T2 Lookalike

With help from some wonderful people (Thi, Bact, Panda & Horse), Gren finished the Teron Gorefiend questline last night. After help from a nice Rogue who cut the Nightseye for me and stopping by Blade's Edge Mountain for a few quests to push the Cenarion rep up to Revered for the Head enchant, I've managed to upgrade the rather ho hum



to the much more exciting



She still looks odd with the helm, but what the heck...

I LOVE Transporter Malfunctions

In another display of my hidden wish to look good (aka be Ally), the Transporter Malfunction which afflicted Mart made me look like a male Night Elf,



Then, it was a female Draenei (aka goat lady)



I think I should teleport more often...

To Crit or To Hit?

First, some basic info about crit and hit.

The StatMod for all Combat Ratings are the same, ie the 'cost' of 1 CSR is the same as 1 Hit Rating. At lvl 70, 15.8 HR = 1% hit and 22.1 CSR = 1% crit

The base chance to miss is 5% (against lvl 70 mobs), 5.5% (lvl 71), 6% (lvl 72) and 9% (lvl 73).

Ranged attack will not cause Glancing Blows and cannot be dodged or parried. Players cannot cause Crushing Blows.

So, for hunter, the attack table consists of the following

• Miss (max 9%)
• Block (max 5%)
• Crit
• Hit

On paper, this seems that given the choice, running about 6% HR (or 94.8 Hit Rating) would be optimum. You'll reduce to zero the miss chance against lvl 72 and below mobs which means more white hits.

However, the crit cap in this case is 86%, which is far beyond what you can reasonably achieve even with the best gear in this game. In addition, for BM hunters, crits proc abilities like Kill Command, and Go for the Throat, and benefits from Mortal Shots (if you have the appropriate talents). So, I would think that for BM hunters, crit is superior to hit in any scenario, even if CSR is 1.3 times more expensive than HR.

Hunter Gear

I was going to just leave her gear as is, but I've decided to at least upgrade with quest reward and crafted gears. However, I think I'll leave out quests from instances, as I'll rather run those with Mart for rep. (The exception is the Grandmother questline as it only requires a quick run of Crypts)

Head: Stalker's Helmet of Second Sight (Teron Gorefiend, I am..., Shadowmoon Valley)
Neck: Natasha's Choker (The Hound-Master, Blade's Edge Mountain)
Shoulder: Earthmender's Crimson Spaulders (Escape from Coilskar Cistern, Shadowmoon Valley)
Back: Dawnstrike's Cloak (Down with Daellis, Netherstorm)
Chest: Felstalker Breastplate (Crafted)
Wrists: Felstalker Bracers (Crafted)
Hands: Ar'tor's Mainstay (The Cipher of Damnation - The Third Fragment Recovered, Shadowmoon Valley)
Waist: Felstalker Belt (Crafted)
Legs: Mag'hari Huntsman's Leggings (Hero of the Mag'har, Nagrand)
Feet: Boots of the Outlander (already using)

Ring: Kaylaan's Signet (Deathblow to the Legion, Netherstorm)
Ring: Slayer's Mark of the Redemption (Dissension Amongst the Ranks..., Shadowmoon Valley)
Trinket: Mark of Conquest (Hellfire PVP)
Trinket: Bladefist's Breadth (already using)

Main Hand: Ceremonial Warmaul Blood-Blade (already using)
Off Hand: Shani's Crysknife (already using)
Ranged: Consortium Blaster (Rep Reward: Consortium - Revered)

That's based on the use of Mail items only. However, if we include Leather (& based on the rather crappy Mail pieces available in some slots, might have no choice...), the following will come into play.

Shoulders: Talbuk Hide Spaulders (Rep Reward: Mag'har - Revered)
Chest: Mag'hari Scout's Tunic (Hero of the Mag'har, Nagrand)
Legs: Fel Leather Leggings (Crafted)

Screenshots

Some screenshots of the end-sequence...

Here we go...



Illidan Stormrage...



Oops... Found out...



Escape back to Shat...



Onyx Drake... :)

Done!

Just hit exalted and finished off the Netherwing grind... Being flown back to Shat City as I write this... Cool...

End in Sight

12,025/21,000

Which means 4 more days... I can shorten this to three days if I either finish the races (very unlikely) or find 3 more eggs. While it's tough to depend on the RNG, so far, the odds are that I find at least an egg each night (think the record is three). So, might happen! 3 days and 3 eggs...