Hunting down flag carriers!
I’ve been grinding a fair bit of MM PvP since 4.0.6. I’m not so good at arenas, but I’m fairly decent in BGs. One of the most important factors in BG success with a hunter is your ability to play the...
View ArticleEpisode 61, Cataclysm Preparation!
On this, the 61st episode of the Hunting Party Podcast, we go over every conceivable piece of information your hunter will need on Cataclysm launch day! Here’s the site where we host our shows live....
View ArticleEpisode 35!
Hi folks! This week, Darkbrew and Euripides discuss PvP with Loinclothz, PvP hunter extraordinaire! Here is a link to a video of his on Skill-Capped Here’s the site where we host our shows live....
View ArticleHunter PvP Expert Questions!
Hi folks, this week we’ve invited Loinclothz, the top rated hunter in the US, to the Hunting Party podcast to talk about the journey from PvE to PvP mastery. Having dipped my toes in the battleground...
View ArticleRandom Battleground Hunter PvP Tricks!
Here are a few of my favorite things in battleground PvP. Tactics If you have 5 people following you to a heavily defended node with, say, 6 opponents, how can you turn the fight to your advantage?...
View ArticleHunting Professor Putricide!
Professor Putricide is the execution check your raid leader has nightmares about. All the 5% buffs in the world won’t save you from bad positioning on this fight. As hunters, we’ve got every...
View ArticleHunting Festergut!
Festergut is usually the first boss a raid will attempt once they get past Saurfang and his merry band of blood beasts. He is as close to a patchwerk fight as you’ll see in Icecrown, but there’s still...
View ArticleHunting Deathbringer Saurfang!
This encounter is the glock-block encounter designed to test your guilds’ hunters’ kiting skills, as well as your healers and tanks and everything else. Doing this fight feels like rolling a boulder up...
View ArticleBoss Tactics Addon!
Welcome the the latest installment of Musings on Mods! Today, we’re going to talk about the Boss Tactics addon. Boss Tactics is an a phenomenal tool to make your raid run more smoothly. What it does is...
View ArticleHunting Northrend Beasts Heroic Mode!
This guide is all about how to be an excellent hunter for Northrend Beasts Heroic. This is the first (and arguably one of the harder) encounters in Trial of the Grand Crusader, and is a serious example...
View ArticleAdvanced Hunting of the Twin Val’kyr!
My last guide to the twins was effective, but is due for a bit of an overhaul. Mainly because it fails to address a very important hunter-specific strategy. Before I continue, go read it because I...
View ArticleMastering Alterac Valley
Alterac Valley is a complex battleground, but it’s also been out for a long time so I’m not going to spend time going over the basics. There are two basic ways to win this BG, and I’ll go over them...
View ArticleHunting Yogg Saron!
I realized that I never got around to writing this boss guide, but better late than never. Yogg Saron is the final encounter in Ulduar, and this guide will go over the basics of the fight (although...
View ArticleHunting Anub’Arak, Heroic style!
[Editor's note: please give a big OutDPS welcome to Lemli, our newest writer! Lemli will be writing hard mode strategies, with an eye toward hunter specific advice.] The last boss in Trial of the Grand...
View ArticleMastering Eye of the Storm
Hey all, today we’ll discuss Eye of the Storm, and just like last time, I’m assuming know the basics of this BG (check this if you don’t). This will be a short one because EotS is a very simple...
View ArticleMastering Arathi Basin
Hey all, as promised, I’m going to put out guides on all the different battlegrounds. Today we’re discussing what has been the most strategic battleground since the inception of the battleground...
View ArticleHard Mode: Hunting General Vezax!
This is my first hard mode guide. Last night, I was invited to raid Ulduar 10 with the clique after we had to cancel the 25 due to an unfortunate coincidence of real life stun-locked healers. We can...
View ArticleHunting Mimiron!
Today we’ll be going over the Mimiron fight: how to DPS it, and how to keep your pet alive through it. This guy is one of the easier bosses. He has a long enrage timer, and the only way you’ll hit it...
View ArticleHunting Thorim!
As promised, here’s my guide to Thorim. We beat our head against this guy so many times learning him that I understand half of our healers are off with mild concussions. Essentially, the fight has two...
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