Hurray!

It certainly took long enough!

Blogroll Additions

http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/  -- how did I not have this in the list?
http://oonoes.blogspot.com/ -- good Hunter PvP tips.
http://mirshwow.blogspot.com/ -- Mirshalak returns to the living.

Dark Intent 4.1 PTR Change?

Currently warlocks sometimes put Dark Intent on Survival Hunters who DoT-crit a lot.  It is also put on Druids of the Boomkin and Resto flavors.  It's a nice buff.  You'll fire a fair amount more.  A warlock will usually want to put it on someone who crits a lot.  If the boomkin in your group doesn't crit as much as you, then you're a good choice.  Both SV and boomkins benefit from it.  Boomkins may benefit more if the number of DoT crits is comparable.  If healing is low however, the warlock should put it on the resto druid to help them.  Generally it wont hurt the warlock much.

The new PTR notes for 4.1 show this language:

"Dark Intent: The friendly target of this ability now receives 1% (stacking 3 times to 3%) periodic spell damage and healing bonus instead of 3% (stacking 3 times to 9%). The casting Warlock still receives 3% (stacking 3 times to 9%)."

Note the words "spell damage".  Spell damage doesn't look to help us at all.  It's also not haste.  So... if this isn't just a typo, all the previous Dark Intent calculations are out the window. 

That said... it is not at the time of this writing... what is shown on wowhead's PTR tooltip for Dark Intent.  Yet.

Epic Gear QQ

I imagine many other hunters are in the same boat as I.  My guild runs 25man raids.  We had a drop in attendance and went three weeks without 25man raids.  We seem to be back now.

We are 10/12 in ten man raids and 8/12 in 25mans.  This means we haven't taken down just Nefarian and Al'Akir in ten man and additionally Ascendant Council and Cho'gall in 25man.

Hunters have some difficult raid drops.

There is only one epic wrist bracer with a 20% drop rate.  One.
There is one non-tier mail helm that drops 22% of the time from ... the Ascendant Council combo-boss.
There is one non-tier mail shoulder that drops 26% of the time from ... Nefarian.  Whee.

The bracer issue doesn't get better come 4.1.  However, the helm and shoulder issue may be alleviated somewhat with the new heroic dungeons.  Now, they aren't exactly iLevel 359 items, but the Headdress of Sharpened Vision and Pauldrons of Nalorakk do have two things going for them.  1) They will be obtainable.  2) They won't make you look like King of the Fish-Heads.  Bird plumes and bear skins maybe.  Hollowed-out Murloc skulls as helms... never.

Seeking Wow Hunter Blogs

Has anyone found a new wow hunter blog lately?  I need a few more.  Too many are falling by the way-side.