{"id":6,"date":"2009-01-12T09:39:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T09:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/?p=6"},"modified":"2010-05-01T00:41:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T00:41:28","slug":"lo-quality-hunter-weekend-wrap-travelers-tundra-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Lo-Quality Hunter: Weekend Wrap, Travelers Tundra edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably ironic that when I decide to start writing a WoW blog, I actually start playing WoW less. But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more a factor of the new television I bought. And since my xbox 360 is the only thing that can use 1080p, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been messing with. Then again, this weekend would have been limited WoW time regardless with a dinner with friends and having to rush over to my parent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house to fix their computer. Now I know I was going to write up a bit about my hunter first but some interesting things happened on the weekend that I wanted to write about so my hunter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s introduction will be later. Fortunately I did get some WoW time in and it was primarily on my Hunter. Managed to run a Heroic Violet Hold and finally finish the Lockdown!<\/a> achievement by killing Erekem. For those who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t familiar with VH, the first two bosses you face are randomly chosen from a group of six and for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lockdown!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, you need to kill each one once. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been to Heroic VH 6 times, and the majority of the time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve face Lavanthor and Zuramat. But when Erekem popped up, I remember thinking: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hmm, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite remember this fight\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and then when he died and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lockdown!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d popped, I went \u00e2\u20ac\u0153oh, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But it was nice getting that achievement.
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\nA Heroic Nexus was also in the offering. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve run Heroic Nexus with various groups and it seems like each one does it slightly different. My personal preference is to kill the bosses in the order of Kolurg, Telestra, Anomalus and Ormorok last. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mainly because I absolutely despise the little Crystalline Frayers. Non-elites but they can be a pest when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to eat or drink something. To be honest, I find most of the VH fights to be of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153man that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annoying\u00e2\u20ac\u009d type. Whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Telestra and what I refer to as her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yo-yo\u00e2\u20ac\u009d attack, Ormorok and his little flower buddies or Keristrasza where I find myself becoming a hopping maniac, the fights are different then stuff I faced before but different in an annoying way.<\/p>\n

Now for the lunatic PUG run of the weekend, my Oculus run. It was a druid tank, druid healer, Marksman hunter from one guild and they picked myself and I think a Death Knight up in the bargain. So, we travel to Coldarra, run inside and three of the others immediately run to the Nexus instance instead of Oculus. That always scares me. Granted, I know I tend to get the entrance to the Zangarmarsh instances confused, but I usually double check or say I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember rather than just running randomly into an instance portal. But fine, I can live with that, I try not to worry and just go.<\/p>\n

So we start making our way through the beginning of the instance. I quickly notice one thing, the MM hunter is not using his pet. That always bothers me when I see that. I know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not critical for the pet to go in for a MM or a Survival hunter like I am as it is for a Beast Master but every bit of dps helps. And generally, as long as growl is off, most tanks should be able to hold aggro without your pet pulling it off. Again, fine, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll live with it since I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like telling other hunters how to play their character but it still bothers me.<\/p>\n

As we get to the first boss, I quickly realize that most of the group hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been to Oculus before. This actually doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother me because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a first time for everyone. What does bother me is that to discuss the fights, one of them starts quoting strategy from wowwiki verbatim! This bothers me because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s often quite a lot to read and unless the fight is complex, usually not necessary to go over as such, you can summarize the fight most of the time. For instance the first boss, Drakos, the key things to know is to avoid the floating bombs if you can, if you get the bomb debuff you need to move away from the group so you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t aoe the group when you explode and that he does a stomp that launches melee into the air and a pull which teleports people to him.<\/p>\n

Now this doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t become a factor until the third boss, Urom. The recitation of the fight starts and I interject that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to know about it right now, we need to chase him first. That when we first engage, he summons mobs and teleports to the next platform and that the real fight isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t until he teleports to the center ring. The problem is, with the recital going on, nobody else sees what I say and consequently we wipe when the tank rushes forward, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect the mobs to pop and the mobs then proceed to eat our healer. When the tank asked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what happened?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, I explain again and then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m told \u00e2\u20ac\u0153well if you know what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on, you need to pipe up!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I pointed out that I did but left it at that.<\/p>\n

Now on to the second time and we wipe again, mainly because the tank couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite grab the aggro of the mobs before one or two killed our healer. Now remember how I mentioned that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like telling other hunters how to play? Well, the MM had no such compulsion and immediately berated me for not using a misdirect. I pointed out that I was using MD but that he was keying his off first so I had to wait until his wore often before I could shoot. For the most part, I was actually doing more damage than him and with him doing an MD first, it had essentially two effects. One, since my damage was higher, an MD from me would have a better chance to redirect aggro off the healer and to the tank from the start but since his MD was going, I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do anything and his damage aggro didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t offset the healer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s healing aggro. Two, I held off my dps until I could do an MD, meaning for those critical first seconds, I was effectively a 0 dps. This is because I want to guarantee that my MD is based on my most powerful attacks instead of being interlaced with an auto-shot or sting or something silly like that. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help that the MM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first three shots took forever to get off. I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t paying close enough attention to know exactly what his shots were but it was usually several seconds into the fight before his MD cleared and mine would kick off.<\/p>\n

His natural retort is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153well then activate yours first.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Which would be fine if he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hit his MD while the tank was marking and was constantly renewing it as soon as it wore off. Now, when I PUG with another hunter and I know the other hunter is doing more damage and is using misdirect, I let them have precedence. He never learned that courtesy but again, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part of the insanity of PUGs. So he says he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll hold off until my goes off and then a few seconds later, proceeds to activate his MD again before we even finish healing from the wipe! To tell me to go first then immediately early-cast your MD, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just rude.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the third platform actually goes well and we get to the inner ring fight. Again, not bad except for the DK running in the wrong direction for part of the fight. But then afterwards, the MM looks at me and goes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hey, you need to turn your growl off.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I look at my bar and verified that I had growl off, and since my pet was also a cat, that cower was turned on and told him so. He then says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153oh nvm\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. WTF? Now I tend to pay attention to what the boss is targeting and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s usually very obvious if I forgot to set up my pet correctly because the boss will turn to my Mudgie and whap him a few times before the tank grabs aggro back and I know it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen at all during that fight. Plus, this was the third boss, it would have been noticeable during the trash mobs if it was on. My only conclusion is that he heard the noise from my kill command and misinterpreted it as a growl.<\/p>\n

Sigh. It is then on to Eregos, which is both complex and not. For one, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re fighting from dragonback and that means you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re using your mounts buttons, not your regular ones. And for another, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the fact that you are now in a three dimensional battle. Which wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter except at one point where you flee a bit and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very easy to fly off in three different directions, which we did, and as such are out of support of each other. But we kept trying, including a couple of laughable attempts of me on a green (healing) dragon. If you read my other posts, my top classes are a tank and three dps. Healing isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t something I do at the moment. But we persevered and I got the nice achievement for completing Heroic Oculus.<\/p>\n

Now I seem to be bashing that other hunter quite a bit and maybe he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great normally but having an off night. But I hold myself to certain standards and from that night, he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t meeting them. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect perfection but you have to at least be decent at the character your are on. Otherwise, stick with groups of friends instead of strangers and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell me what to do, especially if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m already doing it. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a good way to make me pissed at you.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take the cake for the weekend. It was actually in a Wintergrasp battle. We lost, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m okay with that. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s having to put up with the one idiot in the bunch that drives me nuts. Two minutes into the battle, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s complaining that nobody is getting into vehicles. Well, considering you have to be a certain \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rank\u00e2\u20ac\u009d before you can even get a vehicle, and to get ranks requires at least some PVP action, wondering why there isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t 16 vehicles running about in the first two minutes is just silly. Five minutes in, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already yelling \u00e2\u20ac\u0153FAIL!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the Raid channel. Eight minutes in, people are yelling at him to buzz off or go afk but he keeps whining. At about ten minutes, either someone kicked him out of the raid or he dropped himself because we then got twenty minutes of him demanding to be invited back into the raid and everyone refusing to send him an invite. There are some people are just begging for an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ignore\u00e2\u20ac\u009d label and he was one of them.<\/p>\n

Not much else this weekend other than getting exalted with the Ebon Blade and then realizing there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a single thing I wanted from the Ebon Blade at exalted. Oh and as you can guess from the title, I picked up my Traveler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tundra Mammoth. So even more so, I expect to be the guild taxi for a while. Some might think the mount is not worth it but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m the type who picks up even vendor trash and being able to clear my bags without having to fly to a town is wonderful. Not to mention getting repairs or being able to replenish my ammo on the spot is nice. I have a 28 slot quiver but after a long day of gaming, I can get pretty near the bottom of the quiver.<\/p>\n

Egad this is long. Not that anyone is reading this anyways but I guess I need practice in being a bit more concise…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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