Welcome to patch day, otherwise known as the day that just about every tip on this site becomes obsolete. I hope that you all are as excited as I am about the prospect of no more steady shot clipping.
Since stepping away from raiding, I've been looking, without success, for an alternate direction for this site. The truth, as I've mentioned before, is that I've been focusing on my feral druid & on my lesser alts. Flyv has even encouraged me to rename my site & become a full-time druid blogger. I don't think that's going to happen. One of the reasons I got into this blog was that I wasn't finding blogs from raiding hunters that felt "accessible." I wanted to simplify the theory-craft and number crunching I read so that the casual player or the ALT player had a resource. Feral druids, on the other hand, already have people like Karthis, Flyv, Kalon & countless more.
So, what does the future hold? I'm not super excited about joining the droves of Exotic Pet "fan-boys" when the servers come up tonight. Yes, I'll be going with a Beast Master spec for now. Yes, I'm prepared to tame something exotic. But, I'm not sure I plan to stay there.
At this point, Rhus will be my main for Wrath. When I hit 80, I'm hoping to get my small group of friends motivated to do 10-mans with various friends in different guilds including the gang in QSS. Beroth, I plan to level in a more relaxed pace. I'm hoping that a solid PvP/PvE hybrid emerges by the time he hits 80. I'm eying a MM/SV hybrid idea.
For now, I plan to go with a 56/5/0 build at 70. It's far from ideal, but allows me to experiment with some of the new BM talents while retaining the same feel.
As for Rhus, I'm grateful that Karthis posted a Pre-Wrath Talent Spec the other day which matches my plans almost exactly (making me feel smarter than I actually am.) I'm tweaking and should have my decision by server-up in a few hours.
My biggest annoyance with the new expansion is timing. Yeah, Oct/Nov is great for the holiday rush, but it's also a busy time of the year. The Phillies are in the playoffs, Football season is in full swing, new shows are on TV, we've got this huge election thing (and I'm a politics junky), the "honey do" list is as long as my arm and there's the whole holiday travel thing. Who's got time to play WoW?
2 comments:
I know I am probably alone in saying this but I actually am really going to miss having to time your Steadys between your Autos. I always did it 100% by hand-- thought the macro was boring-- and I am going to miss that feeling of timing. Still, really excited about basically all the other stuff.
I feel what you're saying.
I also know that whenever I had latency issues, or faced pushback in a fight, my shots clipped painfully. It's not fun.
It was after a painful 3 weeks of network issues that I threw up my hands and first started focusing on my druid.
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