This blog is intended to be an update and vent vessel for my 2 main toons, Rev and Mamabear. I will attempt to keep my questions in the forums and my experience, musings, etc, in the blog.
I am thankful to tankspot.com for the ability to not only be a forum-goer, but a blogger as well. Thank you for this great tool.
I am thankful to tankspot.com for the ability to not only be a forum-goer, but a blogger as well. Thank you for this great tool.
Thats one way to do it....
Posted 12-12-2008 at 07:49 AM by Rev13
Have you ever gazed out at a field of beasts and said to yourself "Everything in this field is going to die?"
I have said this on my Hunter many times. I say it at the outset of going on a farming run. The professions my Hunter has, as well as the pet mechanic, make him a very self-sufficient character. I prefer self-sufficient characters and profession choices over the money-maker professions choices. In a given field of beasts I get 4 things-
Meat for buff food
Meat for pet food
Leathers for Leatherworking
Leathers for the AH
But this is neither here nor there, nor the point
In addition, have you ever gazed out a field of beasts and said "Everything in this field is going to die......at the same time?"
I have.
I was burned out on quests and wandering the ugly Borean Tundra, when I stumbled into the rhino fields south of Amber Ledge. I got....ambitious with my pulls. One group of rhinos (5-6) was too small. I was halfway to 70 when I started, and a bar into it when I stopped. I died once on an overzealous pull in which I forgot to blow IBF. Its actually a good thing because this helped in teaching me to gauge my damage intake, and learn when and where I need to blow cooldowns, I sometimes forget I have IBF, you see.
It was fun dropping a DnD into the middle of a group, Death Gripping another in, pulling the kodo riding level 72 elite, all the while coming out alive. The elite wandered into my Unholy Blight when I was around 50% with Bone Shield on CD and a solid 3-4 rhinos left, and I still did fine.
It had a domino/snowball effect. Each pull gave me more confidence, more bravado. Im certain my AoE rotation in a raid/dungeon will be sharp. If I saw a group of rhinos wandering by another, I salivated.
Its a fun feeling, and a totally cool way to grind out a level, if you're burnt on quests.
I have said this on my Hunter many times. I say it at the outset of going on a farming run. The professions my Hunter has, as well as the pet mechanic, make him a very self-sufficient character. I prefer self-sufficient characters and profession choices over the money-maker professions choices. In a given field of beasts I get 4 things-
Meat for buff food
Meat for pet food
Leathers for Leatherworking
Leathers for the AH
But this is neither here nor there, nor the point
In addition, have you ever gazed out a field of beasts and said "Everything in this field is going to die......at the same time?"
I have.
I was burned out on quests and wandering the ugly Borean Tundra, when I stumbled into the rhino fields south of Amber Ledge. I got....ambitious with my pulls. One group of rhinos (5-6) was too small. I was halfway to 70 when I started, and a bar into it when I stopped. I died once on an overzealous pull in which I forgot to blow IBF. Its actually a good thing because this helped in teaching me to gauge my damage intake, and learn when and where I need to blow cooldowns, I sometimes forget I have IBF, you see.
It was fun dropping a DnD into the middle of a group, Death Gripping another in, pulling the kodo riding level 72 elite, all the while coming out alive. The elite wandered into my Unholy Blight when I was around 50% with Bone Shield on CD and a solid 3-4 rhinos left, and I still did fine.
It had a domino/snowball effect. Each pull gave me more confidence, more bravado. Im certain my AoE rotation in a raid/dungeon will be sharp. If I saw a group of rhinos wandering by another, I salivated.
Its a fun feeling, and a totally cool way to grind out a level, if you're burnt on quests.
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welcome to aoe tanking brotha, i loved doing this while leveling.Posted 12-12-2008 at 11:56 AM by Kazeyonoma 
- I needed rhino meat for my Expertise food so I booked a flight to borean tundra, hopped on my epic flyer feeling like the guy who goes to McDonalds in a Porsche, and flew on over to the rhino fields
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It was magnificent, herds of the noble beasts so dense the groups were almost touching. EHTA was not happy with me on that day. Run into group 1 and demo shout - Charge into the next nearest group and thunder clap.
As I slaughtered the beasts (ending the lives of the young calves brought a tear to my eye) I started laying the dead out in lines and patterns. One, it made looting them easier, and two I started to wonder what kind of shapes i could make to amuse anyone flying bye. I did a very nice arrow once.
52 Rhino meat and probably 130 corpses later I hearthed back to civilization leaving the borean tundra a blood soaked testimony to the destructive nature of man (well Dwarf).Posted 12-12-2008 at 12:39 PM by loquatious
