What the raid?...

- So... Nadva... You don't raid?

- Nope.

- No? Really?

- Nope.

- You hit level 80 ages ago, you're nicely geared, and you don't raid?

- Hit 80 way back ago. Gear is nice but not GOOD. No raiding.

Why don't we raid? We're not a raiding bunch. Our guild raid, our friends raid, yet we refuse to get our feet inside one. Raid is not our thing. We hunt. We go after wild beasts. We gather their skins to make gear and kits. We hunt for food. We hunt for pets (go Loque). We hunt for mounts (go TLPD). But we do not hunt in raids.

We are not anti-social or anything. We love talking to other people and we love to quest with them. But the raid part is too hardcore for us. "Be there at the exact time, spend hours inside an instance fighting your way through ugly guys, drop bosses, get great gear.". Ok the last 2 parts are fun. Dropping bosses is amusing and the gear is nice. But we don't need the gear. What we have is enough. And bosses... Well we can always do a small instance to help guildies gear up for raid content.

Raiding seems a lot of fun. But it's just not OUR thing.

We're Back and Twitting!

We're back, we're Twitting and we're having fun!!!

Although starting over, going back to the roots and playing a Druid on another realm IS A LOT OF FUN huntering is TEH thing.

So we're back! We missed huntering, we missed Loque and we're having a blast.

We are not Twitting our adventures as we live them -- we installed TweetCraft so we can send tweets in-game -- so you can follow us.

We are also planning on writing stuff here so gather around and let the fun begin!

Back to Roots

I am back to my roots.

About 3 years ago I started playing WoW in the US servers. I started playing mostly because of a dear, dear friend who brought me into this amazing world.

We both started playing as Tauren Druids. We discovered Azeroth, quested together and had the best times of our lives. Adama, my friend's druid was Feral and I was Resto. We were a heck of a team.

Then we discovered other classes. I tried and LOVED the hunter. My friend tried and LOVED the warrior. And although our characters were together in the same guild for some time, our paths have drifted apart. He was a raider. I was more of a PvE/RP.

He did all sorts of raids, he lived for raiding, he was good at it too. But he grew tired. Tired of all the responsability. Tired of all the pressure and stress. He stopped enjoying WoW. And so did I. I adore my guild (The Wolf Guard). They're an amazing group of amazing people. Even if they kick me out for not playing, I will be a Wolf Guard at heart. But I needed something different.

My friend abandoned WoW altogether. I did it too for some time, only logging to say hello to my fellow guildies now and then. But we both missed something. We missed the basics. We missed the exploration.

We missed our roots.

I have been nagging him with the thought of rolling a couple of druid characters on a completely different realm. Start over. Start fresh. Go back to the roots.

And so we did. We are now playing on another realm with our druids. We are exploring. We are helping each other. We, above all, are having fun.

We started a blog that we will grow and improve over time. Don't expect to find tips and tricks there. We may write them but don't expect them. What you can expect, though, is for us to tell our stories. Our adventures in Azeroth and beyond, and you can read them here.

Because we are back to our roots.

Guide: How to Make Gold #10 - SAVE YOUR GOLD

We can’t stress this enough: save your gold. Don’t buy unnecessary stuff just because you feel like it. Hold back on your spending frenzy and keep your hands out of your pocket. If you are one of those people who thinks money will burn your virtual pockets, create a bank character and send most of your gold to him. Having little gold on your main character might actually prevent you from going into a shopping-spree!

Yes this last tip is not a "real" tip. But it's probably the most valuable one. You can't save what you spend, right? So, don't spend it!

I hope you guys enjoyed these tips. Let us know if they helped you somehow! Write us at nadva dot hunter at gmail dot com.

Cat Vs Spirit Beast

Daragh was kind enough to send us this a few weeks ago. It's a bit outdated but we LOVE to publish our readers mail. Hey, better late than never heh?

So here's something that is going to put a downer on all us spirit beast hunters. I always feel proud strolling the streets of Dalaran or Stormwind with my spirit beast and have people stop and stare at it but alas this remains pure vanity...

I noticed something the other night that scared me a little. I was in Icecrown doing the argent crusade daily with the spirit beast and as always I kept a close eye on my recount DPS; now I always use the same shot rotation. I decided to go back and come out again with my level 79 cat and do the same thing. So here I am with a lvl 79 cat and after resetting recount, I notice I am doing more DPS with the cat than with the 80 spirit beast...

Can this be true I ask myself ? so I decide to level up the cat to 80 and once that was done, I headed back to Darnassus and the heroic training dummy. I set the cat and spirit beast up with the exact same talents and I took to the dummy using only hunter's mark and aspect of the dragonhawk with auto shot and no other shots...

Now irrespective of my gear, I took down some figures. During a period of 3mins each, with the cat I recorded a DPS of 840 (simple autoshot) and then with the spirit beast I recorded a DPS of 732. Now this is due to the fact that spirit strike does not benefit from our hit rating seeing as how it's a spell based attack and hot physical.

So in short I decided to stable Loque until patch 3.1 is released and the bugs on spell hit are fixed. Normally the patch promises the spirit beast being on equal par to a devilsaur so lets hope they stick to their word.

However prior to patch 3.1, no sincere BM hunter can afford to take a spirit beast on a raid or an instance, knowing full well that they can get more DPS from a simple cat and probably insane DPS from a Devilsaur...

We agree. But may not just been a matter of vanity. For us is the thrill of getting what we think it's the most amazing, beautifull, mystic pet in the game.

Spirit beast FTW!

We won an award!

Adam, from WoW Fail Blog has awarded us with their first Honest Scrap Award.

People actually read our stuff! Go figure!

ZOMG he made a post!!!

Indeed we did.

We miss WoW. A lot. We haven't played since... About the last post we made here. We have tried to stay away from WoW for a while. WoW is the most enjoyable game but it can suck you in big time as I'm sure most of you know and have felt a few times already. So much that notorious players such as BRK are quitting (or almost) to be able to dedicate more time to their families (like yours truly) and other non-WoW-related projects (again, just like yours truly).

We miss WoW. We miss our guildies. We miss the fun of not thinking about anything else besides the world of WoW (redundant, we know). We miss the hunts. We miss the fights. WE MISS LOQUE! Our precious, amazing, kick-ass spirit beast pet. We miss our Wordless Wednesdays - we don't play, so we don't get new screenshots. We miss Orgrimmar. We miss Thunder Bluff. We miss Outlands. We miss EVERYTHING about WoW. But time we need so we can work on our side projects and spend more time with the family.

We WILL be back - or so we hope.

So... Ehmm... What have you kids been doing while uncle Nadva's been away?