My main is now level 76. I attribute most of that level to a couple of things: firstly, the fact that thanks to my job, I am perpetually rested (at this point I sincerely doubt that I will ever be un-rested for the rest of this little leveling journey), and secondly, a certain super long and super awesome questline in Dragonblight that I will not speak of in too much depth because spoilers abound. Suffice to say it was basically one of the coolest things I’ve done in this game, period. Though I do have a minor gripe with it in the form of my constantly-dying pet. Seriously, if you’re gonna throw enemies at me that hit for thousands because you’ve buffed me with ridiculous HP and health regen– at least give my pet the stamina buff too. I would’ve been happy with giving him just that, the stamina buff, and not the damage one, really. He was even dying when he was on passive and not doing anything, because they were tossing AoE around or something. I gave up on rezzing him after the sixth or seventh try and just resorted to volley spam, which wasn’t as fun, but eh.
Really though that’s just a minor gripe, it was a really neat and fun thing and my major regret was that I was disconnected and kicked from the game right at the end so I didn’t get to see the finale to the event. But yeah, awesome. So impressed with this expansion so far.
I was hoping to be able to have some stuff to write about Master’s Call but I really don’t. Really all I can sort of ascertain thus far is that it is probably best paired with a Cunning pet because if both of you are CC’d, the Cunning Pet is much more likely to be able to break out faster than another kind. Still, as many of the commenters have pointed out, its use in PvE seems to be quite limited. I could see it as being sort of a mini-trinket in PvP– “mini” because it is much more situational than the standard PvP trinket– but the only PvP I have done lately has been on my 70, Lunapike, (since it occurred to me that she is basically coincidentally “twinked” for the 61-70 AV bracket and I wanted to have some fun with that) and she doesn’t have it yet, so I haven’t been able to really test it. I will write a post on it though! …someday!
Overall I am really excited about the state of hunters in general, and especially my beloved BM hunter. It feels like we have more to keep track of than ever before, between a Bestial Wrath that is talented and glyphed down to a cooldown of almost one minute, the new cooldown-ified Kill Command, old standbys like trinkets and Rapid Fire, and Serpent Sting which I am sort of viewing as our own personal version of Faerie Fire, something that we want to constantly keep up because thanks to a certain glyph, it’s such a damage buff for us. We have a lot of things to keep track of and when you toss pet buffs like Call of the Wild and Roar of Recovery into the mix, it seems like there is always something going on improving our damage or something that we can do to improve our damage. It’s really exciting and I can see a lot of stuff to write about in the future.
Congrats on 76! I am glad to hear of a Hunter enjoying themselves so immensely (and yes, I am a little way behind you but have found the main quest in Dragonblight too).
Your blog is a semi-daily mandatory read for me now and I look forward to hearing any future mini-guides you happen to do on how to spend your Pet Talent Points (hint hint *evilgrin*).
I panicked after the game crashed the moment I completed the chain, therefore missing the whole event. /sob I put in a GM ticket and everything hoping they’d let me turn in the quest again so I could see what happened. Almost ruined my night, the whole chain lasts most of the way through the zone, every quest you do seems to lead up to that moment, and at the climax, my computer gave out on me.
Before I turned to despair though I checked wowhead, and a helpful commenter told me to talk to the lady that shows up and she’ll let you see it again. /rejoice!
So if you haven’t already figured that out, there’s still hope 🙂
That really has been my favorite quest line that I’ve done so far (although the questline in Coldarra with the trapped dragon was pretty neat too)
Now that you’re 76 what do you plan to do? You at all interested in taming Loque’nahak? I’m most of the way through 75, will try to hit 76 soon so that I can camp him all this week. Still have one more week of classes, so little else I can do.
Wish me luck!
I had to leave(dinner) just before the quest ended and I Alt-F4 the program. When I logged back an hour later, I found myself sitting in the main Apoth room with no boss. The quest was still incomplete so I decided to walk myself out of UC and start the quest over.
Stupid me…forgot the mobs were still there and got killed.
Stupid me again…I ghost-walked myself into UC and rez by the bank only to remember the elevators were GONE!
I let myself get killed and then spirit-rez with the sickness debuff (40g repair), sat outside while it wore off, and ran the quest over. This time I did dismiss my pet before it began.
I think I know the quest line you’re refering too; it is of epic quality indeed.. There’s 2 in The Storm Peaks that are equally impressive.
If I had to write a similar post, mine would be titled “…pause, pressing pause.” It’s not like I’m not playing. Rather, I’m playing now more than ever. The problem is that I have A.D.D. or some variant thereof. Between leveling my DK’s Herbalism and Inscription and leveling the Dwarf Hunter that I told you about, I’ve barely played Devv. I need to get focused and get the old girl to 80. Personally, I blame you for painting the Hunter class as the ultimate WoW experience. If you hadn’t, I’d still be happily chugging away with my Mage. I want restitution. I’ve been wronged. Damn you, Pike.
I know huh, give my pet enough to survive! how could they miss such an obvious problem. Even one hunter testing that quest would have complained. /boggle
I know alot of people have issues with the class, but I am loving it and havent once felt gimped.
I know which song your post title (and the previous one) are referring to! >.>
@ Drotara – You know, I was wondering when/if somebody was going to pick up on that… ;P