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I've only been playing WoW for a couple months now. I have a NE hunter that is close to lvl 40, and I'm looking for some pointers as to how to go about bettering myself as a player.

I mainly solo and have yet to run an instance. I would like to start doing them, but don't want to be refered to as the "Huntard" who doesn't know how to play. I try to work on CC w/ my pet tanking and am OK at trapping (still need some work). I have looked through the post on here and other sites but can't seem to find anything that goes into much detail. If anyone can give some ideas or point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for any input.

Practice kiting using jumpshots as well. Put your pet on passive, arcane shot a mob and start running away (getting on a road is a good idea to avoid getting any adds). Every now and then do a jumpshot to keep aggro. You'll eventually get a feel for the timing on when to shoot them again.

My jumpshot technique: hit jump, rotate with mouse (keyboard turning is too slow) just enough to see the mob, arcane shot, rotate back to original direction before landing (NE's look cool when they do the flip as you do this).

Keep trying to get farther and farther with the mob before you lose aggro. For fun, kite an elite mob to a town and watch the havoc begin.

You've come to the right place, honestly. There are plenty of examples and stories about huntards here, and one of the best ways to learn to NOT be one is to understand what one is.

One of my suggestions for instances is to JUST GET INTO THEM!!! The longer you wait to get into doing them, the more critical people are going to be of you. If you get into Outland before you run any instances, you'll be in a tiny bit of trouble. If you make any mistakes in Outland instances, you're likely to be kicked from the group. If you make a mistake in Uldaman, you might be treated a bit nicer.

Just make sure that if you do make a mistake, fess up to it, apologize, and be more careful. Everyone makes mistakes, but it's the huntards that try to rationalize them.

Start running groups now, but warn people that you're new to instance grouping so you'll need them to go a little slower in the more hectic instances. This way they'll either kick you or be a little less critical on you. If you get kicked, it isn't a loss so don't worry.

Just stay with the group, and if you get aggro run TO the tank and stay in LOS of the healer at all times. Remmeber to put your pet on passive or defensive, and always dismiss your pet before jumping off a ledge or down anywhere. Even in it's a 3 foot fall, some places make the pet go around the corner to get to you, but your pet may aggro a whole room you havent cleared yet, thus bringing 15 mobs you aren't ready for yet. Lastly, remember focus fire. Kill the tanks target first. He should have aggro on all the targets and tab+sundering them all, but don't rely on him to have all the aggro of every target, so it's best to attack what he's attacking and save the headache of something bearing down on you.

That's all I can think of besides keep aspect of the pack off during fights, because it pisses people off when they're trying to run back to the tank with aggro.

I used to think defensive was okay, but after a run or two where pets went after the wrong mobs...yeah, passive at all times.

That's pretty much it, yeah.

And you get three shots. Although that's not completely clear cut.

But yeah, there's not much complexity to it.

I really have no idea. Next time you should ask. :D

Maybe they mean some just don't use it at all.

/shrug

Defensive is fine in groups.

I don't have MD yet so haven't been able to play with it. When you cast it on the tank, what shot do you follow up with? Do you multishot so you help the tank with threat on 3 different mobs? Do you Aimed shot hoping for that big crit since it is before the fight, that cast time shouldn't be a problem for your DPS.

I was thinking, cast MD, start with Aimed shot follow with multi then arcane for your 3 shots. Is this good/bad is something better?

Ah ok thanks Kompera, that makes a little more sense.

Sort of. I've run into tanks that always pull (drove me nuts OTing in Kara "OK here comes the 10-mob trash pull. I'll pull you pick them up and tank them" What?) Maybe it's just the paladin in me. I do prefer to pull, definitely. But when I ask for a misdirection, it ain't me that's pullin!

I just wanted to make sure, if there was some secret, that when I got it I wasn't ******** it up.

Thanks!

It's fine, as long as you can control it.
If it's chasing a runner, the runner's going to pull adds anyway.