WOW Hunter Guide

The hunter class that you can play in World of WarCraft is a very interesting class choice. For starters, when you are playing the hunter you have basically given up the ability to ever have any good melee options. You are going to need ranged options.

However, in return for giving up melee excellence, you get the ability to wear mail a lot earlier and you also get all kinds of great distance tricks beyond your actual attack. One example of this is the ability to set traps. Another example is the ability to control beasts as partners and get them to your bidding for you. Because of this, people that actually play hunters would certainly argue that their advantages more than make up for a lack of melee ability.

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The first thing that you will need to decide when it comes to using the hunter is what kind of race you’d like your hunter to become. A night elf hunter has stealth abilities and increased dodging abilities. A dwarf hunter will give you a massive starting boost to using the gun, allowing you to synergize the dwarf gun proficiency with the hunter’s ranged attack abilities.

The tauren endurance bonus combined with their War Stomp ability will help you get out of sticky situations easier. The troll HP regeneration is generally useful, although not really synergetic with most of what the hunter can do. The orc hunter has higher pet damage and a resistance against stun effects. As you can see, just about every race that you pick has some sort of ability that can synergize with something in the hunter class. Paradoxically, this amazing synergy actually makes the choice a lot harder, requiring you to know the type of gamer you are to realize which bonuses will help you the most.

Of course, the race that you pick for your hunter will naturally affect the way in which you start your leveling. Picking one of the races from the previous paragraph will require you to level up as a member of the Horde while picking one of the races from the paragraph before that one will require you to level up as a member of the Alliance. Even though the hunters from both organizations will have similar skills and abilities, their affiliation does affect where and when they can start their different level up procedures. One of the richer aspects of World of WarCraft is the rich lore that the previous games have established and you need to be at least somewhat aware of what that lore is when making these decisions.

Generally speaking though, you want to adopt a strategy for leveling that will take advantage of all of the hunter’s strengths while at the same time minimizing its weaknesses. That means that you’ll want to level in places that have wide open spaces and/or areas in which the stealth skill is easier to use. This is especially true for any racial bonuses that make using ranged attacks from stealth easier to do. Your goal should be to bring the enemy down before they close so that you don’t have to rely on your melee that much if at all.

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