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Playing a Hunter in Cataclysm – A Warcraft Guide for Beginners.
By Paul Rone-Clarke | February 18, 2010
The hunter has always been one of the most versatile classes in Warcraft. Up until late 2008 they could, at a push, perform just about every role in the game. This lead to a lot of arguments when it came to rolling for loot in instances. Hunter\’s could – with some degree of honesty &
It is the talent spec that decides on the direction a hunter will take in Warcraft. During levelling this can make a big difference to the play experience. Survival spec is to do with keeping foes occupied with traps. Causing damage to several enemies at once. Normally using a pet to help you control enemies rather than tank or DPS them.
Beast Mastery is the pet talent tree. In the past it was just about possible to use the pet to \”off tank\” in the easier instances. Some hunters claim they can still do this, but for the past eighteen months this has become harder. For leveling, a pet will tank very efficiently for one hunter, but for end game, even off tanking is no longer really a role for hunters pets.
Marksmanship is a DPS (damage per second) talent tree. Survival and Marksmanship both dish out the damage, Marksmanship does it best against one foe, whereas survival is better against several at once – but is slower.
Your pet choice is vital. Hunter\’s pets come in three sorts. Tank pets – such as turtles will absorb damage and keep threat, allowing you to stand back and \”nuke\” from distance. Damage pets such as cats provide some threat, but more importantly excellent damage of their own. Finally Cunning pets like spiders will use traps themselves to control enemies. Pick the pet that suits your play style and talent choices.
At end game expect to have to re-learn everything you thought you knew whilst levelling. The expectations on you will be very different. Many hunters become \”nukes\”, providing massive damage from range.
Hunters are still a very versatile class. Quick to level and providing very good damage in the end-game instances. The one downside is that because of this they are quite common. You\’ll rarely see a shout like \”Daily Heroic, 1 space left LF DPS\”. If you want to be popular in instances then the harder levelling roles of tank or dedicated healer will be more sought after. You will always see shouts for these player types.
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