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I was browsing through the Death & Taxes guild site today, and found a link to an online tool that is, bar-none, the most useful thing I’ve found on the internet in ages.

www.chardev.org

The link to this tool was buried deep in the bowels of D&T’s site (actually, it [...]


WWTSD?

It’s time to play a brand new game called “What Would That Spec Do?”. The way it works is, I’ll pose a question and you’ll try to guess the right answer (from a list of multiple choices) based on the hunter talent spec provided in the question. Keep in mind: there might not be a [...]


Gear Enhancements for Hunters: Enchants (TBC Edition)

Now that we’ve talked about some of the nifty gems you can socket your sweet hunter gear with, let’s take a look at some effective enchants to throw on there, too!
For enchants, you’ll typically just want to focus on the two major stats for hunters: Agility and Attack Power. But, there are certainly some folks [...]


Hunter Talent Trees: Know Your Role (Part 3)

Part 3: Beast Mastery
To be perfectly honest, this is an article I’ve been putting off writing. Why? Because it’s a topic that’s been widely covered elsewhere, and I’ve had a difficult time determining what else there could possibly be to say about this tree that people aren’t already well aware of. The Beast Mastery tree [...]


Hunter Talent Trees: Know Your Role (Part 2)

Part 2: Marksmanship
In my last article, I talked about the Survival tree and how it can provide a means for us to be more adaptable and provide us and our parties with more survivability. (Shocking, I know.) This time around, I’m going to be discussing the Marksmanship tree, the most popular talent tree for hunters [...]


Hunter Talent Trees: Know Your Role

As promised, my treatise on talent specs! (Or at least the start of it.)
Talent trees, for any class, always seem to become a point of contention. Whose build is better? Why is it better? Why is one tree better than another? Check the WoW forums now and then, and you’ll see people squabbling over talent [...]


Being a Know-it-All Without Knowing it All: Part 3

Bring it All Together
Now that we’ve had a chance to look at general and specific sources and how each can be used to find the information you need, let’s take a look at how you can put these two types of sources together to cross-reference information and get a more thorough picture of what you’re [...]


Ask and Ye Shall Receive: My AddOn List

Because many folks have expressed curiosity about the addons I use, I’ve decided to post about this sooner than I otherwise would have. Rather than just give you a list of addons and let you figure out what each one does and where to find it, I’ll list what each does and where you can [...]