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Trapdancing! Part 1- Anub’Rekhan
I’m going to write a multi-part post on trap dancing: the art of finding a safe way to get something to proc a lock and load for you. I’m going to go over all the bosses I’ve got experience with. I’ll...
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Hunting Freya!
[Ed note: welcome wow.com visitors :) Feel free to subscribe to my RSS feed, updated 5 days a week, and take a look at some of the other guides I've done.] Well, Freya is one of the more annoying...
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Hunting Auriaya!
Today I’m going to go over the Auriaya fight. She’s supposed to be some sort of librarian, and is affectionately known as the “crazy cat lady”. Your first responsibility is to create a macro that will...
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Iterative Marksman spec advice!
This is still a work in progress, and a canon marks guide will be forthcoming. Some of the things I learned on my first raid as marks, however, are: MM at my gear level is a small step up on DPS for...
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Hunting Thorim!
As promised, here’s my guide to Thorim. We beat our head against this guy so many times learning him that I understand half of our healers are off with mild concussions. Essentially, the fight has two...
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Hunting the Faction Champions!
[Edit sep 28, 2009: there is an updated strategy here] The Faction Champions encounter is the third in the trial of the crusader. Unfortunately, at this time, there are no general wowhead (or whatever)...
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Undocumented Volley Change in Patch 3.2.2!
Source: Ghostcrawler mentioned that the attack power coefficient for volley has been raised. This skill had, before a patch a few months ago, been ridiculously overpowered. For raids where mana was not...
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Hunting Onyxia!
Onyxia is a specially re-released encounter to celebrate WOW’s 5th anniversary. Today, I’ll go over the basic strategy for the fight from a hunter’s perspective. The fight has 3 phases: Phase one This...
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Even More 3.3 Hunter Changes!
MMO-Champion posted additional notes on patch 3.3. Of interest, here are the hunter changes: Hunter Beast Mastery -Mend Pet, Scare Beast had the mana cost of their lower ranks reduced. Marksmanship...
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New Blue Post About Avoidance!
This is just a short note to let you know that the venerable Ghostcrawler has posted a little something about pet avoidance, and their ability to avoid AOE damage. Here’s the link, and here’s the...
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Condensed Hunter PTR Changes!
Going through the many MMO-Champion posts from yesterday, there’s a lot of info. This post is going to contain just the stuff that will affect hunters. From the patch notes: Tail swipes will no longer...
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Armor Penetration vs. Agility, Redux!
Armor penetration or agility? I’m going to give you the rules of thumb. Never go ArP if you’re not MM. If your gear has less than about 350 ArP from gear (not including gems or a trinket proc), then...
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Explosive Trap- Hunter Consecrate!
Explosive trap is awesome. It has been buffed quite a bit lately and now scales quite nicely with our attack power, so I figured I’d write up a guide about how and when to use it. Why should we be...
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Auto-targeting for AOE
The WHU has a pretty good post today about something that had been bothering me in my last 5 man: that targeting bug fix in 4.1 made it so that pressing a button wouldn’t select a target. While this...
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