Comments on: How to Spec a Leveling Hunter!

By: How to Write a Successful Levelling Guide « Runeforge Gossip

How to Write a Successful Levelling Guide « Runeforge Gossip — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:37:58 +0000

[...] extra crit or a 3min cooldown). If you’re going to outline each tier individually, as shown here, make sure to include what the end result will look like. I would suggest only including one spec [...]

By: f1xxx3r

f1xxx3r — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:40:19 +0000

If you plan on leveling your hunter through LFD only and have access to heirloom items I must say go MM. Also make sure you get the explosive trap glyph. Most of these dungeons require aoe power and that glyph is just plain overpowered. Voley + glyph at later levels will basically put you over anything out there. My 2c.

By: Greygamer

Greygamer — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:03:34 +0000

I have been levelling a Hunter through the new LFG tool, almost exclusively.
Is BM the best spec for doing instances or does this change as you level (I’m currently L41)?
At the moment I can easily top the damage meters most of the time with quite modest gear (GS 350ish). I’m using a Raptor as my pet.

By: ray dirksen

ray dirksen — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:12:52 +0000

Nice spec, I borrowed it for my site without consent. And I will ask for consent this way. Am I allowed to post this build on my site http://www.hunterlevelingx.com ?

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:48:52 +0000

I didn’t title this post “how to spec a leveling hunter if you have access to heirloom items” though. Heirloom assumes that you already know the game, and can figure out a leveling spec without much of my help :)

By: Vindine

Vindine — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:11:03 +0000

:( i hate ppl recommending BM build for leveling, and me using it, when starting to level my hunter.
If you got heirloom stuff.. never start leveling as BM
MM is the way… check the talents and use brains.
What is better? to watch how you pet tanks mobs or kill the mobs with 2 shots before your pet even reaches to them.
blizz has nerfed the content so much that there is no need to tank much, some elites maybe… you have to kill as fast as you can
BM gets good later, level 40+ (survivability is useless at lower levels..)
MM has good talents early on (like +hit, what i really good)

By: ketro

ketro — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:43:48 +0000

Thank you for this guide, it was very helpful for me

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:56:03 +0000

Since I spent so much more time getting around than actually fighting when I was getting to 80, I found this to be one of the best talents in terms of levels per hour. But no, it didn’t help me top meters in instances.

By: Ben Fraley

Ben Fraley — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:26:30 +0000

True. I mean, if it really bothers you that you’re not getting around fast enough, take path-finding by all means. But if you want to do more damage, you probably want to skip it. You’re not going to be BM anyways after you hit 80, right? :)

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:51:13 +0000

Heh, I was considering removing that last comment… nobody can get owned when building a leveling tree. It’s more of an art than a science- both ways are valid, but I found that the amount of moving around one does outweighs the amount of fighting one does.

By: Ben Fraley

Ben Fraley — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:13:41 +0000

I will not consider myself owned! :) I should have added, “Is it really worth putting talent points into? Why not just got 5 in Unleashed Fury and 1 in Aspect Mastery and move on? Is the 10% increased movement really worth it?”

By: weenie

weenie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:47:17 +0000

I levelled my hunter with BM. When I hit 80, I toyed with MM for a bit but have ultimately found that SV suits my style of play. Just hope they don’t nerf it! :-/

By: Bystander

Bystander — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:31:22 +0000

Ben Fraley, consider yourself owned.

By: Darkbrew

Darkbrew — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:56:35 +0000

Nice guide. Having leveled a hunter recently, I can say that BM was great, but once I hit level 77 I switched to SV.

Yes I had some pet aggro issues, but most quest mobs were dead before it became a problem.

Also, for the majority of my leveling I used a turtle for a pet. Thunderstomp and Shell Shield made soloing much easier, even on some of those Northrend elites.

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:33:53 +0000

Note that this talent increases mounted speed.

By: Ben Fraley

Ben Fraley — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:32:07 +0000

I agree with everything except for “Pathfinding to 2 allows you to move faster.” At that level, you get something called a “mount” which lets you move a lot faster ;) Otherwise, great post!