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How To Pick Your Hunter Talents
By Wayne Allen | January 25, 2010
The hunter is one of the best classes in World of Warcraft to level up quickly. Specializing your hunter talents in any of the three trees will help you level your character more quickly. As you get into raiding and
Beast Mastery focuses on making the hunter’s pet more powerful. Although all talent trees are good for leveling, BM is considered the best specialization for leveling very quickly. In fact, early specialization in this tree has been called ‘easy mode’ with the right pet. Obviously, specializing in this talent tree makes a hunter more dependent on his or her pet for success, which can be risky.
As mentioned before, end-game instances and player versus player changes the field for choosing talents quite a lot. BM is currently considered less powerful than Marksmanship or Survival at high levels, even when a Beast Mastery specialized hunter is optimally geared.
The Marksmanship talent tree is popular in raiding and great for fighting other players. Specializing at least a little in this talent tree will increase the power of your ranged attacks. This fact makes nearly every hunter put about 14 points in Marksmanship. Maxing out Lethal Shots, Careful Aim, Mortal Shots, and Go for the Throat are considered mandatory in any build.
Survival may not be a well-known specialization to level up your hunter, but in the late game, it’s considered amongst the best. Some talents are particularly nice utilities in raids, like replenishment, which restores some mana to the raid every time you critical. Explosive shot, likewise, is the most powerful talent in the Survival tree and the main goal of any specialization here.
The Hunter character is one of the most popular classes in World of Warcraft. There are a lot of different builds that can be utilized through the talent tree.
If you would like to stay up to date on the best hunter talents, search the Warcraft forums and always check the patch notes to see how changes to the game will affect your Hunter build. Click here to get your own unique version of this article with free reprint rights.
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