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 every 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.
Brig returns from the farm and Dae stumbles in from the bayou and talk about the new emcor.dll Authenticator Keylogger and how to keep your account safe. As well as debate if add-ons are now required to play Hunters effectively. And as always we have World of Warcraft News, Tips, and Emails.
So sit back, relax and listen. Or feel free to download episode 26 (69).Of course if that’s not what you were thinking, how about grabbing it from iTunes, Zune Marketplace, or even our RSS Feed.
News
- Security Alert! A new Middleman Keylogger (emcore.dll) can compromise your account.
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Curse reported that a Fake WoW Matrix is one of the sources.
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Many have incorrectly reported that Blizzard Authenticators have been compromised.
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Rilgon of Stabilized Effort Scope gives a nice explanation of this new malware threat.
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Currently most AV’s (AVG, NOD32, Norton, Trend Micro, Avast, etc..) don’t report the threat.
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Malwarebytes is reported as finding the emcore.dll.
- Symptoms are usually a browser, game or strange network connectivity crashes.
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- TIPOAA by Mike Schramm and Turpster are back together again!
- Blizzcast # 13 has been released. Blizzard Devs and CM’s discuss the SC Beta, Update on the status of Dieblo. And of course more information on the status of Cataclysm for World of Warcraft.
- PTR 3.3.5 Notes updated for Hunters “Ferocious Inspiration: This ability is now an aura and provides 1/2/3% damage to all party or raid members within 100 yards and boosts the damage of Steady Shot by 3/6/9%.”
- Congratulations Cadistra For being mentioned by Blizzard in their Community News Post.
Discussion Items
Highlights from the recent Blizzard Developer Chat on Twitter (Source)
- Revamped starting zones classes for “two races who feel a little disenfranchised at the moment.”
- Promised more Heroic dungeons than Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep
- Prefer “smaller raids than 1 huge one” so expect multiple
- Hints as possible changes to the threat mechanics. But don’t doubt anything significant.
- Promises of new character models of Worgen and Goblins
- Submarine mounts
- The All important: More stable slots
Should your Class/Spec require an addon to be effective?
- This might even include DBM etc.. that helps announce Boss/Raid information
- Deg on EU posted a suggestion to remove add-ons.
- SV and MM both seem to require addons like Parrot, Power Auras, ccTimer
- BM uses Power Auras and/or ccTimers as well as Quartz or Kharthus’s Hunter Timers
Tell Us what You think
- Voicemail and Txt Messages in the United States to: 213-537-8456
- Email: thlpodcast@brigwyn.com
The Hunting Lodge Most Wanted
- Fulguralis and Fuubaar, “The “Bonnie and Clyde of Warlock blogs” for Spreading misinformation that Warlocks are superior over Killing em Slowly
Blog of The Week
- The Huntsman Lodge by Garwulf of Kul Tiras
Emails Question
- Now that BM has been given a little love, what would be you choice of pet for a BM hunter in a raid or heroic 5 man?” – From Hellzfury
Hunter Tip of The Week
- Do you have a hunter tip you’d like to submit? Send it to thlpodcast@brigwyn.com
- This week’s Hunter Tip came from Hellzfury
“If you are a BM and finally got your 51 points in BM and can tame exotics you don’t have to wait till you’re super geared to go after a core hound from molten core. The easiest one to get is the white Kurken, he’s only level 12 and can be found in the back of a cave on Azuremyst isle at Stillpine Hold in the north. Easy to find, easy to tame and he’ll jump right up to within 5 levels of you.” – Hellzfury
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Wrap Up
- Next week we have a special episode where we interview Star Mike of The World of Warcast podcast!
- So let us know what you thought about the topics from this week. Who do you think is responsible?
- Who’s responsible for raiding?
- What do you think about the Twitter chat?
- Do you feel we should use addons? Do you feel you have to use addons?
- Why are you still playing? What keeps you in the game?
So that wraps it us for this week. I’m Brigwyn and he’s Daewin. With that, we’re outta here!
Eddie “Brigwyn” Carrington is often known as being that crazy dwarf on Twitter.
He's also a blogger, podcaster (Hosts Brigwyn's Corner, Co-host of Everything Blah! and of course Redneck Geek and Cajun Gamer with his good friend Andy "Daewin" Dino. 
I would do a 10 man Raid PUG if it is set up like LFD. That would be cool and I would then get into raiding. The hardest thing would be making sure lockouts always match up.
Addons I use enhance my playing. I can’t say that I could not play without them. I use DBM, but honestly like the Mike Tyson eye twitch, there are signals in game when something is going to happen. However, with all of the magic that gets thrown around making a players screen look like the 4th of July, DBM can come in handy.
An example that I know of is HoR. The rifleman uses a frost trap that at times will cover the mages fire AOE so that a player will not notice it until maybe it’s to late. When that fire is under the frost trap you can’t see it. That’s a slight design flaw, maybe a bug even.
If 10 man Raids become full fledged LFD PUGs everyone will not have vent. Addons such as DBM will save some frustration in that regards.
PUGs don’t really communicate much. When LFD first started people talked a lot. Nowadays, people just go. Hi, thanks for the great run, goodbye.
Viper Notify is a must have for me. Sometimes I forget with the switching I have to do in and out of it, and the tank’s pace. I played without DBM from the time I started in late TBC until about Jan. of this year. I wanted an edge when facing fresh bosses. DBM was the edge needed.
Like Daewin, I play off of sounds also. It actually made switching from a gun to a crossbow hard. I had to readjust again.
If you want a small dinosaur get a raptor Brig.
Yeah, but see these are the things I’m talking about. Maybe think of it this way.
When WoW started, the games UI was one of the best, if not the best, out there. Everyone was talking about how easy it was compared to many others.
Now though, it seems they’re getting lazy and letting the add-on devs take the lead in showing improvement.
As someone in IT, I understand why. It’s more cost effective and software companies have always done this.
But look at the specs now and see how much you “need.”
Think of Lock-n-Load or a thousand other Procs that are easily missed in the game w/o using an add-on b/c of the buff only appearing in the top-right corner or somewhere out of site?
Or the cast/cooldowns only being a simple sweep of the icon and not as noticeable? These small things are what makes people switch to special addons like Power Auras or Quarts. All these just because we “need” to see the info and can’t with the default UI.
So is it REALLY a need? Nah. We can play without them. But how many actually do?
Also, please understand I’m not bashing those that do. I’m actually, more upset at Blizzard for not improving the games UI or spell effects so we don’t “have” to.
I don’t think you’re bashing those that use addons. Heck I changed my whole UI by going with SpartanUI instead of the default (used default for almost 2yrs).
I don’t have other MMO experience to compare WoW’s UI to something. I can only compare WoW to WoW. I was a console only player prior.
I will agree to some degree Blizz has dropped the ball on continuously making the UI better. I say to some degree because at this point it seems they are being very careful as to what they integrate. A type of careful respect for the community of free developers.
Playing w/o SpartanUI at this point would be a pain to me. I did go back to the default UI right after 3.3.2 dropped for couple of days, but it was really odd and felt wrong. As soon as SUI was updated, I went back to it. Muscle memory was way to far off to use the standard UI.
I only play with 2 hunter specific addons. They are Viper Notify and Track-o-Matique. The first keeps me from remaining in Viper by mistake (Blizz should have built that in knowing that it was a temp aspect), and the second changes my tracking for improved tracking to give me my DPS boost (Blizz could have done this, but then they would have to do it for all classes).
Blizz helped to birth an outside developer community. Is Blizz prepared to step on lots of toes in said community to make its current UI better? They’ve smashed a finger or two, but seem to really drag so in doing it.
I think healers have it worst than us to be honest. I may find out how bad if I give my baby shaman a secondary healing spec.
I agree, when WoW first came out the UI was the s*#t! But I’m also a converted user of Spartan UI and am very add-on sparse as well. I use auctioneer, omnicc, DBM and omen. While you can play fairly competently without a host of add-ons, independent developers have done what Blizz should have been doing all along with each patch, and that’s improving some of the core elements of their own UI to make cooldowns, dots, procs, etc more visible and customizable. My comment for the show in an email was that if there is an add on that will help me get an edge and help my team why wouldn’t I use it. Even the little mistakes can mean the difference between a wipe and a dead boss.