I played WoW when it was released, and this is the first time I’ve rolled a hunter. It seems like there isn’t much motivation to run dungeons for loot because there are very few items that Hunters want (I’ve only checked out dungeons up to lvl 40). Most leather pieces have strength (which is a useless stat for Hunters) or Spirit (which is low priority). Most two-handers have strength or some kind of proc, both of which are useless to Hunters. Most weapon drops are guns, and hearing a gun fire over and over for hours is maddening!
Rant over. Please discuss.
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just roll need on everything and say its hunter gear in chat
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Haha, that’s a great way to ruin my rep!
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You have had a different experince from me as far as gun drops. I want guns, but haven’t gotten any. That being said ive run a few dungeons now with my guild and pretty much every single item would have been better for our 4 other leather wearers or our tank. Kinda frustrating.
lol, maybe but that’s the hunter classic experience
RFK has some dope drops. Armor Piercer and the bow. If youre solo questing Spirit is right under agility due to regen. Str is whatever, makes melee hit harder but i rarely use melee.
A warning though. Any ranged weapon under 1.8ish speed will eat ammo like its gonna go out of style. My first RFK run, i used 1k bullets before the 4th boss. Kinda forgot about that.
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Thanks for the warning.
This is because you’re assuming that all the loot is yours. If you didn’t think all loot is “hunter loot”, you might find the gear better itemized. 
Moonlight Rifle is dope, but man i blew thru ammo. It was so bad i actually went to a slightly less dps 2.4 bow so i could do more than 3 quests before being out of ammo.
Hunters are not very gear dependent when leveling. When you get to max level, the need to stack as much agility as possible becomes a thing.
A lot of this will come from your beast stalker set, or other BiS blues (a couple pieces in Dire Maul I think). Then of course your tier items from raids.
While leveling, I grabbed whatever agility items I could, and just stacked stam or whatever after that. It just doesn’t matter that much until max. I didn’t go out of my way to find the best level 30 or 40 gear.
As far as ranged weapons, get whatever has the highest DPS. I used a core marksman rifle in MC until I got my hunter quest bow. Even if a gun annoys you, at some points it’s BiS.
My deduction is based on checking out dungeon loot on Wowhead.
Your assumption says more about you than it does about me.
I’m surprised that you rolled Undead and not Troll.
Kind of agree.
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Dead minds has the armor set and the Harpon, BFD the Bow, Gnomer , a gun the pants, from the quest. etc There seems to be plenty if you get the right drops
If you notice, I’m not Alliance, so Deadmines is out. You mention a few others with one item per dungeon. The quest reward from Gnomer is also Alliance only.
There is nowhere near “plenty.”
I’ll agree with this assessment. There is little motivation to run dungeons as a hunter leveling except to complete certain dungeon quests.
A lot of dungeons offer little to nothing. SFKs cloth belt, chest, and shoulders are actually very good for hunters assuming the clothies don’t throw a hissy fit. The caster staff from WC quest lasts hunters awhile. If Blind Hunter spawned every time it might be worth running RFK for the bow.
Only reason to do Gnomergan is the Triprunner pants from dungeon quest. I think the only item from SM is mail gloves but it’s not a major piece. Umm the caster staff from Library is an ok weapon if no one else wants it. UIdaman offers a good gun and polearm so that’s worthwhile. ZF has nothing except a mediocre headpiece better suited to warrior or rogue.
Maraudon actually has some good hunter pieces. Uh… Temple of Atal you might get a lucky chest off the minibosses.
As far as the aoe cleave groups grinding around level 35 - 50 you don’t offer anything to them.
Ummm Triprunner Dungarees?
I’m wearing them on this character now.
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Though I do agree with you.
Everything I have on my Hunter now is from mob drops or a quest reward.
Also that Polearm from RFK is trash 
Outlaw Sabre and Vanquishers Sword is where it’s at.
This is false. Horde get a quest called Rig Wars or whatever with the same rewards. It’s in Org. triprunner pants are great. However the pants from the STV hunting quests in decent later on if you want to skip gnomer.
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It’s odd to see a hunter griping about “not enough hunter loot in dungeons” but yet they roll need on everything in dungeons…
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It also works for Enchanters. Everything Green or higher is NEEDED by them, for all those lovely mats!
To be honest, your rep was ruined when you rolled a hunter. (J/k)