Untoucheable wrote:
I'm not trying to make a "melee hunter", I'm just trying to make a balanced character.
I have a friend who is hindered greatly when his pet dies. His build is a BM/MM hybrid and when he has to melee he almost never makes it. So, I am aiming for a "when the sh*t hits the fan" build.
Whatever theoretical **** and fan you are immagining is just that, some wierd *** thing you've come up with in your head to make you feel like you are going to accomplish what every other huntard (yes I mean the ones who have managed to label us all) thought they would do but still failed miserably at.
What makes you think you will "balance" a character by running in and doing some kind of melee crap? the only way you are going to make a hunter better at melee is to stack him up with stam/str/armor but you will be losing agility and subsequently dodge and armor by doing that so it begs the question, why? If you sufficiently gimp yourself at ranged so that you can melee better (oh if only I could convey myself rolling my eyes right now) then you will fail to kill whatever mob your pet is tanking fast enough so that you then have no choice but to melee it (you can sit there thinking "see I told you I do so have to melee" and you'll have shown the rest of us!). You will still die just as fast because hunters were never meant to melee.
Now I'm not saying I'm better than you. You might walk little old ladies across the street and give hand jobs to the bums in the park out of kindness for all I know but I will promise one thing. You will have earned the title "huntard" while the rest of us have it unfairly thrust upon them by people trying to do what you are doing.
I can't believe all the people who didn't flame this so far. I am dissapointed. I saw one person give a decent try but then apologize. He almost had it right.
Let my ratedowns flow and hooray for huntards!