3.0.8 and me

Well, after cleaning work earlier this week (carpet was still a touch moist) I finally got in a quick WoW-fix last night, downloaded the patch and did some groupy stuff.

So what did 3.0.8 mean for me?

Ephylia is now under 1600 spellpower thanks to the Titansteel Guardian adjustment (i.e. nerf).
And I'm disappointed that Flow of Knowledge give 84 Resilience (was originally spoiled as having 84 crit rating, which made it stupidly good for 25 Wintergrasp marks). But otherwise my Paladin is loving the patch simply for the improvement to Glyph of Holy Light (which is so OP it's getting nerfed, fast). Now I just wish Holy-oriented Plate would start dropping.

My hunter is now a 6/52/5 Marksman (for leveling), which is a really cool spec. Brief testing on Target Dummies showed that I went from a 650-450 Hunter-pet split dps-wise, to 1050-150, which is a decent jump, but does mean I have serious issues with aggro now, maybe get a better pet than the Gorilla? But if both components of Chimera Shot crit, that's a nice 5.5k damage.
Also, apparently Survival post-patch is better than BM pre-patch. Wtf?

My druid is back to Feral, enjoying a nice increase to armor thanks to the changes to Survival of the Fittest. And he can finally use the Sonic Spear I picked up last year sometime (mentioned in this post). Which warranted a respec to a 0/52/9 build. Just because. Seriously, druid with Sonic Spear, my hunter is still silently weeping over that.

Oh yeah, evidence (thanks to Arianwyn, whose computer I hi-jacked, Mew =^..^= ):

It's got a spear! It must be a Hunter.

Lolwhut?!?!?!

/Salute

LoL Hunter Nerf

Who didn't see this coming?
The class that solos everything, and does top dps by a large margin on both single-target and aoe pulls, getting nerfed? NOWAI!!!!!1!1!!1!

Inevitably people will QQ their eyes out, but why exactly? Bringing a measure of balance to the game isn't a bad thing. Losing a few % on the damage meters affects them in what way, exactly? It makes grinding while soloing a bit slower, and increases the time to complete instances by a small amount, and possibly alter a few hunter-beats-boss-preventing-wipe moments into wipe-at-1% moments. Oh noes!

And on the other hand, hunters get a bit of PvP-love. This is A Good Thing. Although inevitably some...people... will completely miss the point and say some rubbish like "OMGWTF! u'r nerfing PvE 4 PvP. PvP sux u noobs blizz kthbye" or the equivalent. Hunters are overpowered in PvE and underpowered (crap/almost useless/ waste of arena team slots) in PvP (slight exaggeration for effect on my part) - these are separate issues, they're just getting addressed at the same time.

I look forward to seeing what other people (and by this I mean BRK) have to say about it.

In other news, I've been busy (so busy that I'm only half-way to 80), but I'm still alive. Udder Madness posts will eventuate in the future. In the near future, even. As in: sometime this year. \o/!

What will I be doing once 3.0.2 hits?

Around 2 days to go until the servers go down in preparation for 3.0.2 (assuming things happen as normal).

Here's what I'll probably be trying on Wednesday and over the subsequent week or so (until my exams come up) - not necessarily stuff you should do, but you could consider some things:

• hunter:
  
• buy 2 stable slots run around and tame everything in sight. Including, but not limited to:
• gorilla
• Winterspring chimaera
• core hound (probably get the SMV version, and then try for MC skin if it proves worthwhile)
• devilsaur
• one of those cats from Darkshore
• a new owl (I kinda miss Orly)
  
  
• try to solo some stuff:
• Fel reaver
• Gutripper (gave me problems at 67)
• target dummy
• slave pens
• first room of shadow labyrinth
  
  
• mess around in PvP with Aimed Shot and Readiness
  
  

• paladin:
• spec ret and have fun
  
  
• druid:
• see what moonkin is like with our healing googles and healing mace
• bitterly regret not getting the Challenger title
  
  
• sell herbs to people leveling Inscription (yay, profit)
  
  
• QQ about:
• lifebloom
• holy paladins
• people in S4 helms (requiring 1700 rating) playing in teams at 1500
  

EDIT: tried to fix the formating, but it hates me.