Well submissions are starting to come in now. First we had Nabor’s submission and I’m seeing other’s on the way.

Drotara from Less QQ, More Pew-Pew fame has sent in his official submission!!!

Keep them coming gang!!

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So here’s the deal. The Hunting Lodge needs a new banner logo. I’d like to be able to use it on the Forums and Blog.

The Winner will receive:

A Hunting Lodge T-Shirt with the Logo printed on it.
A Game Card
and official proclamation as the Official Logo Designer for The Hunting Lodge!!

Email your submissions to brigwyn@brigwyn.com by 9/15/08.

Winners will be announced 9/30/08.

Judging:

I’ll take my top 3 logo choices and post them up for final judging to be done by The Hunting Lodge Forum members from 9/16-9/27/08. With the winners being announced on 9/30/08.

Graphic Requirements:

The submission should be in a standard web format (GIF, JPG, PNG preferred) but able to be converted to GIF or JPG w/o loss of quality.

NOTE!!  No Flash submissions will be accepted.

Graphic size. This is pretty well open to the artist’s interpretation. The Current logo is 337×179.  But since I’m replacing this with the winner’s I’m open to see what you can do. Banners will be good, solid logos awesome.. let your imagination go free!!

 

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Recently I’ve noticed more hunters like myself have decided that it’s time to see other aspects of the game. Some go the PvP route with Arena’s or BG’s, but most of us tend to stick PVE and begin raiding.

This would be great if it wasn’t for the sheer numbers of hunters not prepared to raid. As some of you might know, and others not so much, there’s a plethora of information out there. Yet, every day we see more and more hunters in-game or posting in the “Official” Forums that just don’t seem to get it.

Not to sound like an elitist or anything, but it just has become extremely difficult to ignore any more. So here’s what I’m going to try and do.

Very quickly post some quick things to remember and do when starting to raid.

1. Learn What/How/Why the items, stats, etc… that is important to hunters.

Here’s the things you need to know.

Focus on your Hit Rating and Agility. Don’t waste your time with all those AP/Crit gems or enchants. This isn’t PVP it’s raiding. So make sure you prepare for it.

How? Well work towards getting your Hit capped. (Not hard to do)

Hit Rating cap is 142 (95 if you spec into Surefooted). If your at about 130 that’s good enough because you can use Spicy Talbuk to get you to cap.

Agility is extremely important, especially early on. Why? Well, we’ve explain before agility is king. Yes, AP comes into play later on (T5-to-T6 content) but we aren’t ready for that yet.

So.. where should we be at the beginning??

Hit Rating should be at 142.

Agility around 600-650.

If your not there by the time your group decides to be in Gruuls, you’ll probably be wondering why you can’t seem to RAWR!! to the top of the damage meters and finding it hard to get drops or raid spots.

2. Learn Your Shot Rotation and What Shots to Use!!

For most hunters this should be simple. Use the 3:2 shot rotation. Yes, I know, Arcane Shot is instant, and you get AWESOME!! crits from Mult-shot. But believe me, these will be the end of you if not used right. For now, stick to the 3:2 rotation (Auto > Steady Shot > Auto Shot > Steady Shot > Steady Shot).

3. Learn How to Set Up Macros

In a raid you’ll be required to shell out some horrendous damage. But also you need to help sometimes to get bosses or trash off those weak little casters and back onto the tank or make a pull go straight to the tank.

In this case a simple MD Macro works great!! But this isn’t the only macro, there’s many others that help your raid. None more important that the Shot Rotation Macro (aka 3:2 Macro). Create it, bind it to your scroll wheel, and pew-pew down the mobs.

4. Know How to Play Thy Pet

This should be a simple one and not need to be said. But here’s the keys.

1. Put pet on passive.

2. Turn off Growl.

3. Call pet back to prevent dps loss from having to rez pet mid-battle.

That’s about it. Follow those 3 simple things and it’ll help your damage and DPS.

Now, the other thing is to learn how to spec your pet. Make sure to spec your pet for the proper resistances of each raid.

Yes, it means spending more gold. But the more your pet can resist, the longer it lives and the more damage your pet will do.

5. Be Prepared!!

Finally, and most importantly. For every raid be prepared don’t waste your raids time by not being ready and wait for you to go round up everything.

And what do you need to bring? At the minimum, bring the following:

1. A full Quiver of a Thousand Feather with the Highest Level of Arrows available to you. (yes, pay the price and get the quiver and the most expensive arrows.)

2. Have armor fully repaired. (If you show up with your armor dinged and battered who can take you seriously.

3. Bring lots of Fel Mana Pots or at the least Super Mana Pots and Super Health Potions.

4. Bring at the least 1 fully charged Superior Mana Oil

5. Bring at least 5 Major Mageblood Elixirs. (Yes, they fail during death and but if you live 5 = 5hrs or 5 deaths. Both should be enough to call it a night.)

6. Bring 2-3 stacks of Pet Food.

7. Bring 1-2 stacks of Pet Buff Food. (Kibbler’s Bits or Sporeling Snacks, I like to bring at least 1 stack of each to be swapped out depending on the pull.)

8. Bring 3-4 stacks of Buff Food (Spicy Talbuk if not at the Hit Cap, Mudfish or Warpburgers for Agility).

9. Don’t rely on your Mage for a table all the time. This is ridiculous. At this time with dailies and the Naruu Biscuits you should have enough of your own food without relying on the mage.

If you follow these simple things, your raid should be more successful and you can help your group down more bosses. And as we all know, more downed bosses means mor phat lootz!!!

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