Hi there venerable hunters.
I have a lvl 70 Druid who will remain my main going into WOTLK. However I am thinking of taking 2 manufacturing professions and raising an alt to farm mats for them.
Since I have a hunter in the mid 40s I was thinking of getting him levelled up and using him for this purpose. A hunter seems like the way to go for the whole "drop pet on mobs, mine/pick flowers, run away" approach but I am open to other class suggestions.
Is there a recommended spec for farming with a hunter? Obviously not having to drink/eat a lot would eb a big bonus, so would focus more on longevity than massive DPS.
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a small change to the typical cookie cutter build would probably do you well:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/hunter/talents.html?tal=0520300152501205310510505201205000000000000000000000000000000000
This gives you thick hide to increase your pets armor since he will be taking a beating while you are playing in the flowers.
You can get around not having animal handler if you just pick up a riding crop once you get to a high enough level.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/hunter/talents.html?tal=0520300152501205310510505201205000000000000000000000000000000000
This gives you thick hide to increase your pets armor since he will be taking a beating while you are playing in the flowers.
You can get around not having animal handler if you just pick up a riding crop once you get to a high enough level.
Animal handler is more than just a mounted speed increase. Its biggest advantage is that it increases your pet's chance to hit by 4%. This is the ONLY way to increase your pet's chance to hit. There are no potions, buffs, armor items, etc. that grant this.
I suggest following the beast mastery cookie cutter build for farming. If you'll not take him into any instances or battlegrounds once you get to 70, then there's a few tweaks to your gear you might consider:
You need not get much of any +hit. You'll be facing level 72s at the worst and not many of those. So don't bother with any more than aroud +75.
You won't be in a party so you can't count on my buffs. Go for +attack power over +agility.
Edited, Aug 20th 2008 9:39am by ItsaGaAs
I suggest following the beast mastery cookie cutter build for farming. If you'll not take him into any instances or battlegrounds once you get to 70, then there's a few tweaks to your gear you might consider:
You need not get much of any +hit. You'll be facing level 72s at the worst and not many of those. So don't bother with any more than aroud +75.
You won't be in a party so you can't count on my buffs. Go for +attack power over +agility.
Edited, Aug 20th 2008 9:39am by ItsaGaAs
I was thinking of going with a standard ish BM build without Improved Aspect of the hawk, since I'll be running with Viper on most of the time I expect.
dcushley wrote:
Hi there venerable hunters.
I have a lvl 70 Druid who will remain my main going into WOTLK. However I am thinking of taking 2 manufacturing professions and raising an alt to farm mats for them.
Since I have a hunter in the mid 40s I was thinking of getting him levelled up and using him for this purpose. A hunter seems like the way to go for the whole "drop pet on mobs, mine/pick flowers, run away" approach but I am open to other class suggestions.
Is there a recommended spec for farming with a hunter? Obviously not having to drink/eat a lot would eb a big bonus, so would focus more on longevity than massive DPS.
I have a lvl 70 Druid who will remain my main going into WOTLK. However I am thinking of taking 2 manufacturing professions and raising an alt to farm mats for them.
Since I have a hunter in the mid 40s I was thinking of getting him levelled up and using him for this purpose. A hunter seems like the way to go for the whole "drop pet on mobs, mine/pick flowers, run away" approach but I am open to other class suggestions.
Is there a recommended spec for farming with a hunter? Obviously not having to drink/eat a lot would eb a big bonus, so would focus more on longevity than massive DPS.
The biggest downside to using a hunter as a farming toon is their smaller inventory. Hunters have to carry around ammo and that means less space for farming junk.
Rogues are good farmers. Fast dps means mobs go down fast. Also with mining/herb nodes they can vanish if there's a problem. My rogue is a better miner than my hunter. Most of the time you have to kill the mobs anyways. Rogues have the best advantage against other players trying to steal your nodes. If I'm fighting a mob near a node and someone comes along to take it I vanish and let the mob agro them. Then I take the node and do a /wave.
However hunters are great at soloing and they can farm instances better than other toons. With pets and feign death they can handle a lot more than any other class. I would definitely go with a BM spec.
'MentalFrog' wrote:
Rogues have the best advantage against other players trying to steal your nodes. If I'm fighting a mob near a node and someone comes along to take it I vanish and let the mob agro them. Then I take the node and do a /wave.
In that situation my roommate's pallys shield goes flying and he drags the 15 mobs he's fighting right on top of the node. A few minutes later the person trying to steal it tends to get bored and walk off when they realize he won't die.
Thanks for the opinions so far, very helpful.
The biggest downside to using a hunter as a farming toon is their smaller inventory. Hunters have to carry around ammo and that means less space for farming junk.
Rogues are good farmers. Fast dps means mobs go down fast. Also with mining/herb nodes they can vanish if there's a problem. My rogue is a better miner than my hunter. Most of the time you have to kill the mobs anyways. Rogues have the best advantage against other players trying to steal your nodes. If I'm fighting a mob near a node and someone comes along to take it I vanish and let the mob agro them. Then I take the node and do a /wave.
However hunters are great at soloing and they can farm instances better than other toons. With pets and feign death they can handle a lot more than any other class. I would definitely go with a BM spec.
This had occurred to me, but I will be able to go with at least all 18 slots straight out the gate, and wont have to really carry anything but an ammo bag and some water.
Also hunters seem really good for farming up primals/primal equivalents and murdering crowds on NPCs, not just for picking flowers/mining.
OK so the spec will just be a tweaked BM, what about gear? Do I want to go with the normal stats for DPS, or focus more on Mana/Mana regen (or is AotV good enough to not bother with this?)
MentalFrog wrote:
The biggest downside to using a hunter as a farming toon is their smaller inventory. Hunters have to carry around ammo and that means less space for farming junk.
Rogues are good farmers. Fast dps means mobs go down fast. Also with mining/herb nodes they can vanish if there's a problem. My rogue is a better miner than my hunter. Most of the time you have to kill the mobs anyways. Rogues have the best advantage against other players trying to steal your nodes. If I'm fighting a mob near a node and someone comes along to take it I vanish and let the mob agro them. Then I take the node and do a /wave.
However hunters are great at soloing and they can farm instances better than other toons. With pets and feign death they can handle a lot more than any other class. I would definitely go with a BM spec.
This had occurred to me, but I will be able to go with at least all 18 slots straight out the gate, and wont have to really carry anything but an ammo bag and some water.
Also hunters seem really good for farming up primals/primal equivalents and murdering crowds on NPCs, not just for picking flowers/mining.
OK so the spec will just be a tweaked BM, what about gear? Do I want to go with the normal stats for DPS, or focus more on Mana/Mana regen (or is AotV good enough to not bother with this?)
dcushley wrote:
Thanks for the opinions so far, very helpful.
The biggest downside to using a hunter as a farming toon is their smaller inventory. Hunters have to carry around ammo and that means less space for farming junk.
Rogues are good farmers. Fast dps means mobs go down fast. Also with mining/herb nodes they can vanish if there's a problem. My rogue is a better miner than my hunter. Most of the time you have to kill the mobs anyways. Rogues have the best advantage against other players trying to steal your nodes. If I'm fighting a mob near a node and someone comes along to take it I vanish and let the mob agro them. Then I take the node and do a /wave.
However hunters are great at soloing and they can farm instances better than other toons. With pets and feign death they can handle a lot more than any other class. I would definitely go with a BM spec.
This had occurred to me, but I will be able to go with at least all 18 slots straight out the gate, and wont have to really carry anything but an ammo bag and some water.
Also hunters seem really good for farming up primals/primal equivalents and murdering crowds on NPCs, not just for picking flowers/mining.
OK so the spec will just be a tweaked BM, what about gear? Do I want to go with the normal stats for DPS, or focus more on Mana/Mana regen (or is AotV good enough to not bother with this?)
MentalFrog wrote:
The biggest downside to using a hunter as a farming toon is their smaller inventory. Hunters have to carry around ammo and that means less space for farming junk.
Rogues are good farmers. Fast dps means mobs go down fast. Also with mining/herb nodes they can vanish if there's a problem. My rogue is a better miner than my hunter. Most of the time you have to kill the mobs anyways. Rogues have the best advantage against other players trying to steal your nodes. If I'm fighting a mob near a node and someone comes along to take it I vanish and let the mob agro them. Then I take the node and do a /wave.
However hunters are great at soloing and they can farm instances better than other toons. With pets and feign death they can handle a lot more than any other class. I would definitely go with a BM spec.
This had occurred to me, but I will be able to go with at least all 18 slots straight out the gate, and wont have to really carry anything but an ammo bag and some water.
Also hunters seem really good for farming up primals/primal equivalents and murdering crowds on NPCs, not just for picking flowers/mining.
OK so the spec will just be a tweaked BM, what about gear? Do I want to go with the normal stats for DPS, or focus more on Mana/Mana regen (or is AotV good enough to not bother with this?)
When it comes to farming then mana isn't all that important. DPS is. Usually farming means you're fighting mobs and content just under your level. This means you're not having long fights. On all of my toons, hunter, rogue, spriest and even my prot warrior I have very little down time while farming. On my rogue and warrior I do have to sit and eat or bandage once in a while. However on my mana toons, hunter and spriest, I can farm non stop forever without stopping for a single drink to regen, except when I get a rather large crowd of mobs.
For farming with a hunter I'll usually send in my pet and dps from afar. I don't usually use a lot of mana shots. After the mob dies I send my pet after another one. While my pet is dps-ing it down and building agro I'll loot & skin the previous mob. Then I'll help my pet finish it off. Rinse & repeat. Heal pet once in a while and that's about it. Can go for long stretches doing that.
When it comes down to it though farming is pretty boring. When I farm I prefer to mix it up a bit most the time. I'll kill an area of mobs for a bit then run somewhere else. Sometimes I'll throw in a solo instance here and there. Unless I need a specific drop then I'll do this. It's not as efficient but it's not as boring and tedious.
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