THL Ep. 15 – Hunting Warlocks and Talking Guilds

The Hunting Lodge Podcast is a weekly World of Warcraft Podcast for the Hunter community. Hosted by Brigwyn and Daewin of The Hunting Lodge. This duo will tackle and discuss everything WoW Related from a Hunter perspective. Make sure to check out our Live Ustream Feed ever Sunday at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. And don’t worry if you miss it we’ll have it up on iTunes, Zune Marketplace, our RSS Feed.

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News and Information

• Yes folks, we have a new project Gaming Studio Network. A cooperative community of Podcasters, Bloggers, and Gamers. You can find out more about GamingStudio at www.gamingstudio.net or check out the forums at forums.gamingstudio.net
  • Have podcasts such as The Hunting Lodge Podcast, PolyGamerous and just added The Elitists.
  • Have Daewin describe PolyGamerous and first “test” show tomorrow night at 8pm.

• Azeroth United is $3,200 from their goal of $10,000. We still need you to help by donating anything you can afford or even do some type of fundraiser>
  • #IBlameSyrana
  • Mike Schramm and his Endless Setlist marathon drive.
  • For 25% Off From Swagdog.com use: childsplay589 (Expires 12/06)

• Chen Stormstout, the Pandaren Brewmaster Deluxe Action Figure is a limited-edition on sell at the Blizzard store for $49.99 USD -
• Blizzard changes fishing from pools. They no longer give junk but fish you can use.
• Xiao Hui, Little Ashe or Small Gray of the Guild “God-like” on Wrathbringer has achieved reached the 986/986 Achievements! Seems Feats of Strength aren’t required.
• BIG NEWS!! Jothay takes over Hunter development for Rawr – Great news for Hunters! We have someone focusing on bringing Rawr out of the dark ages of spreadsheets and into the future of theorycrafting.
  • More current calculations
  • Better stat calculations and averaging using Rawr’s Special Effects system
  • Better conversion methods for ratings as called from the core. Where it is globally managed whenever a ratings change has occurred and specifically handling things like Diminishing Returns for the stats affected by it.
  • Migration away from the limitations of spreadsheets with better function call and code re-usage and real Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
  • Improved UI functionality
  • Rawr3 migration!
  • Hunter Model issues actually being worked and closed out
  • Having someone to yell at if something is wrong

Discussion Topics

Can a guild get too big?

For example AIE has published they have 1,900 members with about 3,800 characters.  -
Recently they were able to take over Stormwind, then Ironfrge, Darnasus, and Exodar on Cenerian Circle.

• Is this too big? Potential threats of a large guild:
• Massive city raids is that griefing?
• Alter/Control the economy
• What about the ability to know everyone? Is 25-30 big enough? 100 too big? 1,900?!?  What’s too big.

Warlock Hunting – Are Class wars a good thing?
Saresa of Destructive  Reach took a tongue in cheek approach to our MD a Warlock contest from a few weeks ago.  Of course we responded in kind. The response has been mixed ranging from people getting it to some really having issues with us and Sar promoting “Class Hate.”

“Great show last week. BTW, this unofficial declaration of war on warlocks in getting run everywhere. A buddy of mine who plays a ‘lock asked me why hunters hated ‘locks so much and why we were trying to kill them. He is not a podcast listener (or blog reader for that matter) but he had heard it from another hunter in his guild, so I just told him we were attempting to cleanse the game of an inferior class!” – Dranneb  <The Iron Circle> on Kil’jaeden (US)

Contest Submissions

“For the hunter who will win this war keep up the great show, what would have made this screen shot better would have been a squirrel in the background mocking the warlock.” – Strayhans on Lightbringer(EU)

• Strayhans on Lightbringer(EU)
• Kaabrus
• Manasprit <Heavenz Reign> on Forgotten Coast(US)
• Tilo on Ysera

Winner -  Kaabrus

What  Do you think?

Old Pets:

I was talking about old pets and particular one that I thought was out of the game “Sadowclaw” in Auberdine.  I found out later from Petopia he’s still in the game.  We heard back from you:

It Tamzim From Glasgow Scotland
hi
In the after show we where talking about the old rare pet that we used to wait hour for spawn like brokentook who had 1.0 attack speed and King Bangalash was the only pet with Cobra Reflexes and that was one of the thing why a rolled a hunter after talking a about it the Wotlk baby hunter are missing out on the fun of pets.
I miss my old pet it made them uniquee maybe blizz should think about bring that back for cataclysm for the spirit beasts like the old rare pet would give us a feel for the hunt again
Shout out to my Guild Mates!!!
It’s a Trap
Deathwing EU
PS guys grate show will stay to 6 am for you guys

Troll comment of the week contest

We asked you guys to come up with a “worst comment of the week” name.

• Maevet
  • The Squirrel Nob of the Week
  • The Schlamiel of the Week
• Tilo – Female Troll Hunter – <Ysera>
  • Slow Squirrel of the Week
• Winner: Hrgbauer with ASSpect of the Troll

Emails

Hey guys,

Love the show, My main is a mage but listening to your show has made me start playing my hunter alt, I farmed heroics so I could get my hunter all the heirlooms possible and I have been having a blast with him.

You two help me get through my workday and I just had to e-mail you and let you know.

Keep up the great work,

Nerfertari(Lvl 80 mage Laughing Skull server)

Special Shout outs

• Grorin of Mortuus Legio on Dath’Remar  and Moogyver of Alea Iacta Est on Earthen Ring
• Tamzim <It’s a Trap> on Deathwing(EU)
• Dranneb <The Iron Circle> on Kiljaeden(US)

Emails we couldn’t read on air but would like to thank

• Tamzim
• Maevet
• Nerfertari on Laughing Skull server
• Kaabrus
• Dranneb
• Manasprit
• Grorin or aka Moogyver

Wrap up

• Mike Schramm does the Infinite Playlist for Azeroth United’s Hearts, Hands, and Voices for Child’s Play
• Azeroth needs $3,200 by December 13th to reach our goal so donate. And use the SwagDog.com discount code: childsplay589 (Expires 12/06)
• Tell us what you think about Guilds and can the ever be too big?

Contact us at

• Voicemail and Txt Messages  to: 213-537-8456
• Email: thlpodcast@brigwyn.com
• Blog – www.brigwyn.com
• Twitter: @THLPodcast
• iTunes as The Hunting Lodge Podcast

You can listen now or download now (89) or get the latest for iTunes, Zune Marketplace or the local RSS Feed.