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For a very short amount of time, and it still won't be something you can use consistantly in a shot rotation. Thus, not really a must have in it's own right.

Mortal Shots though, there's a must have as a DPS class in a raid, and thus Aimed Shot becomes a must have purely because of Mortal Shots.

1) decide which talent tree appeals the most to you (pick either marksman or beastmaster for leveling, surival is not that good for leveling, only shines at level 70).

2) After you decided for one of those trees, put your talent points into that tree to reach the nice talents at the end of the tree.

3) After you have put ~41 points into that tree (to get the top tier talent, which usually is the best of those), you can spend the rest of your points in another talent tree.

For talent builds you can have a look here. There you can find some commonly used talent builds and see for yourself what will work and what won't. However as always its your game and you have to enjoy it, so try some things and if they don't work for you, respec.

i know there is real no best spec for hunter but i was told that beast mastery is the best for a low lvl hunter (37) but im looking more into marks now... how do i change and is it worth it if i can? and if i do change can i move my points from beast mastery into marks or are they there forever? and when i get lvl 70 do i still get talent points or am i stuck with what i have when i get to 70?

Edited, Mar 9th 2008 11:27am by Musashibo

There is no best spec, but beast mastery is great for leveling (and marksman is also ok).

You can change your talents at every major city. Ask a guard for the hunter trainer. He will charge you some gold (I believe 1g the first time, then 5g, 10g, ..., till 50g for a respec).

Every time you unlearn your talents you can distribute them as you whish.

At 70 you are stuck with 51 talent points from which you have to chose your talents.

Fixed for you Mulgrin, you nub ;)

I respec for PvP nearly every weekend and i remembered ;)

here's some pictures for trapping that people said are fairly useful

You probably want to to fire more then one arrow at the mob, if you have time to ensure the healer doesn't peel it off. I usually hit steady shot and then spam arcane so that you get 3 hits off at once for a bunch of threat. If you are MM then you can also use silencing shot to pull the caster mobs towards you.

Always put traps away from the group, and plan your kite path so that the location of the second trap is between the mob and where you will be firing at the other enemies.





Edited, Apr 22nd 2008 5:07pm by Xsarus

The movement speed bonus is for mounts only, and AotC does not affect mounts, only land speed, which the talent does not improve. The hit rating gained by the talent produces more DPS than its alternatives.

The main point for speccing into animal handler is the 4% hit your pet gets. There is no other way to increase the hit chance of your pet. Hitting 4% more often is at least 4% more damage and it helps your pet keeping up ferocious inspiration and frenzy.

You want improved aspect of the hawk because that talent is great (a chance to attack faster and thus do a lot more damage is nice).
Endurance training only increases the hit points of you and your pet. The cookie cutter build does not aim for solo play. It tries to maximize damage in raids. Hit points are not a big issue in a raid, thus you do not spec for more hit points, but for more damage.

Yeah, like it is every day that you are grouped with a Draenei who has the melee +hit :-)
I was grouped with a Draenei warrior once or twice, most of the time however I'm grouped with no Draenei or with a Draenei shaman and have a whopping +1% spell hit.
I don't think that I'll include the Draenei racial everywhere just because you might have one in your group once in a year.



That I must have missed. Would you mind linking me a good resource for this?
Until now I did not know anyone has tested whether pets use a 1 or 2 roll system.


You do know that the discussion was about a BM cookie cutter raid spec? I don't mind you scanning my posts for errors, but I like to answer questions, not writing pages on pages about all specs when the question is clearly focused on a single talent in a given spec.



I start hating you just a little right now *g*.

edit: spelling & quotation fixes

Edited, May 7th 2008 1:07pm by Mulgrin

Yeah, but those hunters know of their racials (one would suspect so at least).

By the way, we have two NE and two dwarf hunters. I'd really like to have a Draenei hunter in my group, I'm 1% short of the hit cap (yes, with a SV spec sad but true).


I suspected as much, and as you can see by my activity here, I'm very also very bored.

It'll do very well for soloing too.
I know i really enjoyed having Imp. AotH when leveling.

You'll just want to skip Focused Fire for 2 more points in endurance training though.
this is mostly the standard raidbuild with only a few points moved around.
It will in this form provide both great damage and you'll be a solo monster :)