I recommend you to keep playing the warlock alt, make him affliction.

In the end, there won’t be any “oh, i forgot i had this” because if you do some casual grinding and some instances, you get to use all of them.

For example:
Detect invisibility is very nice on the invisible shades in kara, have your resident lock cast it on all the raid and dps ahoy.

Curse of weakness stacks with demoralizing shout (i think), and can be yummy on Gruul’s later growths

Curse of recklesness stacks with ferie fire, lowers armor but increases monster AP, it can be also nice on gruul, on first growths to help generate extra rage and help melee dps.

Curse of doom is better than curse of agony on boss fights, also if you’r about to die at the later stages of a boss fight, make sure you throw a curse of doom, it just may be that tiny dps that saves the 1% wipe and turns it into a kill.

It’s not a horrible list, and sometimes it’s really right on. But it’s not gospel or perfect.

2500 attack power is pretty low for 30% crit. I’d expect it to be at least 3k.

So what if there are a million druid and hunter blogs out there already, don’t be afraid to make a new one and say what you’ve gotta say! (Especially us poor hunters who can use all the help we can get to teach newbies the ropes)

You are right about the hunter issue too, the class is just so plain easy to play solo, demanding very little of the skills needed to go into an instance; chain trapping, proper pet control, misdirecting, scorpid sting, when to FD, the list goes on. I have a feeling the old level 60 epic questline may have taught some of these skills, but sadly it was hidden behind a rather large barrier of content which soloers and 5manners would never see. We see many of these issues in our guild where there is a rather large gap in party contribution between a fresh level 70 hunter and a veteran.

From http://www.emmerald.net/index.html

“The values from the model are dependent on the used base attributes, and the further away your character is from them, the larger is the potential error. However, experiments in changing the base attributes have shown that the effects are quite small and the relative order of the items is quite unchanged, except in the extremes. The used base attributes are shown in the “Info” page for each list.”

Kitty Info pages: Base attributes used in the calculation of the stat values – AP 2500 Crit 30

Kitty High Gear pages: Base attributes used in the calculation of the stat values – AP 4000 Crit 45

So…

Either I’m doing something really stupid, pre-Kara, or I think the base attributes aren’t too far off… For Kitty DPS (which was the original question from Pidge).

Feel free to correct me, but I don’t think that 2500 AP is “extraordinarily low attack power” for pre-Kara Kitty.

Have fun,

Stobs

Look for Emerald’s Feral Gear list… It’s not quite like B^3’s lists of gear sets for different points of progression, but it is a fantastic ordered-list of Feral goodies…

I’ve been using it to guide my hear selection for a while, and it Rocks… I’ve come to “know” the order of some of the slots, and use it to determine which Heroic to go play in at times… But I’ve also been known to tab to it when an unexpected item drops… That way I can quickly check if said item can be passed up or sharded, or if I’ve been a lucky Kitty…

It also let’s you think about Rep and crafting slightly differently, in that you can immediately look “above” your current gear and see if there’s a pattern or similar that could help out. It can also help point out where Badge gear is an effective buy compared to Heroic drops…

Two examples for me:

Noticing the Fel Leather Gloves were better than I was wearing… That sent me scurrying to get Consortium rep to get the pattern…

Finding the Shard Bound Bracers are lovely DPS and easily accessible from the Og’rilla (?) dailies…

The Lists are linked off B^3’s home page…

Several of the Feral bloggers have identified the lists as their source for their own hear recommendations.

Have fun,

Stobs

Pidge, I am going to do a kitty gear guide… I really am. Not as hardcore as the druid tank one, though.

Auzara, I haven’t seen your blog yet, I will when I get home. Sounds interesting.

But I would think that, since the fous of your blog is leadership rather than the intricacies of one class, that your topics would be revolving around managing interpersonal relationships and organizing and focusing the attention of a large group of people? I’d think any topic that focuses on how to motivate your people, encourage positive behavior, highlight postive ways to get potentially negative feedback across or point out areas of improvement to people without causing hard feelings, and some good pointers on tools to reduce the time a guild leader or officer spends managing a guild (such as bank mods, event calenders, guild website tools, guild profession coordination tools, when to plan events for maximum participation, promotion and DKP tracking, that kind of thing) would all be very valuable resources for your readers.