Originally Posted by
Rohirrims
Things I love about being a hunter... everything!
I've never changed main in all my WoW years, I always think "why play anything else when you can play a hunter?".
Firstly I love them for their theme, I've always loved archery and animals, so that was me sold at the character creation screen.
I love being independent as a hunter to be able to solo pretty much anything, I can pull half of Tanaan and just kite and aoe everything down. I love mobile ranged dps in raids as well, there's no need to compromise performance just to get out of the fire. Doing the 'bitch jobs' in certain fights is actually quite fun too!
Disengage is also one of those little things that also really sells it for me, in 5.4 (I think) it became usable out of combat, you can have lots of fun doing disengage-parkour to get to hard to reach places, dodge falling damage or just get around really fast with the posthaste talent. This was one of my favourite minor hunter changes! Along with my other favourite hunter ability, the glorious Feign Death, which will get you out of many a sticky near death situation, it can also evade boss mechanics or just be really handy when you want to run through a pack of mobs but not fight them at the end.
There are many more reasons why I main this class, the only bad thing is dps queue times and the huntard stigma, but I can live with that!