Have You Forgotten Already?
BigRedKitty —
... long time. What’s that word?
Balance.
Balanced stats are the key to MQoSRDPS. You may hit like a truck, but if you have no mana, you’re doing nothing. You may have loads of Crit, but if you can’t take an AoE blast from a boss, you’re dead and worthless.
Balance, foshizzle.
Now let’s take a look at some of the gear with which you people are espousing we replace our Vengeful Gladiator’s Waraxe.
Savage Cobalt Slicer
Agility, +Hit, and Attack Power, but no Stamina and no +Crit. As we ...
We Make More Insults…
Big Bear Butt Blogger —
... Our good friend Graimerin crafted for us the Savage Cobalt Slicer, a Blacksmith crafted BoE weapon that is usable at level 74. And Cassie and I on our Hunters are BOTH planning on Dual Wielding them. ...
Upgrades for Anti-social Hunters
Mend Pet —
... faction when you hit 78, you may want to pick it up. No agility, but it has some hit, and a marginal DPS increase from the Relentless Strikes crossbow.
[Hemet's Trophy Gun] Quest - Sholazar Basin
If you didn’t already have something like the Crossbow of Relentless Strikes or higher, this is a free upgrade. Otherwise, it just doesn’t quite do the trick.
Weapon
[Savage Cobalt Slicer] Blacksmithing (395) ...
A good day…
Chain Trap - Musings of a Survival Hunter —
... With the Hold righteously beaten, it was time to go and polish off my remaining group quests in Dragonblight. All the “Wanted” quests were done, along with the termination of many Magnataur, Worms and Scarlet types. In the process I dinged exalted with the Valiance Expedition, and honoured with the Wyrmrest Accord, and that allowed me to replace one of my Savage Cobalt Slicers with a ...
Upcoming Patch
Alts Ahoy! —
... The [Savage Cobalt Slicer] specifically is that ZOMG UBER weapon that nearly every hunter in the game is duel-wielding. I haven't gotten mine made yet because I'm still only 71, and hadn't actually made up made up my mind on them yet (for other reasons altogether) but it looks like Blizzard didn't realize how powerful they were making certain weapons, and now lots of people who had them made specifically because they would last them into Naxx are probably going to be pretty upset. Personally I did think it was strange that a lvl 74 weapon was THAT good that it blew ...
Where has all the hit gear gone?
Mend Pet —
... gear, from before heroics and raiding, had me nearly at 200. I’ve got + hit on my 2x[Savage Cobalt Slicer] (which will soon be nerfed) and my ...
GM Doesn’t Always Mean “Great Mind”
BigRedKitty —
... Melee Weapon: dual Savage Cobalt Slicers. You got the melee weapons right all by yourself? Well good! Save these, they’ll last you a while as you upgrade all your other gear. /applaud! ...
Professions revisited
Big Bear Butt Blogger —
... supposed to be pre-Naxx in value, or at the most be comparable to Naxx drops or Emblem of Honor rewards, and the better the item you can craft, the harder it is to either learn the recipe, or more expensive it is to make it. Or both..
But it’s NOT universally true, as currently implemented.
We already know some equipment is going to be reduced in power in an upcoming patch. Things which were powerful enough to be obvious ‘must haves’.
Like the Savage Cobalt Slicers, crafted by Blacksmiths, or the quest reward Druids were ...



