Howdy, folks. I’m none too good with words but I’ve been planning on playing a Hunter for classic and I was wondering what are some good things I can do as a Hunter to help out other adventurers. Any tips would be appreciated!
Don’t steal a melee player’s mob when you see them running towards it and if you see someone in trouble, help them out by having your pet taunt. That is about all a Hunter can do.
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Don’t roll on dalrends.
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If you see an Alliance Hunter (If you’re Horde in the Barrens) standing near where Echeyaki spawns from a quest, do them a huge favor and spawn it, then let them tame it.
It’s an Alliance’s dream to have that cat, especially that early on. If it breaks the quest for you, simply abandon in it and pick it up again. Sure it’s an extra run back and forth, but you made someone’s day. ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
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Ooh, that’s a great idea! I wouldn’t mind helping an Alliance Hunter get Echeyaki!
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Serpent Sting mobs. But only once they’re grey, I’ve accidentally stolen taps because I serpent stung a mob that had DoTs only.
Best thing to do as hunter is have another class planned to roll to if the bugs dont get fixed or leeway stays in.
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Although I never played my hunter to the full extent, I had Echeyaki as a Night Elf Hunter. I would tame nearby beasts and named it “helpmecatcheche” (or other variations), and keep /point /plead for a Horde player to get the message. It took hours.
Good times.
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You just made me want to play a hunter even more. Just for spite.
Remember that if you have your pet out and you jump off a ledge 9 times out of 10 that pet is going to find a way around to get to you. It won’t jump down. It will traverse the entire dungeon before it gets to you and it will aggro whatever it runs through or gets near. This has caused many wipes in wow history.
Always. Dismiss. Your. Pet. Before. Jumping. Off. Something.
If you’re in a dungeon. Turn off growl or whatever the pet taunt ability is. As a tank this is extremely frustrating to deal with.
Do not pull for the tank unless asked to do so.
Some times feign death does nothing if your pet is engaged in combat.
You don’t have to be at max range. Backing up could cause you to “butt pull” a group behind you.
Do not get in the habit of targeting with right click. That targets the mob and turns on auto attack. It’s a quick way to pull something in a raid by accident and also a good way to get booted.
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Thanks for the advice, friend!
Ahh yes. . this!!!
I had to wait till level 60 to get my best hunting buddy Sian-Rotam, Shy-Rotam’s mate who comes out during the horde quest only.
Buddy of mine wanted Shy and I wanted Sian. He jumped on the forums and found a horde that would spawn the quest for us.
Sian became known as Ari and still to this day is my preferred hunting pet.
https://classic.wowhead.com/npc=10741/sian-rotam#same-model-as
This is one thing that was so cool about being a hunter in Vanilla. Much like people who ride motorcycles, they are the type of family that nod at each other despite being horde or alliance, Hells Angels or just a guy who rides.
Well. . for the most part.
hehe
This…
There are some legit game breaking bugs in beta that it looks like they’re completely ignoring, ESPECIALLY for pvp
Rip the huntard dream
Couple big ones:
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Learn to trap. Freezing traps are finnicky and very different than other CC. They break very easily. You can only place them out of combat. So if you’re fighting you have to Feign Death and immediately trap before you get hit. And often your enemies will just move away and you’ll waste a trap so you must learn to set the whole thing up with Scatter --> FD --> Freeze. And then don’t break it! But if you can get good at this kind of positional CC you hit the next level, both in PvE and PvP.
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Learn to Kite. Just like a hunter’s freezing trap is great for keeping an enemy where you want them, kiting is critical to master to enemies where you want them. Master hunters not only manipulate the distance to keep melee away so they can have room to shoot, they can move their enemies away from healers, into traps, etc. So at the highest level of dungeoning a skillful hunter can have a freezing trap at their feet to start the pull, pick up and add the tank missed and kite it into the trap. Then the hunter could catch another add to lead away into FD --> trap (freezing trap was cooled down) for a double trap. Then possibly pick up a third to just kite away with concussive if there’s room. Theoretically a pet can tank/kite a 4th mob if you’re really going for it.
Honestly, if you can Trap and Kite like a real pro you know about 75% of Huntering.
Good hunting!
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except FD isnt working properly to do that everytime and even if you can have fun with DR being shared between trap and scatter and possibly even immobilize from wing clip.
Kiting with leeway giving melee classes double range, and spell batching f*cking with turning cheetah/on off.
It’s a disaster atm.
I appreciate all the replies. If anyone knows any more tips to be a helpful hunter I would really appreciate it!
Here is some simple advise to help others as a hunter.
Learn to control aggro.
If you see someone running for their lives with an army of mobs chasing them tap the mobs with slows, pet grown, distracting shot, exc. To get the mobs to chase you and get off of them then just kite till they reset.
But keep in mind not everyone is running to not die, example, frost mages.
A hunter doesn’t really give buffs to allies not in his group, but you can also throw a helpful shot here and there.
Now you asked for advice on helping others, I’ll tell you this, the more you understand how to maximize the hunter class the better it is for everything you do.
In group content you can make hard pulls easy simply by knowing how to properly kite, aggro manage, exc.
Also practice your triple trap (need trap duration talent to do this, otherwise double trap)
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As someone who plays healer classes, if you see a healer class alone, say “hey, want to quest together?”
Relic of Awakening (and the quests that you pick up in the den of doom) in the NE starting area are the first “you need a group” quest even when the server is low population. On the stress test, I was in there on a druid with 2 hunters (both before pets). By the time the stinking shaman dropped the needed item for the second hunter, both hunters were out of ammo (although one of them had a melee weapon that was higher dps than his bow anyway).
Most of the time, a class with healing buttons is happy to take a break from killing things without dps level damage abilities and keep a dps player (and his pet) alive.
A good tip for me and everyone, regardless of class, is to be kind. I played an undead warlock for the stress test the other day and the highlight for me was making robes for level 5’s leaving Deathknell. I remember a lot of things from my years playing this game but the nice things other people did for me is what tops the list.
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