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If you haven't done much raiding by level 80 you're going to
need to start amping up your hunter's gear before you start running
those Naxx raids. The good news is you have a wide assortment of places
you can start gathering gear from to aid you in those long nights out
with the guild. Reputation grinding, dungeon crawling and even crafting
can play a big part in converting your hunter from solo/group ready to
raid ready.
One of the first things you need to do as a hunter before
embarking on those raids is to boost up your stats. Your hit rating is
one of the most important things you can increase at this stage. Some
people put more emphasis on boosting haste and while that is important,
firing all the shots in the world at light speed is pretty useless if
they all miss. So work on getting your hit rating capped. There are a
number of ways to do this. You can get gear with hit increasing stats,
use gems that add to hit rating, or you can even buy food that will
offer you a temporary hit rating boost if you need it. Although I
recommend getting a more permanent hit rating solution as food of this
sort can come at an expensive price if you can't make it yourself.
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The Polished
Regimental Hauberk is one of the better chest pieces you can find for
pre-raid gear.
Reputation Gear
You may or may not have read my recent guide on Northrend reputation gear, but if you didn't
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it a look over as some of this next section will involve some
of the items acquired through these reputation vendors.
Reputation vendors can provide some useful stuff to help get
you started in the raid department. Once you get into those raid
dungeons you'll find a lot better stuff than most things you'll find
elsewhere, but for now the goal is to get you geared up to a decent level to
help out your fellow guild mates by being a valuable source of damage.
Much like dungeon crawling, earning reputation gear is a time consuming
process. You'll need to get your faction up high enough to actually be
able to buy and use the items you want and that can take a good amount
of time devotion since there are things you can use from several different
factions.
The Argent Crusade has three pieces that
can be used as intro raid gear. The Zombie Sweeper Shotgun provides a nice dps weapon with the added bonus of boosting your hit
rating by 14 points. The Polished Regimental Hauberk is one of the
better non-raid chest pieces you can find for the hunter and will
probably last you through more than a few raids before you find
something to replace it with. Lastly, you have the Cloak of Holy
Extermination. While not the best cloak you can get at this point, it
does provide some useful stats and can be useful in filling the slot
until you find something better. You'll need to get your reputation up
to exalted in order to purchase the hauberk as it has the highest
requirement on the list, but it's well worth it.
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Revered
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Gun
238-444 damage speed 2.90 (117.6 dps) Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 18 Improves hit rating by 14 Increases attack power by 68 |
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Exalted
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Chest
1254 Armor +89 Agility +69 Stamina +68 Intellect Yellow Socket Socket Bonus +4 Hit Rating Level 80 Equip: Improves hit rating by 49 Increases attack power by 104 |
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Honored
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Back
140 Armor +39 Agility +57 Stamina Level 78 Equip: Increases your armor penetration rating by 25 Increases attack power by 52 |
The Knights of the Ebon Blade will give you a few more options
to use for raiding. The Reaper of the Dark Souls sword is useful to
keep in your melee weapon slot as it adds 33 to your hit rating. The
damage and speed really doesn't matter as you're never going to swing
this thing even once if you're raiding. If you do the whole raid is probably
going to come to a complete stop. Your guildees, your guildees pets,
and the mobs are all going to stop and just look at you, and you are
going to suddenly feel really stupid. Don't be that guy! The Spaulders of the Black Arrow works well as a shoulder
piece until a more permanent piece is acquired, but you can find a few better options in some of the
heroic dungeons. The Arcanum of
Torment enchantment can be useful for boosting critical strike and
attack power on a head slot item and is a useful enchantment for the hunter.
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Revered
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One-Hand Sword |
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Revered
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Shoulders |
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Revered |
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The Sons of Hodir can provide a few more items to consider. The Broken Stalactite dagger can be used to fill one of your melee slots for
additional hit rating points. Just don't hit anything with it on a raid
or your friends and guildees will point and laugh at you.The Giant Ring
Belt can be a useful tool until you find better as it provides a fair
boost in stats and the Greater Inscription of the Axe enchantment can
be a nice boost for the hunter on a shoulder item.
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Honored
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Waist |
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Revered
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One-Hand Dagger |
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Exalted
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Use: Permanently |
The Frenzyheart tribe can offer one useful item in the form of
a trinket. The stats may not sound like a lot, but it can be useful in
some situations where you face a raid boss with adds. Drop one of those
and gain yourself a momentary increase in damage. There are certainly
better things out there, but we're just worried about getting you ready
to tackle the stuff that gives it.
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Dungeon Crawling Gear
You can find a great assortment of items running heroic dungeons.
However, these do take time and you may have to run the dungeons a
lot of times to get what you're looking for. This is probably
going to be one of your best bets for getting up some decent gear to prime
yourself for raiding. I have listed several items below and where you
can find them. Some are better than others and the reason I included
more was to give you a variety to choose from. There's nothing worse
than getting pigeon holed looking for one piece of gear that doesn't
drop after a month of running heroics. It does tend to happen at times and having an alternate piece can sometimes help out until you get what you want or need.
There are several dungeons you can go treasure hunting in. Some are more hunter friendly than others, but make yourself a loot table of things you want to get that go along with your spec and try to start gathering. Having a backup wish list is always useful in the event some item just refuses to drop.
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Ahn'kahet: The Old
Kingdom |
Prince Taldaram
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Hands
758 Armor +38 Agility +57 Stamina +29 Intellect Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 44 (1.0% at 80). Equip: Increases attack power by 116. |
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Ahn'kahet: The Old
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Herald Volazj
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Bow
238 - 444 Damage Speed 2.90 (117.6 damage per second) +24 Agility +36 Stamina Requires Level 80 Equip: Increases attack power by 48. |
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Ahn'kahet: The Old
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Amanitar
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Crossbow
272 - 409 Damage Speed 2.90 (117.4 damage per second) +28 Agility + 25 Stamina Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves haste rating by 24 Equip: Increases attack power by 48. |
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Drak' Tharon Keep
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King Dred
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Trinket
Requires Level 80 Equip: Increases attack power by 148. Use: Increases your armor penetration rating by 291 for 20 sec. (2 Min Cooldown) |
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Drak' Tharon Keep
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King Dred
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Head |
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Gundrak
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Gal'darah - High
Prophet of Akali |
Hands
758 Armor +37 Agility +57 Stamina +30 Intellect Red Socket Socket Bonus: +4 Hit Rating Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves hit rating by 40. Equip: Increases attack power by 100. |
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Gundrak
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Gal'darah - High
Prophet of Akali |
Finger
+49 Agility +51 Stamina Requires Level 80 Equip: Increases your expertise rating by 33. Equip: Increases attack power by 100. |
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Gundrak
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Eck the Ferocious
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Head
985 Armor +62 Agility +76 Stamina +45 Intellect Meta Socket Yellow Socket Socket Bonus: +8 Expertise Rating Requires Level 80 Equip: Increases your expertise rating by 35. Equip: Increases attack power by 80. |
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Halls of Lightning
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Volkhan
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Back
145 Armor +25 Agility +64 Stamina Requires Level 80 Equip: Increases your expertise rating by 31. Equip: Increases attack power by 86. |
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Halls of Lightning
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Ionar
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Waist
682 Armor +39 Agility +54 Stamina +33 Intellect Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves haste rating by 42. Equip: Increases attack power by 116. |
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The Nexus
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Anomalus
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Chest
1212 Armor +56 Agility +61 Stamina + 43 Intellect Blue Socket Socket Bonus: +4 Agility Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 45. Equip: Increases attack power by 154. |
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The Nexus
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Keristrasza
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Feet
833 Armor +42 Agility +38 Stamina +25 Intellect Red Socket x2 Socket Bonus: +9 Stamina Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves haste rating by 30. Equip: Increases attack power by 100. |
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The Nexus
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Keristrasza
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Trinket
Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves hit rating by 55. Use: Increases attack power by 670 for 20 sec. (2 Min Cooldown) |
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The Nexus
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Keristrasza
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Wrist
549 Armor +35 Agility +54 Stamina +29 Intellect Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 32. Equip: Increases attack power by 100. |
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The Oculus
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Drakos the
Interrogator |
One-Hand Sword
145 - 271 Damage Speed 1.60 (130.0 damage per second) +48 Stamina Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves hit rating by 32. Equip: Increases attack power by 70. |
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The Oculus
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Varos Cloudstrider
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Legs
1061 Armor +52 Agility +52 Stamina +34 Intellect Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 78. Equip: Increases attack power by 154. |
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The Violet Hold
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Erekem
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Back
145 Armor +43 Agility +64 Stamina Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves hit rating by 29. Equip: Increases attack power by 56. |
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The Violet Hold
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Lavanthor
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One-Hand Axe
237 - 440 Damage Speed 2.60 (130.2 damage per second) +34 Agility +28 Stamina Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves hit rating by 24. Equip: Increases attack power by 64. |
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The Violet Hold
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Lavanthor
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Feet
833 Armor +30 Agility +45 Stamina +29 Intellect Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 58. Equip: Increases attack power by 116. |
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The Violet Hold
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Cyanigosa
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Hands
784 Armor +65 Agility +52 Stamina +34 Intellect Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 36. Equip: Increases attack power by 132. |
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Utgarde Keep
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Ingvar the
Plunderer |
Head
985 Armor +60 Agility +42 Stamina +27 Intellect Meta Socket Red Socket Socket Bonus: +12 Stamina Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 36. Equip: Increases attack power by 124. |
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Utgarde Keep
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Ingvar the
Plunderer |
Crossbow
290 - 436 Damage Speed 2.80 (129.6 damage per second) +29 Agility Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 26. Equip: Increases attack power by 56. |
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Utgarde Pinnacle
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Gortok Palehoof
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Shoulder
909 Armor +41 Agility +57 Stamina +39 Intellect Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves hit rating by 33. Equip: Increases attack power by 116. |
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Utgarde Pinnacle
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King Ymiron
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Waist
705 Armor +51 Agility +67 Stamina +33 Intellect Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves hit rating by 43. Equip: Increases attack power by 132. |
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Utgarde Pinnacle
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King Ymiron
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Trinket
Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 74. Equip: Your melee and ranged attacks have a chance to increase your haste rating by 444 for 10 sec. |
Emblems of Heroism and Valor
While you're tearing your way through heroic dungeons make sure you pick up any emblems lying around on the bosses you take out. These can be used to purchase another form of gear from merchants in Dalaran. These merchants carry some decent quality gear than can be a good substitute for some of the other stuff I have mentioned in this guide. They will take a large number of emblems to get, but if you have luck with gear dropping like I do you'll probably get the emblems quicker.
Crafting Items
Crafting has some useful items to get your raiding
endeavors started. The Nessingwary 4000 is a great ranged
weapon if you haven't had a lot of luck in the dungeons. It also comes
with a yellow socket to stuff some sort of dps enhancing goody into.
There are various assortments of crafted goods you can take on that
will serve as good place holders until you start getting that raid loot
you always wanted.
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Jewelcrafting
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Finger
Blue Socket Socket Bonus: +8 Attack Power Requires Level 78 Equip: Improves hit rating by 38. Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 31. Equip: Increases attack power by 60. |
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Jewelcrafting
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Finger
+33 Agility +51 Stamina Yellow Socket Socket Bonus: +4 Armor Penetration Rating Requires Level 80 Equip: Increases attack power by 84. Equip: Increases your armor penetration rating by 41. |
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Leatherworking
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Back
150 Armor +24 Agility +75 Stamina Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves haste rating by 38. Equip: Increases attack power by 100. |
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Engineering
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Gun
254 - 472 Damage Speed 2.80 (129.6 damage per second) Yellow Socket Socket Bonus: +8 Attack Power Requires Level 80 Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 21. Equip: Increases attack power by 78. |
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Jewelcrafting
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Finger
+42 Stamina +28 Agility +28 Hit Rating |
Gems
Gems can help add a little extra kick to your hunter, but there are a
few different options you can roll with. One thing that remains
constant, regardless of your spec, is to get the hit cap to max. If you
need to use gems to make that happen then do it. If you already have
peaked your hit cap then use these slots to add in some additional
damage enhancing goodies.
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Yellow
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Adds 16 to Hit Rating. |
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Any
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Adds
27 Agility. |
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Prismatic
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Adds 27 to Hit Rating. |
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Red
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Adds 16 to Agility. |
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Purple
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Adds 16 Attack Power and +3 Mana
every 5 seconds. |
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Purple
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Adds 8 Agility and +3 Mana every
5 seconds. |
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Purple
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Adds 8 Agility and 12 Stamina. |
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Red
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Adds 32 to Attack Power.
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Orange
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Adds 16 Attack Power and 8 to hit |
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Orange
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Adds 8 Agility and 8 to Hit
Rating. |
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Orange
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Adds 8 Agility and 8 to Critical
Strike Rating. |
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Orange
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Adds 16 to Attack Power and 8 to
Critical Strike rating. |
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Prismatic
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Adds 54 to Attack Power.
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Green
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Adds 8 to Critical Strike Rating
and 12 to Stamina |
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Meta
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+21
Critical Strike Rating and 3% Increased Critical Damage |
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Green
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Adds 8 to Hit Rating and 12 to
Stamina. |
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Prismatic
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Adds 6 to all stats.
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Meta
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Adds 21 Agility increases
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Glyphs
Glyphs offer a nice perk to the hunters abilities. The three hunter trees can put pretty much the same glyphs with only a minor difference or two between them. Each one can utilize most of the same all be it with slightly different results.
Beast Mastery hunters will want to focus on bringing down the Bestial
Wrath cooldown timer and increasing the damage of Steady
Shot. For that, there are two valuable glyphs to choose.
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Decreases the cooldown of your Bestial Wrath by 20 seconds. |
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Increases the duration of your Serpent Sting by 6 seconds. |
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Increases the haste bonus of the Improved Aspect of the Hawk effect by an additional |
Marksman will focus on glyphs that will support their ranged
attacks. Ironically these are largely the same as the Beast Mastery ones.
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Increases the duration of your Serpent Sting by 6 seconds. This glyph can be useful in combination with the Glyph |
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Increases the damage dealt by Steady Shot by 10% when the target is afflicted with Serpent Sting. |
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Increases the attack power bonus |
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Increases the haste bonus of the Improved Aspect of the Hawk effect by an additional |
Survival hunters will use pretty much the
same thing as Marksman hunter. I know the trap glyphs may sount tempting but they won't help as much as you might think.
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Increases the duration of your Serpent Sting by 6 seconds. This glyph can be useful in combination with the Glyph |
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Increases the damage dealt by Steady Shot by 10% when the target is afflicted with Serpent Sting. |
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Increases the haste bonus of the Improved Aspect of the Hawk effect by an additional |
Minor Glyphs can provide you with a few small perks in battle.
In most cases the same will be useful all around.
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Your Mend Pet spell increases
your pet's happiness slightly |
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Reduces the pushback suffered
from damaging attacks while casting Revive Pet by 100%. |
Enchantments
As a hunter, you will want to make sure you get some useful
enchantments to go with all your gear. They add some nice perks and can
give you a good boost in dps. Here is a list of some of the
enchantments you should consider as a hunter.
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Head
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Permanently adds 50 attack power
and 20 critical strike rating to a head slot item. Does not stack with other enchantments for the selected equipment slot. |
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Chest
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Permanently enchant chest armor
to increase all stats by 10. Requires a level 60 or higher item. |
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Shoulders
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Permanently adds 40 attack power
and 15 critical strike rating to shoulder armor. Does not stack with other enchantments for the selected equipment slot. Requires a level 60 or higher item. |
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Wrist
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Permanently enchant bracers to
increase attack power by 50. Requires a level 60 or higher item. |
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Weapon (One-handed)
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Permanently enchant a melee
weapon to increase attack power by 50. Requires a level 60 or higher item. |
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Weapon (One-handed) Alternate
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Permanently enchant a melee
weapon to increase Agility by 26. Requires a level 60 or higher item. |
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Weapon (Two-handed)
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Permanently enchant a two-handed
weapon to increase attack power by 110. Requires a level 60 or higher item. |
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Ranged Weapons
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Attaches a permanent scope to a
bow or gun that increases its ranged critical strike rating by 40. |
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Boots
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Permanently enchant boots to
increase critical strike and hit rating by 12. Requires a level 60 or higher item. |
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Legs
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Permanently attach icescale
armor onto pants to increase attack power by 75 and critical strike rating by 22. |
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Belt
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Permanently attach an eternal
belt buckle onto a belt, adding a socket to the belt. Requires a level 60 or higher item. |
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Gloves
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Permanently enchant gloves to
increase hit rating by 20. Requires a level 60 or higher item. |
All these enchantments can get pretty expensive if you keep
switching gear often so if you have a really good friend who happens to
be capable of enchanting or creating the enchantment you can come out a
great deal cheaper. Chances are if your guild is about to start raiding
you have one.
Consumables
When it comes to raiding you'll find that you need to have a hefty
supply of consumables on hand to give yourself a little extra edge when
going into those more difficult encounters. Luckily, there is an
assortment of goods available for just such a purpose.
Food/Drink
You have a few options for food and drink to choose from and the best
way to pick what you need to buy is to see what you need the most. If
you are a little short on hit rating for example, you can buy the
Snapper Extreme food to give yourself a +40 hit rating and +40 Stamina
boost for an hour. Choose carefully though as this food is quite
expensive if you can't make it yourself. Below I have included a short
list of food and drink you might find useful when you start raiding.
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Set out a great feast that will feed your party! |
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Restores
15000 health and 12960 mana over 30 sec. If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become well fed and gain 40 Agility and 40 Stamina for 1 hour. |
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Increases the Strength and Stamina of your pet by 30. |
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Restores
15000 health and 12960 mana over 30 sec. If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become well fed and gain 40 Hit Rating and 40 Stamina for 1 hour. |
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Restores
15000 health over 30 sec. If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become well fed and gain 40 Haste Rating and 40 Stamina for 1 hour. |
Flask and Elixir
There are several flasks and elixirs that can add a little extra pain
to your attacks. Again, the thing you need to keep in mind when buying
these is what will benefit you or your raid the most. Perhaps you need
a bit more hit to cap out in which case you can use the Elixir of
Accuracy. If your hit rating is ok then you might choose to go with the
Flask of Endless Rage for an attack power boost. Keep these things in
mind when making your decision. There's no need to be redundant and use
a hit rating elixir when you're already capped.
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Increases
attack power by 180 for 2 hrs. Counts as both a Battle and Guardian elixir. This effect persists through death. |
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Increases your Hit Rating by 45 for 1 hour. Battle Elixir.
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Increases
your Haste Rating by 45 for 1 hour. Battle Elixir. |
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Increases
your Critical Rating by 45 for 1 hour. Battle Elixir. |
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Increases
your Agility by 45 for 1 hour. Battle Elixir. |
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Increases
all Stats by 20 for 1 hour. Battle Elixir. |
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Ideal Stats
As a rule of thumb one of the first things you want to do
before you start raiding is to get your hit rating to the cap or
as close as you possibly can. This is the main thing to work on before
you start raiding. As for Agility, most people try to have at least 700-800 to begin preferably more. You can work up from there. The more your agility the better your damage. Once you're hit is capped you can work on boosting your armor penetration or critical strike rating. Just make sure hit gets capped first. I say again, you can fire volley after volley, but it does no good if all you get is air.
You'll find that there are more items out there that can help make you better prepared for raids, but what I have given you here should get you started on gearing yourself up to tackle some of the harder encounters to come. Enjoy the higher end dungeons once you get there and remember to keep that dagger sheathed. They will laugh at you I promise.
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