What race?Follow

STOP! I'm not asking people to choose the race for my new hunter for me. He's already a Dranny and I'm very pleased with him.

No, I want to know what race you like best, for whichever reason.

I chose my Dranny because I really don't like alliance male models, and the male dranny was the only one I could stand. Not perfect by a long-shot, but night elves? Ugh! Their tall and wobbly. Dwarves are cool, I could be friends with a dwarf, but I just can't get behind playing one. I didn't choose a female because every single other one of my alliance characters are stinking females!

Also Draenei Drannies get their heal over time that is *great* for low level hunters before you get a pet. Its going to make farming nice too. You always end up taking a little damage once in a while and after a while it builds up and you have to rest, but this character will have a HoT to remedy that! Too much coffee!

So what do you like, racewise? My horde hunter is a blood elf. Male.

Race independent of class, list one:

Forsaken. The new young nation, struggling with their own creation and survival. They've got powerful racials and powerful lore. Not to mention that my characters can be Hell Incarnate without breaking character.

Night Elf. Ancient and bloody awesome lore. They are far more... badass than any other alliance race, especially when you consider their actions in the past. Noble, yes. Self serving, hell yes. The saviours of Azeroth? More than once. Night Elves are quite possibly the coolest race besides Forsaken due to their lore.

Troll. Jamaican, dude.

Orc. Oh come on, they are great! Especially if you play them as dumb as a certain Baldur's Gate character. You point, I punch.

Draenei. Second best Alliance race. Good sense of humor and they have equal rights for men and women. Who do you think was driving their spaceship when it crashed?

From bottom up:

Gnomes -> Everything else. I bloody hate gnomes in WoW.

orcs in horde - flavor! I've always played orcs in warhammer (both fantasy and 40k), and wow-orcs are similar to those, so the choice was easy... i just need to level one up for wotlk, so that i can have a speed freek ork, riding a RED motorbike (red ones go faster, after all) ;)
dwarves in alliance - because i would NEVER play a pointy-eared thinass creature that would die of alcohol overdose after second beer... bald alcoholic with a big gun <3

I like dwarves for hunters.
That poison removal racial is wonderful. That and Omen make the Moroes fight easy. The usefulness of poison removal in PvP goes without saying.
Find treasure racial is handy occasionally.
Short enough that the camera doesn't get blocked by beams and other stuff in buildings, caves, etc. I've got a tauren on another server. The camera gets pushed around or blocked regularly. That's annoying. Short enough I can hide in bushes during PvP. They don't see me pew pewing.

Edited, Aug 1st 2008 3:38pm by ItsaGaAs

In my humble opinion, the Trolls, Orcs and Tauren are by far the most theme fitting Hunters. Each are very tribal which lends very well to the very much primal aspect of being a hunter.

Though, once I am able to play again, I plan to make a Blood Elf hunter for theme reasons. Trying to shake the magic addiction that many of his race suffers from, he has turned to the ways of Beast Mastery in an attempt to reconnect to his Druidic heritage. Though, I'm not sure what his token pet should be, as I try to pick them off the racial mount. Wish we could tame Hawkstriders as Tallstriders are straight up ugly. Birds of prey are another option, even though you cannot tame anything other than owls until what, the upper 60's?

For me, Carrion Birds fall prey to the same thing as Tallstriders... most are ugly until the very later levels. Guess it will have to be a wind serpent. Just hope they rebalance those stats.

/rambleoff

Edited, Aug 3rd 2008 2:34pm by TwilightJay

Shadow Meld + aimed shot was awesome for pvp before the nerf. That changed and my character hasn't. Male NE