Comments on: The hunt still quickens the blood

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:19:45 +0000

I think it’s because we had so many other classes already bringing the debuff that the tall strider wasn’t needed. It was a sad thing. :(

By: Bolink

Bolink — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:39:09 +0000

Love the rare mob. Don’t know what it is…I just get a huge kick out of it.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:22:25 +0000

Drew, I actually raid more with my tall strider than any other pet. When you get those big groups of mobs in ICC the Tallstrider’s attack debuff is a big help.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:14:44 +0000

One of our hunters in my ICC 10 raid (Kingslayers, at last!) still had his original tallstrider from the Barrens. It was super-awesome, but 4.0.1 made using him too detrimental, so he had to be shelved. Our hunter was furious about it, and I’m not sure he’ll be returning to that alt anytime soon.

I haven’t ever cottoned to hunters all that much. I’m not a fan of pet management, so those classes tend to fall by the wayside for me, as do the pet specs of the mage and DK. (Fire rules, frost drools.) Maybe I’m just looking for the right Horde race to try one out?

Most of my focus since my raid downed the LK on my paladin (and thus, any reason for gear progression on her or my druid, who is also pretty ICC 10 tooled out has ground to a halt) has been on my engineering fire mage, who coincidentally just blew through Outlands leveling in a two day spree of Hellfire Peninsula and otherwise instances and a couple instance quests shared by people in the instances with me. Scratch that – I did do the quest in Zangarmarsh to get the mote extractor schematic, and I found Thrall in Nagrand for the event quest, but otherwise: only HP for questing and then I’m in Northrend? Craziness.

BBB, if your mage isn’t specced fire, he *should be*. It is stoopid-gold fun – casting scorch while moving never gets old, and you will have every tank in the instances you run cursing softly while you blow away the meters. Redonkulous.

By: Rustafur

Rustafur — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:22:16 +0000

I love what they’ve done with pets in 4.0.x Great stuff all around! However, I am REALLY ticked at Blizz right now. Patch 4.0.3 went live last night and killed my favorite pet, and my greatest Hunter trophy: my solo-tamed The Beast. Yes, that “The Beast” from Blackrock Spire. I solo tamed him, and he was my favorite pet, hands down. Having that “cool factor” of that skull showing up from him keeping his Boss Tag, and he had an unconfirmed flat damage reduction of 75%, and I smiled every time I opened up The Beast’s pet sheet and saw that “Level -1”. He was a hunter trophy like no other. Not any longer. The Beast has been neutered. No longer does he carry his Boss tag, has a level of “-1” or keep his unofficial damage reduction of 75%. (Obviously between the damage reduction and spell slowing, he was killin’ it in BG’s) The Beast has been reduced to a regular old Core Hound. I am just so mad, there was no word of this coming, and now my greatest trophy has been ripped from my hands.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:28:09 +0000

Aye, the new hunter pets look quite special – the tortoise ones are my favourites so far.

Thanks for the heads up on the horde side ravasaur! Wonder if I have time…

By: Paona

Paona — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:25:10 +0000

I should clarify, because what I said sounds callous and makes me sound like my heart is smaller than The Grinch’s.

My bear Tiny? First pet I tamed, and my go-to pet for anything. BM Forever!

By: Paona

Paona — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:18:03 +0000

You know, I *used* to be a hunter, of the extreme soloing variety. I loved running around soloing obscene things, so I never did ascribe much value to the pets that I tamed other than my bear. Swipe FTW. <.<;

These days, I *am* the bear, instead of taming one. =P

By: Tex

Tex — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:01:13 +0000

man..I camped Nuramoc for almost a month..literally, hunter was parked at arear51, gathering rested xp and I’d log him in 2 or 3 times a week..fly around looking for Nuramoc then go back to sit in the Inn. After getting that bad boy my hunter was allowed to level again. Uh’Klok (or however ya spell it) the white ape was the same thing, just sat the hunter in the cave and logged in every so often until I got lucky. Gratz on the pet. Cool pets make the hunter class for me.

By: Steevee

Steevee — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:15:46 +0000

Thanks for the Cars 2 tip!!! Hadn’t heard. The trailer is sweeeet! Love me some animated Bond!