This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Mirajj]

Lol. You'll quickly find different soon. You simply won't either be able to absorb damage or dish out damage fast enough, or damage-control the mob so it won't do damage to others through normal attacks.

You make it sound as if my Hunter/Hunter/Priest/Priest/Rogue group should never have been able to do BRD.  In fact, it was the easiest group to do the Highway I was ever in.  Don't say "won't" until you've seen it in action with good players

That's what I was wondering, too. I never seem to have problems pulling aggro and killing the mob, keeping both me and my cat alive in the process. I fill the role of healer protector quite a bit in our usual group of warrior/priest/mage/mage/hunter. I was wondering what was going on in his post until I realized that he'd had a bad experience with a single hunter, and now was painting the whole class with that brush. A shame, really.

You are jumping everywhere, Drasca. First you say hunters are bad at pulling aggro, so we shouldn't defend a healer, or use anything (yes, Stings are a good part of a hunter's arsenal) in our power to generate the aggro. No wonder the hunter you were playing with was confused. Hell, just reading through this with you jumping back and forth between a healer defender and a just plain dps dealer has me confused, and I have the benefit of not being in an instance/battle with you 'yelling' at me.

Sounds to me like you need to learn a bit more about hunters. When I was 58, I was able to hold my own/kill an even level melee elite. I haven't tried it against a 60 elite yet, but if it finally did finish me off, it'd not last much longer against whatever the group could/would throw at it. The thing you are condemning about hunter's is actually a strength. You say that we only solo, but that means we have the tools to grab and hold aggro quickly. We have the staying power to take some hits (though not in the class of a warrior, of course) and we do some decent DPS.

I dunno...this post is just irritating, as you seem to want the hunter to play how you'd play, if it was you playing the hunter. I don't tell the warrior how to tank, or the mage how to fight...I'd suggest doing the same with the hunter. Tell him or her what you want done ("Defend the healer at all costs") and leave them alone to do it unless they ask for help in battle.

That said...yeah, you seemed to have a semi-sucky hunter, but you didn't seem to be helping the situation either. Someone starts yelling/critizing me in the middle of an instance, I'm gonna get my hackles up, too.