Lots of things to do

Hey there... it's been a while since I've last written anything here so I thought that this would be a good time, now that the servers are down due to maintenance.

First of all, I started to level my fishing and so far I'm a 382 (with lures and Captain Rumsey's Lager which a guildie has made pints and pints for me), I can fish anything and everything from Northrend!), progressing slowly but steadily. I'm making daily runs through Dragonfin schools in Dragonblight and also gathering Mussleback Sculpin, Nettlefish and Glacial Salmon as my cooking has been 450 for long time now and I like to provide Fish Feast for the raids! I'm a designated cook, I guess. :-) As odd it may sound, fishing is actually fun and relaxing thing to do and on top of that, you get free materials for your buff food (being Blackened Dragonfin) and possible some nice treasures!

I also decided, that I'm trying my very best to complete Hail to the Chef achievement, which would give me a title "Chef". Oh well, completing this achievement will take me quite a while but I'm in no hurry.

Ok - the patch 3.1 has finally hit the PTR and the patch notes include some very cool things that we hunters going to enjoy in near future. I'm not going to list them all here, but instead I'll provide you a link to MMO Champion's page where you can check the notes for yourself! The dual-spec is going to cost 1000 gold. :S The new glyphs look amazing, it seems we finally have to THINK what three majors we are going to choose instead of the current state of "we have three majors that every hunter has to have, there is no alternatives". Ohhh, and the remote stable sounds soooo cool. 30 minute cooldown, possible to cast wherever and whenever, granted you are NOT in combat and POOF - a pet from your stable arrives at your side and the one you had goes into the stable. Pretty sweet.

I finally leveled my old and faithful raptor to lvl80 and it's so much fun to run with Rappy (yes, that's his name!). Savage Rend is super cool and raptors truly are one fierce animals! When we did Kel'Thuzad yesterday (one-shotted the bastard in 25-man, that's pretty awesome!), Rappy was doing OVER 600DPS! That's very, very cool for a Survival pet.

So there we go - lots of new things to wait for, to be anxious about... 3.1 is on PTR and hopefully we could see it on the live servers relatively soon and start rummaging through the new content - I JUST CAN'T WAIT!! :-)

Happy hunting and be seeing ya!

Heroic Naxx and DPS

Our little raidforce was running heroic Naxx yesterday again and I was doing pretty decent damage... we cleared everything up to Gluth and Thaddius, so we have four bosses to go back to today. On Patchwerk my DPS was 5k, which is nice - I again reverted and my rotation includes Aimed Shot, and it seems to be working pretty nicely. On the over-all damage and DPS I was sitting on second spot, topped by our guild's arcane mage (ok well, arcanes are broken atm, but anyway). I was very happy to my performance, even though on Maexxna I ran about 75% of the fight with Aspect of the Cheetah on. >_>

But I picked it up and on Heigan I even managed to keep my pet alive ALMOST all the way thru... it's all about turning of Dash's auto-cast and applying it manually whenever tank moves Heigan and after that it's all about hoping that tank is pulling the boss just enough so our pet won't be struck by eruption waves as the pet always attacks from behind. And yea, my pet was taking eruptions in the face constantly, put Mend Pet plus heals from healers to my pet (I LOVE YOU PEEPS :D) was enough to keep Wahlu alive all the way when Heigan had 17% HP left. If I would've specced my pet into Heart of the Phoenix, he would've fought the fight to the very end, but I decided to go for Call of the Wild after all, because currently I'm using Mirror of Truth and Grim Toll as my trinkets, so I really don't have any cooldowns to use. Call of the Wild provides me a cooldown, which is nice.

Picked up Strong-Handed Ring, now I have two best-in-slot rings, yeeha! Also, stuff like Cryptfiend's Bite dropped, but it went to a druid IIRC. Not that it bothers me very much, Wraith Spear is still quite nice weapon providing 39 agi more than CB, although CB comes out in front in other things... see for yourself, 29 stamina, a bit over 30 AP and 32 haste more than WS, but yeah... it certainly was a bigger upgrade for the person that got it than it would've been for me. I'm looking for Journey's End anyway. ;-)