Server maintenance day, the perfect time to get away from WoW and take care of some other things. You know, like read the forums and WoW hunter blogs.

On the forums:

• Buffing Hunter’s Mark – I tend to agree. However, I think a better fix would be changing Hunter’s Mark in the vein of the MD change. Allow more hunters to make use of it, perhaps let the bonus stack but have a diminishing effect if more marks are on a target. Or, just stop letting a non-glyphed/talented mark overwrite one that is. Though I do recall someone saying that only a stronger mark can overwrite a weaker one.

• Why the wolf? – I grabbed a wolf pretty early after they made the changes to cats, lowering their DPS. I love my Vargul Blighthound, but even he is starting to get a little old. New skins would be nice, but an entirely new way to customize your pet would be better. Pet barding or more freedom with the talent trees to make you pet either ferocity, tenacity or cunning would be cool as well.
• “Need to do 9K DPS on Festergut” – Pseudo-interesting DPS discussion that has, of course, derailed into some trolling. But, still worth reading as people sort through what’s possible versus what’s realistic.

From the blogs:

• Nassira has the scoop on removing Arcane Shot from your rotation (and when not to) – OK, post is a few weeks ago, but is still pertinent.

• The Warcraft Hunter’s Union breaks down the MM armor penetration build – This question is raised on the forums on a daily basis, WHU’s post pretty much sums it all up.

• Pike has some musings of the BM kind – I kinda miss BM, but hate devilsaurs and don’t have the patience to find a spirit beast. I know, not essential, but they just look so cool.
• Rilgon is very annoyed at bad gemming – I agree. Plenty of times I’ve seen people gemming for the bonus when it’s not necessary. There are even some who don’t even know that you can put gems that don’t match the socket color in a slot. Blizzard Tutorial /FAIL!
• The Hunter’s Mark looks at hunters vs. rangers in EQ2 – Never played EQ2, but I feel WoW hunters are superior. Nuff said.

Time for work and stuff, happy hunting.

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