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 [...]


More on Chain Trapping

Since folks seemed to find the illustrations in my guide on chain trapping so helpful, I decided to cobble together another one. This one will better describe the movement of trap placement once you’ve got your mob secured in the first trap and are ready to prepare your second (and third, etc) trap.
I use what [...]


Chain Trapping and You

Lassirra’s Guide to Keeping Mobs out of Your Grill
In a previous entry regarding my advice to aspiring young hunters, I briefly mentioned the art of chain trapping. Here, I’d like to go into more detail about how exactly chain trapping is done with style and grace.
Lay the Trap
Before you begin the pull, you should lay [...]


Advice for Hunter Newbies

First and foremost, I’d like to point out that a lot of this will apply mainly to working in groups. As I’ve spent some time recently leveling my priest, I’ve had a chance to step back and watch burgeoning young hunters at work, and have noticed a few startling trends along the way. With that [...]