Tag Archives: Beast Mastery

WoD Beta: Lone Wolf and Adaptation talent previews

This is second in a series of posts about the new level 100 hunter talents as they currently exist on beta. The first post was all about Exotic Munitions. Today, it's about Lone Wolf and Adaptation. This talent changes based on your current spec: Lone Wolf for marksmanship … Continue Reading ››

Hunter Beta Feedback: Round 1

What follows isn't going to written like one of my normal blog posts. It's a copy/paste of a feedback post I made in the Warlords beta forums intended for the developers. I thought some of you may be interested in reading it anyway. I've added a few pictures to help with the "wall … Continue Reading ››

WoD Alpha build 18443: Hunter tier 17 armor revealed, new set bonuses

The vast majority of hunter changes in this build are tooltip changes for clearer wording, or to merge two abilities into one to reduce spellbook clutter. Piercing Shots is still listed in this build even though it's supposedly getting removed, but I would wager that it's just an oversight. The Enhanced Piercing Shots perk for … Continue Reading ››

WoD Alpha: Quick first impressions of the 3 hunter specs

I've spent some time with all 3 specs recently. Ran the dungeon at least twice with each, and did a little bit of testing (what little I could without a damage meter). Yesterday, I shared some more general impressions of the alpha as a whole.  Today, I'm keeping it short and to the point.  … Continue Reading ››

WoD Alpha Huntering: Day 1

I've been in betas before, but never in something as early as a F&F alpha. I'm used to betas basically being finished products, minus some balancing or minor issues. This is a lot different from what I'm used to. A good deal of my time is filling in bug reports or crash reports it seems, … Continue Reading ››

Latest alpha patch notes clean up the Hunter spellbook [Updated]

Updated: If you read this post earlier, there were some more hunter changes added to the notes. Updates are in red. Blizzard just updated the alpha patch notes with a handful of hunter changes and an explanation of their philosophy on adding the new secondary stat attunements which were discovered in the previous build. [bluequote … Continue Reading ››

A closer look at beast mastery hunters in Warlords

Update 8/22: This article is still mostly accurate but is slightly depreciated. It will give you a good overview of the  overall changes but you may want to view more recent posts under the Beast Mastery tag for more info and recent opinions. If you missed it earlier, Blizzard released the first version of patch notes … Continue Reading ››