all hunter party

[swirly]

Hmm, what proffessions would we want in the group?
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In my mind, engineering is the most important. It provides ammo and guns for those who want them, scopes for everyone, and goblin jumper cables which would be our only rez capability. So I think we would want to have at least two engineers in any group so we have multiple people who can potentially rez. It still won't be as good as having a true rezer, but its better than nothing. Assuming we make it far enough to be able to use jumper cables.

Other than engineering...leatherworking, alchemy, and enchanting all seem to have something to offer in my mind. We would probably want some characters devoted to gathering as well.

For race, I'd vote all Tauren, for a couple reasons.  A) a herd of cows is highly intimidating, B) we could try abusing the good ol' chain-war-stomp trick, and C) I haven't played a Tauren yet.
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I did consider Tauren as well because it might be interesting having everyone being able to stomp. Orcs get Pet melee damage increased by 5% and Trolls get 5% damage bonus to Beasts so really all of the three available races have plusses to them for hunters. I'm kind of torn on what to suggest here. I really like Trolls just because of how they look and such...I like the Troll persona. I really like Orcs for the pet bonus though, it feels like it works really well with a hunter party. Tauren I'm not too keen on from a looks/persona standpoint, but they do have stomp which makes them very tempting. Since I'm so torn I figure I'll just go along with what others think would be the best/most enjoyable.

For pets, I'd trend towards the highest DPS pets available, since the point of playing an all-hunter party is to kill things before a tank becomes neccessary (finally!  a group I can use Aimed Shot in!).  In other words: cats.  'sides, I like kitties...
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I find it interesting that you see a group of hunters as having the point be to kill things before a tank becomes necessary while I view a group of hunters as having 5 tanks because of pets. With interesting use of growl and cower we could keep mobs moving from pet to pet and have all kinds of fun tactical play. Its also an idea that we could have hunters geered towards different roles. Like we could have some who get tanking pets and go down the Beast mastery tree so their pets can be the main tanks. Other hunters could get cats and go down the Markmanship tree to be dps. In general though, I don't feel that with a group of 5 hunters that that would be necessary. Having 5 pets should be enough tanking without having to have any go the Beast Mastery route. Some might want to anyway though. I must admit that I do favor cats over other pets just like you do. I'm a little worried about going with what I feel is the most common pet though. It might be nice to be a bit different. I don't really have a problem with going cats though, just giving food for thought.

If I was building a group of hunters for pure dps, I would probably go all orc for the pet damage bonus, have them all get cats for their dps, and have them all go markmanship. The more I talk and think about things though, the more I feel that a theme would be too constricting. I keep trying to think of a theme that really gets me excited, but so far I've not had much success. You meantion a herd theme. Following that out would take me to going all Taurens with all dog pets since you often see dogs helping in the herding of animals. I think the problem that I keep running into is theme and functionality conflicts. Like here, thematically Taurens and dogs seem to be the best fit. From a functionality standpoint I like Taurens and cats though. So I guess in the end I am kind of leaning towards not having a theme and just letting everyone go with whatever kind of hunter they happen to prefer. I'd probably go with a troll and a cat if I was given free reign on my character. Troll because I just like them and cat because I like the dps pets and I also am slightly favoring the orange tigers from the echo isles (though all my previous hunters have eventually moved on from them).

Bah, I hate decisions. Which is why I'm trying to let people on here decide what they like. I guess my vote is for no theme though. : )