MLG Anaheim: Go CheckSix!

  
MLG Anaheim takes place this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Starting times are 6:30 PM PST on Friday, 9:30 AM PST on Saturday and 9:30 AM PST on Sunday.  Watch it live at http://www.mmo-champion.com/.

The only Hunter in attendance is Twixz with CheckSix Gaming (formerly known as eMg).  Checksix will be running the BeastCleave comp, BM Hunter, Enhancement Shaman and a Paladin.

I am hoping for some good matches and a 2nd MLG 1st place finish for CheckSix.  It is very pleasing to have a Hunter in tournaments for a change (and actually doing well).  Here is Twixz's MLG armory page for the tournament.


There has been a big lack of content to talk about this summer as the game has had no major changes in awhile.  I am starting to get extremely frustrated that the talked about 3.3 changes involving pet scaling have not shown up yet in 3.3 notes (this makes me think they are postponing it until Cataclysm).  When Cataclysm begins to draw near hopefully there will be some interesting changes to take note of.
  

Patch 3.3 Hunter Changes

Oct. 16th Changes


Hunter

• Pet Leveling: Hunter pets now need only 5% of the experience a player needs to level, down from 10%.

The most annoying part about being a Hunter might just be fixed with this.  I like the idea of still having to level a pet (up to five levels), but the time it took was way too much.  This should help out a ton.


 

Oct. 13th Changes
  
Pets

• Culling the Herd: When your pet's Claw, Bite, or Smack ability deals a critical strike, you and your pet deal 1/2% increased damage for 10 sec.

WoW Racial Poll

  
The question was: Which race will your hunter be after Cataclysm is released and race changes are made available?  

Poll Results:
965 Votes

Worgen  -  254 Votes (26%)
Night elf  - 113 Votes (11%)

Updated Gold Guide

  
Updated my very old gold guide.

Currently have 74k in gold.

Hope I can help other people not have to farm or do dailies.

Short post, off to softball.

   

Patch 3.2.2 Hunter Changes

Some big changes to the Beast Mastery tree are coming up quickly, as the 3.2.2 patch is nearing its release.  Here are the changes:
 

Hunter

• Talents
  
  
  • Beast Mastery
    
    
    • The Beast Within: The duration of this talent has been reduced to 10 seconds. In addition, hunters with this talent will do 10% additional damage at all times.
    • Bestial Wrath: The duration of this talent has been reduced to 10 seconds.
    • The Beast Within - Now reduces the mana cost of spells by 50% for 10 sec. (Was 20%)
    
    

WoW Account Hacked

My WoW account was hacked over the weekend.  Below is the process of events.

I received an email while at work that my account had been compromised and frozen.  They gave me 3 basic steps before I could unfreeze the account: secure my email address, secure my computer and secure my wow account.  After securing everything I messaged them in the afternoon/evening on Friday.

On Saturday my account was unfrozen but my characters were missing gear, gold and they were on different servers.  I had to talk to a GM about the situation to continue the process (took about three hours of waiting to finally talk to the GM).  The GM then got a Character Specialist in on the situation and that specialist went to work on resetting my account before the compromise.