tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post939382290758156581..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: That One Thing You Love About Being a HunterTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-89716202591769099742012-11-16T12:16:16.060-05:002012-11-16T12:16:16.060-05:00I think survival was originally supposed to be the...I think survival was originally supposed to be the melee spec. Would be nice being they can now do more than 3 specs (see druid) if new specs of other classes eventually make it into the game, like a melee hunter.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-63961974072739322412012-11-16T10:08:48.505-05:002012-11-16T10:08:48.505-05:00For me, it is all about the pets. It is the reaso...For me, it is all about the pets. It is the reason I chose a hunter to begin with. It is why I was always choosing a Ranger in D&D. <br /><br />The only thing I want more is a Melee Hunter! Weilding double shortswords, while you and your pet mix it up with the baddy!!! Woot!<br /><br />Z<br /><br />;)Zwinglihttp://www.zwinglisblog.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-20841407301096083102012-11-14T07:35:43.227-05:002012-11-14T07:35:43.227-05:00That is a skill long lost like the stutter step an...That is a skill long lost like the stutter step and the jump shot. It does make me miss being able to have two things trapped however.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-36985905182977183082012-11-13T17:52:15.178-05:002012-11-13T17:52:15.178-05:00Chain trapping!
Granted this isn't a big deal...Chain trapping!<br /><br />Granted this isn't a big deal anymore but back in Burning Crusade that was how to tell a good hunter from an average one!Pikehttp://www.aspectofthehare.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-3676704659366129082012-11-12T13:16:48.997-05:002012-11-12T13:16:48.997-05:00Link away. :) Your name does not lead to your blo...Link away. :) Your name does not lead to your blog so I never read it before. Will have to give some older posts a read.<br /><br />I feel most people will find something that just clicks for them and as long as they love playing it they will love playing the game. A fair deal of people that quit the game quit because they fell out of love with the character, not so much they fell out of love with the game. Just a theory.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-66089496244526199062012-11-12T10:07:28.990-05:002012-11-12T10:07:28.990-05:00Well here's what I wrote - http://still-search...Well here's what I wrote - http://still-searching.net/2012/11/12/that-one-thing-i-love-about-being-a-paladin/ - I hope it's ok to put the link here. I'm not self-publicising for readers or anything, you just said you were interested.<br /><br />First character I ever rolled was a mage, got it to max, but if I'd never rolled an alt, never tried a paladin I likely would have quit the game a long time ago. I didn't really love the game until I played my paladin. It was like suddenly I realised this game could be fun. I've got 3 paladins now. My main, a horde, and a little baby one that I'm levelling glacially when time allows. I never really understood the duplicate class thing before, but with a class you love it can make sense.<br /><br />I've got an alt of every class as well. While there are aspects of them that I appreciate, the whole package is not as good as my paladin. Though as I said in my post if that wasn't the case the classes wouldn't be our mains, and we wouldn't love them so much.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771213542953346538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-74732479072654428432012-11-12T08:13:29.396-05:002012-11-12T08:13:29.396-05:00Would like to see yours when you make it. I'l...Would like to see yours when you make it. I'll pop over later to see if you posted something, just catching up on comments now.<br /><br />You stated it perfectly why some people have this misconception about hunters. It is possible to be almost decent, even without proper skill. But people always forget there is a huge difference from being decent and being good. I know what you mean about falling asleep in dungeons, but that just does not happen any more with the number of buttons hunters have. That is, if you want to do it right. They can spam multi shot and do respectable.<br /><br />Example of the difference, I did LFR the other day, there were 3 other hunters there, 2 better geared than I, one by a hell of a lot, and one in roughly the same gear. Hunters are horrible at AoE unless they are survival, so I will use AoE as an example because it is the perfect example of skill, one button, or doing it right. <br /><br />I was doing over 200K AoE, they were doing around 100K. 100K is respectable, yes, all 4 hunters where in the top 6 easily with those numbers, but I was doing it right, they were spamming multi shot.<br /><br />So to outsiders looking in, they see hunters doing 100K using only multi shot on AoE and being top DPS and think hunters are easy. I do 200K in the same fight and wonder, how can so many hunters be so bad and just use one button.<br /><br />It is all about perspective. Hunters might seem easy, they aren't if you care about how you do. Of course that is only my opinion and I am a tiny bit bias. ;)TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-57758479419908470102012-11-12T07:50:22.099-05:002012-11-12T07:50:22.099-05:00Can't wait to see it from a paladin point of v...Can't wait to see it from a paladin point of view. Let me know when you post it.<br /><br />I do really love being a hunter. You might not find the same joys I do with it as each person is different. But for me, it fits. I feel comfortable with it. Could be because the first character I ever rolled was a hunter. When I quit and came back years later, it was a hunter again. So it was my first character, twice. Perhaps my love comes from being familiar with it or it could be because I have played all 10 (soon 11) classes and found that none of them are capable of doing as many things as well as my hunter can. A hunter really is a jack of all trades, and so are his pets. There is always a pet for everything. Now if only we had a serviceable heal I would be super happy.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-58504173193420289782012-11-12T07:46:17.174-05:002012-11-12T07:46:17.174-05:00Or to get him to keep his nerfbat ability after yo...Or to get him to keep his nerfbat ability after you tame him. Now that would be OP.<br /><br />I must admit I hold what I call an unhealthy connection to my pet. I have the first pet I leveled with and even if I have other cats he will always keep a spot in my stable. We have been through so much together I can never just let him go because another cat look cooler. See, a little unhealthy don't you think. TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-91189572944440919982012-11-12T07:41:44.985-05:002012-11-12T07:41:44.985-05:00That is one of the biggest things about being a hu...That is one of the biggest things about being a hunter, at least being a good one, there is so much you need to do to master it. People always say hunters are the easiest class but I can't help but believe those are people that have not ever played one. Yes, they are easy to play to some extent, but if you want to play them well they are far from it.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-69617710952829098832012-11-11T04:31:56.253-05:002012-11-11T04:31:56.253-05:00Well, I actually shelved my Hunter at the moment. ...Well, I actually shelved my Hunter at the moment. All the things you listed are accurate to the bone, but some are the reason for me not playing it anymore.<br /><br />The pet is indeed awesome. Makes everything sp easy. But a bit to easy/boring for me. Not to mention the crappy AI at times ... grr ... frustrating.<br /><br />Ranged is awesome, as is all ranged in this game. But again, playing as a hunter in dungeons is for me again so boring. You can fall asleep while DPSing and still do good.<br /><br />PvP (normal BGs) is also easy mode. Stand at the back, nuke things, BM pet kills everything for you. Jesus ...<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, playing is hunter is easy, playing a hunter well is a lot harder. <br /><br />One of the (dis)advantages of playing a lot of alts is you get to see the differences between all the classes. And I have a lot of characters/classes at the moment.<br /><br />And at the moment the Hunter, Warrior are messed up. BM Hunter because your pet is like a second character you have along with you, making things incredibly OP, and Warrior because they made them tank/DPS hybrid with all the super cooldowns.<br /><br />Actually your post here inspired me to make one of my own.<br /><br />I hope you (Hunters) don't hold it against me for not agreeing with you (kinda) on the Hunter awesome part. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-19681866449449334702012-11-10T08:03:35.053-05:002012-11-10T08:03:35.053-05:00Probably not what you intended with this post but ...Probably not what you intended with this post but it made me think of writing one for my main class, paladin of course. It would be a good shared topic, really interesting to see what the blogsphere thinks of the most loved aspect of certain classes. However, I think I'd likely have just as much trouble as you choosing one ability.<br /><br />Anyway, I really loved this post because I could feel how much you do love your hunter, how much fun you have and the enthusiasm for the class. It makes me want to go and play my hunter so I could maybe feel, for a moment, the way that you do. I like my hunter well enough and I did think at one point it would be my range dps class. I think warlock has taken that spot, though I haven't actually levelled a ranged class to 90 yet.<br /><br />I do love the pets part of hunters. I like naming them and I remember when I swapped pets in 4.3, when I was levelling from 80-85 that my dps jumped 5k just from changing pets. I was survival as well so I'm really surprised it made that much of a difference. I've played it briefly in Mists, while killing virmen/birds for farming, and thankfully I don't have as many focus issues, I used to have to do steady shot all the time.<br /><br />Anyway this post is inspiring in a number of ways. 1) you make me want to go play my hunter. 2) you've made me think of my next blog post. I'll of course link to credit you with the ideaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771213542953346538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-27105716796535240912012-11-09T20:32:41.059-05:002012-11-09T20:32:41.059-05:00Pet. Hands down, full stop, no doubts, period, ex...Pet. Hands down, full stop, no doubts, period, exclamation point. Pet.<br /><br />That's why I picked BM when I started my hunter in Wrath and stuck with it even though BM sucked at the time. That's why I have 24 pets in my stable and keep hoping that Blizz will give us more stable slots.<br /><br />Baltas the white lion and I have been on many adventures together throughout Azeroth and beyond. Vrachos the rock turtle and I have killed shit that normally takes teams of support classes. Hymenoptra the silithid and I have chased many a dirty orc out of Stormwind. Shishi the quilen (a new addition to the team) and I have brought allies back from the brink of death to defeat our foes. Sarramantis the fen strider (another new addition) and I have fished the coasts of Pandaria. Plus the plethora of other pets who have aided our raid team, bringing key buffs or debuffs that allowed us to kill Deathwing. Hell, I even tamed Ghostcrawler; now, if only I could get him to simplify our rotation and stop hitting us with the nerf bat...Jaegernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-60370750005843355232012-11-09T17:42:08.112-05:002012-11-09T17:42:08.112-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.-abhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14899567485973250660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-91925541850733917372012-11-09T10:43:48.980-05:002012-11-09T10:43:48.980-05:00I enjoyed reading it. :)I enjoyed reading it. :)TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-72157573913799411272012-11-09T10:34:22.961-05:002012-11-09T10:34:22.961-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.-abhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14899567485973250660noreply@blogger.com