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Death Knights are the new huntards.

I'm hunter, and I have never been called a "huntard" or anything like that before.

Even when I do something stupid people are generally pretty nice about it.

I might be just a really good hunter or something, but I think that maybe the whole "huntard" thing is exaggerated.

Meh, the worst played classes I usually see are hunters and DKs. For hunters I guess people are just confused as to why they have any melee attacks at all as a ranged class.

Wait wait wait you actually have people melee attacking as a Hunter

God no wonder they have a stereotype as dumb, then.

That and leaving their pet on aggressive/keeping growl on through instances.

Hunters being the nooby class is kinda an old thing, but it still exists. There are two reasons why this happens:

1. Hunter level is so easy you could do it blindfolded, while masturbating to porn, without even looking at the game screen. It's boring. It's easy. It's repetitive.
2. Enter high end content: Hunters are actually reasonable hard to play in group situations correctly. They have a wide variety of group skills that they never use while leveling. They are possibly the hardest class to use properly in group situations.

Because of reason 1, people tend to tell first time players "oh do a hunter, it's easy." So when 2 occurs, and hunters do group content, you have a huge overpopulation of inexperienced players that try and do group fighting the same way they solo. And bomb horribly.

While you can bodaciously faceroll level, if you try to do group content the way you solo, you're looking at the difference at level 80 between 400 DPS and about 2000 DPS. Needless to say, it's pretty significant. People aren't pop flyin' if you do around 20% of the damage you are capable of doing, for obvious reasons.

TL;DR: Hunters are the easiest class to solo. Hunters are probably the hardest class to use in groups. A huge number of new players chose to play hunters because they are easy to solo.

I was still able to challenge myself a bit while leveling as Hunter by being completely stupid and attempting things that I should not be attempting.

Like soloing bosses that were made for like 3 or 4 people. Or soloing dungeons (because I didn't realize you could queue at first, and I figured that doing it myself was the only way I could get those quests done because I didn't think I could find a group. I attempted Ragefire Chasm, Razorfen Kraul, and Gnomeregan. I only manged to finish Ragefire Chasm, but I got REALLY CLOSE to the end of Gnomeregan, and did manage to pull it off when I was about 4 or 5 levels above everything. After that I discovered the dungeon finder and never tried to solo one again.).



Anyway, in terms of Hunters doing badly in groups, that may also have something to do with the fact that you are supposed to do quite a few things that don't seem obvious at first. Like turn off growl, for example.

I'm not even sure if I'm playing hunter right. I sure hope I am.

Thanks for the helpful advice forummates, I'm thinking maybe doing a Hunter and Paladin, since I'm also curious about RP servers, and might put one in there. I'll be sure to check in when I get it so I can find a server where I can bug at least one of you guys.

Well, I'm always on the Scryers as a Horde (because Odds told me to) but a lot more people from this forum hang out on Kargath as Alliance.

I was also told Alliance is for little kids by the same person who said Hunters were known as a noob class- anything to that?

Probably depends on the server. I haven't played long enough to answer that one.

Yeah, it depends on server, alot of WoW players have a HUGE sense of faction pride.

Dude Scout if you need hunter tips ask Vrothgar, he is so hunter knowledgeable.

Yeah except I am shy and don't like to bother people.

Especially since he is constantly bothered by other members of the guild.

But, okay, I'll keep that in mind for anytime I am feeling especially not-shy.

I'll ask him for you.