MM > SV > BM - But Not By As Much in 3.3.3

Parse these comments as you will.

For Hunter DPS Completeness

Just worth mentioning in case you're in a cave, when 3.3 comes out (next week?), they will have fixed the ICC buff so it also applies to pets. This wasn't too noticeable for most raiders because the pet generally buffs the hunter. However if you're BM you would have been jonesin'. Then again, you probably don't care too much if you're raiding as BM.

Unless of course, you're pet-tanking. Then that'd be a nice pet buff.

Good Progress

I'm not usually able to attend Monday raids. I have family obligations. I logged in 45mins into the raid just to see how they were doing. I got an immediate raid invite. We made good progress on the Blood Queen. Each pull we had at least one person DC though. And we had plenty of people who had UI problems being able to properly target and hit '1'. Despite that we made it through the transition intact once or twice. So if we can stop the DCs and fix the UIs we're golden.

We also two-shotted Heroic Jaraxxas which was nice. I think some people got some ups.

Then three of us then dove into ICC-10 with the other seven slots filled up by alts of raiders or non-raiders. We got some quick badges off the first four bosses - and got the 10-man quest. There was a lot of DE'd gear which would have been upgrades for me a month or two ago. One item was an upgrade though: Saurfang's Cold-Forged Band.

Any Other Hunters Have This Problem?

I've said before, there is really only one piece of gear I would like from any 5-man. It's the Needle-Encrusted Scorpion. Well, it did drop yesterday in a 5man daily random PUG. Something interesting happened. Not one, or two people also rolled Need. Nope. Everyone did. The tank, the healer, and the other two dps.

Evidently, this is something that is happening everywhere now. I've just lead a sheltered life I guess.

Strangely, in the same run (and same boss loot) everyone rolled Greed on the orb.

So what does this mean?

I pulled over 6k dps on the run. The second was around 2.3k dps. So it's quite possible the dps needed it somehow. The tank was a Warrior. The other DPS were a DK and a Ret Pally. The healer was a Druid. Was I just extremely unlucky? Or is everyone rolling Need on stuff they don't need? Can DKs, Warriors, Rets, and Cats actually make good use of it?

Yay. Putricide Down

Got Professor Petri Cup down and got the simple achievement. Also got Blood Prince Council. And the Beasts of Northrend in Heroic. Very decent night. Putricide is no walk in the park. All timing on the adds. Heroic Beasts is also surprising how difficult it is even with "out-gearing" it.

Also felt good to finally be on top of the meters. #2 on all bosses for the night (melee were a close #1 and #3). And #1 on Putricide. That said, Putricide does favor ranged dps classes. And given the adds switching it would seem to favor SV over MM. Still it was nice.

Oh, and I was at over 800ms latency the first two hours of raiding. NFI why. My traceroutes were 600ms+ from my router to the first hop outside. I reset it but to no effect.