Forthcoming Introductions

With the winding down of Fall of the Lich King I am going to introduce the rest of the family over the next few weeks. Don’t worry, this is still a hunting blog, and will remain so. However, The Family is important too. Nochecazador was not always the head of The Family. You’ll see the leadership issue play out in the forthcoming articles.

Over time The Family has grown and contracted. Everyone in The Family is at max level except for the newest member Atlantica. She will get there in time though.

I hope you will enjoy the forthcoming articles. The articles will be published when they are ready (taking a page out of Blizzard’s book). Basically, I’m not going to commit to a public time-table. There could be articles in between too. Of course that is dependent on imagination, what’s going on in-game, and in life.

Thanks for reading thus far.

Is This the End?

The Lich King will fall. It’s crystal clear. Am I done in Northrend? I’m still smacking around some of the Lich King’s minions, but all of it will come to an end. Then what? What’s next? Maybe a vacation? I here Elwynn Forest is nice this time of year. Maybe I should pay Arathi Basin a visit? Putting a few arrows into the rear ends of the Horde sounds quite nice.

Helping You Helps Me

I noticed a mage was not going full tilt in Heroic HoR on the ghost waves. I asked him to do so after we had just had a wipe.

I know mages can some times top me on the recount meters or be close, but he was about 1k away from me DPS wise. That amount of disparity did not compute. I asked him to go full blast with his AOE. He said he worried about pulling aggro. I said trust me, go full blast, we will be okay. He did not. We wiped again and the group disbanded in a friendly manner.

It turned into a wasted instance lock for me.

Apparently he did not know I was using MD on all the ghost and loading the tank with so much threat only myself or the rogue could pass him. Which lead me to thinking that the poor mage was yelled at so many times for surpassing the tank’s threat that it was making him ineffective.

We as players need have to be better with the way we admonish and praise each other. An admonishment that hampers a player’s ability to learn is not good. It would be better to help someone understand or at least point them in the right direction in an educational manner. If the player refuses, then he/she may just be a lost cause.

If I can help you; great. If you can help me; awesome. The PUG will be that much better and our success rate increases all the same.

My Thinking on GearScore and Elitist Group

I dislike both due to user abuse, not the addons themselves. If such addons become the defacto measuring sticks for doing things in game then it may become time for me to stop playing.

- Comment I made on The Hunting Lodge

Going Silent

For so long now I have used a gun. I did use bows, and my very first ranged weapon was a crossbow. As I rose in levels though, the gun became my weapon of choice. There was no denying that guns were superb to bows and crossbows. At least that was the case for me. It was so easy to upgrade from gun to gun. Then came the Felglacier Bolter.

I have gone back to my roots with the bolter. A quiet but deadly crossbow. I do miss the BANG. I am getting used to the sound of the pulled string now. I did not realize how much I depend on sound awareness until I changed weapons.

I do still carry my True-aim Long Rifle as a back up weapon. The rifle also has ArP (Armor Penetration) as an equip bonus. Having ArP as an equip bonus could still make it a better ranged weapon for some hunters over the bolter.

The ammo for the bolter is about the same in cost, but does appear to be more plentiful at the Auction House.

Side Notes:
Using the Felglacier Bolter makes my wife happier due to the reduced sound.
The bolter also saves healer’s hearing, due to them normally standing near me.