tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90220162047865849.post4309217931688426258..comments2023-06-04T10:08:59.260-05:00Comments on Out of Range: The cure for boredom is curiosity.Gwerychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16343002044642471353noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90220162047865849.post-52383820354900247642008-07-15T09:02:00.000-05:002008-07-15T09:02:00.000-05:00@Ahab - Thank you very much. I agree about WotLK ...@Ahab - Thank you very much. I agree about WotLK -- I check the wiki pretty much every day, hoping to see what's coming for Engineering, Inscription, and the Hunter trees in general. I may be in a funk right now, but I'm still very excited about the possibilities the future holds.<BR/><BR/>@C. - Very good question. How would I feel, if survival did become a melee tree, whether dps or tanking? Vindicated, maybe proud to a certain extent, in that my idea for what the class could do was adopted and made official. But it would be a sad day, too, in that what I've enjoyed about playing the class this way was making sustained melee work, when it's not really meant to. I've grown very attached to Gweryc, so as long as I'm playing the game, I don't see myself giving up on him, even if his schtick does end up being approved by Elitist Jerks. But playing different for its own sake... maybe it's time to level up my tanking shaman, or my lollersmite priest. ;)Gwerychttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16343002044642471353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90220162047865849.post-53543650922318477832008-07-14T12:57:00.000-05:002008-07-14T12:57:00.000-05:00Something a raidmate of mine said spurred a questi...Something a raidmate of mine said spurred a question for you, sir:<BR/><BR/>Should survival actually become the hunter tanking build, how would you feel about that? I ask, because I know Gweryc was designed originally to push the envelope of hunter play; would Blizzard expanding that envelope be, in your mind, a good thing? Or would it be irritating to be the guy who "did it before it was cool" surrounded by all the scrubs who only jumped on the bandwagon due to Elitist Jerks endorsement?<BR/><BR/>This is meant as pure curiosity, mind. XD I'm afraid I might come off as hostile or irritating, which I don't intend at all; I'm mostly just curious.<BR/><BR/>(My thought is that survivalists-become-tanks would go something like this: the 45-point survival talent will be an "active parry" talent equivalent to a warrior's shield block/paladin's holy shield [separate from Deflection--when I say "active parry" I mean short cooldown, limited duration, limited charges that needs to be refreshed], while the 51-point talent that follows from it is "Aspect of the Bear"--200% armor and 30-60% increased threat. Ta-da, tanking hunter!)Ceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13482821484517709012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90220162047865849.post-86753129049261920932008-07-11T10:50:00.000-05:002008-07-11T10:50:00.000-05:00Gweryc,I've really enjoyed popping into your blog ...Gweryc,<BR/><BR/>I've really enjoyed popping into your blog from time to time. I've often considered making a melee hunter (Ahab is currently a lvl 70 41/20/0). I made a second hunter, a draenei, but my daughter took that one over before I could melee. I'm fascinated by some people's approach to this game, where they scold and deride people for doing something different. I hope you keep going as a melee, especially with WotLC coming up, with the changes to the talent trees. I bet you find something beyond the 10 new levels to inspire you to keep going forth as a melee hunter.<BR/>My philosophy about WoW is this: if someone is valuable in a group or in instances, even if they're not performing at "top levels" in DPS or healing or whatnot, then that's great. Someone who pays attention to detail, works as a team, communicates and uses the skills their toon has to their own/their team's benefit - well, that person is someone I want to hang with all the time. We have a small guild on Khaz Modan that runs 5-mans because we only have eight active members. We're working towards heroics because that's a reasonable goal. The great thing about our guild is that we're all friends (in real life, too, not just the game), we talk, we strategize, and we laugh when we wipe in an instance, even though we try not to and go back until we get it. Some of us dream of Kara, but we also know what goes with that – stress from other players we don't know if we don't perform at those peak levels all the time, long times in front of the computer, etc.<BR/>Anyway, I hope to keep reading about the great Gweryc for a long time. Keep on keepin' on, my friend, and don't let a little pause in your excitement get you down too much. Soon you'll find the next goal and actively hack your way towards it.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to ramble. I've lurked without posting for over a year now, so it was time to speak up a little.<BR/><BR/>Ahab (publishing anonymously because I forgot my blogger password)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com