You have all had that stereotypical bad hunter in pugs before. I decided it was my turn to give it a try. I dusted off another banker of mine. A level 60 hunter with no gear, talents, spells, or pet. This is a guy I leveled to 10 so I know how to shoot a bow. But I granted him levels all the way from 10 to 60. I honestly have no clue how to truly play this class. I thought it would be fun to subject a few random people to my bad hunter.
First group called me out after I zoned in. We did 2 pulls in ramparts and I left the group before they kicked me. I was still using rank 1 arcane shot at this point. I did get ammo and was on my way to the trainer when the queue pulled me in. I expected to be bad, but I could not make them suffer that bad.
I was able to get to the trainer before I got into the 2nd group. Ramparts just like before. I was able to get a few more pulls into it before I got called out. My big down fall was overlooking water. So I was back to autoshot most of the pulls and I knew that would not cut it. I was able to ding 61 but I left t he group just before the first boss.
My 3rd group let me get the first boss in Blood Furnace down before I was discovered. They called me out and quickly kicked me after that. I found Volly so I was able to use that to pad the damage charts. The rogue in the group was not pulling much more than I was and I did notice he kept his mouth shut.
I was able to get a pet by the 4th run of the night. I had to track down my trainer and do 4 quests before I could get the tame beast spell or I would have had it sooner. That and I had yet to get a mount. The tank was in a rush to go in this group. The 2nd ramparts pull ended up to be 4 groups. We survived and I was able to break out a frost trap and offtank a mob with my pet to save the healer. So when someone started to call out my gear I was able to deflect it slightly with my pro skills. It was not working but the tank didn’t care so he pushed us on into another large pull. Tank got smoked and the mobs ran us over. Everyone else left the group on the spot.
The reactions were fun and interesting. A few people did just want to keep going even as the others called me out. I expected a 1/2 nude, no pet, and no talent hunter to catch hell for it. I will sit down and figure out what talents I want and load him up with BoA gear for my next round of instance runs. If I ever feel like taking this abuse again, I do have a 61 warlock in the same shape.
Why didn’t you put talents in before joining the instance?
I play a hunter as my main and it’s one of the easiest classes to do acceptable dps with. Just dot your target with serpent sting and spam steady shot.
You should have posted some screenshots of the group’s reactions to your hunter. That would have been funnier.
Comment by hellogoodbye — March 3, 2010 @ 8:55 am
I’ll work on get those screen shots up. I ran out of time to get them up but I did take them.
As far as my talents go, I am undecided what tree to put them in. Once I figure that out, I’ll get them in place. I spent a good deal of the night getting basic stuff. This char didn’t even have a mount. It was a long trip from Org to Silvermoon to get training. I also had to do the level 10 pet quest.
I do have a full set of BoA gear for him in the mailbox. So I plan to take him a little more seriously.
Comment by Kevmar — March 3, 2010 @ 10:38 am
I ended up in a Heroic Pits of Saron run with a hunter who was pulling less than 900dps. Our tank (I run with the same one as regularly as possible) has gotten MUCH less tolerant of giving DPS a free ride. She got thanked for coming along, “but I don’t like giving free rides, if you aren’t even going to try.” (She was wearing the full i232 tier set of her gear, along with Triumph badge gear.)
There are two classes I expect, even in a PUG, to outdps my Warlock – Hunters & DKs. There’s just no excuse not to! More immediate damage, and in many 5-mans anymore the mobs are dead before I can get a third spell cast. When those two fail to pull 1k dps and are getting put into Heroic ICC 5mans? Just ugh.
Comment by Jenna — March 3, 2010 @ 2:20 pm
Offtopic but, what environement have you used for coding in .lua?
I’m tring to get into it, but I would love a more friendly environment that Notepad++.
Comment by Okrane S. — March 5, 2010 @ 8:27 am
I leveled a paladin very quickly as retribution with BOA gear, doing mostly random dungeon runs. By level 79 I was doing approximately 2k dps, so I felt pretty good about my abilities as a ret pally and when I hit 80 I bought some BOE lvl 200 epics, including a Titanium Destroyer to replace my BOA Arcanite Reaper, and queued up for some heroics.
Suddenly, I was doing 500 dps and couldn’t figure out why… Oh yeah! My 2H mace skill was 0! I was quickly called out by the group, and I explained my stupidity in using my brand new weapon that I had no skill in (I had banked my BOA weapon to save bag space, too, so no fall back). I begged for a bit of patience, which was granted, and by the end of the instance I was doing about 1.1k dps while still at only 240 or skill in maces.
It was definitely a different experience, suddenly being on of “the bads” that was getting carried. I was very grateful to the group for not instantly booting me, can’t say I would have been as lenient in the same situation…
Comment by Saeric — March 5, 2010 @ 9:43 am