Mage: Hey can we do Dehydration? It’s the only one I have left for Glory of the Hero.

Wulf: Sure, it’s easy enough. Just hope that boss is chosen.

Mage: Yep.

Event starts. After second portal opens, healer hits the wall sconce. Pink lighting fills the room.

Wulf: Don’t do that.

Healer: ?

Two more portals open, healer hits the sconce again.

Wulf: Please stop.

Healer: Why?

Wulf: We need those for Dehydration.

Healer: Dang, I forgot.

Fifth portal opens, it’s the water boss.

Mage: Yea @$$, thanks for screwing me over.

Mage rage quits group, healer leaves group (feelings hurt?). Now the five-man heroic dungeon only has 3 people. Auto queue kicks in: searching for 1 healer and 1 more dps.Water Boss is now in combat and splits for the first time. I hit an available wall sconce. Pink lighting fills the room again.

Wulf: Why did he leave? We can still get the achievement.

Tank: Good thing I don’t need a healer for this boss, try not to get hit.

Boss splits a second time, I hit another sconce. DPS -pew, pew, pew. Still just the three of us. Boss splits for the third time. I rocket boot up to the second level to hit the final sconce since one was used prematurely. Just as final blows go into the boss, the group is reformed with the final two members.  Dehydration achievement goes out to the new healer.

Wulf: At least the new person got it.

New Healer: Cool, thank you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0K-ighj41c

…it’s the “hey look what I found on youtube” gratuitous post. I wish I could take credit for making this, but since I do not have a beta key so I can’t/won’t. Thanks to Hawklbeta for giving us Hunters a first look at camo.  I can’t wait to see both BRK and Frost’s Camo vids in the future.

Blizzard doesn’t want us to have a “magical” AoE because it doesn’t feel Hunter-ish. Does this mean Multi-shot will be changed to hit a few more targets? We all know that’s why Volley edged out Multi-shot, because it hit more targets.

The more new beta builds are released, the more I hope they don’t destroy the best class in game. Blizzard already removed Rhumba (which really depressed me) and now Volley. What’s next?

EDIT: A few days ago Blizzard gave us a better explanation of why Volley was removed. It seems that Hunters would have had too much AoE or rather AoE abilities. We all forgot, myself included, the magic of Trap Launcher. This should allow us to AoE some but we will still need to single target pack mobs, with a Multi-shot thrown in here and there.

But for the record, I’m still going to miss Volley.