly better pair of kicks. [Read more…]

Targeting Macros for ICC

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The following entry is a reader submitted article sent in by PingHansen. I don’t use targeting macros all that often, but I felt that this post would be of value to many of my readers out there. Well done Ping!

Sussisane, Night Elf HunterRaiding ICC can be a bit overwhelming at times. In order to cut down on the number of things we hunters (and other ranged DPS) have to handle simultaneously, I have put together a set of targeting macros that handles the targeting priority for us. The emphasis is on the hunter perspective, but they should work for any ranged DPS. I have found that the use of macros for targeting has improved my reaction time significantly. But don’t rely too heavily on the macros – there may be situations that are best handled the old fashioned way, aka manual targeting.

In order to keep the macros simple, most of the macros below rely on setting the tank as your focus. The focus can easily be changed during the encounters, if necessary. This also works hand-in-hand when misdirecting to the tank. See the tools for that at the end of this article.

And now for the targeting macros… [Read more…]

Anariell returns

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Anariell, Blood Elf HunterThe cat came back….

Well, not really…but in a way? Yes…

But we’ll get to that in a moment.

After a series of unfortunate events I was left without WoW for a good…oh, three months. Yeah, heart breaking I know. I bet you feel my pain.

It wasn’t just that though… As well as having a laptop up and die on me after only having it for 6 months, which by the way…was downright depressing, I also moved. Now when I say moved, I don’t mean like a couple hours or even a state away… I made a HUGE move. I moved to Australia. Been happily living in the Land Down Under for a month now and still going.

Three months without WoW left me rather far behind, and cost me my spot within my rather large and rapidly progressing raiding guild. Worst part is, the GM wouldn’t listen to why I was gone and refused to take me back into the guild. So over the next short span…I did some guild hopping and was rather dismayed by the lack of “raiding” guilds on my server.

We’ll go back to this one later…or I am just going to go on a rant that ends up with a bunch of $^&$%$*&^% all across the screen, and really…I just don’t need that right about now. I have an image to uphold.

Even if it’s a bit fuzzy :/ [Read more…]

4 Druids and none of them needed it

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…so I went for it. At only 25 DKP, I considered it a steal.

Distant Land

This is of course, Distant Land – one of thee best weapons available for feral druids, and actually not too shabby for hunters either. It drops off of Festergut in 25 man ICC.

I’ll tell you what… if they changed the 108 haste to 108 armor pen, you’d have hunters falling all over themselves to get their hands on this weapon. As it stands though, even with the haste it’s still pretty sweet.

This staff allowed me to retire my rusty daggers from ToC, granting me a nearly 170DPS upgrade, so I’m happy. 🙂