It's all about getting the edge on your opposition, getting more damage on our target while stopping that bastard who dared to challenge us from doing the same. BRR is a damage machine, the orc racial gives us a juicy AP/RAP boost every 2 mins that leaves a trail of bodies along the road to Stormpike, The stables, or Silverwing hold.Today I'm going to cover the 4 different races available to the hunters of blood thirsty Horde masses. Blizzard couldn't keep pets from gnawing on their owners' legs if they were undead so the Forsaken shall be mention no more. Orcs, Trolls, Tauren and most recently Bloodelves may all choose hunters. They each have useful abilities to assist them in knocking down the Allies they cross paths with.
Orcs.- An increased 15% resist to stuns and knockout effects - Great for stun locking rogues and charging/intercepting warriors.
- a 5% extra damage multiplier for our pets damage - Speaks for itself, BM hunters love extra damage for our not so little friends.
- Blood Fury, (2 min cool down) Increase AP (including RAP) for 15 seconds (4 AP per level, 282 at 70) with the caveat of reducing heals on you by 50% for the same time - Excellent skill with the potently to yield anywhere from 8% to 20% damage boost depending on your gear. BRR personally gets a 12% damage boost.
- +5 to Axe skill - A small crit bonus for those Raptor strike/Wing Clip hits as you move back out of range, or finish an injured play who got to close.
Trolls- +5 range weapon skill - As with orc axes it gives some extra crit chance (about 0.2%)
- Beserking, Your attack speed will increase by 10-30% for 10 seconds depending on your health at the time - This is very useful but you need to badly hurt to take full advantage of it but 10% speed is still a lot of extra damage
- +10 on your HP regen, and 10% of it can continue in combat - Better than nothing but it is minimal when compared with spirit bond.
- +5% damage to beasts - Mainly a PVE skill, but works on druids and other hunters pets.
Tauren
- +5% health - Extra HP never hurts
- War stomp stuns enemies (up to 5) in melee range (2m cool down) - Great for when your stuck in the scrum and need and a few seconds to get out.
- +10 nature resist - More use now that Allies have Shammies too, but still low use in PVP.
Bloodelves- Mana tap, suck a little mana from an enemy (who has mana), and stores it as a charge up to 3 times. (30 sec cool down) - Only drains a minor amount of mana only useful for charging up Arcane Torrent really.
- Arcane Torrent, releases those stored charges for some mana restore per charge and an 8 yard silence effect (2 min cool down) - This is a nice little shocker for any casters trying to exploit your dead zone but of limited use due to it's range. Very situational.
- Increased resistance by +5 to all schools of magic - Minimal but better than a poke in the eye.
BRR is an orc, take that as a strong endorsement of their suitability as a PVP race. We make no pretense of neutrality. Orcs receive 3 racials with Strong PVP use. Trolls really only get 1 though it is strong. The orcs' Blood Fury is almost as much extra damage on a shorter cool down, and after the 2.0 patch upgrades to pets, even your pet will receive a nice DPS boost from it.
Trolls get a similar or even greater boost to their damage output through Beserking but must be at a low health to make it more effective than Blood Fury. It also doesn't affect their pets dps. In BGs even more so than PVE often your pet is doing an even greater portion of your damage output. In the right situation you can get double or even triple the effect gained from Blood Fury and we know many a troll hunter who swears by this skill. It scales better with high end gear than Blood Fury too.
Our post this morning has become rather longer than intended. We shall endeavour to limit our rambling analysis is future to shorter subjects. Until then may your aim be true and your foes slow witted.
- BRR out
5 comments:
Don't you just hate it when you don't think about things till it's too late. Just started a hunter got to lvl 26 problem is it's a bloodelf with stinky racials.
/reroll orc
I would agree that mathematically, orcs are the best race for hunters. When you choose your race, however, make sure you like the way it looks, since you will spend a lot of time staring at it. My main is a Tauren hunter, which I chose for two reasons: I thought it was the least ugly compared with trolls and orcs (still can't stand trolls) and I loved (and still love) the tauren quests/lore/flavor in-game. So I don't regret my choice, even if an orc might be slightly more powerful under some circumstances, because I have had a lot of fun with the whole Tauren persona.
There are a couple of downsides to a Tauren hunter, however, especially a male one because of the large size of the model. Obviously, as with any Tauren character, the avatar has a harder time navigating in enclosed spaces, fitting through doors, etc. This problem is even worse when mounted. A kodo or oversize wolf just doesn't fit through a lot of spaces, between trees for instance, that other mounts can. The problem specific to a hunter, however, is the size of your pet. At low levels, your pet will look ridiculously tiny next to you. By 50 or 60, most pets look reasonable next to their Tauen master, and certainly by 70 are quite imposing. Having briefly tried hunter alts as a dwarf, blood elf, night elf and orc, this aspect is the most notable difference to me.
"When you choose your race, however, make sure you like the way it looks, since you will spend a lot of time staring at it."
This is really terrible advice, to be honest.
Blood Elves are by far the prettiest race, but their racials are awful. If everyone took your advice, they'd be rolling gimped characters that they would waste 2 months levelling only to reroll.
Choose the best race for your class. Raid spots are limited.
"This is really terrible advice, to be honest."
What he should have said, and may have meant based on his subsequent comments, is choose the race that most appeals to you. Different things appeal to different people. Goeben likes Tauren's for their lore and quest lines, not just their looks. I like the Orcs the best not just for their uber racials but also b/c they look tough, sound tough, have the best looking shoulder armor in the game, and Thrall is the coolest faction leader in the game. If it came down to just looks, and all racials were removed, I'd still choose Orc for my hunter, and it sounds like Goeben would still choose Tauren for his.
People are different, see things differently. No matter how obvious it may seem to you that BE's would be universally preferred for their looks, that's not an assumption you can safely make.
Having said that, yes if you want to raid seriously and know that from the start of your character, demonstrate your dedication by researching and rolling the best race for your class. That's also why I rerolled from gnome to Orc lock, and rolled an Orc hunter for my two mains. That they've also become my favorite class for aesthetics and lore is just gravy.
This is a wonderful opinion. The things mentioned are unanimous and needs to be appreciated by everyone.
Marion Barrett
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Why would anybody say it that way, you can easily get your point across in a polite and courteous way. Lets all just get a long.
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