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1. Are hunters a really expensive class to play because of the cost of arrows? No, arrows are not expensive especialy at the lower levels and they come in stacks of 200 so you dont find that runnign out is a issue unless you are careless

2. Do most of you fletch and is that hard? No, currently their is no way to fletch arrows, they must all be purchased from vendors

3. Is this a good class to start with? Yes,Hunters are affordable chars, since the pet takes most of the dammage(idealy) you are not stuck with huge repair bills, and hunters are one of the best solo folks in the game... so you have time to make freinds and connections

4. Can you have a good hunter build without a pet? I mean without concentrating too much on the pet at all? realisticly ..No, the min range on guns/bows makes not having a pet almost impossible(they are so intatgrated to the char)you pet is fun i cant immigin not wanting it... you can dismiss it and walk arround without it..but in a fight it would be silly to not have it.

5. I want to be a hunter for the cool factor, so I dont want to use guns. . . will that make me gimped? Well i use guns and i am super cool but you dont have to,guns/xbows/bows have close to the same Dammage so not using one or the other wont kill ya or make ya godly. Note you asked about Fletching and brought up guns, you cannot fletch but you can make bullets so guns have alittle advantage that curretnly a hunter or freind that has engenering can make bullets better than any vendor in the game can sell, before long (according to a bliz post) their will be a vendor that will trade the gun users wonderfull super shot in for a comprable arrow.


Yes join the hunter ranks and enjoy... bows do look cool and make less noise, but i love my guns(looks cool to be a NE with a gun)

One thing to be added:

You can respec anytime, just go to a hunter trainer and for a payment you can get back all talentpoints and redistribute. But with each time you do that the cost for it goes up.

The only thing I'd add/clarify (my comrades above did marvelous ^_^ ) is in regards to your pet and talent points I'd recomend putting points in hp's at least. The 10% hp increase may not seem much but when they have 1500 hps its very helpful =)

lol, so funny, i was a lvl 55 DRG on ffxi too, and the only reason i quit is cause my cousin played WoW. I am so glad i did. ffxi took FOREVER to do anything. So annoying. I ended up giving some guy my dual sniper rings, my valk mask, my leaping boots, and 48,000 gil haha. Lucky him.

kinda off topic but like im gonna get the game pretty soon and was gonna be a hunter. does it take a long to build up skills in weapons cus i was gonna be dwarve hunter but i wanna be all around using guns but once in a while, use a bow.

K IMO I personally think that you should go with a different class atm. Sure hunters are a great class to play and easy at fact, they dont cost as much as you would think but atm there are so many bugs with Hunters. Also hunters are not a needed class in End Game areas we will always be passed on over another class from my experiances.



Heres a Thread i think you should check out before you jump into the Hunter class ATM I'm a 60 hunter and I love playing my hunter but if i could i would glady trade my char for a Priest or Mage or something more usefull in End Game Instances.