A few minor details about hunters?Follow

I have read in a lot of places that because of hunters' reputation, it is almost impossible to get into raid and instance groups, is this true? Also, ive been on wowwiki and under almost every class, they have changes for the new expansion coming out, but not yet for hunters. Is there a place I can find any infor about talent and ability changes?

I think this is mostly because BM hunters become Jesus with a Minigun in T6 content.


You can also find hunter talent changes and abilities on WoWhead.

3-4 isn't bad IMO. That's actually pretty damn good in a 25 man raid, no?

I've only gone into the first part of Hyjal and nada in BT, but I know the first part of Hyjal highly favors AoE damage classes. The mages and locks in my guild can build up huge dps leads on those trash waves.



In my opinion, the whole root of the "huntard" thing is the misconception that playing a hunter is easy-mode. The class actually involves a lot of understanding of game mechanics, itemization, etc. to play it well. Sure, at times playing a hunter is mashing a macro, but, getting to the point where you have the gear and understand which macro you need to use, etc. isn't something every hunter figures out (even if you try to spoon feed it to them) or takes the time to try to understand.

I also think that the huntard label is sort of a cultural phenomenon. It began way back when and is perpetuated by repetition. But, I have seen __(insert class)__tards in pretty much every class and spec. For whatever reason, the huntard label sticks, partly because there are a lot of hunters out there. The larger the overall population pool, the more huntards there are, even if the proportion of 'tards' is the same as every other class.

As far as getting a raid spot. I don't think it's really much different than any other class. You need to find a guild and become a known entity that can produce. That usually takes time no matter what. The higher content you go into, it may become harder and harder to get recruited, but the pyrimidal structure of weeding people out makes this true of most classes anyway.



Edited, Aug 11th 2008 3:04pm by azwing

You must be raiding a different Hyjal than my guild is, or your strategy is a lot different.



That's not my experience at all. The mages and warlocks do huge dps in the AoE trash pulls. But, the hunters (all BM) in the raid (myself included) catch up on the bosses, big time.

Maybe it has to do with raid composition, I don't know. We usually run Hyjal with a pally tank that collects everything and the AoE goes to town. The hunters are usually assisting the off-tank on the Necromancers.