4.2: The good and the bad so far

The Good:
Hunter
-Assist and Defensive stances for pets. Assist makes your pet attack whoever you are attacking, and Defensive makes your pet attack whoever is attacking you or your pet. Very useful and much more easier to manage.
-CC does not pull. No more waiting around, you and the mage both shuffling forward like you're about to CC. :D
Druid
-Not sure yet how the new Mastery will play out, but after hitting the 2005 haste breakpoint, Mastery is your number one priority. I'm assuming that means its pretty nice.
-All healing crits affect have been increased by 200%. WTF. Where did that come from. 75k heals from a paladin O.o Kthxbai
Other 
-Being able to move characters on your list. I love that Covington is now numero uno. Thank you!
-Reading mail does the /map animation. Awww the little details.
-Molton Front Dailies: Yay!...That is all.

The Bad
Thrall, Aggra, and that stupid Questline
I'm sorry. I am not a fan of Thrall anymore. I'm very heavily Team Garrosh, namely because I'm realizing how cliche'd and convenient Thrall's life is. Aggra is very annoying. She comes out of nowhere and is now Thrall's lifemate. O..k....
The animation and cutscenes were impressive. I give them that. And Thrall's new model is super duper shiny. Almost too shiny. Talk about making everyone else look outdated. But hey, I guess he's special. Honestly, I preferred his old model simply because he was an Orc, just like Malfurion is a nelf. I always thought the two were similar, just one for each faction/class, but I suppose I was wrong. Thrall should stand up right. Yah!
Also, all his animations are WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY melodramatic. I kinda talk that way all the time, so I should know...
Aggra's voice went from really annoying orc grunt ish, to husky womanly. Nice touch there.I always thought she had a strange man steroids voice when I would fly down to the Maelstrom. But hey, she talks a lot, probably not a bad idea to make the voice not so horrible sounding. She is Thrall's wifey now.
The questline was okay. Lore wise, its interesting. But the actual tasks are mundane and the same in each plane. Somehow I also kept getting flagged and kept dying from stupid Allies so I'm not sure.
By the time I was in the Firelands doing the last part of Thrall's spirit or whatever, protecting Aggra's totems (apparently she's not the only one whose doing steroids) I was pretty much over it. I only did it on my hunter because the epic cloak rewarded at the end was a decent upgrade, but the thought of running on other toons just makes my sanity ache.
Oh hai Nozdormu
He's been missing for two expansions, but Nozdormu just suddenly APPEARS, given a new model and standing around during Thrall's wedding/super plan. Yeah...fuck this shit...
That's all for now. We'll see as time goes on. I was able to buy a ton of old VP gear to gather into a haste set and grab that 2005 breakpoint. I'll see how healing goes now. :)
In general though, this Patch's release has gone VERY smoothly. No long maintenance times or blowing up servers. Nice job Blizz.

Mobus!

While preparing to do a Heroic Lost City run, my boyfriend's NPC Scan freaked out while he was floating in Vash'jir. Sure enough, there he was, in all his glory. Mobus, The Crushing Tide. Quickly, we assembled our team, me hopping on my druid to heal and my friends on their mages. Our group ended up being two mages, a druid, and a prot pally. Just as we were about to pull, two sea horses rush by. A dwarf warrior and his dranei priest friend steal Mobus right from under our noses! We watched sadly, as the two began dwindling his hp. Slowly, steady. It was taking forever.
Then, my game screen shook. I had aggro! For some reason, one tiny Rejuvenation on a friend had given me aggro. Well. It wasn't that surprising. haha. Anyways, I try swimming around, to drop aggro, when I realize I have threat! Then, I notice Evade! Evade! appear on my SUF. He reset!
My bf did that shieldie shiny thing prot pallies do, and he was ours!
Healing, this fight was an interesting one. There were times I was sweating, but not because of the healing itself.
Moves/Strategy: Water fighting sucks. You have to kite the guy during the move, Ram, a powerful cleave move. Wake is a aoe type move that hits everyone within his melee range. Finally, Algae is a little green range move he shoots at ppl. Once it hits, it leaves a green goop in the water. Just swim away.
The fight takes a good 10 mins with 4 people. He has 12.5million health.
For a healer, the hardest part is keeping in range of everyone. If everyone is doing what they re supposed to, there shouldn't be too much damage. However, avoiding everything does end up splitting the group apart. Its important to keep near the tank, however, if he dies, someone else can plausibly kite him. This is assuming you don't have Allies breathing down your neck like we did.
The best way to avoid him resetting is to tank him back and forth, NOT up and down. That is how the last group reset him. My bf also tried and only moved him back and forth, not too far from his spawn point.
The other thing you don't need to worry about is mana issues. I had none, but made sure to pop my trinket and Innervate at proper times. I never dropped below 70% mana.

Towards the end of the fight, the warrior began trying to reset Mobus from us. I wasn't about to let that happen. Between moonfires and Rejuvenations, I switched to bear form and taunted Mobus from the warrior, afraid that my bf's taunts might not be up.
In a very anti-climatic moment, Mobus turned around and floated dead as we finally killed him. IN YOUR FACE ALLIES!

Not only did we win! But we won good! I was excited because we basically took him from some dumbass allies who stole him from us in the first place. It was even more exciting that they tried, in vain to steal him back. Naee would be so proud. :)
So now, my hunter has a kick-ass spear, my bf has a nice cape, and we finally have the bracer mighty intel enchant in our guild. Was an epic fight.
Otacon Report: Jadefang + baby
Quick report. I finally got Jadefang, the final rare in my endeavor. I might try for a couple more Madexx, but my stables are pretty stuffed.
I also was able to grab Jadefang again, this time as a kill to grab the pet. Now I have mama and baby together. :)

That reminds me. I hate Ahune. He can suck it. What a terrible fight!

Otacon Report: Sambas & Deathwing

Forgive my typing today. You may notice some of my words don't hve "A's" on it. My keyboard is acting weird and the "A" isn't going through all the time. I have to see what I can do about it. Apparently, "A" is important. It's funny though; as I type this, the "A" is working fine, but in WoW and all last night, my sentences were confusing looking.
Sambas!
Sambas was the next on my list. I was super excited and anxious to get him because he is a non-exotic pet. I will be using him as my main pet for my marksman/survival builds if I ever have them. The cat family have the Agility/Strength buff, so I needed a nice one for my non-exotic builds.
Sambas is tough because he has multiple spawn locations, all near prime hub areas in Twilight Highlands. I spent a better portion of last night and this morning camping these locations, fearful of someone swooping in and stealing my kitty before I could get there. After 8 hours of sitting around wanting to die, I finally called it a night and went to bed. I woke up a couple hours later, and just hopped on to check his spawn locations. Low and behold, the last one I checked, there he was waiting for me.
It was kind of funny, because I couldn't find him. I had him targeted and marked from NPC Scan, and yet I couldn't see him among the trees. He was a lot smaller then other past pets I have tamed before.

I can't think of  name for him. Simba, Mufasa, and Scar all don't work because Blizzard is (righfully) afraid of copyright infringement from Disney I am sure. We'll see what I come up with for him and Karoma.

Yeh, I feel tht wy too Mr. Cat. Unless you are wanting to eat baby moonkin. Then no. -_- zzz
Deathwing!
I also got the Standing in Fire achievement last night. I kinda like the way the whole lands burn up, even though getting interrupted and having to fly to your corpse is no fun. But hey, at least I got an achievement right.
FEED MY ACHIVEMENT WHORE ADDICTION!

No taming for you!

Otacon Report: Ding! Karoma and Ghostcrawler!

Karoma
I was 80% into level 84, just chugging along at a regular pace. Then, while just outside a Dragonmaw camp, BOOM! NPC Scan goes off. I begin to panic! Karoma is so close to me, and I am so close to 85 but not close enough! I checked /Hunters 85, and realized that no hunters were in Twilight Highlands, atleast on the Horde side. There was a spark of hope. In record time, 30 mins at the most, I burned my way through level 84, 88%, 92%, 97%! At 99% I began just shooting stuff, killing as much as possible as fast as possible. Finally, I dinged! In what seemed like forever.
I rushed off to the spot I saw Karoma and...

Winner! Still no name. I'm thinking of it.
Ghostcrawler
After successfully grabbing Karoma, I decided to try my luck at Sambas and Ghostcrawler. No Sambas, but while lurking around the Abyssal Maw, my NPC Scan rang out, claiming Ghostcrawler was nearby. Yet. Nothing. Apparently, he fades in and out, so I desperately searched for him. There he was! Waiting for me to strike. I had heard some stories about him. Being unkillable and strong, so I popped a haste pot and began taming. Man it was close. I was still in my questing gear so my health was scary low. But just as I dropped to 10k health, my tame finished!

  Was a good hunter day for me. Not only did I finally ding! (god I hate Cataclysm leveling), but I got some more pets. I can't wait to get the last two, Sambas and Jadefang.

Otacon Report: Madexx (Attempt 2)

There are good people still out there.
After a long night at work, and a disappointing brown Madexx, I battled sleep while waiting for another spawn. Afraid I was dealing with a 12 hour + spawn rate on the next one, I set up my cell phone with alarms and hoped for the best.
At just a little over 6 hours, I was laying on my bed, computer on, dozing, when I looked at my screen and realized someone was emoting me, /point. It was another hunter, a dranei, pointing over yonder urgently. I followed her and there he was! Madexx, in green! I was so excited. I landed and tamed him, then emoted to the dranei my gratitude. I feel very lucky that this person was nice enough to point me over to Madexx. I assume it was because they did not need the green skin Madexx, but it was still nice that they didn't just kill him. Thank you Amore from Undermine US! :D

Am far too tired to think of a name for him, so Scorpid he will stay. Green is my favorite color so I'm psyched he's green. I hope black is in the future too though. :O

Otacon Report: Madexx (Attempt 1.5)

So, after seeing the unfortunate corpse of Madexx, I figured out times and when I should drop in. Although timing is always a very difficult thing to pinpoint, I decidedto go by the 6-8 hour spawn timer idea, and calculated that I should start looking around 7 pm pacific. Unfortunately, I got held up at work (yay money!) and so I desperately called my boyfriend, who was more then happy enough to camp for me while I slaved away in the freezers.

The good news, is that he appeared. The bad news is that he appeared in brown. So I plan to burn my way to 85 while waiting for another 6-8 hours to camp again.

Unfortunately, his timer is actually reported at 6-12 hours, so we'll see. The good news is that I don't work until 630 tomorrow night. The bad news is that I might not have the will to stay up that late.

Wish me luck!

Hunter Service Announcement

Edit: I realize that this Madexx is a brown color, a common color found on another mob, Venom something or another spitters. But the point can still be made. :(

Nothing is more depressing to a hunter then seeing this.

Please! if you see any of the Cataclysm rare pets, Terrorpene, Madexx, the ghost wolf and Sambas, the lion, DO NOT KILL THEM!!! They don't count towards any achievement and drop a grey! I know there are some hunters out there that would pay gold if you let them know about the spawn!