This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Brista]

The pet is always +1 target.
Curses. DoTs are dangerous to use no matter what. A lot of bad hunters try to open autoshoot with venomsting, which is bad in many ways. Curses however don't interfere with CC options, and can actually be applied on top of CC options Except freeze trap... curses may break that, I'm unsure. need more testing with that.[right][snapback]78600[/snapback][/right]

Could one of you clarify this please?

Generally with my hunter, unless I'm filling in as main tank or main healer, I've found that it doesn't matter too much what I choose to do, so long as I do it quickly. Whether I help the main assist kill the main target fast or grab some stray that's found its way to our healer and off-tank with my pet. In my dps role it seems to me that the quicker I eat up the monster's green bar the better

It sounds to me that you have the idea that the hunter would be trying to shoot something that we'd subsequently need to sheep. That doesn't make much sense to me since why start shooting something that the mage is going to heal to full?

So far it seems to me that my role in groups is either
1) to assist in quickly killing the main target. Serpent Sting helps here and there is no prospect of the mob being sheeped
or
2) to engage a mob that is attacking a squishie with the pet and basically solo it while the rest of the group carries on with whatever it was doing without something eating the healer. Again there's no point sheeping it and Serpent Sting speeds the job up

I'm not saying you're wrong Drasca, but you seem to be assuming a third role for a hunter which I haven't figured out yet