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hunterforthehorde — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:42:47 +0000

Tonight I joined the live show for The Hunting Lodge Podcast and it was a blast.

I am thinking about applying to the Scatter Shots blog to replace Brig as the writer. I love everything hunters and I think my knowledge about them is where it needs to be in order to write about them.

Hunters in 3.3

hunterforthehorde — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:09:49 +0000

Call Stabled Pet: Cooldown reduced from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.
Deterrence: Now also increases the chance for ranged attacks to miss the hunter by 100% while under its effect.
Misdirection: Redesigned. Instead of having finite charges, it now begins a 4-second timer when the hunter using Misdirection performs a threat-generating attack, during which all threat generated by the hunter goes to the friendly target. In addition, multiple hunters can now misdirect threat to the same friendly target simultaneously.
Talents

Beast Mastery

Intimidation: If the hunter’s pet is in melee range of its target, the stun from Intimidation will now be applied immediately instead of on the pet’s next swing or attack.

Pets

Avoidance: This talent has been replaced by Culling the Herd. Hunter pets now innately take 90% less damage from area-of-effect abilities like all other class pets. This does not apply to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.
Cower: Redesigned. This ability no longer affects threat, and instead reduces damage taken by the pet by 40% for 6 seconds with a 45-second cooldown. While cowering, the pet’s movement speed is 50% of normal speed. Cower now only has a single rank and is available at pet level 20.
Culling the Herd: This pet talent has replaced the Avoidance talent in the pet trees (Hunter pets now gain that benefit automatically without expenditure of talent points). Culling the Herd increases pet and hunter damage by 1/2/3% for 10 seconds each time the pet deals a critical strike with Claw, Bite, or Smack.
Demoralizing Screech: The attack power reduction from this ability has been increased by 40%, equaling the maximum possible attack power reduction from the abilities of other classes.
Improved Cower: Redesigned. This ability now reduces the movement penalty of Cower by 50%/100%.
Pet Leveling: Hunter pets now need only 5% of the experience a player needs to level, down from 10%.
Venom Web Spray: Range increased from 20 yards to 30 yards.
Web: Range increased from 20 yards to 30 yards.
Wolverine Bite: This talent is now enabled when the pet lands a critical strike rather than from the target dodging the pet’s attacks. In addition, this talent no longer has a prerequisite.

With the above changes to the Pet and Hunter I believe that BM will once again be an awesome raiding spec. I have always believed that the point of being a hunter is our pets. We should rely more on our pets for dps and survivability than our shots and stings.

Hunter and his Pet

hunterforthehorde — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:05:57 +0000

This is Crichton and his spirit beast Rygel

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Hunters in 3.3

Hunter and his Pet