So what’s your take on hunter class? The pets seem better but still kinda …meh, they didn’t always cast growl and even when they did the mob was just like what was that oooo hunter!!!
For soloing content, nothing has the versatility of a Hunter.
Rogues can vanish, yes. Druids have stealth, yes. Warlocks control demons, yes.
However, Hunters are numero uno for whacky open world hijinks.
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I had no problems.
Did you go to the pet trainer and train Growl?
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The only bad thing about the hunter is that I can’t play it for the next two weeks.
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Hunters are the best class because they have the most loot options.
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Level 1-10 is a pain in the butt, but once you finish your pet quest it turns into ez mode.
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You need to manage growl like a tank manages taunt and you need to manage your pet as your primary means of damage, not a secondary one.
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Some of my favorite memories of vanilla are using Frost trap in the WSG tunnels and destroyed people with Aimed Shot.
Its fun.
He is asking specifically about the mechanics in related to how they remade classic people.
I was able to teach my pet growl.
(I believe) growl has a focus cost. If you have scratch or something on autocast, you won’t be able to growl.
You can make a macro to do something like
If focus > 10, cast scratch
Then turn scratch off auto, turn growl on.
and then macro it to every one of your abilities.
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Hunters provided the ultimate solo class for those who couldn’t or didn’t want to always group. Your pet gives you a two player group at all times. But Vanilla gave you compensating time sinks to keep you from out pacing things. Managing ammo, training pets, capturing pets to learn traits, having to level pets (even your current pet doesn’t level with you, just after you) and staying up on talents. If you are using Growl 1 when Growl 2 is available it will be almost worthless.
Spending hours capturing that rare pet. Then later being in a long, intense raid and forgetting to feed your pet and having him abandon you with no way to summon a different pet. And knowing you will need to go back after the raid, spend hours to capture the rare again and then hours to level him up to your level.
And don’t forget getting kicked out of a dungeon or raid because your pet abandons you or you run out of ammunition. If you want to play hunter in Classic you will need to pay much more attention to your class than in Retail.
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Bind Pet attack on mousewheel up
Bind Pet follow on mousewheel down
Turn off growl bind it to a macro and put in on your bars so you control when your pet growls
Target Mob and cast Hunters Mark
Mousewheel up to send in pet.
Start your attack
After 2 - 3 shots your pet will lose aggro
Cast Growl
Cast concussive shot
Resume face melting.
I have always had pet attack bind to scorpid sting, cause I pro hunter who pulls with it lol, but doesn’t help much if the mob doesn’t aggro to my pet and runs right into my face.
He is asking specifically about the mechanics in related to how they remade classic people.
FInally, someone get’s it.
Yeah that’s why you send the pet in first, that allows it to grab aggro and then you treat your pet like a tank and you get the bonus of making sure it pulls aggro back off of you when it loses it.
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I only got to play to lvl 15 but it was a lot of fun. I did RFC and killed the 4 main bosses in WC and never experienced any problems with my pet or any of my skills/abilities. The only bug I experienced was being shown to hold my quiver in my hand like a melee weapon after exiting from a flight path. This may have just been a visual bug on my end as no one else ever mentioned me holding my quiver in my hand.
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I had zero problems leveling a hunter on the stress test. Get max range auto attack then arcane shot. Move backwards untill swing timer is reset. I only died once due to not clicking a healing potion when I thought I did. I liked the hunters overall.
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Never said it was hard or problematic, just a pain in the butt till you get your pet at L10… You don’t melee like Rogues or Warriors(as you shouldn’t) and you can only get the 2 or 3 auto range shots off. Overall it has its ups and downs, but once you got a pet things move along much faster.
Early on I found hunter pets can’t hold aggro at all if using a cat or bear. I can auto shoot and even cower still won’t keep mobs off of me. Granted I’ve never played 2004 Vanilla at all prior to the test. I don’t mind Hunter tho with the power to solo elites and difficult quests later on.
Is the Owl or Boar the best aggro holding pet?
So yeah I had lots of issues keeping mobs off of me. Even trying to slow and run away they eventually got to me and I was melee’ing which sucks cause I have 1 ability.
See my previous
I used a boar, it did a pretty good job of holding aggro. It was also using charge and bite along with growl.
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There wasn’t a growl ability for Cat or Bear when I had one.