Over, but never forgotten.

It's officially time, people. Time to move on. Time to migrate.

I've adjusted the www part of the SES domain to point to my new Wordpress-hosted solution. SES will still be maintained (albeit not updated) on Blogger at backup.stabilizedeffortscope.com, should this server crash and burn and I need to scramble to come home to you all. :)

It's been a great run. See you at the new SES. :D

*gulp* Let's see how this goes...

Taking baby steps here, but SES may be making its first movement towards becoming self-hosted on the Wordpress platform!

My current work-in-progress test bed is now, IMO, good enough for public view - you can visit it at: http://test.stabilizedeffortscope.com.

And if it does go live on Wordpress, you won't have to worry about missing a beat - the entire archive of SES has been ported over, and the domain itself will just switch seamlessly!

Blizzard: Booze > Tea

I mean, I don't mind, but you notice that?

Honeymint Tea: 1.1g per 5, so 4.4g per stack
Kungaloosh: 2.55g per 25, so 2.04g per stack

And that's without faction discounts. 2g savings per stack of water, plus it's booze!

Hell yeah, Kungaloosh.

It has begun.

[W From] [Noobhunter]: dude where u get that pet
[W To] [Noobhunter]: Unfortunately you can't get her anymore.
[W From] [Noobhunter]: wtf why
[W To] [Noobhunter]: Blizzard made her untameable - go check for yourself, she's the Sapphire Hive Queen in Sholazar.
[W From] [Noobhunter]: oh man thats stupid its so cool
[W To] [Noobhunter]: Yeah, I know :D
(Names changed to protect the innocent)


And I predict it will only increase in frequency as less and less Sapphire Hive Queens flitter about Dalaran. But what confuses me and other SHQ-loving Hunters is... Why make her, of all things, untameable? There are no bugs that I know of with her, and it's not due to interfering with people doing the quest to kill her - she respawns in about 15 seconds when killed or tamed.

Someone (was it Maevet?) through out an interesting idea - that Blizzard didn't want Hunters running around with what looked like a raid boss. But that doesn't make sense - the real Core Hounds (i.e. not the dumb green or white ones) look just like Magmadar. They're not untameable!

Meh, I guess I'm ranting. Honestly, it'll just make Ayamiss that much more unique, and make my guildies' yelling about her that much less valid, since I can't get rid of her - I couldn't ever get her back! :P

/gloat

We have temporarily disabled all Arena matches while we investigate current rating calculation discrepancies. Further updates will be provided once we have additional information to share.

I think I speak for every SES reader when I say this: LEAVE THEM THE FUCK DISABLED FOREVER

And oh god, the PVPer tears are delicious and nutritious.

The Four-Shot Priority Rotation

Been a while since I did one of these "this is how I DPS, and I think it's a good way to DPS, so maybe try it?" kind of posts, but here goes.

3.0.8 has shaken up how we do things - how all Hunters do things. I've had to adapt in my own way, and the Four-Shot Priority Rotation (FSPR) is a result of that.

Simply stated, the FSPR is: A priority rotation of a Marksmanship Hunter's four offensive shots - Chimera over Arcane over Aimed over Steady.

Now, why that priority? Simple. Chimera is the MM ace in the hole, and with the new buff to Glyph of Serpent Sting (which if you don't have it, get off SES and go buy one NOW), our Chimera-Serpent effects are starting to be a huge factor - last night on Patchwerk, I got a 9100 damage Chimera with a 4500 damage Chimera-Serpent component. You want one of these fired every 10 seconds, on the dot, no questions asked. Just do it.

Next is Arcane. With the decrease in mana cost and the Glyph of Arcane Shot, this thing is as cheap as a Steady Shot, but hits a fair deal harder. Plus, it's magical like Chimera, so it bypasses armor and gets a boost from Curse of Elements or Earth and Moon. Demand these debuffs in your raid, if you can!

Thirdly is Aimed. Aimed and I have had an on-again, off-again relationship here in Wrath, but I think it's on for good now. Roughly the same damage as Arcane after 5 Sunders and a Sting, the reason I prioritize Arcane over Aimed is that Aimed is expensive and has a 10s cooldown unlike Arcane's 6s. If Arcane is harder, faster, and cheaper, it gets priority over Aimed. But Aimed is still more DPS than Steady spam, so weave it in!

Lastly is Steady. You can't fill in every GCD with Arc/Aim/Chim alone, so Steady is still useful. Plus, it procs ISS, which is definitely nice.

Engineers who have put a Hyperspeed Accelerator on their gloves and have a cache of bombs to rival the US may want to mimic my macro of "/use Handgrips of the Savage Emissary; /use Saronite Bomb" (but use a line break, not a semicolon) - replacing my Handgrips with the name of your gloves. Hit this every minute, and chunk bombs - like I said, nearly 3% of my 3650 DPS on Patchwerk last night was from bombs!


So if you're one of the new Marksman who's a refugee from the BM camp of thought, I invite you to try my 7/57/7 (switching the point in Silencing for a point in Rapid Recuperation if you think Silencing is not a PVE talent), and try the FSPR. Go make a date with one of the training dummies and see what you think.

And as always, lemme know if you have questions, comments, concerns, death threats, marriage proposals, *stung by Ayamiss*

There are no words.

[01:54:12] Maevet passed on: [Green Qiraji Resonating Crystal]
[01:54:16] Maevet passed on: [Yellow Qiraji Resonating Crystal]
[01:54:16] You passed on: [Green Qiraji Resonating Crystal]
[01:54:16] Everyone passed on: [Green Qiraji Resonating Crystal]
[01:54:17] You passed on: [Yellow Qiraji Resonating Crystal]
[01:54:17] Everyone passed on: [Yellow Qiraji Resonating Crystal]
[01:54:27] You passed on: [Blue Qiraji Resonating Crystal]
[01:54:28] Maevet passed on: [Blue Qiraji Resonating Crystal]
[01:54:28] Everyone passed on: [Blue Qiraji Resonating Crystal]

(yes, that's all from one 4-pack of Anubisaths)