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Hunter, whaaaaat?

Jun28

I decided to try to power level my hunter, who was originally human, to blood elf.  Only, the way they hold the bow looks really, really weird.  Was it always this way? I don’t recall.  Shaco pointed out they use a bow like a cross bow.  It looks ridiculous.

 

 

What are my legs even DOING there? Holding in pee?

 

I mean, this is a big deal to me.  I seriously played a male human mystic in Lineage 2 because I didn’t like how the females RAN.

I decided to compare it against humans, who not only hold it a good way, with a good stance, but they close one eye to target.  I don’t know if that’s correct but it looks cool.

 

Night elves nock and draw really well too, but just stand with both feet together.  I like the human stance better.

Orc isn’t half bad, they have their feet apart but not as much as humans, they don’t even attempt to pull an arrow from an invisible quiver like the night elf, but otherwise it’s similar to night elf.  Other than being an ugly ass orc I mean.

Draenei is ‘ok’ but they make an angry face doing it. They also appear to pull an arrow out of said invisible quiver.

 

For kicks, made a gnome hunter. Their animation is just fine.  But they don’t look like they are trying to shoot you straight through the heart like humans, so human it is!  Gnome is super cute though, but maybe on a new hunter.

 

I can actually play FROST

Jun1

I’ve tried playing as a frost mage over the years, but it never quite worked out.  I would do exactly what I saw the good players doing but would die rather quickly while their shield seemed to hold out for ages and they could kite for miles.  My shield lasts half a second, they break my roots, and beat me to hell.

But in Legion  it’s considerably easier to play.  Someone mentioned it feels like a WoD shadow priest, and it does.  If you take Glacial Spike, you ramp up to 5 icicles, then use it to form a big one (with a cast time) and let it go for a lot of damage.  That doesn’t really work in PvP so I took Comet storm, but frost now has nice little procs for Flurry and Ice Lance, and with Frost Nova, Ice Nova, the frozen orb, Comet storm all on very decent cool downs, plus double nova, double blink, it’s very fun to play.  It’s about on par with Fire, though I do miss Fire’s ability to spam cast Flamestrike. Blizzard is on a cool down.

 

World pvp is still bogus though.  I have that video where a warrior took me to 20% health before I could even react, that frost mage that did the same when I was questing, and now a rogue who took nearly all my health before I could blink.  I was at 40% and just fell over dead.  So sad. I miss normal wpvp.

 

Happy Balloon Day

May11

Well, this is new.

 

But he won’t move until there are three people! What the heck?

This may take a while.  It was so fun I wanted to go on all of them, but standing around for 40 minutes waiting for 3 people made that impossible.

DEMON HUNTERS!

May8

I mean, it’s bad enough they can destroy you in half a second, heal like they have unlimited Lay on Hands, but now they can get to places no one else can reach. It’s getting really obnoxious.  They can jump down, give you a wack, then leap right back up on the top. NPCs can’t even reach them.

Fire is better than Heals

Apr17

I realize that dps and healers, are not the same thing.  I am however, having way, WAY more fun playing a fire mage than any of my healers.  I feel it has to do with the skill set.

For instance, a warrior recently destroyed a good 80% of my health before I could blink (my eyeballs, not the skill blink!) as my mage.  I still won the fight, though.  Here’s the thing.  If a warrior hits my priest, I can pain sup.  It pretty much sucks but I can.  I have no escape abilities any more but ok let’s say I knock him away a bit with scream.  I have 1 min before I can use that again.  He gets out of that and I knock him away again with that one skill.  Wellp, out of tricks.  GG.

Same situation with my mage.  Warrior hits me, I can temporal shield.  He rushes me, I frost nova.  He rushes me again, I nova again.  I ice block. I blink, I blink again, I drop mirrors, I dragon’s breath.  I sheep.  I can try to inviz. Almost everything is instant cast so if I get locked out, which doesn’t happen much, that’s ok I can switch schools.  Can still blink, ice block, frost nova, etc while locked out of fire.

As my disc priest I use to have shadow, holy, and divine schools but now it’s basically just HOLY.  Have fun with that.

Tell me again why I’d want to play heals?