The end of an era

A couple weeks ago, my Hunter idol, Big Red Kitty, decided to take a break from WoW and spend more time with his family. Kudos, sir.

Now that 3.1 is out and I am looking at the changes to hunters, I wonder if he had an ulterior motive. Beast Mastery is no longer the spec it once was, my friends.

A moment, if you will.

Barbaracue has finally dinged 80, and I ran my first heroic that night. My new Nesingwary 4000 in hand, I ran into the Nexus, full of gusto. And produced a whopping 800 dps.

Yep, 800.

My 72 priest is hitting 800 dps.

Where is this uber damage? I realize a lot has to come from my rotation, and I am not geared yet. But I should be hitting better than a priest 8 levels lower, should I not?

And so with the new patch I am thinking of perhaps going *gasp* survival. I know, so awful. I might have to stable Sauce out of the horror. Or I may learn to save my gold and dual spec so I can swap out as necessary. Either way, BM just isn't cutting it any more.

/flex

Again, haven't been posting much, just playing. Recently Schokti has been grinding instances to get the gear I need for the end game runs. I am getting there. In running Utgard Pinnacle last night, I got this:



Huzzah!

Tim Buckley does it again

If you are in the complete dark, please head over to Ctrl+Alt+Del. Now. You can thank me later.

My Precioussss

I knew there was a reason to grind my rep!

You love me, you really love me!

A while back I mentioned Schokti would begin grinding rep with as many factions as possible. The other day I realized I was less than 7500 rep away from Exalted with Undercity, Darkspear Trolls and Thunder Bluff (each). Yesterday I took it upon myself to start the long grind of that last few points.

I got exalted with Undercity within an hour. Thunderbluff took an hour and 45 minutes, since after doing all the quests I was still just under 500 rep away. I discovered I had yet to do the TB quests for RFC, and in I went. Ding.

Darkspear Trolls was by far the hardest rep for me to grind, since I had already done all the quests in Durotar and the Barrens in order to get my wolf mount from Orgrimmar so long ago. I checked Desolace, and found only one quest that I didn't do (in Mauradin - can you blame me?), one in Feralas (I even did the hippogryph egg and got a bad one - score 3 points!) and then I was stuck. Along browse through the quest list on Wowhead showed a few quests in Arathi Highlands which I was pretty sure I didn't do.

I was right. Back when I was leveling Schokti, the mobs in Stromgard were still elite - I got around 1500 rep there. Which left me with about 3300 rep to go. Back to Wowhead to investigate.

I found a quest line in STV that I was sure I hadn't done. Saving Yenniku was a quest line that awarded another approximate 1500 points. When I got there, sure enough, I not only had I not done that quest line, I had not done ANY QUESTS IN GROM'GOL! Being on a PvP server, Stranglethorn Vale is hot point of ganking and I guess I decided as a squishy, it would be better for me to level somewhere safer... like the badlands. And so, after all this, my line of mounts:

My wolf, which I had starting this mission. You may recall the getting of said mount with this post.



My horse:



My kodo:



And my raptor:



The reason for this serious rep grind? Why this, of course!