82 thoughts on “Mania’s Patch 3.1 To-Do List”

1. Ahaha damn Mania, grats on the luck for the darter.

   But then again Ryai got her red whelp a few months ago in about the same ammount of time farming those whelps :)

   I just put pet on passive and serpent stinged everything 8D

   My list is more simple tbh. Get on Amarai- respecc to Beastmaster. Look for Nuramoc.

   Then log out and retalent like 20 other characters.

   Good luck with the turtle :)

2. Wow, the drop rate on the Sprite Darter Egg sounds good! I’m so excited to finally be able to get my hands on one for my horde toon.

   On my to-do list: Tame Aotona! The first time I saw her in Sholazar, I was like, “Whoa. WANT!”.

3. Can’t wait to try for a Sprite Darter. Always thought they’ve been one of the prettiest pets and my tauren hunter is my pet collector so she needs it. Better go pick up the Westfall chicken while I’m at it (I never got round to getting it the old way).

   Stacking and then buying a bag are first on my list! I too will keep my quiver for sentimental value. :D

4. Good luck Mazil, you’re prolly gonna need it :c

5. Hm, sprite darter new pet?
   It’s been ever a grievance that that pet was alliance only..

6. wah, did they really remove the summoning animation of Gezzarak?!?

7. Onitenshi: It’s been confirmed for about what a week? That they did- and they removed Arikara’s summon poof.

   I’m somewhat surprised the Ghost Saber wasn’t messed with atm :/

8. Onitenshi: It’s been confirmed for about what a week? That they did- and they removed Arikara’s summon poof.

   never read anything about it on the german forums, so sry I didn’t know about it

9. Mania, a bit OT but a serious question: Due to the forced respec for Patch 3.1, I decided to go away from beastmaster (because BM is now almost nothing worth).
   I already tamed 2 exotic beasts but I left them in my stable so far.
   Now I decided also to release an exotic pet.
   Why in hell is that NOT possible until I respec’d again to BM ?
   Just getting rid of a pet needs an expensive respec (at least 2 if want to go back to survival) ??? Blizzard made me mad.

10. Rikaku’s To Do List:
    1. Argent Tournement (which entails obtaining Seals/Dailies/Mounts)
    2. Get Odin to 80 (Ghost Wolf)
    3. Get Deathcharger
    4. Leveling Fishing
    5. Fish for Mount
    6. ….make profit?

11. Peter:
    There’s no reason you should have to change from BM. Honestly, BM is in BETTER shape than it was in 3.0.9, so if you were BM in 3.0.9 happily, then you should at least try it in 3.1 because it is in a much better state.

    In Best in Slot gear (for each respective spec) the numbers from EJ show SV doing about 600 DPS more than BM.

    But in my latest runs since the patch I have beaten every SV Hunter I’ve ran with and they outgeared me. >=)

12. Peter: *nod* Blizzard has said that they didn’t intend you to have to respec just to abandon a pet, but they haven’t had time to fix it yet. So until they do — whenever that may be — we either pay the cash or post a big sticky note on the minotor that says “Abandon exotics before respec!”

13. tamed Gondria last night, after 30 mins of looking ,died 7 times he spawn in tight pack of bears and leopards.

14. lol Finally way to post things Mania! :-D

15. But in my latest runs since the patch I have beaten every SV Hunter I’ve ran with and they outgeared me. >=)

    That was the case with with me last night and throughout much of 3.0.9. Although, if there is a good SV Hunter in the raid with me I usually get smoked in DPS. Most of the good SV Hunters don’t seem to PuG though. I think the ones that really know how to play the spec are in actively raiding guilds.

    I’ll probably go SV for my raid spec, but I’ll definitely still raid as BM on occasion and probably enjoy the same results as before.

16. I finally got beaten by an SV hunter this morning. but uhh he’s my guild class leader and one of the best Hunters I know (not cause he’s my guild but he has done like, literally everything PvP and PvE).

    I *might* try dual speccing my Hunter BM/SV, but with gems that’ll be a pain.

17. I am dual specced BM/SV at the moment and am really looking forward to raiding as BM (honestly, I never got BIS before 3.1, and I doubt all three hunters in my guild will get BIS for a WHILE..we only have one SV hunter if I’m going BM). But like you rikaku, gems will be an issue. I’m trying to figure out what to do, and part of me is hoping that AP gems wont suck with SV so much or that AGI wont suck with BM. Tell me what your plan is! BM=<3

18. And my hunt for Aotona begins… Making laps round River’s heart mostly on the hour, every half hour, and sometiems on the ’44s.

    I suspect most of the information on forums and wowsites will be far more in-depth for the cats, and I’ve been looking at that. Knowing about Aotona’s spawn point already, is there any other information specific to Aotona’s spawn rate that may be useful?

    (I’m really missing my old wasp, qq, etc etc…)

19. Eveline:
    Ok so I spoke to my Guild Class leader (aka Hunter Guru) he said that honestly you can keep your BM gems and still run SV. He said he does it many times and only saw a 15 dps difference; very minimal. He said his crit rate with his pet is lower with the lower AGI, but overall dps wasn’t effected much.

    Hope it helps =)

20. Eee, no one complained at me/about me, and I did even better than I was doing.

    Ofc I had to give up pet survivability on Jupiter. And Jareth. And Abyss [and I don't think Wild Hunt is working correctly at lower levels], but I just gotta get better gear again :)

    tho sadly with Ulduar out and me not in a raiding guild, doubt it’s going to be an easy task with everyone raiding ulduar now.

21. Afaik, my druid was the first on Boulderfist to get the Sprite Darter Hatchling. People in trade didn’t believe I had it ’til they came to Org and saw it. Apparently Boulderfist isn’t too observant to patch notes as they thought it was an alliance only pet.

    The rest of the list is still in progress for me :P

22. Thanks Mania. I was so lost last night when I logged on.

23. You forgot – update your add-ons. most have posted new versions to match the patches.

24. Rikaku:
    >> There’s no reason you should have to change from BM. Honestly,
    >> BM is in BETTER shape than it was in 3.0.9, so if you were BM
    >> in 3.0.9 happily, then you should at least try it in 3.1 because
    >> it is in a much better state.

    Have done it. Unfortunately there was no “Warning” before to stay with BM if you want just to release a pet.
    I have seen my attack power is better with BM than with Survival… may be I have done something wrong ? Have to check this…

25. Peter:
    Having a higher AP in BM is no surprise.BM is typically more focused on AP then the other specs because AP translates to pet much better than AGI does. SV’s have a talent where it’s based on AGI and Stamina. However, when it comes down to gemming, gemming for AP or AGI will not have a huge effect on your overall dps as SV or BM (so you *can* Dual spec those without re-gemming).

26. Woohoo! Makes me happy :D SV is in a bad place right now, less fun than it was before. I am happy I can be BM!

27. That’s a good addition, tijax! I didn’t even think about add-ons. :> Of course, the very minor number of add-ons that I’m using are still working fine, once I told them to go ahead and load, but that’s probably not the case for a lot of hunters.

28. Heh, I’m still working on my to-do list.

    1. Manage to log in. (check!)
    2. Swap quiver for a frostweave bag and rearrange bag slots. (check!)
    3. Play with new options. (check!)
    4. Buy Call Stabled Pet. (check!)
    5. Respec self and my pets. (check!)
    6. Update addons. (just got done, check!)
    7. Jump in some water on my war bear and swim around giggling like an idiot for a few minutes. (have not done yet for some reason!)
    8. Check out the Argent Tournament, and eventually got the war ram mount. (taken a look, but my internet died last night before I could finish the inital quest chain – curses!)
    9. Level my new wolfy, Coran, to 80. (in progress)
    10. Play around in that new raid I’ve been hearing so much about, forget what it’s called. (check – and I’d reccomend everyone at least going up to the first boss, even if you don’t like raiding… it’s super fun, and right now pugs are easy to find!)
    11. Eventually save up a ton of money and get epic flying, an armored snowy gryphon, and dual-specs. (yeah, that’ll happen)

    Sooo I’ve still got a little to do still. xD

29. YAY Tamed Gondria, Bonechewer server finally up at 6:20pm PST and tamed him at 8:50pm at 62.3 Zul’Drak. Made a Marco /target Gondria and flew to the spawn points. There were a couple Horde hunters on the prowl looking for him at the same tie but wasn’t nearby when I targeted him. I also have Loque’nahak which took alot longer to find. Gondria is nice matches my Spectral Tiger Mount, would be nice to have your pet run along side of your mount like the gold old days…..

30. Logged in and promptly discovered that my Gezzarak no longer explodes when she summons. =(

31. Drelodi:
    I know! It sucks! Now I have to re-name my Gezzarak (Raiju) to something else cause he’s no longer a Thunder Beast =(

32. Raydex is a level 54 hunter. Her to-do list…
    1. Get Deadlock (Deviate Dreadfang), Paranoia (Old Cliff Jumper), Papercut (River Crocolisk) up to 54
    2. Farm rugged leather to get money for dual spec (I’m dual-speccing BM/MM, I think, though Wyvern Sting is purdy…)
    3. Level myself
    4. Be really mad because Akira no longer poofs…I made a Horde hunter just to get her! (I’m a night elf)
    5. Tame a chimera…(see 6)
    6. Tame Numaroc…
    7. Have a party-no more everyone being mad at me for not having a gorrila!
    8. Update my addons (at least FeedIt still works)
    9. Get a bag to replace Quiver of the Night Watch
    10. Yay! Hearthstone cooldown is down!

33. Have they shrunk the max size for the Devilsaur Monstrous Bite stack? It just seems to me that Grimlock isn’t getting quite as big as he used to, which is making me a little sad.

34. I have another thing to add to my list.

    0. Get Power Auras to stop freaking out on me and thus not block my view entirely during the new Vault raid boss.
    1. Argent Tournement (which entails obtaining Seals/Dailies/Mounts)
    2. Get Odin to 80 (Ghost Wolf)
    3. Get Deathcharger
    4. Leveling Fishing
    5. Fish for Mount
    6. ….make profit?

35. Gel I’ve gotta kinda confirm it. I noticed Jareth wasn’t growing as big as he should during a [failed due to the tank 'dcing' on us :/] CoT run. And he only seems to get bigger with TBW.

    BUT.

    Aurelius IS NOT SHRUNK :D

    ok maybe a smidge smaller, but, she iz still nearly the same size :D

    And Jareth seems to be running more than waddling, ok he always runs, but sometimes he did slip back to waddling, but I’ve not seen him do it.

    AND MY GOD THE LAG ON HELLSCREAM.

    As I don’t know if it’s THAT or if they screwed up Growl. As for some reason Aurelius, WITHOUT Cower on, WITH Growl on and with doing 5k dmg to one of those underking nerubians in icecrown [saw saronite ore :c need money] and yet in two autos and an SS I had 50% threat, then 80% and then all a sudden blamo. I aggroed it.

    Then watched everything go still for 30 seconds with just screeches of the undead bug and Aurelius.

    O_o and for some reason it feels like my warlock ‘lost’ one of his spells … ah well

36. 1.level wolf and possubly the turtle to 80
    2.gather cash for my dk’s epic flight skill.
    3.finish rep grinds and farming for albino drakes for at least two of my mains.
    4.level my ali side main to 60 before kids week (willy!)
    5.find out what northrend will have for kids week stuff.
    6.farm crafting mats and turtle mounts while i wait for the rabid one to come back from their break.

    and i need to fit farming gnomeregan for the pet schematics in there somewhere to.and the spirit darters.those are both gonna have to wait till the areas arnt so crowded though…

37. Ryai
    it might have been lag.and warlocks did lose a curse.recklessness i think.it was somewhere in the patch notes…

38. Warlocks lost recklessness and siphon life, if you took that. Now siphon life occurs as part of corruption, which isn’t as exciting to me, but oh well.

39. No wasn’t that, it was one of his damaging spells, I was certain he had four .. maybe it was haunt- think it was most likely haunt.

    I never really used that curse anyways o.o

    AND ITS NOT IMPORTANT. And it took untill now, but I just finally got Nuramoc on Amarai :D the first thing on my list became the last hehe.

    I was actually swearing out the damn warpstalkers before my target macro got’im, and then I started cursing the warpstalkers again because every time I quickly tried to sit down and eat and recover another jumped me.

    But Nura is mine :DDDD

    I giggled when the tame completed and he shrunk while still hovering over in the air- before dropping like a rock to the ground and reluctantly hovered over to me.

    And really do hope it was the lag like you say.

40. Palla: Crap it was that ._.’

    htf could I forget Siphon life?

41. Now I know why the Sprite Darter Egg is such a good drop [my Pally got it in 35~ minutes of farming] it’s BoP :<

    Was hoping could farm on only one alt. Ah well.

42. It’s not really a wonder you wouldn’t have noticed. You were still being healed by it, probably for about the same, but it wasn’t doing it’s damage.

43. Just tamed Gondria on Malfurion about an hour ago :D
    It was at one of the already discovered spawn points, specifically the one by the Mammoth oozes.

    He does appear yellow on the map with track beasts.

44. another spawn point for gondria discovered at 5.44 server time eu server. 77.70, amongst the bears and leopards cruisin there. thought i make a try to find the new beast since i got lohk all ready and i alwaysed enjoy hunting those rare ones down before to many cords about spots come up.. call it exploration hunter style =P hope that helps someone looking for it. good luck happy hunting!

45. Well that and the fact I’m so used to spamming it with curse of agony and corruption >.>

    Ah well. SLSL might have been broken, but SL + Fel Synergy + Zeldei’s massive affliction backing for damage, makes for a good combo :3

    sad Siphon Life got changed- but not that sad to lose another dot to spam; I just specced for Shadow Trance or whatever.

    Instant Shadowbolt pewpew

46. Took me over 300 kills for my Sprite Darter, had the place to myself right until the end when a guildie showed up and got his in less then 20 kills >_< Go go RNG!

47. /target Obito
    /soothe

    I couldn’t get one on my orc Rosalyn [managed on Ryai, Ama and my pally :c] and she killed about 50- then I decided screw it, and skinned all the corpses.

    Got like 220 leather of thick and heavy.

    What I mean is yeah the droprate is ‘bad’ but considering that if you’re a skinner, you get leather out of it and items to vendor, [Rosa also got two gems and an eng schematic for the parachute cloak O.o], and trust me, it is less aaaaurgle than the alliance quest.

    Has you GO EVERYWHERE.

48. and mean bad as in so hairbrained, Amarai got the drop in like 5 kills, yet Rosa couldn’t get it in 50+

49. At least it’s not as bad as the other whelplings… It sounds doable once it dies down over there…

    And it seems it’s gonna take a while before I get to that anyway. First night hunting Aotona was a failure. I’m ashaimed to admit it, but I made laps round River’s Heart like a freaking spiralgraph, constantly, with a target macro (for Aotona, as well as Bird of Prey,) to each spawn point, over and over and over s’more, all night. Not a single target, corpse, or other hunter tame. no one saw a single one.

    Would anyone know if spawn timers are reset on server crashes and restarts. Lightbringer had a server restart last evening. Now I know the mobs won’t spawn upon a restart, but does their multi-hour long respawn timer reset itself after a restart?

50. Saranette: Were you spamming macros targeting the other mobs of the basin? Krush and Loque? As the spawns are random and shared, so it’s possible Aotona hadn’t spawned yet, if at all.