Devilsaur Vs. Spirit Beast

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Devilsaur 2 minute DPS testKing Krush, my newest Exotic Pet, leveled to 80 last night while doing Heroic Drak’theron, so before I logged off I did a real quick and very crude DPS comparison between my 2 Exotic Ferocity pets. The results were pretty predictable. While Loque’nahak’s damage has been buffed a little, it still needs some work to be on par with the Devilsaur.

Devilsaur and Spirit Beast DPS testingMy crude testing consisted of 2 minutes precisely of pure white damage on the Boss Target Dummy in Ironforge and no pet specials or Kill Command. I just fired off auto-shots to proc Go For the Throat. The end result was the Devilsaur edging out the Spirit Beast to the tune of 21 DPS. Both pets have the same identical spec, which looks like this. Again, this is an inconclusive test considering no specials were used and I wasn’t raid buffed, but it does insinuate that Monstrous Bite wins out a little over Spirit Strike.

Spirit Beast 2 minute DPS testMy talent spec isn’t for maximum raid DPS. It’s more of a DPS-centric PvP build. I have 5/5 Endurance Training, Spirit Bond, 1/3 Cobra Strikes, Aimed Shot, and only 1/2 Go for the Throat. I still do quite well with this spec in heroics, and my first trip to 10 man Naxx had me topping the meters on occasion. Anyway, that’s why the DPS may look a bit low to some of you well-geared folk with the ideal raid spec.

Spirit Strike did not miss at all, but it only crit twice out of 16 casts. I think that next time I’ll stretch out the testing to say five minutes. That should give me a better average for Cobra Strikes procs.

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Garwulf Turns Three

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Old SchoolIt just occurred to me that this weekend marks three years since I first started playing World of Warcraft. I can’t recall the exact date I entered Azeroth, but I know that it was approximately a day or two before Valentine’s Day. I remember my wife was away on a business trip, so I decided to install “that game she bought me for Christmas”.

I was heavily into the Diablo series, but aside from that I wasn’t much of a gamer. I put WoW on my Christmas list only because I read it was tops graphics-wise and I wanted to see what my super-duper PC was capable of. I had a screaming machine at the time with dual WD 74GB hard drives in a raid 0 setup, 2GB of super low latency ram and an nVIDIA 7900GT graphics card.

My Frenzy Barb Farming BaalI was torn between making a Hunter or a Shaman. I ultimately went with a Hunter after watching the mind-blowing cinematic after installing the game. I wanted to be the class that had a pet for a sidekick, but I didn’t want to be an ugly Dwarf at the time so I rolled a Night Elf. Dwarf lovers need not be offended however. Since then I’ve made 2 Dwarf toons and I love the race. In fact, back before x-realm PvP I made a second Hunter who’s a Dwarf because I felt the race was better geared towards PvP (Stoneform and Gun Specialization FTW), plus I wanted to roll a Hunter with Engineering for the battlegrounds.

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Naxxramas

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MaexxnaMy first venture into 10 man Naxx was a success. During our 2 1/2 hours in there we cleared the Arachnid Quarter and Plague Quarter. Heigan the Unclean gave me his Tunic of the Lost Pack and our tank got his T7 shoulders. T’was a good night.

Most of the fights went well, despite our tank disconnecting a few times. We one-shotted Grand Widow Faerling and Noth the Plaguebringer, but the highlight of the evening was the 19+ minute fight vs. Heigan the Unclean.

We were hoping for The Safety Dance achievement, but that didn’t happen. Not even close. He was at about 60% with only 6 of us still standing. Our Holy Paladin died with him at about 30%, leaving our Tank, Shadow Priest, Demo Lock, and two resto Druids. One of the Druids died with him at 231K , but the remaining four pulled off the win. 🙂

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