Which bosses were you doing 16k on? I looked at your guild's public WoL parses and couldn't find any with you doing that. As a matter of fact, it looks like you were barely holding 12k before 4.0.

I have to laugh that you were doing beta stuff with FoH.

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Now THAT'S e-peen =p

In seriousness though, I suppose mounts are more important for those who care about the aesthetic nature of the game. That's not to say you can't care about both mechanics/substance and graphics/style/form at the same time, but I'd venture to guess mounts are more important to those who place higher emphasis on the latter. It's true that you can take it everywhere with you as opposed to a house, but then the question comes down to whether the fact that you can take a graphical component with you wherever you go trumps the fact that you can interact with the other component(which remains in one location where it can't always be utilized) and use it for various functions.

I guess I just prefer something I can actually do something with. I doubt the people excited about mounts right now would be equally as thrilled about a small 10x10 pixel located on the front of their character's tabard to indicate they were going +100 percent runspeed. To me that's almost what it amounts to(though I can still appreciate the graphical animation that represents a mount).

I'm not purely function over form, but when cornered with a choice, I'd have to choose the one that has more mechanical complexity. That would be the house. Keep in mind that housing can be done in a variety of different ways, and it doesn't need to be anywhere near as simplistic or straightforward as... say, FFXI's instanced single-room apartment. Increase the complexity in that department and I get even more excited at the possibilities. Depending on the type of MMORPG housing we're talking about, you *can* do a variety of things inside the house instead of just "sitting" there or socializing. On the flipside, there aren't as many ways to do a mount in WoW(unless you decided to change the physics engine and make it so you could ram into stuff,for example).

Some beta fun

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Edit: I was informed by Furor about 30 minutes ago that Ghostcrawler is getting a unique Ghost Crab model with the next beta push.

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Edit: New Model

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What's the consensus on hunters dps at 85, Kham?

Goblins: Love 'em. Only real complaint is the goofy attack animations, you look like you're play-fighting in a Three Stooges movie rather than trying to kill things.

I'm also sad that you can't get the big grin face that all the NPC goblins have. All the player goblin faces look all serious and crap. =(

BM:
Needs work. Pet damage scales incredibly well with Mastery since it really is the stat that 'Makes pet do more damage'. However, compared to the other 2 specs it has a lot of room for growth. Kill Command can pull off some amazing crits, and the Priority System is pretty forgiving...unlike the other 2 specs however you have to manually refresh Serpent Sting which can throw a wrench in your gears. Overall, the weakest of the 3 but they're working on it.

MM:
I'd say this is going to be the commonplace middle ground spec for everyone. Again, at the moment Mastery is tits and should be stacked. I had some issues getting the Priority System down at first because you don't actually use Aimed Shot unless the proc triggers for the free one. Kind of boggles my mind to some extent that the signature shot for this spec isn't terribly useful.

Surv:
Highest of the 3 atm. Mastery scales to an incredible level here. The Explosive Shot dot ticks crit, on average, for more than Arcane shot crits. Plus, the T11 4P set bonus gives Black Arrow a direct damage which is just insane. I've seen some wacky fuckin numbers with Surv. I'm afraid it will probably get scaled down unless the other two get buffed.

Overall, I'm rather impressed with what I've seen. Focus works in the raiding environment and is a lot easier to deal with in the long run than most people anticipated. The lack of Hunter friendly weapon enchants (sans the 130 Agi on 2 handers, which funny enough has the old falling leaves graphic the 60 Hunter Epic bow had) is disappointing but we should be seeing the new scopes around 4.1...and I've been told they more than make up for it. I bring this up because Landslide and Hurricane are op as fuck and it sucks big red donkey balls that we don't get to use them (yet again).

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What I'm really curious about is hunter dps in relation to other classes. My dps actually went up with the switch to focus as mm, but the problem is that other classes went way up, especially casters. Wondering if there's more balance at 85 or if I should be concerned. I know most of our signature shots got buffed in the beta, but wondering how that translates to overall performance compared to others.

I wouldn't compare yourself to any other class right now. Some classes are completely out of hand right now, especially casters like you said. Folks in beta say it's smoothed out a lot, though.