Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.
Anywho, I’m creating a hunter and it’s still in the crappy shadowlands leveling area until it goes to Stormwind. But I’m not hating it or going zomg dis iz so gud! (leveled a hunter many many moons ago, so things have of course changed and making a new hunter on a different server and of course on ze Alliance)
Anyone who mains a hunter or those who have one as an alt. What are you thoughts & opinions of them. Of course we all know the memes and such of hunter players and how bad they are. However, jokes aside… are they decent in PvP as well?
I’ve seen the dps meters for raids and keys up to 25s and they’re fine, but there isn’t much they bring to the table in terms of utility. So do you think it’s worth the time investment, especially considering Dark Ranger sounds fun and no idea how that may turn out.
A class that can do both melee and ranged dps, tame pets, move around while doing ranged dps. I mean that’s pretty cool and fun, whatever anyone else tells you. Besides, proving stereotypes wrong is always fun.
I leveled one recently, and it was very relaxed. Being able to do everything (as BM) while moving is lovely and was a nice change of pace. Having pets is neat, makes solo playing a little less lonely feeling, but they also have some downsides (you need to learn where you have to dismiss them and where they’ll jump down with you so you don’t pull extra groups in some dungeons).
For a main character I prefer to be able to fill more than one role, but then again, I haven’t healed much on this evoker. For keys, especially higher ones, hunters aren’t all that sought after (like most non-meta dps specs), but they bring BL/heroism. Not much group utility, no short interrupt, no AoE stuns/interrupts/silences, though, and they can’t help with some of the affixes, which are the downsides.
But I wouldn’t let that stop me. You pay for playing this game (both with money and time), so play something you enjoy. It is a game, nothing we do here is really permanent or unchangeable. It’s why I mostly play Devastation Evoker and not Augmentation Evoker.
Hunters are absolutely fine until 25 as you said it but don’t expect an invite over Fmage or Aug after that. If you’re not pushing beyond that then it really doesn’t matter. They are an incredible class otherwise.
this is not a hunter problem, you could say the same about warrior, DKs, Windwalker monks basically any other non meta class
hunter is unique, and fun.
chill to play
no stress and its fun to find rare pets in the world. ive been hunting a few for the past few years still waiting on spawns
I’m more of melee guy but I like the melee ranger concept.
However I just don’t like the skills aesthetics of survival, it’s all over the place, green colors, red, yellow… yuck.
The rotation too is not my cup of tea. But otherwise if you’re looking for a pure range experience, they’re a solid choice.
I have fun playing BM. It feels like playing melee (in that you can run round constantly), but you get to play from range. Plus you get to tame cool pets. Also (and I think this is very much underrated), in mythic plus, you can use feign death to avoid certain targeted mechanics altogether. I’ve been playing ret pala in keys lately, and although my pala has tons of resources to survive targeted mechanics, I really miss being able to drop them altogether and just get back to dpsing.
maybe try somewhere else.
Pet hunting is chill detour enjoyment content!