Duke Togo

Good to see some life finally back in this thread. Now if we can only get Max to start playing again...

Yeah, the team worked for a while on a Homeworld mod, then abandoned it to work on a Homeworld 2 mod. Its like I said, if you don't finish the first one, you won't finish either of them.

I'd like for one of my guys to respec Survival just for the procs, but generally it is a gimped DPS build, heavy on utility.

LFG is unused only because people keep hearing how much it sucks. Works well if you know what you are doing. Very well, actually. Hell, it would simply work better if people started using it instead of griping about it and not trying it. Drives me nuts. I've had some great groups out of the LFG tool.

You won't be running with Hawk up. Waste of 7 points. Well, maybe if you are PvPing, but you don't have a PvP build. Concussive Barrage, I just don't know. 3 points for a 6% chance to daze a target? Hmmm, dunno. Multi-shot is mana inefficient vs damage done, you're better off putting points into traps, which you will be using alot in 5 mans and Kzhan. Good CC will make you alot of friends and get you called into alot of groups. Hunter Shot Rotation in TBC is generally Arcane and Steady Shot. Rapid Killing is ok for farming, but it only procs if you get the killing blow, so its usefulness for anything else is limited. Combat Experience may be the biggest waste of a talent on all 3 trees (probably worse than Spirit Bond). Not having Silencing Shot with a Marksman Build... ya, you want that. Big time.

Patch 1.7 is generally considered to be the Hunters' Golden Age. Its been downhill every patch since then. As far as what you missed, Hunters used to get 2 RAP from 1 Agi. Now its 1:1. They made up for this by taking a chunk of Agi off of what was considered to be "Hunter gear", and replaced it will what would have been an equal amount of AP. However, we still lost Crit, Dodge, and Armor because their adjustments weren't really up to snuff in these areas concerning Agi. What I meant by my comment was that you don't see the AP adjustment on any gear under 60. Compared to what Hunters got from Agi pre-WoW 2.0, you do alot less damage 1-60. Also, I don't think you should worry all that much about speccing out of BM at 60. There is a ton of solo work out there for you. Granted, I did 61-70 MM/S, but I had been BM when I first leveled 1-60 in 2005. If I were leveling a Hunter these days, I'd most likely run a build such as this.

One Barasil: http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#charact...n&n=Barasil

BTW, I've totally bought into the rumor that Humans were an engineered race just as the Cylons are, and this is some sort of vicious cycle.

Listen to the interview. She had a few slip-ups (one they called her on, one they missed), and you pretty much get that she'll be back (though, its not clear whether or not she knows what the plan is).

My guess would be a Hong Kong type setting, but really, I just hope whatever it is comes out for the PC. I'm already getting screwed over with the new Star Wars game.

I'm really interested to see where you are going with your talent spec. Love talking shop with other Hunters. And man, did the under 60 Hunters get screwed with itemization since our RAP mechanics change. I'd hate to have to level one now.

Why are people now assuming she is a Cylon? Nothing about what they showed us gives anyone any reason to believe she is. If anything, its something far grander than what we have seen so far. When they talk about taking the show in an entirely new direction, making Starbuck a Cylon doesn't make much sense. However, killing Baltar does.

Ishimaru, you gotta link your toons in the armory!

How can one say bye bye to Starbuck? They spend all this time and most of this episode building up something greater for her. Do you honestly think that's it? I mean, come on. BTW, Baltar is getting the noose. Just wait, its coming.

Yes, time to wake this thing back up. The Armory is here, let's see who you are! Me: http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#charact...th&n=Glavil

Another thumbs up episode. If only we had had more like the past few episodes....

Correct me if I am wrong, Keith, but were you not the sole person drumming up this bad audio in episode 1 nonsense? Yes, going back, it does indeed seem to be the case.

Reading through the AoD thread, the reported "audio issue" seems to be a totally false report. Several people investigated, and no one else found this problem. Its my understanding that outside of the change in music, the audio in the R1 is identical to the R2 release.

Didn't really notice the tinny audio, but the video definitely is grainy. Noticeably so. And it doesn't look natural. I'd go as far as saying they screwed up the video. Also, the subtitles in many cases leave something to be desired.

I'm used to the original version as well, its all I have known for what, 16 or 17 years? But it doesn't detract from the scene or my enjoyment of the episode. The way I originally heard this reported, you would have thought George Lucas had some hand in it.

Dunno, but it fit in just fine.

Still doesn't change the fact that it doesn't really effect the scene at all. After all this build up about it, all these people complaining, it turned out to be a huge non-event.

My copy arrived just a bit ago. About the change in music... really, what they used isn't out of place at all. It doesn't distract from my enjoyment of the episode one bit. Its not Greedo shooting first by any means.

Thumbs up for an episode not tangled up in the nonsensical plot.

Wait wait... Dangaioh had a story? I've never seen the butchered Manga release, but the US Renditions release couldn't have been much better.