What is it with Hunters anyway?

[Cyrops]

I'm willing to put money of the fact that hunters are getting a treatment next expansion similiar to the one warlocks got in MoP.

They've said our specs are too similiar, we offer very little in PvE, our PvP is either utterly broken or useless, pets are still clunky.

I'd say we are probably one of the more fun classes to play though, atleast for me because I enjoy the movement compared to my other characters.

Also the most casual friendly class in the game with all the pet collecting and whatever other drab.

They should stop messing with hunters >.> updates to get some cool visuals, sure, but not with core mechanics.

[Goretex]

The way the OP feels about hunters is the way I feel about mages, I just can't get myself to lvl a mage past 22. I get addicted to sheeping then get bored with them dunno why really, I love hunters though.

[spinner981]

They should stop messing with hunters >.> updates to get some cool visuals, sure, but not with core mechanics.

Core mechanics are some of the main issues. Pets, traps, aspects, etc.

[Deleted]

Hunters are like ranged rogues. There is only so much you can do to make bullets and arrows look exciting.

They could at least add some tracer bullets and arrows.

[Cyrops]

Core mechanics are some of the main issues. Pets, traps, aspects, etc.

I like traps the way they are now. The only thing I wish for, was 'detonate trap', like clicking trap skill again would detonate it.
Aspects could be made more fun, but if they get rid of cheetah and give nothing in return (permanent speed increase) I will be a sad panda
Pets could get some loving, yes.

[7seti]

You don't like one class out of 11. So what? Play something else.

[hareu]

hunter is the most unique class in wow imo.

it's a ranged dps that does physical damage and is 100% mobile, their main niche is how mobile they are, which I guess is kind of hunter like.

but all casters are almost similar, and all melee are almost similar, hunters are like half melee in the aspect they can move without dps loss and they're ranged at the same time.

as for animations, in my opinion, who cares, why would you be looking at your character while fighting anyways.(by that I mean looking at their animations, obv you should be looking at them to see the environment around you.)

they're also the only class in the game that has their own type of weapon.

[LurkerOnly]

Okay, so I've played WoW for years, but no, I'm not an alpha bragging guy. I've played since mid BC and started because I heard about LK coming so I joined up. Anyway, I've played every class in the game, not to end game or anything, but just mucked about with each and every class to see what's what and get a basic feel for them all. I've taken every class to about 40 or so at least twice... except the hunter.

I think the highest level I've taken a hunter is 22 or 24, maybe. The trouble is they're just boring as fuck to me. This isn't me bagging on the class, or bagging on players who like hunters, to each their own. This isn't another "hunters are OP" whine thread, or whatever. Just me putting this out there and seeing if anyone else thinks basically the same as me.

Here's the premise: Hunters are boring (to me) because they don't do anything. Every other class in the game follows the "years of training to do X with some cool animation to show it" pattern. Monks and their martial arts animations, druids and their nature magic and forms and the animations that go along with it. Mages and their pyroblasts and frost bolts and the animations for those and all their other spells... but hunters don't really do that. Hunters are just people with a bow or gun and a well trained pet. Sure, they have years of training and all that, but the animations are lackluster at best.

I suppose my boredom with hunters stems from two main things. 1) Lack of interesting animation, and 2) The hunter itself isn't the cooler part of the team. For the first, I'm sure there are sweet animations at higher levels, I've seen them playing other classes in groups and raids with hunters. The glaive toss comes to mind as the biggest and most recognizable, but that's almost it really. A few traps here and there. But it's just some minor variation on the "shoot" animation over and over and over again. Fuck that's dull. For the second, with other pet classes the character itself is clearly the cooler of the two in the group. Warlocks do all kinds of interesting things with all kinds of interesting animations, the demon is a helper more often than not, or a tank to keep mobs off the caster. Same with frost mages and their elemental, which is a small dps boost and a snare spell, basically. Yeah, hunter pets do that too (tank or help out in small ways), but the hunter itself is dull as fuck because it doesn't really do anything cool. And it doesn't look cool doing the nothing that it does.

In the end it's all bits and bytes on a screen, I get that. It's all personal preference, I get that too. But this is a video game. Unless something looks cool, it isn't. Every other class in the game I can see an animation for some random spell and say, "Wow, that's cool looking," but never for anything the hunter does. Any class and their animations get dull after grinding out 90 levels of kill and gather quests, but damn, hunters are dull as shit to watch by level 20, if that.

Am I the only one who thinks that?

I felt the exact way about Warlock until Grimoire of Sacrifice. I feel your pain. I just didn't get the class, thought it was boring.

Now, I like my lock, and basically don't get/am bored by hunter. For me, Focus made hunter boring (personally), but I don't think my level of boredom is as bad as yours, based on your description.

You're waxing freaking poetic about it I just kind of think they're boring. I used to feel like you feel about Warlock, though.

If you're lucky, maybe they'll change something about Hunter that will make you like it, like GoS made Warlock more fun for me

[muto]

Yeah I haven't managed to level a hunter past 20 either, they're just boring. Not a ton of cool animations, which makes the class dull.

IMO

[ReleaseDay]

hunters are 2nd in my top 3 most enjoyed classes (Mage-Hunter -Druid ) and i've got 4 hunters in total, going to get them all to 90 before next xpac (only one of them is 90 atm). Sadly though hunters have been very weak throughout mop. They were already weak in 5.2 and it got even worse when they removed blink strike and now readiness. Hunters are one of the weakest classes atm in pve and have been throughout the whole mop period. (Some will definitely argue against me now but as someone who has 7x capd alts in mop and have tried out many different spec and classes at mid-high raiding i'd say hunters are the weakest class, weaker then balance druid.)

[Jleefett]

As a hunter playing since vanilla I guess I can see where you're coming from. hunter's arent overly flashy or colourful but that's what I enjoy I guess, plus ti's fun to see 7 of your pets charging at an enemy followed by a murder of crows.

Each to their own, i've always enjoyed my hunter down to the soloing ability and kiting it offers

I have my stable full of seagulls from thousand needles, my main pet is a fireroc, and then i blast murder of crows with a macro that screams "Hitchcock bitches!"

[Pony Soldier]

I have an interest in archery so they're really fun for me especially when I make a Blood Elf hunter.

[Nihth]

Might just be me, but I really liked hunters before, when they had mana and was both ranged and "melee". Not sure why but I feel that after they did those changes it was a whole different play style, more like the other classes.

[KBWarriors]

McNugget's Bite hits you for 57k
McNuggets's Kill Command hits you for 49k
McNugget then hits you for the following:
42k
87k
109k

I love Hunters, nothing better than being jumped by a PvE BM Hunter and getting obliterated within a few seconds.

The Isle is literally just swarming with BM Hunters.

KEEP IN MIND: This is with the standard 72% resilience that we all have. Isn't PvP fun in MoP? Don't forget to Deter!

[Pony Soldier]

Might just be me, but I really liked hunters before, when they had mana and was both ranged and "melee". Not sure why but I feel that after they did those changes it was a whole different play style, more like the other classes.

I agree with the melee abilities hunters used to have. I miss having like a polearm or dual wielding swords and being able to melee as well as ranged it was like your emergency plan when your enemies were too close. I think it also made them more unique from the other classes just by being both ranged and melee since everything else was either caster or melee. And if I'm not mistaken didn't we also have like ammo types where it had an element effect on them like a frost arrow or something. I thought those were cool too and added more uniqueness to them. Now it's just target and shoot from your imaginary quiver. Although I do like the focus better than mana. I always thought mana was annoying on hunters and focus makes more sense for them.

[Tripping]

The hunter gameplay is very boring. It is almost too easy to good at it. I loved my huntard all the way through leveliing, and even at 90, but now i have become used to it, it is just faceroll so I don't enjoy it. But I have the attention spa... SQUIRREL... span of a goldfish, so I am not the best judge of a class (I switch my main every few weeks :< )

[Forgettable]

People look at the animations? o.O

I play a class for the abilities it has, not the way it looks.

[Jleefett]

always felt hunters should have more of a fps feel. actual aiming and headshots.

[Weightlifter]

Let's give hunters laser and plasma rifles.

[Romanthony]

I dunno, personally i like hunter and have like 11 of them. Most of them are BM too because i see it, as having a deep spiritual bond with your pet, that they become your friend, your family, and would be willing to die to save you. Think Rexxar and his bond with Misha.

Though i wish that they would take it one step further and add s skill to BM hunters that sorta works like the buff from the Old ZG weapons.


basically, you and your pets bond is so strong, you sort of merge together, based on your pets talent tree, you take on different skills and abilities.

Like if there Ferocity, you gain a damage buff if there the Tenacity, you gain a tanking buff and skills, and if there cunning you gain a damage buff, as well as other things.