Hunters get the shaft every where it seems...Follow

*Semi Rant*

So I looking through quests and their rewards for Mail items and stuff of this nature... I noticed something. Almost every quest with a Mail item for reward is Shammy based! I was mad because I was looking for a good replacement for my gear and every time there was a quest with a blue item it was Spell Damage and healing. WTF!

Can we not get the quests having a reward for all classes? I am tired of doing quests just to use the reward as just chump change throw away item.

I love the hunter class and the complexity of it. I love having to figure out strategies in order to do things most classes can't. But why for the love of all that is holy can there be nothing in quest rewards but maybe 10 items I have found in outlands so far worth getting during the lvling process? I have lost interest in lvling my BE hunter because of this.

Also seems like every guild I have been in the hunters get the shaft on gearing up. No one wants to do the instances hunters need because... "none of our gear drops there" I just recently got into a guild that seems helpful for the most part but it wasn't till another hunter and I brought up to the guild leadership that we felt we were getting shafted on gear runs.

*end rant*

I have to agree with North, there is no reason for a hunter to be complaining about lack of gear. Hell we prolly the only class that could wear full lvl 70 green of the bandit and still come close the top in dps against other people in pre-raid gear.

Leveling a hunter is too easy to be complaining about a lack of gear rewards.

Well, if you think about it, there has been a legendary outside of TK for every class pretty much, but none that hunters can use. I don't really care about this, because so few people have those legendaries, and they aren't so amazingly OP that it makes us completely useless against them, just pointing it out.

Hunters don't have it that bad.
Yes, there are quite some shaman quest rewards. But other classes have the same problem. Warriors "always" seeing paladin gear, paladins always getting warrior gear, ....
A shaman friend of mine complains that almost every mail item which has not spell damage or healing on it has a ******** of agi on it while he really needs strength with his enhancement shaman *g*.

There are not that many really good quest rewards (but there are at least some, e.g. Stalkers Helm of Second Sight), but there are not many for other classes as well. Once you have those quest rewards, you'll have to get the next loot from 5-mans, then heroics/kara, then the bid raids, ...
Itemization for hunters is ok at least up to the point where I am now (early SSC/TK).

BTW druids have an excellent tanking helm before entering Karazhan (Stylin Purple Hat or something like that) which they can get themselves crafted rather cheap.
Shoulders are not available that easily. However you can get some from The Black Morass (Sun-Gilded Shouldercaps or from heroic The Blood Furnace (Mantle of Shadowy Embrace)
My druid still has this hat and tanked nearly everything up till Void Reaver in TK. T4 is a lot better and the arena items are really good also, but it is a solid hat for tanking the early instances and raids.

Also if you look at most of the Alliance quest rewards from level 0-60 there isn't much for a Shammy toon. Most of the mail with +spell on it are from instances that Horde can run too. "Back in the day" only the horde had the Shammy class so quest rewards didn't include Shammy gear.

I think the extra gear for them in Outlands is kind of an "Oops sorry here is some gear finally" from Bliz.

everyone has different perspectives I guess. I thought it was very easy to gear up a hunter in outland personally. never found it difficult to get good drops from instances and made the transition into raiding flawlessly :D

Go to Aethiens Pre-raid gear list, go to the instances the items drop from, quit whining and get geared. The quested gear is replaced extremely quickly once you hit 70, and getting to 70 solo through Outlands is ridiculously easy.

Buy greens from the AH if you need to, use "...of the Bandit" or "...of the Hunt" if you can find it and wear leather if you get the stats you want from it.

Basically quitcherbitchin because it's not gonna make quest rewards better, get you geared or get you to 70, we all had to deal with it and once you get to Kara you'll be fine, as long as you are following Aethiens gear/ stat list for specs (it really is great).

I have already stated several times on this board that I am using that to replace my gear. I have also stated how hard it seems to be to get a run in SV set up on my server. No one wants to run it much further past the Key Frag. Hell I had a full group yesterday for this place and as soon as we got to the shard 3 people dropped and hearthed. I was like WTF.

Also I already know getting to 70 Solo is easy. How do you think I did it. I didn't run an instance past Blood Furnace until lvl 70. When the first instance I did after that was Bot.

Edited, Dec 14th 2007 7:00am by HitashLevat

Then he talked *********
There is only one legendary bow in the game atm. And that you get when you fight the end boss in the eye (tempest keep). The bow however can only be used during this fight. You loot that bow during the fight, you use it during the fight and as soon as the fight is ends (you won / your group wiped / you leave the instance, ...) the bow is lost to you until the next time you fight that guy.

An Blizz developer however hinted that there will be a legandary ranged weapon obtainable within the Sunwell raid instance (thats what will probably go live with patch 2.4 and will include the tier 7 raid set, so probably only less than 0.5% of the player base will see that instance and even less will see the boss where this legandary will drop, but we all can start dreaming *g*).

You're correct to point out that Hunters can improve their DPS by understanding the mechanics of the class. But you're foolish to propose that gear is not important to a Hunter.

Once the Hunter in greens understands their shot rotation and other class mechanics, where is their improvement path? Right, it's gear.

Edited, Dec 15th 2007 8:23pm by Kompera

When did I say that?

And we DON'T need good gear to DPS. Warriors, shammies and rogues at least have to have decent weapons to do acceptable DPS. BM hunters need do **** all but learn their SS rotation and weave KC in there.


You're not reading me right mate. What other class can pull 600 DPS in levelling greens? I don't know anyone who can. Gear is important to ALL classes, and gear will allways yield additional improvement when you've maxed out your skillzzz.

Bottom line is; we do (relativly...) insane DPS without almost any gear requirements.