First, let me give you a little backstory. I've raided mostly on my hunter since late BC. I was "average". I did enough to make the raid leader happy, prove that I was adequate dps, bosses died, we got loot, log off and be happy. I'm an older player, and disabled as well. I physically cannot sit at my computer grinding for hours for anything. I was happy enough raiding 6-7 hours a week...until.... WoD came out, and with it, I switched guilds. The GM and I have been friends for a long time. It became apparent pretty early on that my dps was lackluster. We were taking bosses down in Heroic Highmaul, but I was always at the bottom of the meter. Enter BRF...my GM had a talk with me about 2 weeks ago, went into in-depth analysis of my warcraft logs, and told me I was quite simply not mashing enough buttons, nor was I mashing them fast enough. Due to my various disabilities, I play with a Razer Naga, so I was mashing the keypad on the side of the mouse with my thumb. Apparently not good enough. Last week, he told me that Thursday was my last chance, or I'd be moved off the Heroic team and to the Flex (Normal) team on a different night. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I knew something had to change NOW. I'd bought Honorbuddy awhile back to use for grinding ore & herbs, but I certainly didn't know you could use it for raiding. I was hesitant, but trialed the YRB profile. It was easy to set up, didn't take much configuration or changes to HB on my end. Thursday raid approached. I didn't pay much attention to Skada while clearing trash, because I always faired well on that anyway. I forced myself not to look at the meter until the first boss was down. After we got him down quite easily, I hear my GM/RL over Vent "<name> WOW what did you do???" I was startled, and looked at the meter. 2nd in dps out of 10 total. Um, surely I couldn't tell him I botted that, so I laughed it off and said "I guess that practice helped!" We went 7/10 heroic that night, with my dps close to the top on every fight, and 3rd highest overall. He asked me privately "Seriously, what did you do? Keep it up!" I finally told him on our group chat that I smoked a particular herb and was more calm and relaxed that night, and laughingly said "I guess <herb> is a dps boost!" I was then informed that as long as I kept it up, my spot on the team was secure. A great wave of relief washed over me. I was also pretty proud of the fact that I managed to mash a few extra buttons in between the YRB routine to boost my dps even further. The next day, I came back to the buddy store and bought the full version of the routine. I'm looking forward to raid this Tuesday, and blowing up the charts again! The only work required of me is just to dodge stuff and stay alive, let the bot handle the rest! Thank you to the developers of HB and the YRB routine for being my sanity saver!
Glad to hear that. I'm completely fine with giving the credit to a particular [herb] for the improvements! We'll keep our secrets safe.
Good story funny stuff. Even with Bittens spell flash i can pull decent DPS on my hunter. Nothing like simcraft performance but blend into the middle at least.
i completely agree, while i can play my class to some extent as a raidleader HB allows me to focus more on timers and calling things out for people. You can sure see the impact it has on nights like i expect tonight to be with no HB and as such me not calling stuff out fo people as i will have to focus on playing myself. no hc blackhand kill tonight i expect.
untill patch days like the last 2 weeks when the bot was down with tripwire and then patch lol and the RL is like WHERES UR HERB?@??@?@
Cool story. Glad to hear it worked out. Glad also to hear a story about HB HELPING people play. Too many people have this opinion about bots that, all they are for is gold farming or screwing with people. For some.. it is simply an aid for our disabilities.
i was reading this and was thinking no no no all the way untill i got to the end, the no's was me thinking he is going to end up saying i got banned next day was a good read happy to hear that it worked out but make sure you think of somethings to say everytime HB goes down
i'm going to give you some advise The Official TuanHA Combat Routine - Home his free profiles are here on the store but to get the paid ones u have to goto his webiste hands down the best Hunter CR for raiders! my friend uses it and is top of leader boards 100% if you look for any other classes PST i've been using HB for a very long time TOP notch cheater here! but anyways great story and keep that spot!
Tuanha best PVE CR? Best April Fools joke I've seen so far today. Check out YRB (in my sig) and give the trial a shot today to see how you perform. YRB is thoroughly tested and tweaked DAILY by Mythic raiders. Feel free to post in the support thread if you have any questions.
if you have a razer naga mouse or keyboard or autohotkey you can make macro that do the full rotation just dont click the button to fast it wil cycle to all spells just for dps only warlocks and priest dont work because the dot immolate and vamparic touch keeps refreshing by doing this
I'm glad I read this, Ty OP. I got HB for my brother (He has stage 2 CP) And hooked him up with raiding crs and happy to say I get to play with him on my raid team. HB, bringing families together.
