- Barbed Shot damage increased by 125%.
- Barbed Shot’s bleed damage now ignores the target’s armor.
- Cobra Shot damage increased by 25%.
Beast Mastery buffs for 8.1.5 (don’t get too excited)
Blizzard has finally announced a buff for Beast Mastery. This is what's happening with 8.1.5 next week:
The current state of Hunters in Battle of Dazar’alor
I am pretty jealous of Warlocks right now. Imagine playing a pure DPS class where all 3 of your specs are not only competitive, but chart topping in the current raid. Imagine having that kind of choice. Hunters are sort of the opposite.
Beast Mastery is far and away the worst spec (from a DPS perspective) … Continue Reading ››
An update for those still reading
Where have I been? Where are the posts? It's been over four months! Where's the podcast? The TLDR answer to all this is that I've simply lost my passion for WoW. At least its current state. I still have hope it could turn around sometime this year, and that Blizzard will pull their collective heads … Continue Reading ››
Hunter Transmog: Dark Iron Hunter
It's been a while since I did a transmog post, but now that I'm a Dark Iron Dwarf I've been trying out some new stuff. I posted this one on Twitter and a bunch of folks asked for an item list, so here you go.
The key items are from Mythic Emerald Nightmare and Nighthold, which … Continue Reading ››
Beast Mastery Hunter Guide for Battle for Azeroth
Just thought I'd post that everything has been updated on my Wowhead Beast Mastery Guide and is now relevant for level 120. The guide is more detailed than it has been in the past as Wowhead has really upped their standards for class guides (seriously, this was a ton of work). You can easily … Continue Reading ››
So-long, Legion
It's always easy for me to tell how much I enjoyed an expansion just by looking at the percentage of my main character's time /played spent in it. Vanilla still holds the top spot in terms of raw hours, but Legion has actually moved to second place. Does that mean it's my favorite expansion? Hmm, … Continue Reading ››
Broken Tooth lives! Hunter pets can have different attack speeds once again
Before you read any more, let me TLDR this first: There is no appreciable damage difference between pet attack speeds because damage is normalized. For the most part, it simply adds flavor to different pets.
First, a little history. Back in Vanilla WoW, several pets had different attack speeds (you can see the original list Continue Reading ››
Beast Mastery Hunter guide to the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch
The pre-patch is almost here!
Today the Beast Mastery guide I've been working on was published over at Wowhead. It covers pretty much everything for Beast Mastery in 8.0. If you haven't been following/playing the beta closely, it should give you an idea of what to expect with the pre-patch this week. A lot of work … Continue Reading ››
BfA Beta: Changes to Animal Companion (Hati replacement), does almost everything your regular pet does
The Animal Companion talent has been in a near-unusable state for the majority of beta, but in today's build it has received some major updates. It's not as simple as the current tooltip indicates (a second pet that does Kill Command and nothing else).
Once all the bugs and kinks are worked out, it looks … Continue Reading ››
Hunters get 10 more stable slots in Battle for Azeroth
You can now tame a total of 65 pets with the addition of a 6th page of stable slots! No, it's still probably not enough for some of you (an extra 100 might not be enough). But it's 10 more, so that's 10 new pets you can tame in 8.0 without worrying about having to … Continue Reading ››