Hey guys. Thinking of trying out a hunter again, even though I’d have to keep yo with ammo for my bow. Any advice on managing money with a hunter since I’d have to keep up with two weapons, arrows, and pet food?
Hunters could be completely self-sustaining.
Fishing and Cooking for pet food.
Mining and Engineering to make your own guns and ammo.
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Weapons aren’t a big deal. You’ll just use whatever you find and probably run with a staff or something as your melee for a while.
Arrows are a minor drain on your gold but its not bad enough to prohibit you from really getting anything you need especially in prepatch where I believe mount costs drop. The only issue with arrows that I found was remembering to stock up before going out to do a bunch of quests.
Pet food is also pretty easy if you aren’t letting your pet die all the time. Either just buy a little extra food when you’re at an innkeeper or kill random beasts for meat while questing. Pets don’t need to eat that often so it really isn’t a problem.
Alternatively you could do what was suggested above me which is running engi/fishing/cooking etc to be “self sustaining”, but its really not worth the effort unless you are going for more of an RP experience.
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Less downtime = more kills = compensates for ammo useage. Pet food can be naturally gained through normal questing. Tons of animals you kill: but cooking profession gives more happiness giving a cooked fish vs raw meat. These others in here have led you correctly.
Be an engineer as they said. Enjoy
I completely forgot hunters use mana. Yeesh. Thanks for all the help guys.
Hunters are one of the cheapest to play due to not really needing gear (their pet does a good amount of damage on their own), and arrows being cheap as well. For consumeables in raid they can get expensive, but that is mostly over in Wrath regardless.
Mana isn’t really a bad thing, especially with Aspect of the Viper and how it works in Wrath. It’s mostly forgettable. You also can kill without mana so you never really have to stop - one of the reasons Hunters have always been among the best solo levelers in the game.
If you’re trying a Hunter alt for this Warrior, you’re playing two polar opposites. Warriors traditionally have been the worst solo levelers due to lack of CC, needing gear, and having no self-heals. The Hunter doesn’t play fantastically until 10 when you get your pet but after that it’s very comfortable.
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Viper sting in wotlk is all you need to stay full mana.
Either I forgot this is how it worked in Wrath, or I never played my Hunter very well because I don’t remember this at all. Is it a thing on bosses as well, rather than keeping Serpent Sting up? Assuming they have mana.
No it’s just really good for trash.
Also as Marksman chimera shot gives you more mana back when you use it on a mob with viper sting so you’re actually really efficient in raids and you don’t really need to drink.
You will be using serpent sting on bosses though
Thanks for everyone’s feed back. You know I’m probably a bit crazy but I want to level him up in Mulgore. The Tauren quests feels more like what a hunter should be learning and going through. Plus I’m damn tired of leveling through eversong woods and I don’t want to do durotar. Though I’m not sure which spec is good for end game. I do want to aim for talents that he’ll with mana management. I was thinking of following icy veins guide but I may have divert from that if I want mana management
There’s nothing crazy with wanting to level through a preferred zone. Mulgore definitely fits Hunter better (at least from how you seem to see it), as Tauren are hunter/gatherer and nomadic. Plus Mulgore is just a beautiful zone. Talking about it kind of makes me want to play through it again now, too. I have a few Tauren that have finished Mulgorein Classic purely because I like the zone, even though I main Alliance.
Leveling, the best spec for the most part is BM - that may change with better gear at higher levels (like 70+ in Wrath), but Manure could tell you more about that. Endgame, Survival early and MM in later tiers is the general consensus, but you can easily play MM early or Survival later if you prefer either.
Mana management is pretty straightforward (beyond what Manure has said). The thing with BM leveling is that you buff your pet so it does more damage, which costs you no mana. So you don’t have to cast as many shots. Plus, it holds aggro better, which lets you keep going longer as it’s easier to heal your pet up than yourself.
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Thanks guys. I’m gonna have my first pet be that sick Rex and black scorpion in durotar. If I can find the dang thing. Only ever seen that model twice so far
When I was talking about though for mana is specifically for wrath and prepatch.
Yup, I hear ya. Wotlk is coming so I’m not too concerned. Thanks for all the advice
You can keep going while oom as a hunter, or even sit to drink and send your pet after your next target. Low level mana pots are common drops, and are even pretty cheap. Used to play with a hunter who exclusively used level 21 mana pots for world content, even into TBC. Many things will drop whatever food your pet of choice uses, too. Think of your pet as your main weapon, everything else is just a nice upgrade.
Skinning, imo, while levelling at least, will make you pretty good money. And seen you’re out questing in the world, you’ll get plenty of skinning opportunity. Whereas everyone views herbalism as the moneymaker, so massive competition just about everywhere, and mining is needed for the meta professions of choice, so again, massive amounts of competition, even in lowbie zones.
He’s a quest mob in the Troll/Orc starter zone, so you’re basically guaranteed to get it.
Arrows being cheap until raid time costs 40g to fill a 24 slot quiver with the timeless arrows.
That’s odd arrows are free for me.
