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We have been MIA for a few weeks now, quite surprised at the continued traffic levels despite our lack of updates and content.

We humbly offer apologies and our feeble excuses. Mrs BRR and I have just finished purchasing our first house. She is already ordering new doors and planning epic upgrades. Our Alliance guild while misguided in choosing the light over the strength of the dark side has been hitting Kara with a vengeance and progressing quickly. Unfortunately this has required BRR and the Queen of Frost shocks to be left a little unattended while our Warrior and Priest combo smash the Curator and Aran with the our very nice but undeniably Alliance Guild. Running 2 sets of PVP toons (on both sides of the BG) and raiding with one of them as well really eats up the hours. Not to mention the gold costs in respecting 2-4 times a week.

BRR has also been experimenting with MM builds for Arena battles. We love our BM build and dominate BGs but in 2v2 our near constant requirements for motion limits the ability to put our DPS on the target. Hence we are testing a 7/43/11 build for some bigger crit numbers and burst but with less need to plant for SS to shine. Shock horror, a BM hunter and evangelist is speccing AWAY from BM and to MM no less. Trust us on this, BRR is never going to be a MM glass cannon but we are not blind to the limitations of BM either.

An interesting note in hunter Arena news that BRR found interesting was the statistically proven dirth of hunters in teams especially the smaller ones. SRC: Wowinsider. When taking into account the undeniably high number of hunters in WOW this is even more telling of the class. Blizzard may or maybe seriously looking into this but as a hunter and serious PVPer on the ground I can see it. Our dead zone and LOS issues can make our usefulness in 2 mans limited. How to buff our Arena viability without unbalancing our PVE viability is a tough question and one BRR plans to tackle in the future.

In the last 2-3 weeks the Queen and BRR have managed to keep up our arena games, improving our rating a good 70-80 points as we gear up to some BG epics and Arena gear. More on that later I promise. Stacking on the STA and Resiliance is the name of the game. 9.6k HP and going up.