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Written by Shane Fenham

Sunday, 13 April 2008

by ShaneFenham

In World of Warcraft Hunters are the specialist wild beast tamers. They are supreme in all outdoor survival skills and talents. Their use of ranged weapons makes them supreme marksmen. Their outdoor mastery includes the use of pets to fight at their side and tracking of various units so they can either attack or defend with high precision. They also have the ability to melee fight if the need arises, and can set a range of traps to immobilize enemies. And to access even more abilities they can also assume the aspect of beasts like the hawk and the monkey.

1. Ranged weapon specialization is their best talent, even more so than their pet taming. The projectiles include 4 different types of stings that cause a debuff effect on targets causing great damage. They also have shots like Arcane Shot, Auto Shot and later in levels Steady Shot.

2. Melee combat: Hunters can melee fight but not as well as other tanking classes. But it comes in handy when the target is too close too shoot at, or if the pet is otherwise engaged or stunned.

3. Combat pets the most important tool in their arsenal giving the hunter additional damage per second and tanking support as well as maintaining aggro received to a minimum.

4. Traps: Hunter can use up to 5 traps at their disposal for crowd control, and to mete out damage. Traps have a cool down period of 30 seconds though once one is set another can be set up right after. Traps include:

Freezing Trap - freezes approaching enemies.

Frost Trap - Slows enemies up to 60% in area where trap is set.

Immolation Trap - Burns enemies over 15 sec period.

Explosive Trap - Explodes as enemy approaches causing fire damage.

5. Aspects Hunters assume up to seven aspects gained as part of the "beast mastery" tree that grant special abilities, such as increased dodge, improved running speed, or even additional nature resistance. The seven available hunter aspects are:

Aspect of the Monkey: This can increase the chance to dodge by 8%.

- Aspect of the Hawk: Increases "ranged" attack by "x" amount depending on level.

Aspect of the Cheetah: Can speed up the hunter speed by 30% but can also daze him for 4 seconds if suffering damage.

Aspect of the Beast: Allows hunters to become undetectable.

- Aspect of the Pack: The hunter and his/her group take on the characteristics of a pack of cheetahs, increasing all their movement speeds by 30%. If a pack member takes damage, they will be dazed for 4 sec.

Aspect of the Wild: The Hunter and group assume the aspect of the wilderness, gaining +X resistance to nature damage.

- Aspect of the Viper: Regenerates mana equal to 55% of his intellect every 5 seconds

6. Tracking Can track 8 types of creatures or items in the game. Only one can be acive at a time. Type of beings they can track are: Beasts, Humanoids, Undead, Hidden, Elementals, Demons, Giants, and Dragonkin.

All the above abilities in this short world of warcraft hunter guide point to the hunter as being a powerful class if you like to play solo. In groups it is also very useful thanks to the aspects abilities which can benefit the whole group. All in all hunters are very popular thanks to having a pet which add to their DPS, and ranged weapon expertise that allow them to pick off enemies super fast allowing them to complete quest quickly as well as grinding quickly resulting with fast levelling. No wonder then, that many power levelling guides like to use a hunters to demonstrate how to get to level 70 as fast as possible.

About the Author:

James Ross is a currently active World of Warcraft player and guides buff as well as webmaster of the World of Warcraft Guides site.