By Axe and Arrow

[LochnarITB]

I know this is late in coming but I wanted to thank you for the writeup. I'm finding it difficult to get good info on the hunter. I think that the hunter is one of the easiest classes to start. However, once you get into pets and talents it starts to get murky. I have browsed thottbot and the wow community forums as well as several other smaller sites. There is a good thread pinned on the wow community hunter class forum about what beasts have what capabilities. Even so, I still have a hard time getting the hang of what is involved in learning and training pet abilities. I have not yet been successful in learning from anything I have tamed. I am thinking that certain abilities are not only limited to specific types but also specific locations of those types. I also have a hard time with having to stable my pet to go learn from another beast. I find that a single stable slot is not enough. I want an entire zoo. As it is, I'm going to have my main character send my hunter the 5g needed to get the second slot. I already abandoned my snow leopard, kitty. I had to let her go because I had a boar, RealLife, that I didn't want to let go. I chose to tame a crab, Cancer, in place of kitty. If I want to keep them both and get new abilities I need both stable slots.

For the talents, it seems that nobody can agree on the best trees to use and how to fill them. I see a lot of "this is my build" posts followed quickly by "you are an idiot because" posts. Thottbot seems to be better than the wow community forums, which have, at best, about a 1% signal to noise ratio. I am thinking I will flesh out marksmanship. I will also put maybe 5-10 into survival and the rest into the beast tree. If anyone finds any real definitive info on hunter talent builds, please link them here. I think the hunter could be real fun, but I may end up abandoning it just because it seems to be a bit more confusing than other classes as to how to progress with building them and improving their pets.