When Animals Attack

Things in our guild have been a little stagnant. We have yet to progress out of Karazhan, and things are getting a little boring. Those who have alts are more than happy to gear them out, but when all I have is one toon it’s a little frustrating to do the same thing over and over. At least when the 2.3 patch comes out I’ll be able to collect badges from the mobs.

So to keep myself from going crazy, my good friend Pandas suggested we start an Arena team. Never doing arena, but enjoying the idea of PvP I was more than eager to try it out. Our team, “When Animals Attack,” is doing fairly well. We’ve been doing 2v2 Arena for just over a month. Our average rating is about 1400+. We’d like to try to get that up to 1500+ but we don’t really have the PvP gear, nor the damage output just yet. We did okay as a Hunter/Feral Druid combo, but then Pandas switched to Resto. Great, we have a healer!!

So a Marks Hunter (yea I know, i SHOULD go BM but I really like Marks) and a Resto Druid, we did a little better. He could keep me up, he was able to cyclone people into submission while me and my cat, Humar the Pridelord, worked on the other person. After a while Pandas wanted to give his Warlock, Ropp, a try. Now I’m thinking ” /drool OP-ed Warlock.” Well.. maybe not so quite OP-ed. Ropp is well geared, but not geared enough to destroy people – yet! ^_~ One nice thing about being on a 2v2 with a Warlock is, thanks to Ropp, I understand the class a little better. I know their strengths and weaknesses and I’m less likely to run in the opposite direction when I see them.

We are working on our PvP skills, I’ve even respecced a little to maybe give my offense a little more defense. I picked up Imp. Concussive Shot, dropped my Efficiency from 5/5 to 1/5, Go For the Throat is now 1/2, and I completely dropped Combat Experience. In Survival, I ditched Survival Strikes for Imp. Wing Clip 2/3, dropped Clever Traps to get 5/5 in Survivalist and I was able to have enough points to put 3/3 into Surefooted.

What I’ve noticed so far: I drain my mana much faster, I lost some AP and about .30 Crit. But I did gain about 700 HP, which from what I read is important for Arena.

As my partner and I work on our arena skills, trying to earn us our Arena points, we are grinding Honor out like crazy for the new patch. We are looking into buying our season 1 gear and the upgrades of the buyable PvP bracers, belt, boots, rings and necklace. That’s a lot of Honor to grind! I’ve also thought about going for 2 1H weapons as apposed to a 2H weapon. I know that all hunters say 2H for PvP so you can hit harder, but face it… I’m a hunter, I don’t want to melee if at all possible. A hunter friend of mine says he uses 2 1Handers so he can wing clip faster. Makes all the sense to me.

Since it’s Tuesday, our battles have reset for the week, we got our 200+ points from our last matches and I am eager to see how this new 0/43/18 spec works out for me.