My Hunter appreciation thread

Classes Hunter
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I feel good coming back to WoW; I was having a little discussion over on Reddit and I felt it had a place here as well:

Despite feeling underpowered in some regards, as a Hunter, nothing beats being able to do a bit of everything.

  • Ranged damage (always an advantage in battlegrounds) EDIT: in general any content

  • Melee damage if I’m feeling like it. Not the best sometimes, but I do like having the option.

  • Stealth + Ninja capping nodes, to avoid ganks or to escape camping in battlegrounds when your side is losing and the enemy team is waiting in front of graveyards. EDIT: also to skip content

  • Great soloing for world content (and even some dungeon content). For example I could solo 3 dragons from the anniversary event last week. It’s not an amazing feat but it’s nice to always think “I don’t need to wait for a tank”.

  • Some self-healing (it is kinda garbage right now compared to what we used to have, but still some). Goes hand in hand with the great soloing ability we have.

  • People pick on/focus you because hunters are usually easy to shut down, but with enough skill, you only make them lose time with amazing kiting (which got very good improvements with Dragonflight)

  • Pets for days

  • The sound effect of Kill Shot never gets old

  • Sniper shot = easy killing blows in PvP

  • Amazing mobility (I hate wheelchair classes like Paladin or DK)

Edit: did I mention we also bring Bloodlust to parties? Some people forget about that!

Hunters might be low tier for some, but I feel in a confortable “middle of the pack”, which sometimes is a good thing.

The only other class that can do almost all of that at the same time is Druid, but Druids don’t use bows and that’s a very nice class fantasy you can’t get anywhere else for now.

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I’m sorry, but I can’t appreciate hunters.

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Don’t worry, I’ll be shooting bows for you since warriors forgot how to!

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I love the Class even though there could be some tweaks made I’m not in the camp thinking it needs a drastic redesign. We need a buff to self healing and a passive leech passive based on mastery stat. And Dev need have fun designing new spells and tweaking abilities interactions to expand or change popular playstyles for hopefully the better.

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Absolutely! I’m not saying we don’t need improvements. I’m just having tons of fun just by the design of the class philosophy, and that’s something that would be hard to screw. Most of what I said has been true throughout multiple expansions.

I miss WoD’s Spirit Bond so much, though!