Hunter info

[DeadlySpeed]

On request from i searched some information about hunters & leveling with it.

General:


How to Level a Hunter

If you want to level quickly, a hunter is definitely the best class to choose as it is a highly mana efficient class that has a pet to tank (take the damage) for the hunter which means he or she has to rarely spend down time eating food and drinking. In addition, the hunter's Autoshot ability allows the hunter to continue doing damage from afar without using any mana. Hunter's can take two or even three equal level mobs at a time and if a situation gets to hairy they can feign death in order to prevent a long and inefficient run back to their body. The hunter's numerous traps allow him to control the crowd effectively by freezing and slowing or maximize damage by dealing fire based damage over time. Agility, stamina, attack power, and critical strike are key attributes to try and boost while leveling as they ensure high damage output while keeping the hunter alive. Finally, there is no major difference between the three ranged weapons (crossbows, longbows, and guns) but Dwarves do have a improved gun racial and Trolls have a improved bow racial. Finally, a hunter's melee weapon(s) should focus on boosting the statistics listed earlier while maintaining decent close-range damage for the rare uptight moments


Raid/Instance Effectiveness (PvE)

Hunters are an extremely useful class to have in a raid or a party situation. Their Freezing Trap ability is the most versatile single target crowd control abilities in the game as there are only a handful of mobs immune to it; however, Freezing Trap is also the most skill-based crowd control in the game requiring utmost diligence and attention during pulls as they hunter needs to lead the mob into the trap without taking substantial damage. In the event a mob is immune to all forms of crowd controls, the hunter's numerous slowing effects in conjunction with the Aspect of the Cheetah speed increasing ability allow the hunter to "kite" or lure mobs away from the battle while not getting hit effectively removing the mob from the main battle. In raids, hunters are the BEST long term damage as their abilities are the most mana efficient, their ability to Feign Death prevents them from having to hold back, and their range prevents them from being hit by mobs allowing healers to focus on the tank. Their Trueshot Aura (Marksman) and Exposed Weakness (Survival) are group buffs that increase the damage of the entire hunters group. Finally, the new ability added in The Burning Crusade called Misdirection allows hunter's to misdirect threat/agro to the target that is supposed to be taking the damage allowing pulls to go smoother and bosses to die faster.


Pets:


Which is the best pet?
After taming almost all the beast that you can, (still need a Bat and a Gorilla) I see
what I would consider 4 categories of pets. I think I can guess where Gorilla’s
and Bats fit. As I see it there is no best pet. There are pets that fit different play
styles better. Anyway the categories are Health, Armor, DPS and Jack of all trades.


Which pets are High Health pets?
The Health category is Gorilla, Bear and Tallstrider. These pets will have High
health, med or low armor and med or low dps. Of these beast I believe only the
Bear can learn claw, all of them can learn bite. They make good tanking pets,
good against non melee damage.


Which pets are High Armor pets?
The Armor category is Turtle, Crab, Scorpid, and Crocilisk. These pets will have
High armor, med or low health and med or low dps. Two can learn claw, Crab and
Scorpid, and two can learn Bite, Turtle and Crocilisk. They also make good tanking
pets, good against melee damage.


Which pets are High DPS pets?
The DPS category is Raptor, Cat, Bat, Owl, Spider, and Wind Serpent. These pets
will have High dps, med or low health and med or low armor. Actually only the
Raptor has med armor and low heath, the rest have med health and low armor.
Three can learn Claw, Raptor, Cat and Owl. Four can learn bite, Raptor, Cat,
Spider and Wind Serpent. These pets tank as well but they kill faster
making up for the lack of tanking.


Which pets are the Jack of all trades?
The Jack of all trades category is Boar, Wolf, Carrion Bird and Hyena all have med
for health, armor and dps. They can tank better then the dps pets and do the
same or better damage then the tanker pets. Of these only the Carrion Bird can
learn claw, all of them can learn bite. They are generalist where the other pets are
specialist. These are great for people that want their pet to be able to do it all
good rather then one thing great.


Talent:


Beast Mastery Talents (36 points)
Endurance Training - 5/5 points
Increases the Health of your pets by 10%.
Bestial Discipline - 5/5 points
Increases the maximum Focus of your pets by ?.
Unleashed Fury - 5/5 points
Increases the damage done by your pets by 10%.
Bestial Swiftness - 1/1 point
Increases the outdoor movement speed of your pets by 30%.
Improved Revive Pet - 2/2 points
Reduces the casting time of your Revive Pet spell by ?.
Improved Mend Pet - 2/2 points
Increases the amount healed by your Mend Pet spell by 10%.
Ferocity - 5/5 points
Increases the critical strike chance of your pets by 15%.
Thick Hide - 5/5 points
Increases the Armor rating of your pets by 10%.
Frenzy - 5/5 points
Gives your pet a 100% chance to gain a 30% attack speed increase for 8 seconds
after dealing a critical strike.
Spirit Bond - 1/1 point
Every time your pet strikes an enemy, you gain 20 health.
Marksmanship Talents (15 points)
Efficiency - 5/5 points
Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots and Stings by 10%.
Improved Concussive Shot - 2/5 points
Gives your Concussive Shot a 8% chance to stun the target for 3 seconds.
Lethal Shots - 5/5 points
Increases your critical strike chance with ranged weapons by 5%.
Aimed Shot - 1/1 point
An aimed shot that increases ranged damage by 70.
Barrage - 2/2 points
Increases the damage done by your Multi-Shot and Volley spells by 10%.
Survival Talents (0 points)
None


Use this spec for leveling, so u can farm multiple monsters





PvP:
Hunter PvP

Hunters are a great for PvP in Battleground such as Alterac Valley or The Eye of the Storm as they are adapt at long ranged assault and can hide behind the great number of melee classes while laying down high amounts of burst damage in turn racking up killing blows. However on the smaller scale, such as in 2v2 arenas hunters become a tougher PvP class especially against melee as once they are caught up to they are cooked! But they can still be successful on a small scale and need to make the most of their movement impairing abilities to make sure their opponents don't catch up. A Marksmanship hunter's greatest weakness is in their small scale PvP as the talent build has far fewer survival/movement impairing aspects.


Hunters mostly use the Kiting method to kill players,
This means that the hunter keeps running with aspect of the beast. And keeping the target away from them and using Arcane/Aimed Shot + Concussive Shot.
And setting traps, so the hunter nearly lose no health killing a player.

Credits: From several sites i have collected this info.
And to my for finding and putting everything together ^^

[holyrunner]

Nice
So far i thought about hunters how they are so hard to lvl so stupid in pve and only a bit cool with pvp but now i'ma gonna try out hunter
tnx



EDIT: WTF it says i cant put rep in on 1 post 2 times ,but i didnt put any rep here ( at least i think i didnt :S)

[Diesel]

Nice
So far i thought about hunters how they are so hard to lvl so stupid in pve and only a bit cool with pvp but now i'ma gonna try out hunter
tnx



EDIT: WTF it says i cant put rep in on 1 post 2 times ,but i didnt put any rep here ( at least i think i didnt :S)

If you Thanks, it gives 1 rep (which is repping), so you cannot rep and thanks the same post.

Also speedtheif thanks for the post, although I don't know whats up with the on all of your threads .