Mentor Musings

Before I knew of blogs and EJ, I wanted to hunter.  I’d leveled one to 60 in vanilla, putzing about on my own, speccing BM because I thought that was cool at the time.  When BC rolled around I decided to make her my main.

I knew, at least, basically what stats to shoot for.  I wasn’t that hunter in strength gear or anything.  But the nuances were great msyteries for me, and suddenly there was more gear choices, more stats (hit?!), more…everything.

I would have been pretty lost, had I been left to my own devices.  But I was not.

I had a mentor.  His name was Olgas–as far as I know he still plays this very toon.  He put up with my billion questions about what gear to get and what reps to grind.  Without him I doubt I would have turned into the top 3 DPS that I did.  He still blew me away–there are few hunters out there was awesome as Olgas–but I held my own.

I wonder if he was proud of me?  I never thought to ask.  I don’t think I ever thanked him, either.  Certainly if I did, it was not enough.

If you have a mentor, go give them a cookie. 

Cheers, Olgas.   Happy huntering.

So How’s That BM DPS?

We threw together a ToC25, and it happened to be Jamethera’s first non-VoA 25.  I was thrilled with how well I did!  This screenie was for a particular boss fight (Jaraxxus?), but even on the overall meters I finished a solid 4.9k despite being on orb duty for Anub.  Don’t let anyone tell you that BM isn’t a viable spec for raiding, because they’re full of shit. 

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BM Musings

Pike has a lovely, rambling post here.  And while I’m at here, here’s some random thoughts on my part.

I haven’t gotten to play on my hunter much at all, to my dismay.  She’s been to ICC, but only to Saurfang.  And by only to Saurfang I mean that is the only boss she’s ever seen, because it’s the only boss I go DPS on.  Our typical plethora of healers has not appeared, thus not allowing me to hunter in clear conscience fort he whole shebang.   So for right now, my hunter gets to play stand in DPS for my fail!shadowpriesting.  /facepalm

I have no trouble holding my own in heroics, often sitting in the high 3k DPS range.  Last night in ToC10 I was chasing our top DPSers, and that was even without all the buffs that really make me shine (wtb sunder armor).  I will never beat a good MM/Surv hunter, but I’m no shame to my class, either.

Part of me is toying with the idea of picking up an MM spec (though I’m currently in a sort of bastard gemming scheme of half agi, half AP) and seeing what more I could do with THAT, but there’s some pride involved in having only a BM spec.  You look at me and know that I earned my gear in raids as BM. 

Also, I’m cheap, and would rather toss that 1k gold towards my shaman to dual spec her resto/ele.  >.>