Thursday 21 June 2007

We have Mail

BRR is pleased and surprised. Overnight while we slept out blog has passed 1000 hits and kept right on trucking. We have also received mail, lots of mail. We are almost humbled. Answers shall be forth coming to all, we swear it on the blood of the gnomes we spill last night. We have selected this one to begin with as it was the first received.

I'm new to the game. I started a Troll Hunter on the Bloodscalp server and I'm currently level 18. I was wondering what talent choices you recommend for being on a PvP server. So far I have put my points in the BM tree. 5/5 Endurance Training, 3/3 Thick Hide, and 1/2 Focused Fire. I was just curious about your build and what you might recommend.

Thanks, Gromrot

Dear Gromrot,

Welcome to the Horde and Warcraft. We shall link our PvP spec and our PvE spec for your viewing pleasure. As for talent points, the path you have begun is the same we would have chosen if leveling again. When it comes to leveling talent selection our favorite Alliance hunter, BRK has beaten us to the punch. We whole heartedly recommend his guide “The New BM-Leveling Tree – Your first 40 points”. Learn from thy enemies.

The strength in leveling a hunter on a PVP server is you may grind at a reduced pace, conserving your mana and still be ready to deal with any wandering allies around attempting to gank you. You'll often see them coming a good distance off due to "track humanoid". Dropping an ice trap to cover your back while shooting is also an excellent preventative measure. We have lost count of the number of times we iced and upitty rogue on Wildhammer while leveling. When we did we would mark him, finish killing our mob and then wipe the floor with him/her to show our dispeasure. On days when the allies are too persistant another nice PVP leveling tactic is to equip your handy dandy Hydrocane and farm turtles, murlocs, hydras or other underwater mobs - you will very rarly be disturbed and if you are a leather worker it can be very profitable.

As a side note we recommend you select a pet to compliment your play style and tree early, some pet types are only available at lower levels and some very nice unique pets are coming up. Our information needs regarding pets are always meet at Petopia they have all the skills and taming information a young hunter could need. If you are the adventurous type and do not fear an epic journey to have the best, an Enraged Ravager is tamable from the Draenei islands (level 16-17). The rare and very unique black lion “Humar The Pridelord" is also coming up at lvl 23 near ratchet. BRR has Spike as our main DPS/PVP partner in death, but Humar still has a warm spot in our heart and stables. Being a rare spawn, level 23 to tame and the only black lion in the game he is a rare sight in Azeroth and the Outlands.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Me add you to list. You smart cookie.

Zug Zug

Anonymous said...

Yeah, it's a funny thing about pets. Every young hunter wants to get "old" enough to tame a cool or unusual pet. But don't discount those that are only available at low level. When you reach higher levels, the low level pet skins become very rare because most hunters have picked up something newer along the way. People are always impressed to see unusual high level pets, since it represents either a long-time relationship with your pet or a lot of work to level it later.

If it works for you, I would highly recommend keeping a pet as you level. You can still experiment with other pets, and it's not hard to keep two pets at or close to your level (at least until you get to 60) if you want to go that route. You will not regret it when you are the only high level hunter on your server with a gray boar, pink flamingo or green windserpent.

Anonymous said...

I think there are major flaws in BRK's leveling talent guide. When im not in the middle of moving, ill write up it on the more appropriate blog.

He's taken you talents you should have at 70 rather than talents that you should have 1-69. So please, don't repost the true idiot's stuff verbatim.

-Big Red Idiot :)

Anonymous said...

http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/mobs/mob_deviatestalker.shtml

This is my pet. Got him when I was 16 :) Had him since, and I'm 54 now! Since there's only a few raptors with this skin I thought that I should keep him (only one other, Takk the Leaper 19 elite). I'm sure he'll make for a good conversation piece in the future.

Samuele Scettri said...

Well, Humar is not rare at all, I've seen him plenty of times.
Instead I have never seen a level 70 of this http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/mobs/mob_springpawstalker.shtml
Which of course I went to tame and I am leveling right now :)