Solo Hunter woes

[Xame]

Currently I also have a low level hunter. One thing I'm seeing is that Concussive shot is a high treat shot. Don't use it to open. Anything that stuns causes a very high amount of threat. Save it for a runner or in mid-battle, you only will really get one off anyways given the cool down.

Start with Arcane to be safe or a Sting if you want to push it a bit. The pets growl will put it on top of the hate list so you should be fine. If you get a big crit, you will figure what I mean, charge the mob and wingclip it.

Normal low level sequence: Send Pet, Hunter's Mark, Arcane, Auto, Sting, Auto ... Arcane...Auto etc. (the hunter's mark second is there just to slow me down so I don't become a mage :) ).

On two pulls: Send Pet, Ice trap, Hunter's Mark, see above ... (ignoring the ice trap one until you kill the first mob: remember focus fire!!). When the first one is dead, wingclip 2nd, let the pet regain agro by running toward the pet. Then Hunter's Mark and the above sequence (with maybe some heals for the pets).

Note, no Concussive shots except to stop runners at ~20% of target life.

As a hunter you should be able to continuously kill until you run out of mana for pet healing. Its just a matter of controlling agro (yours!!). Just think, "steady good dps" and you should be fine. Don't burst damage like a mage or rogue. Just keep it slow and steady and feed your pet until they are happy (a content pet is a useless pet). Sometimes I will even use the inital agro getting time to setup the next pull instead of taking a shot.

Your only limit should be your mana for pet heals (not your shots!). Slow and steady killing is faster killing then bad pulls (or unlucky early crits).