Hunting SoloFollow

Not many classes can kill stuff as fast or efficiently as a hunter in full plow mode. Spec really isnt giong to be a big deal for you if all you do is farm and grind out dailys. I would suggest cat or other ferocity pet to make this go faster. They have the talent that heals them as they do damage.

The best way is to simply send pet and auto attack. When first mobs dies, send pet after second, loot skin, kill pets target. Rinse, Repeat. I would really not worry about a rotation or anything like that for this kind of killing. Just melt faces, this does go faster if you try not to pull things off your pet. Hence letting your pet beat on somehting while you defile the corpse you just killed.

Another way is get a gorilla, or bear. Bears can aoe tank 3 things. Gorillas can aoe tank 20 things.... |This is what i use when farming leather in Nagrand. Send gorilla after Talbuk after talbuk. (use just thinderstomp) after you have about 8 of them, aoe them down, loot, skin, do it again.

For just a grind/solo play the exotic pet talent is alright. You may want to try out leaving the final BM talent and putting a point into GftT to help with pets focus while blowing things up.

This is how i grind and i can do all of QD in about 30 minutes. and farm several leather stacks in an hour or so.

As a 70 hunter there is nothing farm worthy that should be giving you a rough time. Both of you seemed concerned with pet specs. A respec is 10 silver. Try some stuff out. As for not even speccing your pet yet due to waiting to see a good pet spec, that is just lazy.

If you played the class to 70 then you should know how the mechancis work. The hunter is not a difficult class. My dps pet specced for raid dps with ZERO survivabilty talents, except 1 Point in BM tree, and a point or 2 to reduce aoe effects, never comes close to dying. Even doing the netherwing dailys in the cave. And those are some of the harder hitting trash mobs.

Also, it seems people are afraid to try different things. You play the class too, test stuff out. I am seeing a lot of posts "what should i do now!" You dont need us to tell you what is best. All we have is a general clue about how things are working out. Go try things, go play to have fun. You dont need one of the regulars here to validate what you are doing is right. Start thinking for yourselves. Especially all you farmers and people who dont raid hardcore.

I am a raider, So is Mulgrin, Aethien, Midnight, Sloshot, Enigma, and several others. We can tell you how to maximize your raid output, and what is best for raids and raw damage. Until you get to the T5 and up level though, that really isnt too important. The class is meant to be fun. If you dont like a spec, or a pet, or some talent points then dont use them. |So all these posts about, what is a good grinding spec, what is a good grinding pet spec, i want to farm faster! Figure stuff out. The talents are very self explanitory. Not to mention there is a ****-ton of posts already discuccing most of the controversial talents and their uses.

Ok rant off, sorry.

Whoa Whoa Whoa. Easy there killer.

The point of my post was not to make fun of, or downgrade the fun side of WoW. We have a few facts to face here.

#1 Soloing/grinding is easy. It does not take a great amount of skill or knowledge of the class to do it. You can run around with a hodge-podge of specs, Aspect of the beast on and melee every mob and you will still kill and grind extremely fast.

#2 Raiding is the "End Game". So deal with it, everythign in WoW prepares people for end game. Raiding or PvP. Instances, Badge gear, Heroics, BG's, all of this prepares and gears players to be raiders/arena'ers.

#3 The simple fact is that raiding takes more skill and know-how than farming, or leveling, or grinding. An expierienced raider, who reads up on his class, gears properly, specs properly will wipe the floor with a "casual player" in every aspect of the game. That is the way wow was made. So ******* excuse me if the mojority of us here want to better out character and we focus on the final product more than the grind, or the leveling, or the farming. I could hand my wife my character and she could farm just fine having never played before.

This is not meant to bash casual players, or people who cant raid. If you take it that way then oh well, sorry. This is meant to explain why several of us here put so much emphasis on being the best. Because that "perfect" raid spec can mean the difference between a kill and a wipe. The extra 100 dps you could put out can be enough to get past that last 1% and get the boss down. Those that raid and have wiped at 1% or 0% know what i am saying. If only you could have kept your pet alive a little longer! If only you had used the right shot rotation. If only you hadnt gotten stomped by that cleave cuz you are a meleetard!

And this is why I will do more and test more to help a raider than a "casual Player". it is the part of the game that i know best. North said once that he could level a hunter from 1-70 with no spec. He is absolutely right, leveling and playing a hunter is one of the easiest thigns to do in WoW. Being top DPS in BT, Hyjal, T5, T4 content takes work and more skill than farming, or grinding. Not a better player, just a different kind of player.

So if you want a good leveling spec then make one up, ask us what we think. but dont expect me to throw together a good grinding spec. Dps doesnt really matter when the toughest thing you fight has 8k health.

Dont Appoogize dude. You said nothign wrong, you did nothing wrong. It is a free forum. And as long as you enjoy WoW and enjoy your class that is all that matters. With wrath coming out a lot will be changing soon. However before it comes out keep in mind that kara is only 2 hours at the most anymore. A good guild can clear kara with only one tank in an hour or so. Even the dreaded ZA is not a big deal anymore. A lot of these 10 man raids can be pugged now with some sucess. I am not saying you will get to ZulJin in ZA but you can see some of it. Do what you can do and dont feel sorry if Real Life comes first. My raid time has been severely cut down since i got married. And you know what, i dont regret that one bit.

As long as people do a little homework and then ask for help i will continue to offer as much help as i can, with only the occasional snide remark.

Hydro

You are fine for kara. Nowadays all you need for kara is 1 tank, and 2 healers. Leaving room for 7 dps which helps a lot. That along with the boss nerf makes kara a very short easy 22 badges.

Just remember:
*spam steady shot, thats all
*use BW, Rapid fire, Trinket Kill Command all at the same time to make the most use out fo them.
*Growl off.
*bring enough ammo, pots, food

Hopefully a few good drops will fall for you and you will get some nice upgrades. Good luck.