Soloing Elites? Follow

Yes, hunters are great at soloing elites, even better since mend pet got an improvement. Based on your level, I'll assume you weren't here before, but mend pet used to be a 5 second channel, where we couldn't do anything but heal. Now with it being an HoT, soloing elites is easy.

At level 20 on my hunter, I took out a dark iron in wetlands. Those guys are level 28, I may add. Of course, I didn't do it with "ease", I had to kite the darn thing, but I still did it. The deal with hunters, especially beastmastery hunters, is you in essence are a 2-man group, one hybrid DPS/healer and one tank. Only you have the total DPS of one player. However, I doubt an arms warrior and shadow priest would go too much faster.

Anyway, as far as soloing tough fights go, hunters are one of the best. You could also try a paladin. On mine I've taken on 4 yellow elites or 9 yellow non-elites in one fight.
Warlocks are pretty good, too, because if you pull far enough back you can feardot the enemy and he'll never reach you.
If they hadn't nerfed mage AoE I'd say that would be one of the best for handling tough fights, if you know how to play your class. But a frost mage can still solo some pretty tough battles.
I've seen videos of hunters, warlocks, and mages soloing these uber hard fights. I've seen evidence of paladins doing them. But melee classes, like rogues, warriors, etc are going to have a much harder time soloing the tougher challenges.

I solo alot so I thought the Rogue Stealth, Vanish etc... would be the best class for me. I am really starting to rethink this. I have a NE and BE hunter alts as well as a BE paladin. I may have to break one of these out and get it up to my Rogues level and compare.

The pally though, it seems like I bore the mob to death rather than kill it. Although I am guessing the pally would be more in demand than my rogue or hunter for instances?

Anyways that was an ingame moment where I was just really impressed by another class. That hunter was pretty impressive. /salute to all you hunters.

Thanks for the info Skribs.

On a different note, your paladin won't really shine until you hit 35+. That's where you can specc Protection and start AoE killing the mobs. Just aggro a nice big group of Mobs your own level, and watch all those little ticks of damage amount to a decently high DPS. You do damage whenever they hit you, when you block, when you hit, when your Consecration ticks and whenever you Judge them with something. With the right geartype and right specc, you can AoE grind alot of mobs at a time.

If you also get two sets of gear, Tanking/AoEgrinding gear and Healing gear, you got two different options in Instances. You can heal just fine as Protection in any pre-70 instance, and you can also Tank should the group decide not to be prejudiced little twats.

Don't give up your Paladin just yet, for when you feel like playing an alt. They do become fun after a while.

Thinking about getting a pally simply because of the awesome AOE tanking :)

Did a Heroic BM were there was nobody on adds, Pally tank just took them all, took us maybe 30 minutes and no whipes for a first time Heroic run of BM.

I just managed to kill that elite snapjaw on my 51 Rogue (62hp left). I'm not the best Rogue though so part of it might have been just some good lucky crits. I haven't tried him on my 45 Hunter yet but I swear that my Hunter can do amazing things against elites and higher level mobs. I find that most 'standard' elites my level are relatively easy but I've really been impressed with my Hunter's ability to handle multiple mobs his own level and mobs that are much higher level especially since my pets (I'm trying to keep two leveled) are usually a couple of levels below me and the mobs are often 'red' to them and have a lot of trouble holding aggro.

I know that my 70 Warrior will always be the one most in demand but I'm going to take my 45 Hunter to 70 just because he's so much fun to play. :)

Just a word of warning though on Hunters.

There are a ton of us out there.
While we excel at soloing, be prepared to be prejudged, A lot.

If you have plans for end game (raiding) you will need to be able to play the class to it's fullest to prove your worth. I have been in several raiding guilds that will not even look at mediocre hunter, where a mediocre healer would get some slack.

I am not stating this to discourage you, rather to encourage you to learn the class and play it like a pro.


I remember my "Test" for a guild was the Moroes fight and I had to keep the Arms Warrior trapped. I had never seen this fight and I blew the raid away because I was #3 on DPS and still had him trapped after the fight. I didn't know to run out to the stairs for him to reset.
I spoke up on vent with "Umm, guys? you forgetting something?"
We had a good laugh but they were extremely impressed with my dps and trapping.
That earned me my spot in future raids, while there were others that didn't do as well or seem to care. so they were left behind.

I'd say ditch the Rogue and join the ranks of the Best and most fun class out there!

Edited, Oct 15th 2007 2:41pm by dbernor

The NE does have the Shadowmeld ability. I LOVE this!
I really feel it fits perfectly with the Hunter class. It's a great way to Ambush.

The quest is Gammerita, Mon! , and it can be a challenging solo even for a Hunter. As a Rogue, you're facing a mob with a huge Armor value, so using whatever Rogue tactics you find to work against Warriors may help you win here. Or, a friend. :)

A Hunter has a Pet to DOT Gammerita and tank, Stings, Traps, Scare Beast, and a HOT Pet healer. If the Pet gets in trouble (i.e if Scare Beast doesn't just let you fear kite until you win), it's fairly easy to drop a Frost Trap and grab aggro, using the Frost Trap and then Concussive Shot to kite while the Pet heals up. Refreshing the Mend Pet does not require LOS, so it can be cast while running without even requiring any jump shot skills. Once the Pet is healed (and it'll have been doing some damage while you run) the Hunter can let it re-take aggro, Scare Beast, and finish the fight.