We wonder. Hence we ask.

We have been a pure Beast Master since our mid-40s. We have loved it. Our group has loved it. Though they did love the short, short period we were MM/SV with Clever Traps rank 2, they love us more as deep (as in 45/13/3) BM. We are still very good at the chain-trapping, we know how to deal with the trap time vs. the cooldown. We love when Ferocious Inspiration procs. We would pretty much kill for this spec. Or so we thought...

We have found ourselves considering a hybrid build of lately. And we do not know whether to go 31 in BM or MM, but we know we will have 30 in Survival! And we cannot decide with those 31 points. We have considered two variants, or versions thereof. We are very (possibly) sure about the points in Survival, but we need some ideas about the other 31. The ones we've been considering are:

The 31 Beast Mastery/0 Marksmanship/30 Survival
31/0/30
As we mentioned, we might change details in the BM tree as we see fit, though we are not sure how.

The 0 Beast Mastery/31 Marksmanship/30 Survival
0/31/30
As we mentioned, we might change details in the BM tree as we see fit, though we are not sure how.

It should also be mentioned that we are a bit unsure about Trap Mastery vs. Improved Feign Death. We are not very bothered with FDs resisting, though it happens - like our first attempt at heroic Ramparts... ->Dead hunter<- - but it is mostly survivable.

So? We hope someone will see this and give us some much needed input. Is this valid? Should we be lynched for even considering leaving good old Beast Mastery? Should we just burn lots of gold and try it all out? And as a point to that last suggestion, we have not got our epic flight mount yet, so we are not exactly swimming in gold...




...help?

Where we tell about some of our wardlings.

And we are back, at least for a short while. But we have not done much lately. We have mainly been following the progress of our shadow priest friend, Trisna, whom has reached her 30th season and got herself a Brown Horse. She did want a palomino one, but they are not sold to adventurers of such limited experience. She did mope a bit about that, but she still had the courtesy to say thank you when we had our bankier Hiiro send her the money for the riding training and the mount.

We also have a young druid under our economic wing, named Tendore. There is something about her that seems to tickle our memory, but we cannot put our finger on what it is. We thinks we need to get a hold of her and have a chat with her... We could call it a "coming of age" congratulatory get-together, as she just reached her 20th season. Yes, that might be our best course.

And we might as well mention that we are also looking after a young troll hunter, even though we are not in any way able to fund her mount and training. She is only of the 15th season as of yet, but we think she will make a fine survivalist hunter in her time. Her name, just for the record, is Rotash. She claims the name is a reconstruction of the name of some death god or another but we can find no sources confirming this. Our other reality avatar is trying to get something across, though. We guess we will let her get in a word if she knows where the root of Rotash comes from. Rotash is derived from the sápmi god of death, Ruto. So there, now we know. Sápmi death god. She sure is self confident... Good for her.

And we take a break from our duties.

We are currently off-duty in both Azeroth and Outland. Our helper in the other reality is headed to Denmark for the first half of July, so we will not be seen around. At all. We might update here a bit, though, and who knows. This blog might change it's character. We do, after all, find it a bit difficult to write about our normal life when our normal life is not happening. So we wish our helper and slave in the other reality a nice vacation, and wish for our speedy return to our normal duties.