The Yin and Yang of Gaming

So I haven’t posted in awhile, there’s a lot that’s been going on in my life behind the scenes, but that’s not what this blog is about. I finally tamed Sewer Beast a couple weeks ago and after what seemed like an eternity got him to loyalty level 2. Up until now all I’ve used is the “industry standard” cat, Broken Tooth (mine’s named Buzzsaw) because of his 1.0 attack speed for slamming casters. While crocs get no love in 1.7, it’ll be interesting to see how the pet customization develops down the line. Crocrocket will be uber, I just know it!

As for the changes in 1.7, they are ALL OVER THE PLACE. The biggest change is to Spirit Bond. A lot of Beast Mastery spec’d hunters are freaking out because this has changed from an active heal (based on pet hits) to a constant, passive heal. To be honest, I’m not sure how I feel about it myself. I’m willing to give it a shot when the test servers come up, but SB classic is very useful for aggro control when soloing multiple monsters. I think their reasoning is along the llines of a talent that will keep pets (and their masters) alive longer without requiring active concentration. The Survival tree has gotten a lot of love, and I think the species bonus talents are pretty nice, and coalescing all the trap talents into generic talents instead of specifics will help too. Marksmanship I’m not so sure about yet, the change to Mortal Shots has people in an uproar. I’ll have more when I actually can try something out.

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Last night I got my first character to level 60, while doing a 5-man run of Scholomance. Total time /played: 16 days 21ish hours. Now that I’ve got that out of the way, it’s time to look for endgame gear, and completely redesign my UI from scratch. Much thanks to Inowar, Raldan, Tsunande and Marek for the good time. Now I just need to finish levelling my pet Buzz.

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One of my guildmates pointed out this commercialistic gem. Talk about your tie-in. I’m wondering how long it will be before Coke appears in-game.

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Level 57 this weekend. I’m going through a really funny questline involving “Linken” and finding his “Master Sword”. The final step involves killing a 56 elite elemental and retrieving part of the TriForce. The questline is a pain, because it takes you all over to hell and back, but you get lots of XP, so it’s worth it.

Hit level 56 this weekend before I got a massive stomach virus. 4 levels to go, but I’ve still got about 600K XP to 60. Still a ways to go.

Did my first and second raid run as well. First one went pretty well, but my nightmare happened during the second one when my pet attacked a monster that had been stunned to keep it out of the fight. In the end it didn’t affect much since we took care of things, but I still feel really stupid about it. I’m not sure why it happened, but I’m guessing I accidentally had it targetted instead of the other one when i sent Buzz in to attack.

People bitch about Hunters sucking in raid instances because of pet bogosity and even though this was a guild run it’s no excuse. I think I need to write an addon that will check the target for stun debuffs and not attack if present.