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Well it is true that hunter's shouldn't be meleeing that much. They have abilities, frost & freezing trap, wing clip, intimidation (BM hunter), and concussion shot, to keep them in a ranged combat setting. That being said, no hunter should feel ashamed if they get put into situations where they have to melee, sometimes you just can't get into ranged distance (Such as a combat rogue, trinketing out of your traps and sprinting). So it is nice to have a skilled up weapon, if you ever want to wing clip to get back into ranged fighting. You always want to have a decent melee weapon skill, so your wing clips don't miss, but as a hunter you should be shooting the enemy at least 95% of the time anyways.

The ONLY reason for a hunter to melee is to get back to range...ONLY!
You never drop stats on a melee weapon just for dps, again the only reason to melee is to get back to range. (im sure you already knew this its just in case they somehow stumbled upon this).

My advice to you is to take a deep breath count to ten and bash your head very hard on the desk you are at so that you will forget that the conversation you and he had ever happened.

And yes even at lvl 70 people can still be retarded.

Edited, Oct 26th 2007 10:26pm by CrallBloodyDagger

And blizzard is making it FASTER to get from 1-60? Come on! People already breeze past those levels so fast that they never learn anything about their class.

Ok, I think blizzard starts off hunters on the wrong foot right at lvl 1. When you first make a hunter and you are given the first quest, you maybe autoshot twice then have to melee. So you pretty much shoot once or twice then melee even after you get your pet.
Now I don't remember when you get conc shot and arcane but maybe this is bliz trying to push us into learning how to kite.
But even once you get your pet, there is no real intro to how to play with it and utilize it into the dps + tank system.

I remember when I was questing in STV and I swapped to survival because A: My friend who 1 lvl 20 char and 10+ lvl 10 chars told me SV was best, and B: Survival had better melee capabilities. At that time I was meleeing alongside my pet because my melee did more dmg than my ranged and because I needed to also survive long enough for my pet to save me. <-Horrible I know.

Then eventually around 50ish I was told to go bm for soloing and shazam I became un-huntarded.

I also may have caused a few misconceptions while doing BG's, when I pvp I become the worlds greatest melee hunter and its true and I tell everyone that (It's funny though because my team (Alliance) usually wins the BG when I melee). I may have caused some of these misconceptions.

Shame on blizzard though, why do rouges get that assassins school, druids get moonglade, locks get that underground bar in SW. But hunters one of the most common and hardest to play classes get no cool school thing. I say hardest because even though we are the most common class, there are very few players that know how to play making it like 30% of the hunter pop actually knows how to play, while say locks have a 95%.

I hate blizzard.

Did you get made fun of Ebon?

I most definitly did get made fun of for it. They were understanding, but still. Most people just found it hilarious I was actually meleeing. MD's still work lol

That's fine, everyone has their moment of nubness. To my own defense, I had a full 18 slot Worg Hide Quiver as well as 5 more stacks. Generally I only go through 2/3 of the bag itself per Kara run.

meh, i go through half or more of a quiver in 1 night of raiding.
Has gotten me to melee but only after forgetting to refill before grinding the next day =P

BM Spec and not a 5 boss night, it was a full clear. With my shot rotation I'm usually top dps... gotta sling a lot of arrows. TBW, Rapid Fire, trinket, everytime they are on CD.


Edited, Oct 29th 2007 3:47pm by Ebonspine

Yea I saw you respecced Surv. That should be exciting :D I've always wanted to try it out, but I love BM too much.

So why did you break down and respec? did I miss a post somewhere?

Once in the 30s I was on my shadow priest grouping up with a hunter to do a quest. I noticed he kept meleeing mobs. The group died (there were 4 of us, the hunter feigned and survived) because we didn't know how to do the quest, and that hunter just started meleeing mobs and died himself. So, I keep watching him, and he almost never does ranged attacks. Eventually I ask him "why do you keep meleeing?"

"Because sometimes I get 200 when I melee"

I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

Back on the topic, if hes happy meleeing leave him be, just do group with him for anything PvE, if hes happy, you should be happy...