An easy question for levelingFollow

I am aware that agility is an asset to hunters at any level but what would be better for me to try to build up between Int and stam. I don't get damaged much if at all and therefor don't need much health IMO. I was Just wondering if it would be better for me to build a mana pool rather than try to build up my HP. Thanks for the advice guys!

Bah I suppose it would be good to mention my lvl as well. I just dinged forty on my hunter and am currently rolling MM spec. My Armory

Edited, Mar 13th 2009 1:32pm by Abolaster

Ya it seems that at the moment I have to use viper in order to get my mana back every fourth/fifth kill which I would like to extend that window a bit. That aside how would you recommend I balance stam/int/agi at the lower levels to have an easier time leveling?

Ha! Thank you very much!

Although Stam is nice for HP, if you aren't getting hit too much (and shouldn't, unless like KD said you mis-pull: which in that case... FD and let your pet die IMO) then that isn't an important stat. Mechanics have changed since I leveled my hunter, but I would try to get mail pieces while leveling. Leather has good Agi and AP, but doesn't include Int. Since you are MM and have focused aim, each Int point is also an AP point- and Int also helps your skill-ups for weapons. In general though I wouldn't worry about acquiring certain items, just take what is available to you via quests or the occasional instance you run. The main focus is to burn through those levels, and items will get replaced often. If you are a LW, then you can always make armor kits to help boost your Stam a bit that doesn't hit the pocketbook.

This is false and largely irrelevant, since you generally shouldn't have any trouble at all keeping skills capped while leveling.

Skilling up weapons is like skilling up fishing, it's largely a binary effect of "Must make at least X many attempts before skillup is possible" and the number represented by X steadily goes up every level.

Yes.. and no. I do know Blizzard changed the tooltip about Int. I also know since that change, there has been tons of debates on whether Int really effects skill-ups. Here is a link where someone did some testing trying to prove Int does still help: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9336627013&sid=1&pageNo=1
And from WOWwiki: http://www.wowwiki.com/Intellect#Intellect
(I'm not saying this is totally accurate or listing these as credible links, just saying that there is some debate on Int still). So it may be false and I am sorry I posted it as absolute truth, but it does still seem to affect weapon skills.

As to skill up being a largely binary effect- yes and no. It is also based on your level versus the level of your weapon skill. The rate at LEVEL 80 which you learn weapon skills at say 200-205 is quicker than when you would learn them at 40.

Weapon skill isn't irrelevant.. anytime. I try to level as many different weapons as I can during a level because of the variety of what hunters can use. At the minimum you should try to keep all three ranged weapon skills maxed- it sucks when at 80 you get the nice shiny Naxx gun and you are only sitting at 350 from level 70. Yes you can level it at that time and that is a personal preference.

edit: bolded

Edited, Mar 15th 2009 12:58pm by browningguns

It's an irrelevant point to gear for Intellect for the sake of skilling weapons (assuming it did help, which I still don't believe it does :P), because as you said yourself, you can just swap weapons around a bit while leveling and easily keep them all capped. Int is still good to have on your gear for the other reasons you stated, but it'd be about like mentioning the spellcrit increase...in the grand scheme as relevant to the class at hand, it doesn't matter, though still factually accurate :P