BigRedKitty: The Lurker Below Hunter-guide movie

by Daniel Howell Mar 21st 2008 at 9:00AM

Daniel Howell contributes BigRedKitty, a column with strategies, tips and tricks for and about the hunter class, sprinkled with a healthy dose of completely improper, sometimes libelous, personal commentary.

Everything you ever wanted to know about The Lurker Below, Serpentshrine Cavern, The World of Warcraft, Hunterism, and Life Itself is right here, right now, oh yeah!

OK, OK. That's overboard, even for us.

Ahem.

We hope you like our little movie on how we play our hunter when fighting The Lurker Below in SSC. Better?

For those interested in WoWWebStats reports, here's a link to the anonymous report of this fight. We are Titan, Hobbes is Aristocat.

You are most welcome to download this movie (36.4MB) by right-clicking here.

A great big Thank You to the WoWInsider editors for allowing us to publish this movie both here and on our little blog at the same time!

Daniel Howell continues his quest to enslave... NO, EDUCATE! yeah, educate the WoW-playing masses as the hunter-pet duo extraordinaire known to lore as BigRedKitty. More of his theorycrafting and slanderous belittling of the lesser classes can be found at www.bigredkitty.net.

Tags: bigredkitty, hunter, joystiqfeatures, lurker-below, movies, pets, serpentshrine-cavern, wowwebstats

Filed under: Hunter, Walkthroughs, Raiding, Bosses, Guides, (Hunter) Big Red Kitty

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iatola Mar 21st 2008 9:39AM

I loved it! Your voice is very soothing.

dAnixx Mar 21st 2008 9:45AM

Dont hunters get bored of that shoting sound?

bluesky_v2.01 Mar 21st 2008 2:48PM

No, it's quite soothing.

Tarbh Mar 21st 2008 3:19PM

Actually, it annoyed me more than anything else, it's quite loud compared to arrows, I was pleased when I got a nice crossbow to replace my last gun. But hell, if a gun does the job better, then to hell with my ears. :P

Jarviswabi Mar 21st 2008 9:53AM

Great video. We attempted Lurker last night for the second time, starting to get the hang of the timing. One question--why did you say Hobbes is immune to the Spout? Just wondering. I keep losing my pet after the second round of adds.

Pucelle Mar 21st 2008 11:45AM

You're probably losing your pet to something else - I always leave my pet on stay somewhere above water [to keep him from jumping in] and he never loses a hair of health. Check your combat logs.

Sorano Mar 21st 2008 9:57AM

Wow, thanks for the video. I have no 70 BM hunter (Yet, he's 32) but this is definitely an excellent encounter tutorial video. I think WoWInsider would definitely benefit from presenting more videos in this style.

Keep them coming! :)

Aurendar Mar 21st 2008 9:59AM

Nice! One you get the hang of it, Lurker is definitely the easiest fight in SSC. One thing that we do during this fight is to keep one of the adds on each platform sheeped or ice blocked for the entire fight. This way allows you to focus on only one add per platform and allows you more time to DPS Lurker. Once Lurker is down, we clean up the mess.

I was surprised that you don't submerge during spout! If I so much as have a strand of hair sticking out of the water, I get knocked back to the entrance! That was definitely different!

Barod Mar 21st 2008 10:07AM

The pet should be immune either b/c it's a mechanic of the fight like Gruul's shatter or b/c the pet has avoidance which either mitigates 50% of aoe dmg or 100%. It's been a while since I've done this fight on my hunter. It's all about the druid now.

Ahoni Mar 21st 2008 10:12AM

Pets are immune to spout, but can still take damage from the adds and whirl.

Spout is the ability that hits you for the huge knockback and 6k damage.

Naix Mar 21st 2008 10:26AM

That helps hunters out ever where.

http://tinyurl.com/2q9j9y

Killah Mar 21st 2008 11:00AM

What's your Armory profile?

bigredkitty Mar 21st 2008 2:36PM

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Drenden&n=Bigredkitty

Mirina Mar 21st 2008 11:03AM

Interesting point (never thought of it) on sending the pet on the mob on the inner ring. But usually our DPS is so strong that by the time I can even blink, our center ring mobs are down.

During the fight, my pet is definitely immune to the whirls and spouts--he just chills while he waits for lurker to come back!

We always down both adds on the islands--leaving 1 up is a risk--because of the multishots from the other adds can break CC, and it can just get REALLY ugly. We found that if we didn't have the DPS to down the adds, we didn't have the DPS to down Lurker. This was how it was in my last guild--I think the current guild went in and one-shot Lurker when we started as a guild in SSC (it's been so long, so pardon my lack of memory, lol).

Our hunters also stuck MDs on Lurker anytime they were up (we raid with 2 hunters), so it helped our MT out at the beginning.

Justo Mar 21st 2008 11:16AM

you know...i used to sorta get annoyed with this dude because he seems a tad full of himself. before it was like....a kara hunter giving the community advice? cmon....

i mean he knows what hes doing and saying for the most part. its nice to see him finally doing some real endgame stuff.

i still dont get why the hell he has the entire raid out in his frames....

Tolthalan Mar 21st 2008 12:27PM

Are you kidding? Although I have every bit of respect for guilds raiding SSC, I'd hardly say the first and easiest boss of a proper 25 man is 'Real endgame stuff'. (And congratulations on Lurker!)

zygote Mar 21st 2008 12:01PM

Level of progression is not the ultimate indicator of someone's skill level or what they may be capable of offering the community — it's dependent on the other nine/24 people that you happen to be with.

I learned almost everything I know about the BM spec from BRK. The day I discovered his blog was the day I stopped being a huntard — and he wasn't even in Kara then.

I could have been, "LAWLZ, U HVNT KILLT ILLIDAN! LRN2PLY N00B."

Instead, I started actually playing my class well and contributing instead of being a distraction.

And yes, I'm still learning.

Dunhear and Clank

Edgey Mar 21st 2008 2:51PM

I have the entire raid out in my frames. as a dps class i'm not always 100% focused on my dps, there are cooldowns i'm waiting for as a lock, 2.5 sec shadowbolt cast is a long time. I imagine hunters have even more mental downtime. It's good to be able to look at the raid and see how you are doing.

Fiordhraoi Mar 21st 2008 7:01PM

Yes, I'm the boomkin on the platform. :P Had to record the one where I couldn't seem to jump onto the platform for the life of me.

Just for an idea of what the rest of the raid is doing that fight, we've got all the melee (obviously) and the healers on the center ring. When the adds come up, our tanks quickly grab the ones in the center. Melee moves from one center add to the next. The one you see in this movie is the 3rd one we go to. No particular reason, you just need to start somewhere and that's how we normally go around the circle, so it's usually the last mob to die. We decided to kill those adds mostly because with our raid comp we can't always guarantee 3 mages, and since we have the DPS to burn them down, better safe than sorry.

Really, this is a no brainer fight for ranged DPS. Just don't get lazy on your cast/shot rotations so that you go OOM, and you're fine. Apart from that, don't get hit by the spout.