A Hunter's Story

Ho hum, the inevitable TUE Patch Day.  I certainly don’t mind the downtime, since I’m at work all day, lol.  The changes though, are interesting.  Apparently the ghost waves at the beginning of HoR are being adjusted so we no longer have 2 mages or 2 mercs, among some other minor adjustments.  Why interesting?  Because it was doable beforehand.  Tough, but doable. I’ve done it on my DPS, Tank, and Healer in fact.  But I think the main reason behind it is that too many people were leaving party as soon as they popped in HoR.  Bliz seems to want to make it so the majority of people can see the majority of the content.  Makes sense.  Though I don’t mind that some heroics are harder than others.  I just wish that the LFG tool worked a little better in respect to gear and ability.  I know, they can’t really code ability in, but it just seems that some people wind up in places they shouldn’t.  Like the tank we wound up with in HoR with who still had greens on him.  Not a problem if we’re doing Nexus or something, since I enjoy helping others gear up, but HoR?  Yeah, kinda wish there was a way the LFG would not put him in it – he’s just not ready.  However, it’s only really one or two instances, so it’s not a big problem.

So the “or two” means there’s another for me to discuss – Occ.  Apparently this one is the real problem, that no one wants to play.  They’ve already nerfed it by adjusting drake health and such, but it is so shunned that they’re upping the loot.  I don’t much care about the badges or gems, but the Amber Drake is enough to make me PuG EoE.  Why?  Occ you can still get through, even if half the group doesn’t know how to do it.  EoE seems to require that most know what they’re doing.  Not to mention one is a group of 5 and the other 10 (or 25).  I only wish that I could do Occ with guildies and we try specifically for the mount.  That would make it a lot more inviting to me.  Otherwise, it’s the random LFG which means that we only have a small chance of being put there.  Not really a problem doing the other dungeons – I’d just rather do the others on my alts for the badges, and Occ for the mount on my main!  But then, I don’t mind doing Occ, so I’m really not the one Bliz is targeting with this marketing effort for Occ, lol.