Why do people make fun of hunters?Follow

I could pick on a few locks. Like the time this lock kept DOTTING up my sheep targets. And they were marked with a big red X for DONT ******* ATTACK IT! Or the Lock that felt his Blueberry could out-tank a protection war. That was funny. Ive never seen a lock use so many soulshards on one mob.

The lock that thought he was a mage. He insisted that i dont sheep anything and that Seduce was more viable for CC than sheep. The lock who only learned instant cast spells from the trainer. "Its too expensive to train all of the spells, so i only got the instant cast ones." He was lvl 54. The lock who always Soulstoned the wrong person. " HAI GUYZ I SSED WAR." The lock who didnt train SS. The lock who refuses to Summon anyone. ( ok all us locks refuse to summon anyone)

Hmm Pick on War time.

Sheild? 1hander? Taunt? "hai guys i dont tank im fury spec" ZOMG I USE WHILRWIND NEXT TO SHEEPED ANGRY GUY. Sadly thats all i can think of for them.

Mages: Sheep things. DPS too much. Die. Ive not ran into mages who do retarded stuff outside of too much DPS.

Rogues: ZOMG my dee pee ess meter shows me at #3 on the list.. must.. DEE PEE ESS.. MORE.... outside of this, i have yet to run into retarded rogues, outside of their personality. STOP JUMPING... Yea im talking to you NELF rogues.

Pally: I can heal? I thought i was tank LOL. HAI GUYS I DIDNT LEARN REDEMPTION LAWL!

The list can go on.. But sadly Hunters take the cake, they roll need on it. They dont share.

For my Anetheron buddies: Chainsaw from Reign. He's why people make fun of hunters.

If a hunter pulls and the warior can't figure out how to grab aggro, it's the warrior who can't play their class well.

I think that Blizz could eliminate the whole "hunters are bad" thing by improving the pet pathing AI. They should have the pet follow you no matter what, even if you jump off a ledge to your death.

IMO, people just get too picky about group make-up pre-60. I have run all-DPS (no tank, no healing) groups successfully many times. My favorite was a SM group we had with 2 rogues, 2 mages, and me. We farmed SM all night, without a wipe (mage food & water to keep us healed up). It isn't until the 10-man instances and up where you really start narrowing down each classes role in a group.

Pet classes have a steep learning curve for instances. With a lock or hunter, you are watching not just yourself, but what your pet is doing. This is not easy in a close environment with mobs and your party all bunched up in a small area. To start, you really need to understand the pet AI. Different types of hunter pets will do different things. My boar pet, while engaged with one mob, will do its charge attack to a mob on me to pull it off me, and then go back to the mob it was already fighting, all without me telling it to do anything where a cat pet will just keep attacking the first mob.

One thing I didn't see mentioned --

Hunter was the last class added before the game was released. Closed Beta players played all the way to blue L60 without them. When they were added they were seen as the less useful solo class.

Then there is the problem of Hunters rolling on loot that would be far more beneficial to a melee class. While having a good solid weapon is important for a Hunter, they all (even a melee one) does the majority of their DPS w/ ranged. Rogues, Warriors and Paladins do ALL of their damage w/ their melee weapons ... Hunters need stat weapons and get little benefit out of procs, but many don't realize that.

Then there is the fact that many of them roll the class to solo. Many players who solo almost exclusively do so because they dont WANT to get along w/ a group.

Having said all of that - there are a ton of GOOD hunters out there. There are Hunters that know their role and do it with extreme precision. I would take a Hunter as a third to finish off any PvP trio, and I'd take a GOOD hunter over just about any other DPS to fill a 5th spot in just about any situation.

Pulling with multishot is stupid, you don't want any damage on the links. A simple serpent sting is what i usually use to pull. The tank then charges/intercepts the tagged mob, and then demorlazing shout/thunder clap to grab the links. Throw in a challenging shout for the overzealous DPSers, on to the next group to pull.

I think part that annoys me most as a hunter is the PRESUMPTION that I suck. Yes, I've made mistakes in my playing past - everyone has. So why is the tank taking 15 min lecturing me on how to play my class (I'm not talking about discussing pulling strats - which you should always do, I'm talking he seems to aasume that I just purchased my 60 hunter and have no idea how to play) before we even start the instance. I also don't like to be told my equipment needs. I know what I need and what's an upgrade. Thats the number one reason I don't do PuGs. If I can't get a guild group, I'll solo farm rep somewhere or BG.

Hunter heavy parties are fun. We ran LBRS with 4 hunters and a priest once. Kinda sucks for loot - 4 people with nearly identical needs, but theyre a great deal of fun. Priest made out like a bandit as I recall.

Sorry, but you're wrong. As a tank and a priest, I can tell you that when a hunter pulls and it's multiple mobs, it's pretty hard getting all of the aggro. Especially if you're at zero rage. Blood rage will not give you enough rage to grab aggro from +3 mobs. That's why I'd rather charge in and thunderclap when doing something like Stratholme. I don't trust pullers, the reason why, is because you make a tanks job harder, the priest pays for it, and both get blamed while hunters feign death.

Don't try to blame things on other classes. This is one reason why people who play hunters are disliked.

Wow, misunderstand much?

Simplified - when a 30 hunter was my only character EVER, i knew little about the class and even less about others. Took me about 3 weeks to get to level 30. SM was in a part of the world I had never been to, and i knew nothing about it. I knew of no websites that had guides, and read no forums. I doubt that I was the only person like that. Hell, I know I'm not, because most lower level people I help have never even heard of thottbot or alla.

As a 60 hunter, i know a lot about my class, and a good bit about other classes as well. I have several other characters, and I know what stats benefit who, who wears and uses what, etc. I am bringing up a priest and I know what gear I want, where I want to quest, what instances I want to do and what my job is in them. (Not going into gnomer - nope)

What does that have to do with you?

I said I knew how to play my class at 30. You was saying nobody else did/does.

There are many, many skillful and experienced Hunters out there, no doubt.

Regardless, Tauren Hunters have spelled doom for my groups more often than all other other race/class combination COMBINED ever have.

I don't feel it's fair for hunters to be able to play in everyone elses sand box, without the opposite also being true.

In other words, if hunters are allowed to roll against melee classes for melee weapons (for their stats, etc), then melee classes should be able to roll against hunters on ranged weapons (for their stats, etc).

If you want to play in our sand box, you have to let us play in yours...

Of course, hunters wouldn't hear of it. Only hunters can roll need on ranged weapons, and yet they can also roll need on melee weapons if the stats are beneficial.

Just doesn't seem right.

That comment is such a farce. I'll explain why I say this.

If a hunter is in a party with other classes, then loot rules should be common sense. If a ranged weapon drops that is a significant upgrade for the hunter, then he should have first say in whether he wants it or not. However, if it's not a significant upgrade for the hunter, then it should go to whichever class can use ranged weapons, provided it's a significant upgrade for them. However, if it's a significant upgrade for nobody, then most groups would Greed it, or if it was a BoP, disenchant it & roll for the shard.

Hunters can, and sometimes must, do melee on occasion. A good hunter avoids this as much as possible. However, melee weapons can have stats that are important to hunters, such as agility, intellect and stamina. Hunters use the stats from these to improve their ranged attacks- and ranged attacks is what hunters do in groups. However, the amount of times a rogue or warrior do ranged DPS over time is minimal at best- perhaps a shot or two to pull mobs. They don't need a ranged weapon anywhere near as much as hunters do.

The argument about hunters needing on every item is unfortunate. I look at it this way- if a melee weapon has stats that benefit a warrior, he should Need it. If it's something that has stats that benefits a rogue, he should Need it. If it's a weapon that has stats that benefits a hunter, he should see if it's a significant upgrade for the people that would use it more (i.e., the warrior or rogue). If not, then he should need it. It's rather unfortunate that rogues and hunters want the same agility items. However, common sense would suggest that since a hunter wants people to respect his primary right to any ranged weapon, he should respect melee-based classes' rights to melee weapons.

It's not that Hunters have no right to melee weapons- they just need to consider melee classes first. If I pass on a melee weapon and a warrior or rogue turns around and Needs on a ranged weapon that would be an upgrade for me, he's getting kicked, slagged off and put on permanent ignore. A note will go on my personal scorecard reminding me why I will never roll with that player again, and I'll let anyone who asks me about my opinion know they're not a team player.

Edited, Sep 29th 2006 at 12:11pm PDT by Wondroustremor