No More Mortal Strike for Hunters in Cataclysm?

Looking over the Warrior class preview for Cataclysm, I noticed an interesting bit that suggests hunters may be losing their mortal strike. Overall, heals cast by players in Cataclysm will be a lower number relative to players’ health than the current game. So to make the Mortal Strike debuff less mandatory but still useful in PvP, Mortal Strike will reduce healing by only 20%. All equivalent debuffs, including the Shadow priest and Frost mage debuffs, will be for 20% less …

Read more

Arena Just Became Fun Once Again

I queued 36 matches last night with my former 2v2 Arms Warrior partner, and we pulled off 25 victories. Not too shabby considering the unorthodox composition of BM Hunter / Arms Warrior. This recent flirt with competitiveness has me especially geeked about 3.1. My Chimaera will be tearing faces off after the patch. 😉 He critted a Druid last night for 3106 without The Beast Within. I was so proud of him. *sniffle* Our counter team was Holy Pally / …

Read more

Challenger it is

Well, Matt and I didn’t make our goal of 1800 tonight. BM Hunter and MS Warrior isn’t the best class composition for 2v2, but we seem to make it work pretty well. After all, there are only 2 teams in the US over 2k with this makeup. Matt’s a real good player and strategist (and I try my little heart out), but in the end it boils down to there being way too many other equally good teams with a …

Read more