Project Shade

After several weeks of having Leo The Blind whoop up on us we’ve spent the last two weeks one shotting him. Did we suddenly acquire better gear or bring in some super T6 DPS to make him trivial? Nope. For the most part it came down to the DPS deciding to listen to the screams over vent to stop DPS as he comes out of whirlwind. Our healers are top notch, our tanks fear nothing and our DPS rocks the house. Anytime we fail at something it’s due to execution. The past few weeks we’ve been executing nicely.
This week I was up to tank again and while it wasn’t as smooth as last week, the loser still went down in a heap, we collected phat lewtz and rolled on for our first attempt at Mogorim Tidewalker. By the way, I’m pretty sure God kills a kitten everytime I tank SSC or ZA in my blue shoulders. It’s just not right! Ok back to Tidewalker. On the way over we encounter our first pack of Murlocs, Massiker goes over what needs to happen, we break the huddle and I run ahead with the holy frisbee pull. Insta-gib! I have 16k health, 17k armor and exceed the defense cap at 503 defense(Yes I’m uncrushable also). What in the world could have caused that?!? Oh..none of the healers ran up with me, silly healers. Battle rez, I jump back in and all goes smoothly from there on out with murloc packs.
With the room clear we begin sneaking to the back, praying that the 50 foot bubble farting giant doesn’t notice anyone. Of course he does see someone, he always will. Luckily it was only one of our Gnome Warlocks. He got smushed, rezzed, and we were on our way. Long strat talk, we do our best to digest it all and away we go. Wipe and quick like. Ut oh, this is looking like our first few weeks of Leo. We have some minor discussion, cleared up a few things and head back in. Pure pwnage, we took him down with maybe two deaths. Once again TB executes and a boss falls. This puts us at 3/6 in SSC. We’ve got VR down in TK with us heading to Solarian next week to try our hand at her. Spirits are high right now, raid turn out is good and as long as we keep executing I don’t see us slowing down anytime soon. Great job TB!

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Here is a small guide I put together for our guild hunters.

You should always be using consumables to increase your DPS as a hunter. Then why list the +stam/+mp5 items? Because dead hunters or OOM hunters aren’t providing thier max DPS. Asses your situation, use the consumable that will work the best for you, but use your upgrades to push you toward being able to use the max DPS items.
I also list different items being max DPS for BM/Surv than I do MM. The reason is BM/Surv spec hunters benefit greatly from Agility. Whereas the MM hunter prefers AP. Another thing is Agility scales with Blessing of Kings, where AP does not.

Battle Elixirs

• Elixir of Mastery +15 all Stats - Good all around elixir
• Elixir of Major Agility +35 Agility and +20 Critical Strike - Your max DPS elixir as BM or Survival.
• Fel Strength Elixir + 90 Attack power and -10 Stamina - Your max DPS elixir as MM.
• Elixir of Demonslaying +265 Attack Power against demons 5 minute Duration - Illhoof who?

Guardian Elixirs

• Elixir of Draenic Wisdom +30 Intellect and +30 Spirit - Good if you’re looking to raise your mana pool and MP5
• Elixir of Major Mageblood +16 MP5 - Most +MP5 from an elixir
• Elixir of Major Fortitude +250 Maximum Health and +10 Health Regen - Weak option if you’re total health is low. Only use long enough to get more +stam gear/gems/enchants

Flasks

• Flask of Relentless Assault +120 Attack Power - Max DPS
• Flask of Fortification +500 Health and +10 Defense - I only list this for completion. If you’re needing this to stay alive something is going wrong. Getting more +stam gear is the better option.
• Flask of Distilled Wisdom +65 Intellect - Huge mana pool increase with a decent increase to MP5 when Viper is active.
• Flask of Mighty Restoration +25 MP5 - Huge MP5 increase
• Flask of Chromatic Wonder +35 All Resistances and +18 All Stats - Awesome all around Flask, don’t underestimate the +35 resistance in zones where raid wide damage occurs.

Foods

• Blackened Sporefish +20 Stamina and +8 MP5
• Buzzard Bites +20 Stamina and +20 Spirit
• Clam Bar +20 Stamina and +20 Spirit
• Essence Mango +20 Stamina and +20 Spirit
• Fisherman’s Feast +30 Stamina and +20 Spirit
• Spicy Crawdad +30 Stamina and +20 Spirit
• Grilled Mudfish +20 Agility and +20 Spirit - BM/Surv spec DPS option
• Warp Burger +20 Agility and +20 Spirit - DPS option again
• Ravager Dog +40 Attack Power and +20 Spirit - MM Option

Pet Foods

• Kibler’s Bits +20 Strength and +20 Spirit for 30 minutes - Max DPS
• Sporeling Snack +20 Stamina and +20 Spirit for 30 minutes - I call it the Shade of Aran snack…that dude hates my cat.

Weapon Coatings

• Superior Mana Oil +14MP5

Best Kept Secret

• Fel Mana Potion +3000 mana over 24 seconds. Where a Super Mana Potion can give as little as 1700 or as much as 3000, this potion always gives the full amount. With the mana being returned over time you can take it far earlier than a Super Mana Potion without worry of wasting any thus freeing up the Potion cooldown more toward the end of the fight when you’re likely to need it most. This Potion does have a debuff that reduces damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by 25 for 15 min. This debuff does not matter to hunters.

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