Post by Smokemonkey on Jul 13, 2005 2:18:30 GMT 12
Well almost time for us to hit MC, and being the top rankin hunter of the guild i thought it might be a good idea to start disscusing how we hunter and gona spec for it.
From wat I've found wit the high end intances were mainly there to protect the mages, healers and to pounce on the runners (leave the pullin to the Warrior easyer for them to keep the aggro although there are excptions). Conccusion shot folowed by a Arcane shot is great for geting runners because they can both be shot on the run a stright afta one another.
Distracing shot is good to pull the aggro off the mages/healer followed but puting pet on them and hope like hel sum1 pulls the aggro off you.
The one thing we have to watch like mages and rouges is pulling the aggro off the MT, to stop this only use normal shot when attacking with either a serpent or scopied sting agaist melee (your prefence) and viper agaist casters. I often use aimed shot on a boss near the end of a fight when u hav no hope of pulling aggro, neva use muilt-shot (unless there is only 1 mob on screen) as it will more then breck sheep/chain undead etc.
The other use we hav is our traps which we use to temporay take out a mob (Freezing trap), to slow down an advancing group (frost trap). The freezing trap trick is espically usefully if u hav to take on muiltpule elite mobs, the hunter plans a freezing trap pulls the off mob on to it fakes death plants another trap pulls and repeats till the group is ready to attack the mob, this trick is especilly handy in UBRS when attaackin the general (also ive heard that this works in MC), this results in freeing up the tank and healer that would be assigned to this mob.
Pets
We get alot of shit when we pull our pets out in a intance mainly because poor pet control WILL LEAD TO A WIPE (as i hav done many times ;D), Keep your pet on passive, and hav him on the stay comand so he dozent accidently pull sumthing while your tryin to sneak past mobs. But in saying that a pet can be a great contribution to Group they can be a off tank that is expendable ( this dozent work at all in the blackrock mountian because pets hav next to nothing Fire Res. and die in like 5 secs, yes even Balue
), and can even be used to pull by a expert hunter, but i mainly use them to cover mobs that go for the goups healers and casters. My prefence of pet for a Intance is a bear Because of the high aggro and high defence, But cats are good because of dere fast attack but lack the need defence to be a off tank, all other animals lie ruffly in between :Note the most hated pet to take is mostlikly a giant bat because they cover half the screen ;DGauno;D.
End Game
Now for the real stuff becuse one of the first two mobs of Mc can wipe a whole a whole raid group. Our Job here is as uselly will be to protct the healers/casters and to use our freezing trap when needed, here our pet are completly useless 2 maybe 3 hits and dere dead mi opnion would be to leave them at home, or use them as a extened sword becuse dere more den liky to die a dozen times before you get to the first boss.
Now here there is another sragie that can be used the nacked pull, this were a degined hunter (more den likly me) get to strip, pull the mob/s, and promply dies this is used when pullin from range is needed, its done nacked so as to limit repair cost.
Also know this hunter we are last on the healin list of any group so dont expcet to be healed during the fight but saying that we should need healin as we should neva get hit, lost count the times i end up being the last member of mi group left alive ;D.
to be cont.
From wat I've found wit the high end intances were mainly there to protect the mages, healers and to pounce on the runners (leave the pullin to the Warrior easyer for them to keep the aggro although there are excptions). Conccusion shot folowed by a Arcane shot is great for geting runners because they can both be shot on the run a stright afta one another.
Distracing shot is good to pull the aggro off the mages/healer followed but puting pet on them and hope like hel sum1 pulls the aggro off you.
The one thing we have to watch like mages and rouges is pulling the aggro off the MT, to stop this only use normal shot when attacking with either a serpent or scopied sting agaist melee (your prefence) and viper agaist casters. I often use aimed shot on a boss near the end of a fight when u hav no hope of pulling aggro, neva use muilt-shot (unless there is only 1 mob on screen) as it will more then breck sheep/chain undead etc.
The other use we hav is our traps which we use to temporay take out a mob (Freezing trap), to slow down an advancing group (frost trap). The freezing trap trick is espically usefully if u hav to take on muiltpule elite mobs, the hunter plans a freezing trap pulls the off mob on to it fakes death plants another trap pulls and repeats till the group is ready to attack the mob, this trick is especilly handy in UBRS when attaackin the general (also ive heard that this works in MC), this results in freeing up the tank and healer that would be assigned to this mob.
Pets
We get alot of shit when we pull our pets out in a intance mainly because poor pet control WILL LEAD TO A WIPE (as i hav done many times ;D), Keep your pet on passive, and hav him on the stay comand so he dozent accidently pull sumthing while your tryin to sneak past mobs. But in saying that a pet can be a great contribution to Group they can be a off tank that is expendable ( this dozent work at all in the blackrock mountian because pets hav next to nothing Fire Res. and die in like 5 secs, yes even Balue
), and can even be used to pull by a expert hunter, but i mainly use them to cover mobs that go for the goups healers and casters. My prefence of pet for a Intance is a bear Because of the high aggro and high defence, But cats are good because of dere fast attack but lack the need defence to be a off tank, all other animals lie ruffly in between :Note the most hated pet to take is mostlikly a giant bat because they cover half the screen ;DGauno;D.End Game
Now for the real stuff becuse one of the first two mobs of Mc can wipe a whole a whole raid group. Our Job here is as uselly will be to protct the healers/casters and to use our freezing trap when needed, here our pet are completly useless 2 maybe 3 hits and dere dead mi opnion would be to leave them at home, or use them as a extened sword becuse dere more den liky to die a dozen times before you get to the first boss.
Now here there is another sragie that can be used the nacked pull, this were a degined hunter (more den likly me) get to strip, pull the mob/s, and promply dies this is used when pullin from range is needed, its done nacked so as to limit repair cost.
Also know this hunter we are last on the healin list of any group so dont expcet to be healed during the fight but saying that we should need healin as we should neva get hit, lost count the times i end up being the last member of mi group left alive ;D.
to be cont.