Remind me of the icon you clicked to get to this sub forum
is that really something you’re trying to use as proof? does that mean that bear is the only real druid spec? are mage specs all focused on staves? what about evoker?
Other things too, like the fact we start with a ranged weapon, the amount of base ranged weapon attacks and utilities, the fact that they had to add an animation-only ranged weapon to SV just to make it make sense, but the icon is a good one-liner.
we start with a pet too ![]()
warrior starts with a shield, even though 2/3 specs dont use a shield. what do you think that means?
Ranged weaponry defines the core combat style. A lot more important than a pet.
If you started at level 1 and decided for whatever reason to fight without a pet, the class would mostly look and fight the same.
Now try that with a melee weapon.
the core combat style of pressing arcane shot and steady shot?
sounds like that’s just MM
I will gladly level to 10 with a melee weapon if you promise to stop crying for 11.0
I think you’re confusing Hunter’s hilariously weird 1-10 experience with something that actually matters
Hunter has a totally coherent 1-10 experience… until you spec Survival and you have to buy a melee weapon off a vendor. Maybe that’s why new players hardly ever pick Survival.
does that mean that warrior doesn’t have a coherent identity since you have to buy a 2 hander or a 2nd 1-hander if you want to play arms/fury? what about rogues and 1-handers? or dk and 1-handers?
sure is weird classes can specialize in certain things huh?
Hey look, all melee classes that remain melee.
yet they “suffer” from the exact same thing you’re complaining about (needing to talk to a vendor).
Going from melee to melee is a coherent experience.
So a warrior needing to buy a weapon from a vendor is coherent, but a hunter needing to do the same thing is not? pretty weird logic
Going from melee to melee is a coherent experience.
okay so you don’t have anything real to respond with. good discussion as always looking forward to the next absolutely show-stopping reach you try to make ![]()
this forum icon is proof hunter’s full identity is ranged weapon
actually you see since SV has to buy a weapon from a vendor at level 10 it’s actually the worst thing ever, please ignore how other melee specs do this too

You forgot about the part where starting with a bow at lv1 means bow is more important than pet (He must have abandoned his pet in the starting zone)
Range class that is focused on pets. Range abilities are it’s play-style and pets are its identity.
I don’t think you are reading what I’m saying. or maybe i’m saying it wrong.
we aren’t talking about BM we are talking about Hunter
The vendor isn’t what makes it an incoherent. It’s switching from ranged to melee.
You can pretend it’s not a problem all you want, but there’s a reason Survival remains extremely unpopular even among new players that never knew ranged Survival.
if you think switching weapon types is so incoherently confusing then idk what to tell you bud.
anything else discussed might even confuse you further ![]()