Is playing as a Hunter bad? (and some other questions)

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Occasionally I see people complaining about Hunters, Paladins, and Druids too much. I've been personally playing a Hunter and feel like now I'm playing the overpowered class with no skill.

First, here's the Hunter I play: Venem @ Hyjal - Community - World of Warcraft

Second, I want to explain why I chose Hunter.
1. I like soloing things, especially dungeons. As a Hunter, I have a pet to tank with that has several tank skills and I can heal it personally with Mend Pet.
2. I like not being forced to sit still to attack. Hunters can move with all of their attacks in this bracket (I play Survival so no Aimed Shot).
3. I play on a server that isn't a hotspot for f2p characters. Therefore, I mostly pug battlegrounds and dungeons. When I'm not doing either of those, I like to wander around alone throughout the continents and grab new Flight Paths. Having a pet there makes it easier/less lonely while at the same time not holding me back while a group member would possibly need to stop for any reason or need to catch up to me.

If you're wondering why I play alone on a different server than the ones usually mentioned here, I want my character to have a chance at getting that AGM trinket, and I have no problem doing pugs. If that trinket is no longer BiS, then I wouldn't mind playing on a more populated f2p server like AP.

Basically, what I'm asking is if Hunters are that much of an annoyance in the f2p bracket. If they are, I'm not against rolling a Shaman who can heal himself and use lightning bolt and shock spells on the move while keeping his mana up with water shield. Elemental sounds like a spec that can work just as well as a Hunter in terms of the above 3 reasons I play as one, with their extra armor, shield usage, casting while on the move, and a heal and cleanse/purge I can use in pugs to increase how useful I can be. And If I ever don't want to dps, I can always switch to resto which sounds like a spec I can use to travel across the continents as without dying too much. I don't know too much about Shamans though, so some insight would be nice.

I like playing Horde side, that won't change, but should I switch to not being an overplayed and apparently overpowered class and try out Shaman or stick to being a Hunter? Honestly, if Shamans can play just as good as Hunters in terms of soloing dungeons and stuff and still heal others and help the team survive more, my gaming experience will not change so I am completely okay with doing it (in fact, it might enhance my gaming experience, who knows). I just want to hear the opinions of the other people I play with in this bracket.

Thanks for reading :)
 
i mean..you are playing in a bracket infested by 24s, paladins, druids and such. 99% of the people play to win, that alone should give you a good enough excuse to continue playing on your hunter.

ele/resto is about as ridiculous as a hunter atm, not near THAT level but somewhat close
 
Play what you want honestly, granted they are op and annoying as hell, it shouldn't prevent what you like doing. As long as you don't farm and play respectably imo. Shamans are a lot of fun though, I'm always for other ppl trying more classes, gives them a different perspective in fights and variety :)
 
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I too play a hunter for the exact same reasons you do! I reckon who cares, you can be geared and have BiS items but if you have no skill you can't get kills... Screw the people!
 
I too play a hunter for the exact same reasons you do! I reckon who cares, you can be geared and have BiS items but if you have no skill you can't get kills... Screw the people!

there ya go, that's the spirit every player should have! Trying to cap some flags and win up here
 
There are alot of equally/more OP/annoyin things in this bracket then a puggin hunt. Dont let other peoples opinions on a class effect if you play it or not. Don't gy farm, be objective, show improvement or attempting to improve and you will be untouchable by all the hunt QQ goin around here. As for shammies if that fits why you play a hunt then play that as well. Resto and ele are in noway UP and in my mind atleast are both OP to a certain degree but again don't not play something cause someone has a problem with it.
 
Don't backpeddle while you play a hunter and don't try to get top damage, play objectives and avoid people so you won't be as annoying.
 
Play an objective hunter, don't be one of the stereotypical farming types. Have fun with it
 
People maining huntards, are usually unskilled players, specially if theyre cyclops nelfs
 
its the hunters that chase that clothie down across the whole map just to get an easy kill, play objectively and don't go out of your way just for one kill and its kewl
 
Keep playing what you like! A skilled player shouldn't have trouble against a hunter. Also if you play a hunter why not backpeddle? :D
 
i mean..you are playing in a bracket infested by 24s, paladins, druids and such. 99% of the people play to win, that alone should give you a good enough excuse to continue playing on your hunter.

ele/resto is about as ridiculous as a hunter atm, not near THAT level but somewhat close

Of all the specs you choose ele as op?! o_O Yes, ele can be sick when it has that 7 stack fulmination (it requires about 15 Lightning Bolt casts to get it), if i have it and it crits, its game over for most classes, but if you jump an ele with 0 stacks, what the hell can he do? Its like jumping on a rogue that is out of stealth...
 
Of all the specs you choose ele as op?! o_O Yes, ele can be sick when it has that 7 stack fulmination (it requires about 15 Lightning Bolt casts to get it), if i have it and it crits, its game over for most classes, but if you jump an ele with 0 stacks, what the hell can he do? Its like jumping on a rogue that is out of stealth...

He can, uhh, spam healing surge while LoSing, pop astral shift/bubbletotem, thunderstorm, earthshock for reduced damage, shear offensive spells. The real question is, what couldn't an elesham do? Ele is op, deal with it

@OP Hunter is a really fun class, play it if you enjoy the mechanics of the class rather than the faceroll aspect ;) Shame that it's so powerful in this patch, I liked it much more when you actually had to think what you were doing in order to do well...
 
spam healing surge

Healing Surge = ~1 Arcane Shot crit, not counting pushback, pet dps, dot ticks and Autoshot - there are hardly any globals to spend (if you can LoS effectively, heal up and then go out with close to full hp, but then again, care to tell me how much LoS there is in AB/WSG when a hunter follows you through all of mid :/)



brb, creating new account called OP to make post more shiney :3


This is in no way an attempt to bash Mesi and I don't see a problem with an objective focussed hunter but since that makes up about 2% of that class' population...
 
Healing Surge = ~1 Arcane Shot crit, not counting pushback, pet dps, dot ticks and Autoshot - there are hardly any globals to spend (if you can LoS effectively, heal up and then go out with close to full hp, but then again, care to tell me how much LoS there is in AB/WSG when a hunter follows you through all of mid :/)

Surge heals 400s (even in my crit heavy set with low sp), arcane shot is what, 160 noncrit? Spam surge untill he's 0 focus (you can spam surge practically forever, hunter is out of focus in 5-6 arcanes) and you've basically already won the fight if you just stay cautious with your health + surroundings.

Yeah you can't just faceroll over a hunter obviously, it takes time to 1v1 one but there's no way a hunter should win a shaman, unless shaman has literally 0 cds and hunter has full cds with zerker or something. If you don't have LoS, tough shit, pop some cds and you'll be fine.

Just entered a bg to check healing surge and survived 24 hunter, 20 hunter, 20 balance for like 20sec, if you have problems with a hunter 1v1 then idk what to say o_O
 
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Surge heals 400s (even in my crit heavy set with low sp), arcane shot is what, 160 noncrit? Spam surge untill he's 0 focus (you can spam surge practically forever, hunter is out of focus in 5-6 arcanes) and you've basically already won the fight if you just stay cautious with your health + surroundings.

Yeah you can't just faceroll over a hunter obviously, it takes time to 1v1 one but there's no way a hunter should win a shaman, unless shaman has literally 0 cds and hunter has full cds with zerker or something. If you don't have LoS, tough shit, pop some cds and you'll be fine.

Just entered a bg to check healing surge and survived 24 hunter, 20 hunter, 20 balance for like 20sec, if you have problems with a hunter 1v1 then idk what to say o_O

What he's saying is, if you don't have 7 fulm stacks, you do no damage, and if you're heal botting, you're not building those stacks. You CAN survive multiple hunters as Ele, but you can't do anything but heal yourself the entire time. 1 fail fake and you're dead, and normally don't even have enough time to fake in that situation. Ele isn't what it's pumped up to be. It's good, it's better than a lot of specs, but the people that cry it's OP, have a team (normally including themselves) that are like "WHELP CANT KILL THE OP ELE SO LET HIM FREE CAST".

EDIT: For clarity, fake is an example, for if a rogue or mage is also near you, and you fear being locked out. Do not fake hunters. Plz.

Also, if 1 of those hunters would have interupted 1 heal, you would have died.
 
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What he's saying is, if you don't have 7 fulm stacks, you do no damage, and if you're heal botting, you're not building those stacks. You CAN survive multiple hunters as Ele, but you can't do anything but heal yourself the entire time. 1 fail fake and you're dead, and normally don't even have enough time to fake in that situation. Ele isn't what it's pumped up to be. It's good, it's better than a lot of specs, but the people that cry it's OP, have a team (normally including themselves) that are like "WHELP CANT KILL THE OP ELE SO LET HIM FREE CAST".

No damage without stacks? 400-500 lightning bolts aren't anything, or what 200 earthshocks?

I'm not saying "yeah you can just run around the gulch and roflrape everything, now matter in how big packs they come. Just spam healing surge and shit dies".

I'm still referring to the post by Ultragreen which said:
but if you jump an ele with 0 stacks, what the hell can he do? Its like jumping on a rogue that is out of stealth...

Which obviously is horseshit.

Also yeah depends on what you consider OP. Lot of people say disc is op, feral op crits, balance op crits + constant flow of dmg + survivability, all druid specs op cus travel rejuv, hunter op, protwarr op cus mitigation, protpala op cus bubbleLoHavengerhwrathmailFoL, rogue op cus big burst, ele op because toolbelt with lots of dmg, survivability and utility. It's all about how you define OP.

Though bottom line is still, what Ultragreen is saying is total bs.
 
No damage without stacks? 400-500 lightning bolts aren't anything, or what 200 earthshocks? .[/COLOR]

Almost positive those numbers came out of your ass. I could be wrong, as I haven't played my shaman in a WHILE, but I don't remember those numbers at all. Fully geared other than DPR, btw.
 

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