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Wow, that's a bad hunter. I was in a pug where we had 2 hunters who didn't use steady shot at all, but you have discovered a new kind of bad!

No point even bothering with a hunter who's just AFKing, gkick if it's a guildie, /ignore if it's a PuG.

Maz, just go balance and el oh el your deeps with about 4 buttons.

I've been contemplating going Boomkin. It's pretty funny in heroics and such.

Still, that means farming some ~200 emblems again, just to get where I am now with my Feral gear.

Yeah, I thought about getting the Banner, but some 20 runs and I haven't seen it drop once. With my loot luck, the moment it drops, everyone will roll on it and I'll roll 1.

I'm using Thunderstrike simply because it has more FAP (lol) than any other weapon I have available. Hoping we'll soon down Blood-Prince Council so I can get my polearm. That'll give me some ArP and hit rating, allowing me to switch out my helmet for T10 which has more crit and ArP. Should help with the DPS a little.

The reason I don't have Shadowstrike is because a brilliant RL in a PUG decided to give it to a Hunter. I managed to convince him to lend it to me so I could at least get the Thunderstrike (this was back when I was tanking).

Getting my ring upgraded soon means another 20 ArP and a small DPS increase. I'm just angry I lost the leather bracers to some nutjob Hunter. Armor priority apparently wasn't a concept the RL had heard of before. Figures.

Also, as for my DPS, I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong. I've had a bad tendency to clip Rake and Rip, refreshing at 1s instead of 0s. But this time on Saurfang, I did everything by the books, keeping Rake and Rip up, without Savage Roar dropping. I did make a *****-up around the beginning because our Prot Paladin kept using Consecration and I had to tell him to stop, but Rip wasn't down more than 2-3 GCD before I got it up again and Recount didn't show much of a DPS drop.

Still, if I'm at 8k DPS and some spreadsheet tells me I should be at 8k without the 20% buff, it seems like I'm doing something wrong. 20% of 8k is a decent chunk (1600 DPS).

Edit: One explanation might be my timing of Berserk. EJ tells me to pop it as soon as possible (though not at low/high energy and not directly after Tiger's Fury), so that's what I've been doing. Perhaps applying a 5p Rip and 5p Savage Roar would be better. Then I can pop Berserk and spam Shred for 15 seconds (well, when I don't have to refresh Rake - seriously hate that ability). With a timed Tiger's Fury, I should be able to refresh Savage Roar and Rip before they run out after Berserk fades.

Hmm, going to have to try this next run.

If I was cool, I'd time that Berserk to go with the Mirror proc, but I'm not a god and I'd probably break down crying if I tried to keep track of all that **** plus trinkets.

Edited, Jun 6th 2010 7:45am by Mazra

No, forgot to activate the thingy.

This just occured to me: Playing kitty sounds a lot like chess without time to think.

Is that so? I wanted to dual-spec my druid kitty but I even mess up simpler rotations sometimes.

GET OFF MY LAWN.

Also I had a cat copy my cat spec cause I yelled at him.

Additionally, I now use my T1 MC gear to recruit PuGs for hard raids.

I look good. Like really good.

Edited, Jun 9th 2010 4:02pm by Horsemouth

LFW Jewelcrafting - 10g all cuts - I cut you up good.

Very friendly Feral Tank LFG ICC-10/25. Come chase my sweet bear @ss all over Icecrown.

Guildies are always good fun, especially the wasted ones.

(he went seriously downhill from there, and we ended up talking him off of trade chat before we got our MT banned for the week)

Edited, Jun 7th 2010 11:13am by someproteinguy

It was a 25-man PUG, so I'm assuming almost every buff was available, though whether they were being applied, that's another matter. We did have a Shaman, so I had access to Bloodlust, which is probably why my DPS got to 8k in the end.

I've played around with Rawr some more, setting up buffs to match what we usually have in our 10-man raids. It says somewhere around 7.5k DPS, which isn't too far from what I can put out on Saurfang. The issue is that Saurfang is a one of a kind boss in there, from what I've gathered. All the running around/away from Bone Storm on Marrowgar, adds on Gunships, adds on Valithria, running away from oozes on Rotface, the adds and stuns on Putricide, the switching of targets on Blood-Princes... other than Saurfang which is a straight-up DPS race for melee, only Festergut comes to mind as an ideal fight for Kitties, assuming you don't have to run out with a spore.

There's just way too much target switching or target dropping in the game for me to not feel frustrated with the horribly long ramp-up I have.

Sad panda.

Great Aeth, how 'bout we kill us some Blood-Princes so I can shine? Oh, and stop parading in my rain

Since it was previously discussed here, what time do you euronubs play typically? No point in even barking up that tree if the timing doesn't work.

Cause it's like midnight in London right now and now is when I would usually get on. I sincerely doubt you all are the graveyard, midnight-4am type.