So... I'm leveling my hunter (again)...Follow

What's new in the hunter world of leveling? BM still the best, or is SV better?

What kind of pet should one be looking at for pure soloing?

Just a guess, but I'm guessing BM is still the best (due to pet being able to keep hate), and that pet is kinda personal preference.

The pet choices are just a bit overwhelming now, as opposed to back when I was leveling my first hunter.

Back then, it was Boar or GTFO.

BM and Gorilla or gfto.

Or, since you're going to be PvPing anyway, use a crab so you won't have to level one from 75-80 before you can seriously start PvPing.

Nothing holds aggro at all vs Survival, but crabs have charge and Pin, couple that with concussive, disengage and scatter shot and stuff won't hurt you anyway unless you try to solo elites that can't be kited.

Orcs are without doubt the single best race for a hunter for both PvE and PvP.

Blood elves might have a silence but it has a crucial weakness:

The only class/spec I see it being useful against is death knights and retadins.
And while retadins **** me up bigtime, DK's are in general easily kited as long as you save disengage for Deathgrips.

Orcs have Blood Fury to help burst down someone, because unlike all the whiners claim it's not like we can actually just kill anyone whenever we feel like it. (Explosive shot hit me for 5k per tick, SRSLY! )
15% shorter stuns is great no matter what, +5% pet damage never hurts and +5 expertise with axes, however trivial it might be still helps to avoid your wing clip being dodged/parried. (assuming you get to 2k+ rating and get PvP weapons, although the SoH axes aren't bad stuff for PvP either because of the stam they have)

It's debatable, IMO.

Not the PvE part, the PvP part.

Either way I was stupid and rolled a BE, and he's 62, so I don't feel like going back and rerolling for a minor change like a racial.

Actually, no.
It's bugged and does crap damage with steady shots last time I checked.

I've been leveling as SV with a bear (I was level 62, so I didn't feel like getting a gorilla that was 5 levels below me), and it's going well.

I must say I like the SV style of play much more than the BM. I have to be a little careful with Explosive Shot, but other than that it's been fun.

Multiple CC is a blast, BTW.

That's some great levelling, i guess I need to read up more..or did you mean you got 70 in 4 hours (instead of 80). But you mentioned Northrend. I'm in Northrend several hours and still just hovering at 71-72 levels, that includes rested exp!

Anyway, I also wanted to read up more on the hunter. My lowbie hunter wants to learn more about which spec and abilities people are using nowadays, since it has changed quite a bit.

I'm good at leveling in general I will tell you there no way you can go from levels 68 to 80 in 4 hours. So I believe he just mistype and probably meant 68 to 70.