plan...

so it has been awhile since posting here. a lot going on in and out of game. i have made a few upgrades to my Hunter and also have a few upcomming soon.

i have a plan, and evil master plan, a plan to become the best BM Hunter on Gul'dan. this is and has been a goal of mine from the time of creation. i have learned a few new things as of late. got a new shot rotation going into affect tonight in Kara, i hope to see a small boost in over all DPS and a major improvement in mana conservation. i feel i may have to teach a few Hunters in my guild the value of chain trapping and just how important it is to a successful Kara raid. we are CC in Kara as much as you like or dis-like it, it is what it is. l2chain trap. learn you CD's early, make a pull macro, then...practice. once all this is in place you can hear ppl say to you as they have to me...

player A "oh sweet you are survival spec Hunter"

Jagermaster "nope, not 1 point in surv. i am 41/20/0"

player A "o.O how do you trap so well then?"

Jagermaster "chain trapping. i pride myself on it =)"

then ppl will come to you and ask you to CC for Heroics, Kara whatever. once you learn chain trapping life as a hunter becomes so great. you will see a huge difference in you game play and the way ppl look at you.

here is a link to a tutorial by BRK...

http://www.bigredkitty.net/2007/05/17/chain-trapping-tutorial/

Why...

why do i strive to be the best Hunter i can be very well knowing i will never be a BRK or a Megatf? for myself and my guild. that simple. i have a bunch of RL friends in my guild and i want all of us to succeed, but i feel sometimes like i am fighting a losing battle. what do i mean? well...that is a little tougher to explain than i would like it to be (and take more time than i am willing to put out atm). i am the Hunter class officer for my guild. this means people come to me with questions or ideas right? nope or if they do they do not just come out and say it. i also lead the raids for Kara 75% of the time when i am in a raid. this is a good thing right? maybe not as much as i would like it to be. it seems that i am having issues as the leader of my raid. what are the issues? i am not totally sure to be honest. i guess i have either been unclear or mislead my raid. however i never know about this until after the raid is over and i get a tell from someone not even in the raid. i am told ppl try to tell me what i am or am not doing and i don't listen or am too passive, but i don't even remember these things taking place. maybe i have failed my guild leader and guild as a Officer, i sure feel as though i have. how can i lead a class or a raid if everyone is afraid to talk to me for what ever reason. how can i ask ppl to follow me into battle if they can not trust me or have faith in me to make judgements in the best interest of the group or party. how can i do this with a sound mind if i have the little voice in the back of my mind asking me "would your superior approve of my actions?". i need to be trusted by my superiors and by those that follow me into battle, every leader needs this or they can not lead to victory for very long. i know i would follow my leader into certain failure knowing that they have made the correct choice and i would do my best to be sure we did not fail. also if i thought things were going bad for whatever reason i would let my leader know and maybe even give some advice. i would like to get this from those that go into battle with me.

i believe i am being asked to run another raid this week. i will be sure to have all ground rules laid out before i start and i will also be sure to know exactly what it is that is expected from me. we will just have to see how things go...

PTR Buffs?....

i don't think so. you tell me....

"Hunter




Equipping a thrown weapon while in the middle of an Auto-Shot will no longer cause animation issues.

Casting Flare while in any way not visible, will no longer cause your flare to be invisible to other players.

Hunter’s Mark: Hunters with Improved Hunter’s Mark will now properly overwrite Hunter’s Mark cast by Hunters without the talent.

Improved Mend Pet now has a 25/50 chance to remove one Curse, Disease, Magic, or Poison effect, up from 15/50%.

Multi-Shot: This ability will no longer strike any secondary targets which are under the effect of crowd-control spells that break on taking damage. i.e. Polymorph, Sap, etc.

The stamina tooltip for hunter pets will now display the proper health increase.

Track spells will now persist after death.

Hunters will no longer spin around if they cast Aimed Shot or Steady Shot while facing away from their target. "

this does not look like buffs to me. so they are letting us us Multi-shot in more situations now, Whoopie!! like mana was not bad enough as it is now but they let us use another shot and they are changing how mana regen works. thank you for making raiding more costly in regards to mana pots.

and WTF is up with the Imp mend pet?!?!?!?!? i thought it was gonna be 50/100% after patch? now it will be 25/50% from the old 15/50%, nice so for 1 lvl i will have 10% more. but this does me no good as i am already 70 and already have 50% chance...GG

but hey atleast when i equip a throwing weapon in the middle of auto shot my animation will be ok....

enough venting for now, back to work and farming so i can make gold to buy matts for pots =(

not so much...

Kara started out really well on Wdd. but Blizzard decided after we took out Attumen and Moroes to Server crash on us. so wed we were done early. Friday is here time to own everything in Kara right? wrong! we had 5 melee classes for DPS which means no maiden. only 2 healers (pally and Priest) both uber and great, but this left me and 1 other shadow priest to CC, no biggie... we decided to skip Maiden and go straight to Opera, OH NOES!!!! we got Oz. 1st try wipe, 2nd try not one death. we did it so smothly it was awsome. and guess what Drops??? yup Legacy (i already have) but no other Hunters in the group so it went to our Healadin so he could grind with =). then we tried Curator, again we had nice DPS but just not enough healing for the damage, and i think some melee pulled off the 10th flare early as it was the only flare that got into melee range of myself. ohwell no worries. we will go back tonight and own Curator, Shade, Chess, and Prince all 1 shot....i hope.

tonight we ROCK Kara...

tonight we go back into Kara after a few needed days off from raiding. last week as you may have read we did not do as well as usual as Shade just had our #. this week i have all elixirs all pots a full quiver of the best possible DPS arrows i can get, we will succeed this week, we will down them all, i will get Sunfury. i am however not sure if i will be running the raid or not. if i am i will be doing things a little different as too switching in and out of toons. if we do not succeed it will not be because i or any of my raid members did not give there 100% best effort. this will be our week, this is our time, time to unleash the power that is Power Unrestrained upon the evil that lurkes within Kara.

i will again try to run DPS meters so i can do a good evaluation of my DPS and to show you the massive power of MQoSRDPS that is the BM hunter.

just not our week...

well, we went into Kara again last night and....

we decided to try Nightbane first. 1st attempt was not bad, under 50%. 2nd not as good, but hey....we tried. so on to Shade...

Shade had our # this week. we got him to 6% and no DPS class left alive. he targeted the healers so much they had to heal themselves and thus we died. he decided to take our Kammer before i could ever blow Bestial Wrath or tank a water elemental. 2nd attempt we got him to around 25%. no clue as to how he kicked our fannys so bad 5 times this week but he did. so on to Prince?

Nope. we had 2 people that had to go, one being the tank and the 2 replacements on the sign up list were not on line. so we called it. better luck next week.

i really want to get Sunfury so i can take a break from DPS'ing in Kara. i think it is starting to get to me on how i do so much DPS. don't get me wrong i love the DPS i do, just sometimes i feel like i am doing most the work, and then when a boss does not go down at 6% i feel like i have failed in doing my part..."if i had kept my pet alive for BW, maybe if i used that last Agility Elixir, maybe if i had gotten those PvE bracers, maybe we could have downed him" i feel as if i have failed my raid as a raid leader and Hunter. if i don't use the maximum DPS arrows, if i don't use the Agility Elixirs, if i don't use my CD's, if my pet dies then i have failed in doing my part as a dealer of MQoRDPS. i take full responsibility for our in-ability to take down Shade this week. i make a promise to not let this happen again. i will have all necesary pots & Elixirs for next week.

til next time...

unable to get screenys...

i was unable to get any good screen shots of the DPS meter due to the fact that we had ppl switching out toons alot for certain boss fights. i think next team i lead i'm gonna set a rule in place that we roll with one toon unless absolutly needed to get past a certain boss. like we only have 1 tank for Moroes and we need a 2nd type thing. but on fridays run i was dead for most of the 3 attempts on Shade and at the end of the night i was still on top with 21.32% of total raid DPS followed by our wonderfull Affliction Warlock whom had 16.68% raid DPS. that is about 4.5% DSP difference between 1st and 2nd!?!? help me out here guys. i'm affraid that if i ever want to take my shaman in place of my Hunter we may not have enough DPS to down some bosses, and ppl already want to start switching ppl out for ppl with greens. this is a good idea to better gear the guild (which i am all for) but we need to be sure we can handle what we are doing. i am sure that Attumen, Maiden, and maybe even Moroes (given good CC) we will be fine, but after that Opera, Curator, Shade, Prince (whom we have only downed once mind you) will be a lot tougher not impossible, just tougher. i don't want ppl going in thinking they are gonna be able to see Prince their first week then only to be disapointed and have a big repair bill. i think some ppl are getting a little relaxed when it comes to Kara and we really need to keep on our toes and keep our edge going if we think we are going to do Grull's or even ZA sometime soon. we still have ppl that are not even done or have not started their Kara attunment yet. i think i will be a little bit more strict on chatter and being ready (reagents, pots, ammo, and other goodies) i still want ppl to have fun but when the raid starts i want us to be on the ball not trying to catch the ball. we have a good group going on our 8pm runs and i think with just a little more structure we could easly get to and down Prince in 2 of our 3 raid nights.

well back to work for now and see you for Shade & Prince tonight :::on knees praying for Sunfury:::