I Knew It! Crap! I Knew It!

/angerfit

I.
AM.
NOT.
IMPRESSED.

Would anyone care to take a guess as to why? Anyone?

Here, read this then.

You’re back? Good.

I wrote a post about this a while back.  People should pay me.  Mrs. Cleo, get outta my way, Klinderas is here.

Hello, this is Mr. Klin.  I tell the future.  Especially pertaining to Blizzard and their complete lack of follow-through ability on a problem.

See, every hunter around the globe has heard that there will be ammo changes.  Everyone was hoping something would be done.  Well, almost everyone.

In any case, the large majority of hunters were sick of paying exorbitant amounts of money for consumable ammunition.  Then, hark, the Ghostcrabs sing.

It will be gone.

They lied though, and it’s not gone yet.  They, quite literally, did nothing.  That was my analysis, anyway.  And this WoWInsider article proves it.  We can stack to 1000 arrows!.. great.  We still have to pay for them 200 at a time.  They cost the exact same amount they did before, except there’s MORE of them at a time.  Which does nothing, really.

You want a cop-out? This is it ladies and gentlemen.  Hunters will still be paying an arm and a leg to get ammo, just more of it.  Quivers are now glorified bags, seeing as the only thing Blizzard did change was the quiver haste.

AND ARROWS WILL STILL COST A MINT! A WHOLE MINT!

Honestly, I am not surprised, but this was a complete failure on Blizzard’s part.  They said they’d fix the problem.  What they did was… make it look different, but the exact same problem is still there!

This make me a very unhappy wolf.

/growl

I can only hope that Blizzard doesn’t pull this crap come next patch.  At least make it so you can buy arrows in packs of 1000 for the same amount as before.  That would fix this problem quickly.

Can you do that much, Blizzard? Or am I going to have to start taking these expensive arrows and shoving them up your expensive buttocks?

Who Pushed Fast Forward!?

x128. At least.

Well, the momentous occasion has happened:

I hit 10 000 views today, in probably the craziest manner possible.  I woke up this morning, wrote a post, and proceeded to class.  Got back from classes, checked on the blog.  Everything was good… until 3 seconds later when the number of visits that day went from 92 to 234.

WoWInsider, you are now at fault for being… almost half of my total views.  Don’t believe me? Here’s my evidence!

It's over 4000!

Needless to say, big jump.

I also held a small party to celebrate my 10 000 views! Once again, I used the screenshot contest.  This time, we had entries!

I decided to do the 3 closest entries, seeing as the number counter was having an aneurysm and not updating properly.

I’d like to congratulate Faulsey(who also hit 10 000 views today!), Anea, and Lus on their entries! They won a drawing from me to them of their characters.  I will likely post them, so long as I have permission.  But out of the three, Faulsey won the hardest…

10 000 on the button.  The man is filled with luck.

Once again, congratulations you three!

On an ending note for this post, thank you to everyone for reading this blog, and I hope you continue to find me entertaining and informative.

The next party, for which I better have some preparation time(WoWInsider, I’m looking at you…) should be legendary.  Just 90 000 more to go!

Almost There

It seems like such a short time ago when I started blogging…

Actually, it has been a short time.  Only since December, actually.  I hit 1000 views in January, and I held a small party to celebrate.

Well, the crowd is obviously bigger, and it’s almost time for the next party.

I’m almost at 10, 000 views! This is huge news, for me at least.

As a way to celebrate, I’m going to hold another contest! It’s the same as last time.  Take a screenshot of my views at exactly 10, 000 and I will draw your character, plus any pets he/she has! If none of them are exactly 10, 000, I will do the closest to 10, 000.

To send the screenshot of my views, send it to me by e-mail.  For the information, just see the “Contact me!” page at the top.

Once I’ve determined the winner(s) I will tell those people how to get their characters drawn!

In any case, thanks for reading!

We Have Guests!

My, there are a LOT of you, aren't there?

Colemand! Colemand! Wake up! We have guests!

What do you mean, “it’s not clean enough?” Too bad! They’re here anyway?

Who? WoWInsider!

…

No, you’re not allowed to eat them.

For the last time, we fired the damn maid! It doesn’t matter! They’re here!

*ahem*

Hello everyone, and thanks for stopping by! You’re mostly all here from WoWInsider, yes? Well, that’s spectacular! Welcome to Slow Wolf! I’m Klinderas, you can call me Klin, and I write the blog.  If you have any questions, be sure to send any to me by e-mail or comments.  You can find out where to e-mail me at the “Contact me!” page at the top, under the banner.

If you’re looking for more guides, Creature Features in particular, you can find them under the “Guides” page.  Not hard for anyone, I’d imagine.

In any case, make yourselves at home! Enjoy the scenery, and when you’re finished, be sure to make a note on how to get back here.  We have plenty of things to talk about here.

Wanted!

...badly. <3 -Sylvanas

I do love these games.

Games of cat, of mouse, and of wolf… that is me.

I am the wolf.  I IZ IN UR BASE, EATIN UR KITTENZ.

I don’t actually eat cats.  Not to worry, it’s just a figure of LOLspeech.

*ahem* Which brings me back to what I was talking about.  The game is afoot.  You see, I have been tagged, pretty much by request, by Gnomeaggedon.  A mage, no less… not to mention a Gnome.

Colemand will not be participating, because he might just get flamed for trying to eat Mr. Geddon.  But I will take this “tag” and smash it all over the place! Then I shall send the broken remains to other people to fix.

So here it is! I pounce! HAH! *crashing fine-china*

Ha HA! How’s about that? Bet no one saw this coming.  But, there’s the last, most insidious part to this… the tagging part.

/grin

I choose Rilgon, Nasssira, and Negathle.  The RAW trio.

Have fun you three.

/flouri-bam

OW! Stupid… ow…

I really hate low ceilings.

Okay, that was my fault.  I was maybe a bit selective.  Instead… you’ve all been trapped!

Anyone who reads this is tagged! Fear the consequences!

GWAHAH- smack

DAMN LOW CEILINGS TO HELL!

Pet Talent Peek Show

His eyes glow red! That's talent... right?

Every day now, it feels like patch 3.1 might drop down on us like a 10 ton hammer.  The skies will burn red, the rivers will run with blood, and the world as we know it will end.

As if.  There are going to be changes, but most of them will be beneficial to us hunters.  Blizzard has given Survivalists Black Arrow, Marksmens are now officially the Ranged Arms Warrior(RAW for short.  I want 25 cents every time I see it! Got that Fox?)… and Beastmasters lost Improved Wing Clip.

All jokes aside, Beastmasters got something new and shiny to play with… a whole new tier of pet talents that no one else can really access.  Survivalists and RAW’s can only get one point in the new tiers, but Beastmasters can access all of the goodies up there if they so wish.  By doing so, however, we further stretch our points thin.  This is the tricky part: how do we decide our pet’s points now with these new talents at the top?

Well, seeing as I have 5 pets, I will show you how I will use my pet’s talents to their maximum potential, so long as the talent trees continue to look as they do on the PTR.  If you are unfamiliar with how they look, there is no need to worry: I will show you visuals.  These are guidelines, so you can fiddle with the points as you see fit.  Furthermore, this is not a guide: guides will have to wait until the patch drops, and when I re-do my guides for pets.  As a result, I am not going into a lot of detail here.

Radix: PvP
A lot of these choices are explained in my Furry Gladiators post for Ferocity pets.  The big difference is that the new tier of pet talents gives us Shark Attack.  See the talent in the bottom left? That’s it.  Shark Attack is only available to Ferocity pets.  It increases your pet’s damage with all attacks by 3/6%.  Layman’s terms, it’s a glorified Spiked Collar, but with 2 points total instead of 3.

The other way I’d be tempted to go is by taking one point from Shark Attack and both points in Improved Cower, and place them into Call of the Wild and Wild Hunt.  Wild Hunt is a new talent for all pets.  It increases the bonuses your pet gets from your stamina and your attack power by 20% and 10%/40% and 20% respectively.  It’s a very powerful talent, and has different uses for every tree.

I’ll talk about it more another day.  Now, lets see what would happen to Link.

Link: PvE
Once again, I followed my own advice from my PvE guide for Ferocity Pets.  But with the two new talents into the mix, it makes the tree a bit top heavy.

The only way I’d change this is by taking 1 point from Shark Attack and placing it in Heart of the Phoenix.  That ability has been so useful, I don’t know how I’d live without it.

Now, how about Lucas?

Lucas: Solo Tank
You’re going to notice two new things here: First, the weird rock-fist in the middle-right of the tree, and the gorilla face at the bottom.

Let me start by saying that Tenacity got the most love out of the three trees in 3.1, so far.  The rock-fist? It’s Thunderstomp.  The fabled gorilladin isn’t just gorillas anymore: it now applies to all tenacity pets.  For soloing, Thunderstomp is going to make it so much easier.

The gorilla face is a new talent called Silverback.  Whenever your pet growls, it gets healed for 1/2% of its maximum health.  Another self heal? For soloing, this is also going to be very nice to have.

How about tenacity PvP? Look no farther: Jormungandr has the answer.

Jormungandr: PvP
Why no Silverback? Because your pet doesn’t like growling players.  And even if he does, I think it’s more useful to have more HP and attack power.  Hence, the use of Wild Hunt for Tenacity: boosting damage and durability, making it a serious threat in PvP.

If I had to change anything, I’d take Boar’s Speed and put the point into Pet Barding.  That’s about it though.

But what about cunning pets? Fafnir will show you.

Fafnir: PvP
So what are the new talents in the Cunning Tree? We all know Grace of the Mantis and Roar of Sacrifice, don’t we? They’re in the tenacity tree too!

In short, this is very useful, but it’s also the biggest cop-out since 41 point Trap Mastery in the Survival tree.

But what about Cunning PvE? Well, I’m going to borrow a Wind Serpent to show you.

Cunning Pet: PvE
Obviously different looking, yes? Hence the use of WIld Hunt in the Cunning tree: PvE DPS.  Completely different use than in the tenacity tree, where it’s for PvP viability.

As I have said before, this is not a guide on “how to.”  This is only what I am planning on doing for my pets.  If anything, this is just a glimpse into what might happen should patch 3.1 drop tomorrow or soon afterwards.  Personally, I’m looking forward to these new talents, although it’s getting hard to see where to put some of them sometimes.

So, how talented are your pets? How do you think they will change with this new tier of talents?