Hunters are my fav class, i used to have 2 - but gave one to a friend when i stopepd playing just over a year ago, only have my level 60 pvp'er left now!... as said before, its one of the easiest classes to play, but to master the hunter is VERY difficult, i think one of the hardest. its easy to find a hunter who isntskilled!
3 types... (as said before) Beasty Mastery(BM), Marksmanship(MM), Survival (SV)
BM - this involves your pet dealing the majority (if not a fair amount) of damage. also give syou pet a few extra talents which aggro mobs onto it. this makes your pet an excellent tank. main stats you will need for this is Agility/Stamina. a class type mainly used for a leveling hunter... PvE, as it does a nice amount of damage, and its very economical on the mana. - the downside to this is its abit pants for PvP, unless your very good at kiting mobs!
MM - probably the most popular of hunter classes (most of them dont know what their doing) this class type deals a HELL of a lot of damage, and has a nice Aura at the end of it
does enough DPS to contend with any rogue/mage/lock on the damage meters! although the problem with this in instances/raids is that you cause a lot of aggro, lots of aggro which your pet will find it hard to take off you, and so will any tank! - this is why its so hard to play a hunter well, you have to manage your dps on targets very well! with its high amount of DPS, and the limitations to the pet (except for being mightily annoying to casters) makes this type brilliant for PvP. A MM hunter could have very little skill and still finnish with the most damage and most kilsl in any BG. in instances/raids - Feign Death is your friend
best type of bow to get for this is somethign thats VERY slow but deals a lot of damage
SV - Survival is a bit of a strange one! you need a hell of a lot of agility for this class to work well! - most of the skilled hunters you will find to be survival - they have high DPS and high survivability if played correctly - involves multiple trapping and nuking of targets. these hunters are amazing in instances/raids and equally as amazing in PvP - the hardest of clas types to master! its all about the trapping! again, Feign Death is your friend!, best combined with 2 very good melee wapons, or one big hefty polearm/axe (preferably with +agil enchants for that little bit extra!) and a fast shooting bow with scope +agil stats if possible! imo these hunters are most favorable in end game raids. they have fantastic CC with a lot of DPS, its like Tank, DPS rolled into one class! wooo!
as said by a few people, level on to around the 20-25 mark, wil ltake about 2-3 nights to do it, so its not really that demanding!
or if you want to make use of all your pretty level 70 skills, find a few mobs your level or a little lower, and jut practise with them!,
furthermore for instance practise you can try doing a few lower lvl instances, RAMPS/BF/UB ... they wont eat you aluive but they will be challenging...will also allow you to find out what kind of thing you want to do in instances! trapping etc... test out trying to do multiple traps using feign death, shot rotation, (theres a few good guides knocking about for this), kiting mobs (if you can manage to find a group to go, UBRS and Drakki was a good kite for hunters
), aggro management (probably the hardest part) and pet management!
theres a few things for you to think about
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overall hunters are fantastic!
play it well ! id love the chance to have ym 70 hunter back
When you get far enough away your pet will disappear and you'll be able to recall them as normal! So it's not entirely savage and disgraceful leaving your pet to be eaten alive 