I saw at level 20 i get a passive that lets me dual wield. does that have any benefit to it, or is it not worth trying to use two melees with a hunter? I know the melee tends to be primarily a stat stick, but i also know that you tend to swap to your melee if the mob gets too close.
I’m on a cata hunter, i just didn’t swap my forum character
Dual wielding tends to under perform in terms of raw stats when compared to similar item level staves and polearms, as well as not having a relative Cataclysm level enchant, whereas 2 handed weapons get mighty agility.
With regard to melee, hunters generally try to stay at range given it’s where we do our best dps, so whatever utility a 1 handed weapon may have there would be lost as you should be trying to get back to range as quickly as possible.
But if you are lvling and you got two 1hands somehow that out stat you 2hand. Equip the 1hs.
But if in a dungeon you need on 1hs that a melee class also needs on. You are greifing them.
Thank you both for the tip. I’m not one to need on equipment unless it’s a big upgrade over what I already have on. and with warrior and rogue i won’t bother needing on bows, guns, or crossbows unless the group doesn’t have a hunter. so with hunter i’m not gonna bother “needing” on melees, and just get my melees through open world quests until i hit max level and wanna go for BiS
You should always need on a bow/gun UG. But before lvl 80 alot of people will have BoA weps/gear. So its pretty easy to get weps.
I hadn’t thought of this point. But that is fair that a good chunk of people might be using heirlooms. I myself refuse to use them cause after my initial use of them in retail, I was like “these feel too easy”. I joined back in 2014 when they still had the bonus xp benefit, and it kinda took away the fun I was having with just equipping new upgrades of gear I find, having to find creative ways to kill mobs when my gear was all underleveled and feeling that excitement of getting a new piece of gear. So I told myself if they ever added heirlooms to Wrath Classic, I would refuse to get them
For levelling just use whatever gives you the best stat. I think 2 heirloom daggers with +16 agi (?) are a good option.
End game you really want an agi staff/spear cause of the big agi enchant, specially since Surv scales almost exclusively off agi (everything besides your autos really lol).
As for actually hitting stuff with it, its a non-factor, you do 0 dps flat as a Hunter in melee and you might as well use Kill Command if you’re really stuck in it. Raptor Strike is just useful if glyphed and Hamstring does 0 damage.
+15 AGL for the enchant.
Can also plop “Stealth” on your cape Heirloom for +8 Agility/Dodge rating. 
I told myself I’d refuse to use the heirlooms when i started wrath. i prefer to get my gear the old fashioned way, not have something that i can just wear for 80 levels and never have to replace
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