The World of Warcraft Hunter is one of the more diverse classes available in the game with skills ranging from direct damaging bow and melee attacks to area-effect attacks and even a fair number of crowd control skills. With the hunter's ability to tame wild beasts to fight alongside, the hunter becomes a one man wrecking crew, able to easily solo and handle groups of mobs that might be the end of other classes. And for those times the hunter takes on more than he can chew, there is always the feign death ability.
In all, the Hunter is a diverse class that is perfect for those who want to solo or those who want to add a lot of damage in groups.
WoW Hunter Tips - Picking a Race and Starting Out
For the most part, picking a race is a matter of aesthetics, but there is little denying that some races have bonuses better suited for a hunter than others. The blood elf, for example, makes a fine hunter, but their ability to regenerate some of their mana isn't quite as in demand on a hunter who already has mana regenerating abilities.
On the alliance, the dwarf, night elf and draenei all make good hunters. The night elf's ability to stealth is always a good skill, the dwarf gains 1% to their critical strike when using a gun and the draenei's heroic presence helps the party to hit with spells and attacks and their gift of the Naaru is a nice minor heal for sticky situations.
On the horde, the orc, tauren and troll all make great hunters. Taurens have increased health and an ability to stun mobs and players, which can be handy when the you-know-what hits the fan. Orcs can boost their attack power and command their pets to do more damage, while trolls have 1% added to their critical strike ability when using a bow and can regenerate health faster.
Once you've chosen a race, the main goal is to get to level 10 as fast as possible. You won't have a pet until level 10, so you'll want to run as many quests as you can to speed the process.
WoW Hunter Tips - Skinning those beasts
Even if you aren't interested in tradeskills, it can be important to at least take the time to level up skinning. Not only can this be a great source of money for those new to the game, but it will also add a passive skill that will increase the hunter's ability to critically hit when in combat. This makes it a great skill for any hunter.
Skinning is also the easiest profession to raise since you rarely have to go out of your way to work on the skill. You simply loot and skin any wild beasts you happen to kill, whether you are soloing or in a group. If you raise it at the same time as you level up, you should rarely have to dedicate any time to this skill. And the hides and skins you get from skinning fetch some good coin on the market.
What to pair with skinning? Leatherworking goes hand-in-hand since you'll be gaining most of the needed components when you skin animals. You'll also be able to outfit yourself in the armor you make.
For those who don't care about trade skills but want to be the best they can be when it comes to throwing down with mobs or other players, herbalism is a great choice. It takes longer to level than skinning, since you'll have to actively look for herbs to gather, but as your skill increases, you'll gain access to a heal-over-time ability that can be a life saver in tight situations.
WoW Hunter Tips - Taming and Controlling Your Pet
Hunter's gain the ability to tame beasts at level 10, which forever alters the way to play the class. With the proper pet, a Hunter is like a group all to himself, able to let his pet tank mobs while he stands back and dishes out damage. Hunters can heal their pet, and improve this heal through the addition of the Pet Mending Glyph, and with their crowd control abilities, can easily handle groups of 3 or 4 mobs.
The choice of pets is entirely up to the Hunter and will be a matter of style, but all pets break down into one of three pet families, and each family has its own strength and weaknesses.
Tenacity Pets. These pets are the best tanks. Not only can they take the most damage, but they can be traited to taunt better, which means more mob hitting the pet and less mob hitting the hunter. Bears, boars and gorillas are all popular pets from this family, but do not discount the turtle's ability to retreat within their shell, which makes them able to take the most damage out of all the pets.
Cunning Pets. These pets dish out the most damage, though they also are the easiest to kill. They make great PvP pets, especially bats and spiders, which have the ability to stun or root opponents. They can also be good pets for hunters who group a lot.
Ferocity Pets. These are the middle-of-the-road pets, able to both tank and dish out decent damage. They include cats, which can stealth, raptors and wolves, which have an inherent howl that boosts the hunter's damage. These can make great pets for the grouping hunter.
Don't forget that you can stable pets, which allows the hunter to choose the best pet for the situation. At high levels, hunters can call a stabled pet from anywhere in the world.
Pet Control. It is important to make sure you retain control over your pet when in a group, so you will want to put the pet on passive mode when grouping. It is also a good idea to create a macro for sending the pet into battle so you can quickly and easily pick out the appropriate opponent. A great trick is to combine this macro with Hunter's Mark, which saves you a keystroke in battle. You can create the macro by adding these two lines:
/petattack
/cast Hunter's Mark
WoW Hunter Tips - Choosing a Specialization
The great thing about the Hunter is that there are multiple ways to play the class. A beast master hunter combines his power with that of his pet, which makes him great for soloing and leveling. A marksman dishes out fantastic damage and helps boost the entire groups ability to damage. And a survivalist has added crowd control, defense and a devastating combo of lock and load and explosive arrow, which allows for great burst damage.
Beast Mastery. This specialization is great to choose as you level your hunter up if you are going to spend much time soloing. The ability to boost both your own prowess and your pet's ability to take and dish out damage makes the beastmaster a real beast when taking on groups of mobs all alone. A master of this specialization is able to tame exotic beasts, but most hunters switch to marksmanship or survival once they reach the highest levels.
Marksmanship. This is the spec for dishing out large amounts of damage in a group. Not only will it boost your ability to critically hit, Trueshot Aura will boost your damage and the damage of your whole group. With the ability to lower the cooldown of rapid fire, reset all of your cooldowns with Readiness, dish out more damage with multi-shot and volley and do massive single target damage with Aimed Shot and Chimera Shot, Marksmaship is the path for those who want to shine in the DPS department.
Survival. This spec is a good mix of added DPS and survivalist skills, including the ability to raise your parry and reduce incoming damage. It also improves crowd control with Wyvern Sting, which puts an opponent to sleep, and added duration of frost and freezing traps. But the bread and butter of this build is the combination of lock and load and explosive shot. Lock and load triggers through traps or damage coming from black arrow and allows you to shoot off three explosive shots in quick succession, with only the last one costing you any mana. This is great burst damage and makes survival hunters a very viable PvP build.
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