tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post3436972526201257620..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Three Favorite Fights as a Hunter in MistsTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-24337261172420318882014-06-30T11:26:26.335-04:002014-06-30T11:26:26.335-04:00We have had a lot of great players pass through ov...We have had a lot of great players pass through over the years. I miss a bunch of those people I started with. Seems many have moved on. Except me. I stay plugging along.<br /><br />But some day I too will move on and someone else that is there now will be saying the same thing thinking of the people that have passed in their time and I will be a memory to them like many are to me now.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-62914308053944072832014-06-28T16:59:01.592-04:002014-06-28T16:59:01.592-04:00Anon, Grumpy's former Guild Leader:
You made ...Anon, Grumpy's former Guild Leader:<br /><br />You made me nostalgic thinking about our player history. I know I am one of the ones still around some but not raiding, but it made me think of the various others who are just not around anymore. Sigh, such a team is not possible I guess, with most of the players no longer in the game, in most cases having had real life interrupt play, but honestly, if we had all of them together at once...we would be world contenders. <br /><br />Wish this time I could name the names but I will respect you and not do so to avoid giving away your idenity. But still, it is good to remember were we came from as a guild. Our failures and our successes have all their roots in the guild membership, and if our best over time were combined, we would be awesome in the original intent of the word. <br /><br />As it is, I still think we have done pretty damn good. Thanks for helping to create those memories. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-50790717373647489762014-06-28T16:30:48.067-04:002014-06-28T16:30:48.067-04:00Anon, Grumpy's former Guild Leader:
You made ...Anon, Grumpy's former Guild Leader:<br /><br />You made me nostalgic thinking about our player history. I know I am one of the ones still around some but not raiding, but it made me think of the various others who are just not around anymore. Sigh, such a team is not possible I guess, with most of the players no longer in the game, in most cases having had real life interrupt play, but honestly, if we had all of them together at once...we would be world contenders. <br /><br />Wish this time I could name the names but I will respect you and not do so to avoid giving away your identity. But still, it is good to remember were we came from as a guild. Our failures and our successes have all their roots in the guild membership, and if our best over time were combined, we would be awesome in the original intent of the word. <br /><br />As it is, I still think we have done pretty damn good. Thanks for helping to create those memories. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-70186281755318722122014-06-26T17:58:35.637-04:002014-06-26T17:58:35.637-04:00@Khel - Heh. Yes, it and normal Siegecrafter are ...@Khel - Heh. Yes, it and normal Siegecrafter are probably the only two fights that are less annoying for melee (I've only done about half on ranged so I don't have personal experience on the rest). Hopefully you appreciate the other 12, especially on a hunter. ;)<br /><br />@Del - What's the narnia strat? We've only ever done the "get knocked to the back and just hang in way out there" strat... works fine but isn't great for dps(e) purposes. If you're staying within range of the boss are you handling any bombs that come up in your vicinity?Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-79514273262868213452014-06-26T12:26:09.082-04:002014-06-26T12:26:09.082-04:00Small adds are hell on garrosh with people that do...Small adds are hell on garrosh with people that do not grasp the concept of them. Which playing in a casual guild usually means 95% of the people I can bring in on any given moment. That is why I just try to over DPS it and ignore them completely.<br /><br />Sha is really a fun fight for numbers.<br /><br />I have not raided on my shaman at all this tier so can not comment from that aspect at all but I can say I hate thok on any caster.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-46441054534464065422014-06-26T06:38:12.651-04:002014-06-26T06:38:12.651-04:00I am mostly raiding on an ele shaman, and here is ...I am mostly raiding on an ele shaman, and here is what I have to say about the three encounters you mention:<br /><br />1. Immerseus - meh. I don't care much about the encounter, unless that's heroic, there's just no ROI from gear - the fight feels largely the same at ilvl 545 as at ilvl 565.<br /><br />2. Thok - that's better. Of course, a lot of time I can't cast the spells I want due to impending silence, so the performance is far from optimal, but it's fine. Gear definitely helps to down this puppie faster.<br /><br />3. Sha - now we are talking. I'd race you for the meters, given the chance. Good fight, I like it. :-)<br /><br />The fight in SoO that I like the most is probably Blackfuse. Unless I am doing belt, of course, but this rarely happens (as it should). The fight that I like least is Garrosh. It's not that it's omg so difficult, but it's annoying in that one mistake on someone's part during MC or small adds, and everything goes to hell. I am not a big fan of things like that, I think it's better if you can recover.PVP anonhttp://nowhere.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-21817224781801282062014-06-26T01:26:47.352-04:002014-06-26T01:26:47.352-04:00Our 25 player team does the "narnia" str...Our 25 player team does the "narnia" strat for heroic Juggs. It's fun for me because there is one warrior we have who is ridiculously good, and constantly fighting with me for the top doops spot. So it's really wonderful to see him stand there with nothing to do through the duration of siege mode. <br /><br />I'm currently working on an entry for my site on setting up DBM so you can Disengage through the knockbacks. That's been my strat for a while, and lets you keep dpsing nearly 100% of the time while everyone else hangs out in back by the fences. Deliriumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576124406751861955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-77431797573622163362014-06-26T01:23:31.889-04:002014-06-26T01:23:31.889-04:00My raid team is also way too over geared for Heroi...My raid team is also way too over geared for Heroic Thok, and while we don't have the healers to pull off no transitions, we can only do the fight because we finish it so much quicker than was really intended. If we had to go into the third phase, we'd never get it done.Deliriumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576124406751861955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-9511944018744491912014-06-25T18:38:40.576-04:002014-06-25T18:38:40.576-04:00I enjoy Thok too for all the same reasons. But I ...I enjoy Thok too for all the same reasons. But I also hate him now. Heroic Thok is disappointing. He's just a bit out of some of our raider's ability. But we're too good for normal now. I suggested we see how far we could get him without ever transitioning from phase one. We killed him with 71 or 72 screeches and never got bloodied or fixated.<br /><br />I just barely got a second stampede off. My fellow hunter who has the heroic WARFORGED trinket got a second one off for mostly full effect.<br /><br />While fun this way, it kills off the kiting fun and there's nothing to tranq. Kheldulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12144686097363099402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-24076994773859676422014-06-25T18:28:43.315-04:002014-06-25T18:28:43.315-04:00Minimal movement on heroic juggernaut? Damn melee...Minimal movement on heroic juggernaut? Damn melee. In H10M ranged have near constant movement. I love and hate it. I love that I can do it well. I hate it because a small slip by anyone can mean a wipe.Kheldulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12144686097363099402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-66205317041212610862014-06-25T17:43:18.195-04:002014-06-25T17:43:18.195-04:00I haven't done enough progressionish content o...I haven't done enough progressionish content on my hunter this expansion so I'll address the question monk-style. I'm going to pick one from each tier with one honourable mention.<br /><br />#1 - (Heroic) Iron Juggernaut<br /><br />One target, generally stationary, minimal movement, 3 defensive cooldowns that line up pretty much perfectly with the 3 knockbacks. Apples equally for heroic and normal but the cooldowns are especially good for heroic.<br /><br />HRs - H Protectors (3 primary targets? 3 secondary targets? Perfect for clones)<br /><br />#2 - Jin'Rokh the Breaker<br /><br />This is an era-specific thing... there was a time when the dps monk mastery was basically uncapped, any fight that had occasional periods of dps boosts could be, uh, leveraged very successfully by monks, saving up their mastery boost for standing in the puddle, plus, significant cooldowns on relatively short cooldowns that basically allowed you to stand in the puddle for the maximum allowable time even after the storm started. The current mastery still works well with those types of fights, just not quite as dramatically.<br /><br />#3 - Blade Lord Ta'yak<br /><br />Admittedly, I'm trying to force a first tier fight in here but my monk was great for tornado running. Only my rogue (with the unlimited 70% speed boost talent) was better, as I recall.Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-68341888296192554312014-06-25T14:11:29.856-04:002014-06-25T14:11:29.856-04:00I liked your post and the choices. The daralon fi...I liked your post and the choices. The daralon fight guild sounds sort of like my guild. Sadly the last of those people that were left from, heck, all the way back to vanilla, is gone now. All have quit the game or are just not raiding. But that is how we always managed. What we might have sometimes lacked in skill we always made up for in team work and managed to get things done other guilds of the same skill level could never dream of.<br /><br />Working as a team is probably a bigger part of a raiding teams success than anyone gives it credit for.<br /><br />Glad to see I am not the only one that loved thok. Even with n top phrases that is still a hunter fight 100%. I do not care who leads the charts at the end, that is a hunter fight.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-17528897382113178512014-06-25T12:32:22.063-04:002014-06-25T12:32:22.063-04:00http://www.thrillofthewild.com/2014/06/top-5-fight...http://www.thrillofthewild.com/2014/06/top-5-fights-of-mists-as-hunter.html<br /><br />I imagine most of mine were fairly typical, but a couple I think most people hated...Deliriumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576124406751861955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-87265138293519989422014-06-25T12:20:33.794-04:002014-06-25T12:20:33.794-04:00Can't wait to see what your three favs are.
O...Can't wait to see what your three favs are.<br /><br />Originally it was top 5 favorites with immerseus as 5 and two others from the first tier as 4 and 3 but then after reading it I removed those two because it was already crazy enough with the #5, I did not want people to read what the other two where or they would have really thought I had lost my mind.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-4328873304845394822014-06-25T12:10:54.461-04:002014-06-25T12:10:54.461-04:00I started to write a comment here, but then reali...I started to write a comment here, but then realized I just wanted to take your idea and do my own version! Thanks for the inspiration; this was really fun to think about.Deliriumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576124406751861955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-66435256397634102552014-06-25T12:00:57.992-04:002014-06-25T12:00:57.992-04:00I spent a lot of time thinking and the list was 5 ...I spent a lot of time thinking and the list was 5 at one point but 4 and 5 are from the first tier. There was nothing in ToT that stands out for me as enjoyable.<br /><br />I could say I loved the puddle burst on the first boss, or the many mechanics and the fact as a hunter none of them mattered to me on the last boss, or any boss in between there was something worth mentioning from a hunter perspective but the more I thought about it everything in ToT was just blah.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-7408130156154894342014-06-25T10:27:18.172-04:002014-06-25T10:27:18.172-04:00All SoO? ToT was awesome.All SoO? ToT was awesome.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.com