Wrath Hunter Essential Guide : How to Hunter | Wotlk Hunter Primer | WoW Classic

I can't believe it #wotlk is here.... and that kind of means this video is late, just like the TBC one was... but it is here and we cover some important hunter sheeeeit.
This is my meta guide / hunter primer / hunter essentials guide for Wrath.
We're gonna cover
talents
glyphs
stats
new skills
skills that changed
rotations
pet talents
professions
consumables

covering all of that means this is gonna be a long one.

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0:00 Essential Intro
0:35 How This Work and What We're Covering
1:01 New Skills
3:12 Skills That Changed
4:16 Marksman - Talents, Glyphs and Rotation
10:31 Beast Mastery - Talents, Glyphs and Rotation
12:53 Survival - Talents, Glyphs and Rotation
18:13 Ride the Viper
21:35 AoE Rotation
22:35 Melee Weaving
23:01 Cooldowns
23:40 Pet Talents
24:15 Stats / Gems
27:02 Consumables
28:11 Professions
28:58 What I'm Doing
30:23 Essential Outro

[Randomnamegoeshere]

7:55 You don't need to track the specific mob type that you're fighting. As long as any tracking is active (except "Track hidden"), you get the bonus dmg to everything.

[Heroic_Strike_Fitness]

You know what is cathartic as f**k... watching this while I level hunter in WOTLK, good job Bob, keep 'em coming...

[loha]

Man you are the best. Still gotta learn not to watch before bedtime because your voice is so soothing and I fall asleep… but then I just rewatch and get a second chance. Keep it up and keep them coming!

[TheLivingOdyssey]

I'm brand new to max level content (15 years altholic) and this guide has been invaluable. You are amazing dude!

[brandonkruse]

I’d recommend dropping Glyph of Kill Shot in favor of Glyph of Aspect of the Hawk until you’re starting to gem armor pen for the MM build. The extra AP is better for lower gearing.

[Nibung]

For Marksman, I'm not even sure arcane shot is worth using over steady shot, especially if you have a decent amount of armor pen. In prepatch, I had been just removing it out of my rotation outside of moving and just inserting another steady shot.

[katrinepedersen]

Started out as BM hunter in tbc, and briefly tested out MM in the start of WoTLK. Didn't feel too hyped about the lack of damage I saw compared to others, so figured I would test out surv as well to compare. And it's a huge difference in early phases! I'm doing trap hopping, and I find it pretty fun because it feels like a more challenging playstyle. There's a lot more going on timing wise to get a smooth rotation, and it has really pushed my skill up a bit. Also I just like explosions :) I do agree that it requires a lot more boss knowledge to really maximise your damage. Big bosses literally stomping on the trap and still not triggering it have me pulling my hair out. So it takes some trial and error to learn which bosses you can consistently use traps, and which is better to just use black arrow. I also disagree on survival not being a class that can move. Sniper training takes 6 sec of standing still to trigger, but it lasts for 15 sec after that. Which means you have a 9 sec window where you can move with the buff. So tigger it, run to the boss and drop trap, and then still have time to get back and stand still for it to trigger again with no downtime. Only really works on stationary bosses of course. Still working on getting the hang on this new spec, but so far I'm having fun with it

[CommonSenseMustPreva]

Really like this a lot. Super helpful. One thing that would be incredibly useful for me(I have some eyesight issues) would be if, where you say something like "And that looks like this...", and you show your screen... if you could just add a voice over edit where you simply say the spell/ability you're using as you use it? I'm wearing my +10 to squinting gnome goggles but still can't make out where your clicking/using or just add it as large text in the middle of the screen for a second or so? Regardless, again, I really appreciate this video. Thank you.

[magnanamus]

New favorite channel, bro! Keep up the good work!

[akimbo]

I'm really liking alchemy on my hunter for Endless Mana Potion. You can just chug it on cd in heroics and never have to drink or use viper in combat anymore. You also get a free 80 attack power when you don't have a better flask up with Flask of the North. It's nice.

[quickster]

The timing of this video is perfect. Thanks BBB!

[Speakeazi]

If you multishot with viper up, it will give you refunds for each enemy hit.

[jaeslow]

Loved the video, I share that nostalgic feeling with collecting new pets like Pokémon back in the day. Good times.

[rentalorgan]

used survival spec during wrath of the lich king, all the way into ICC. it is a very active and focusses around lock and load triggers. use the 7% hit, the haste plateaus ( the plateaus are hit when you can cast 1 extra aimshot during your rotation) and then high crit

[BboyArts]

You only need to track one of the mentioned to get the bonus. Not the exact type, just one of then. Track humanoid macroed to hunters mark for example and track hidden macroed to flare for example

[gibbs]

Hunter Moses handing you two tablets... that made me laugh for real. Well played.

[floreaciprian]

Regarding improved tracking... im 99.99% sure that you get the damage bonus as long as you have 1 tracking type active, regardless of you tracking the right type of mob. So as long as you have track humanoids for example, you get the 5% damage bonus for all mobs you can track. I clearly remember Blizzard changing this sometime in Wrath and it worked like this on all private servers i've played

[ziggyabab]

Thanks man great video, also definitely helped pass the time till launch. Have fun out there :)!

[shaunybonny]

I can’t agree more with your opinion on Surv. Running in to drop a trap feels terrible and having it not actually go off is terribad, I freaking hate it

[suchalameo]

dw melee attacks restore mana per hit (very fast). if you're at a point where u need mana, sometimes viper/oom is already effecting your damage enough to where its better to get in melee range (+r1 raptor strike) for an almost instant +30% mana in like 2s.
explosive shot DoT restores mana per hit; so dragonhawk, explosive shot, viper, dragonhawk rinse repeat. LnL proc and spam stance weave per shot (hard); basically you'll never oom on SV while keeping the damage of explosive shot.