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Fast leveling, easy to play, a big critter as you comapnion… These are some of the things that make the World of Warcraft Hunter one of the, if not THE, most popular class in the game.

The main ability that defines the Hunter is her pet. Almost any class can use a bow or gun, and Warlocks get a certain set of demons to pick from, but Hunters can tame and work with practically any critter in the game. Cats, bears, boars, crabs, Thunderhawks, Bats, Owls, and more, there’s a pretty long list of critters to pick from.

While any critter has it’s advantages, besides the coolness factor, I’m going to suggest you pick from bears, boars, or cats. Bears can really soak the damage, cats don’t soak as well, but they dish it out better, and the boar can take some punishment and has a nifty charge ability. That charge ability has additional uses in certain situations, such as PvP (Player Vs Player.)

When you hit the Hunter trainer always make sure you hit the Pet Trainer as well. Always keep your pet’s health, growl (if it has growl,) and armor maxed out. As your pet levels up it will get training points which you can spend on increasing its abilities.

Also, higher level critters have certain other abilities, so you will want to upgrade your pet occasionally. An example is the stealthy cats in Thousand Needles or Stranglethorn Vale. Dismiss your current pet (right click the pet icon and pick “dismiss” from the menu) and tame the new one. You’ll also eventually gain any special abilities your new pet has and will be able to train other pets with those abilities.

As far as your stats go you will want to get as much Agility as possible. It’s your number one stat, figuring into your damage, your Crit Bonus, and your dodge. It even adds to your armor. Since you won’t be engaging in melee combat (or shouldn’t be, anyway) you’ll have no use for Strength. Spirit is wasted on you.

While Hunters do have a Mana Pool, they don’t use it up as fast as a caster (eg: Mage) so while a little Int (to increase your mana pool) is nice, don’t sacrifice Agility to get it. Stamina goes directly into Health, so more Stamina is always good, but you don’t need as much as a front line fighter (Rogues, for example.) Look for Agility first, then Stamina, maybe some Intelligence, then skip the others.

Some gear comes with special abilities such as “Attack Power” (AP.) This factors directly into your ranged damage so the more AP you can get the better. Other good ones to get are bonuses that add to your “Crit Rating” and/or Hit Rating.

Once you get your pet at level 10 your usual attack pattern for the rest of your career will be mainly this: send the pet in, let it grab the target’s attention, and then start shooting the target. Hunters are very weak melee fighters, even with their special melee attacks. Those attacks are mainly to hamper the target, allowing you to get back into shooting range. Let your pet handle the melee damage.

Sometimes the target of your attack will ignore your pet and charge you instead. Other players will always do this. If that’s the situation then your freezing trap, wing clip, and concussive shots will allow you to get some breathing room. Feign Death works very well against monsters, but it won’t work more than once against players.

As far as talents go… well, that’s the subject of some interesting debate. My suggestion is to go down the Beast Mastery tree primarily, with come Marksman talents to supplement the BM talents. The idea here is put much of your focus into making your pet into a lean, mean, destruction machine. Everything else is done in order to support that goal.

Lastly, work on your Hot Keys. You’ll want to bind your most used abilities to certain keys which you can easily reach while moving about. Try to develop a system where you can do the whole combat without ever having to use the mouse to click a target or activate a power.

For example, you use the WASD keys to move about and look around with the mouse. TAB will target your next opponent. Consider setting the F key to be your main attack, perhaps Arcane Shot. I use T for my auto attack and Shift+T for my pet attack.

If these keys don’t work for you that’s cool, come up with a better system. The idea is to be able to improve your fighting efficiency by not having to use the mouse for everything.

The Hunter is a pretty versatile class, actually. There is a lot of variety in pets and talents and many of the combinations one can come up with are quite worthwhile. Don’t be afraid to look into some of these variations and what things you may want to change, especially for PvP and Raiding.

Happy Hunting!

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What’s the rush? People want to blast to level 70 ASAP, but then they skip all the goodness along the way. Tours to the Auction House, the Joy of Alts, and all the other things that are there to discover in the World of Warcraft. Slow down, take your time, and save yourself from the stress of this fast leveling craze.

Take your time, get to know the details of Azeroth, and get to know each level in detail. The Blizzard developers have spent a lot of time, money, and effort to build it for you, so kick back and enjoy it! With that understanding in mind I offer you these five easy tips to level slowly.

1) Every time you get a new quest make sure to read the quest in detail, and then hop over to Thottbot.com, lookup that quest in their system, and read everything about it, including all the comments.

You’ll gain valuable insight into the quest and how to finish it and maybe some greater understanding of the backstory behind the quest. Best of all you won’t be dashing hither and yon getting stressed about leveling quickly.

2) Go AFK (Away From Keyboard) as much as possible, especially if you’re on a PvP (Player VS. Player) server. While AFK you can read your email, watch a video, browse the WoW forums, and so on. In addition, if you’re on that PvP server then the occasional run back to your body will help to keep your leveling times reasonable.

3) The Auction House is one of the greatest slowing mechanisms in the entire game (or any game, for that matter.) Every time you level make a trip over to the Auction House and see what spiffy new gear is available for your character.

Constantly upgrading your gear will have a couple of highly desirable effects: Time not spent adventuring is time well spent and the constant acquisition of new gear will insure that your bank account stays at a reasonably low level.

Window shopping can be as much a hobby in the World of Warcraft as it is in the real world. Browsing the Auction House, several times per level, even if your gold supply is lacking, is great fun. Who knows what you’ll find the next time you look?

4) Never ever even so much as glance at a WoW leveling guide. These are intended to level you from 1 to 70 as quickly as possible and isn’t just too much stress? Why use someone else’s experiences and take only 6 days (of in-game time) to get to level 70 and get a heart attack from all the stress?

Take 6 months instead and enjoy the game. Explore a bit, enjoy the scenery, and let the Type A speedsters eat the stress of the fast leveling.

5) Here’s the best tip: Play as many alts (alternate characters) as possible. The World of Warcraft gives you 50 slots to use for your characters so take full advantage of that. There’s nothing wrong with having 40+ characters between level 1 and 13.

Why not roll a Rogue or Hunter, or whatever class, for each race in the game that allows that class? For example, Rogues can be Orcs, Trolls, Undead, Blood Elves, Night Elves, Gnomes, Dwarves, or Humans so play one of each.

Not only will you gain a deeper understanding of the Rogue class (or whichever class you’re playing,) but you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the game world and how the different races relate to it.

Besides, eight level 15 characters is 120 total levels! 70 levels in just one character? Who needs that?

By following the above WoW Leveling Guide (and it works for other MMO games, as well) you will find yourself with enough time to enjoy the rest of the game. Explore the world, talk to new NPCs, take a little time to PvP, you’ll be amazed at how much you’ll be able to do if you’re not stressing about the next level.

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Are you tired of seeing that yellow flash when you level? The author certainly is after having amassed many levels across many alts. Other people write WoW leveling guides to show you how you can get to 70 is 5 or 6 days of in game time. Oviously suffering from ADD they even make videos of tjheir leveling speed, but who needs it?