I’m still trying to clear out the backlog of blog posts that accumulated in Google Reader over my absence. Here’s a few posts I wanted to mention (and yes, several of them are quite old).

• WoW Addicts Anonymous posted two nice little introuction articles that I found helpful: an introduction to threat mechanics and aggro, and an introduction to hunter shot timers. Since these are both concepts that I ignore whenever possible (because I’m a bad hunter), these simple intro helped me sort out the concepts quite a bit.
• Znodis has a short summary of why boars are such a strong recommended pet. Like Znodis, this state of affairs makes me a little sad, but for hunters who want the ‘best pet for soloing’, it’s the unfortunate truth. Incidentally, Znodis is moving his hunter blog to a new home at The Mystic Hunter.
• Lassirra at The Hunter’s Mark has started her epic saga on the hunter talent trees. Part I is all about Survival.

By the way, there are no Big Red Kitty posts here despite the fact that I marked quite a few of them because I haven’t finished reading through all his posts yet. Man, that guy is prolific!

(You can read all of Kaet’s adventures by checking out the series Table of Contents at the end of this post.)

So I’ve been much happier with Kaet since I upgraded my equipment and skills. It’s just amazing to me what a difference it makes. I’m taking on a lot of orange creatures and although I have to be a little careful about aggro when I am using Frore (the crab I am not necessarily keeping leveled), I do pretty well. And Tibri, the crab I’ve been concentrating on keeping up with me, is an amazing tanking machine. I never have trouble with her losing aggro.

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The Harvest Festival is a memorial holiday celebrated by Horde and Alliance alike, all this week.

As a hunter, what’s the most important part of the Harvest Festival? The free pet food, of course! Don’t forget to stock up on Harvest Boar, Harvest Fruit, and Harvest Fish at the festival tables outside the gates of Orgrimmar and Ironforge.