Questing Achievements

Bik is now doing the zone quest achievements.
I recently moved, and have a terrible Internet connection at the moment. The latency hovers between unbelievable and 800ms. With this latency, raids, instances and groups are not feasible.
I finally found the last Howling Fjord quest for the achievement. It was a drop quest.
While doing these quests, I have switched to dual wielding 2 daggers, and leveling a spider. Heh. Still same BM spec.

Dual Spec

Bikutanda, level 80 Troll Hunter.

I went ahead and bought the dual spec ability for 1000 gold.

YES, both are BM spec! Hurrah!

I kept the primary spec as BeastMaster (BM), and played around with the secondary spec. I experimented with Survival(SV) and Marksman (MM), but after some thought, decided to keep to the spec that suits my playstyle.

For the primary talent spec, I went with talents that would suit for solo work, whether with a Ferocity pet (wolf or spirit beast {Gondria}), or with a Tenacity pet (bear or warpstalker). Talents are 57/14/0

For the secondary talent spec, I went with 53/11/7 which is more suited to raiding, with the wolf pet.

I will update as I learn more.

:)

My dismal Hunter DPS in Raids.

Bikutanda, level 80 Troll Hunter.

With the old cookie cutter BM talent spec, Bik was not placing well in the 25 man raids.

I tried the Survivalist spec as per Elitist Jerks for a raid spec. Firstly, I was not comfortable as a Survivalist. As Biks gear is not great, just one piece of Naxx gear, he did not appear in the top 10.
Nextly, I went for a Marksmanship spec. Bik faired a little better, but had mana issues. Still not in the top 10 iof DPS'ers. :(

I did realise that I was most comfortable as a BeastMaster. The Marksman was okay, the Survival was not to my liking at all.

Sooo, back to being a BM Hunter!

:)

Character Sigs

I have had these signatures for a wile, and rediscovered them recently, while posting at TKA Something.

Bikutanda - main Hunter


Biksaan - neglected DeathKnight


Chebthiz - neglected Paladin


Gargatri - Alliance main


Muros - PvP Rogue


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New Talent Build

I started running some 25 man raids with Bikutanda, beginning about 2 months ago.
My build for this Troll Hunter was the standard BM build, with beastmastery.
Most of the hunters in this group of raiders had switched to Survival, the then current best DPS build. 3 of us stayed with the BM build.
My DPS was abysmal. The Recount tallies showed me way down the list of DPS'ers.

I was not happy with this situation! I believed that patch 3.1 would have a fix for the BM hunter, and so waited.
At this time, I was using my secondary computer at another location, as I had moved to another apartment. This new apartment does not as yet have Internet.
Now my secondary computer is not bad, but has to have the video set at the minimum level. This caused problems for me as I could not always see the blobs, waves, and other dangers that rolled by in a fight. I decided to give the 25 mans a rest, until I could switch to my main computer.

Once the patch came out, I did not see much improvement. I read TKA and Elitist Jerks, and some hunter blogs. After much perusing, I decided to go with a 53/11/7 build.

Here its is:



On Saturday afternoon, May 2nd, the raid group was short of people. I decided to give it a go with this talent build.
Lo and Behold! Recount, (not mine) showed me as high as 2nd, but always in the top 10 of the DPS'ers. My play style is not always to got for the focus target (the Skull), but to help out with adds and the odd trap to help out the casters. Still, I am most pleased!

Now, I can see where I can make some changes in this build. Mortal Shots and Go for the Throat could be maxed out, maybe. My instinct says to take the points spent in the Survival tree, and add to the Marksmanship tree. I will leave it as is for now.
I know that in 5 mans, I have to watch my threat. Misdirection is now my friend!

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Another Signature Generator

From Zetbit
http://www.zetbit.com/sig-517532.jpg

CrossGuild

Some time ago, the guild-leaders from 3 guilds opened up a chat channel that would be common to the guilds.
The idea was to use this channel when looking for people to fill groups. This has now progressed to several guilds using this for 25 man raids,instances and quests.
The guilds that are active now are: (Some of the folks in the channel are from other guilds, whom have been individually invited into the channel)
Elders of Legend - (my guild)
The Darke Horde
Live Free and Die Horde
Secundis Vita
Destroy All Dimensions
Aces High
Disillusioned
Elixni
Armed and Odorous
Rough Riders

(others to be added as I do a check in channel :) )

:)