Macros

Macros one of the best things that blizzard could have done. I love my macros, they have taken care of alot of headaches. I currently use about 12 macros, for hunter purposes and for making other things easier to do (for example : I have a macro where I can summon my ground mount with a left click of my mouse and my flying mount with a right click of my mouse). I will list the more useful macros that I use in a later blog, I have to write them down so you can use that for your own benefit. Ahhh nothing says piece of cake like marking a mob with hunters mark and having your pet attack the same mob at the same point in time.

Trapping

Traps are a hunters best friend, traps make things alot easier to do. Whether out and about killing a few mobs and then realizing that you now have more then you can handle or in an instance/raid and you are doing your thing with crowd control or if one of those meanies from another faction comes up behind you and you have to make a quick get away. You will find a reason to drop a trap for something sooner or later. Freezing trap is the most used trap that I have. It will freeze a mob for about 30 seconds preventing them from attacking. The one I use to inflict a little extra damage is either the snake trap or explosive trap. In a raid/instance it doesn't take much to run by a target and drop it on your way by. If you want to take out a few mobs at once your best bet it to use frost trap with some help with volley, slow them suckers down and drop a volley, by the time they get to you another volley will put those mobs on their asses. For those that are alittle more experienced with trapping you can go for the double trapping. All that needs to be done to pull this off is some timing, which will come with experience. Drop one trap and allow for some time to pass, then pull, by the time the first trap has been triggered your cooldown should be done and you can drop a second trap for another mob running at you. That should give you some time to take care of any other mobs that are following the first two.

The epic battle between MM and BM

Everyone that has been playing WoW for awhile has probably heard a few arguements on what spec is the best. "BM is best for dps cause...." "I don't know what rock you bumped your head on MM is best for dps cause...". I have never lowered myself to jump into one of those arguements cause really it is a waste of time. I don't know how a Surv spec is played I haven't tried it...yet!!! Everyone has their preferred spec, I was a BM hunter until level 70 when I started raiding and then I changed over to MM. Both are equally good just in there own way. BM relies more on a pet to do damage where as MM most of the damage comes from the hunter. If you are playing a hunter for the first time and haven't played one before I would recommend going BM. Your pet will get more aggro so you won't take as much damage. Level yourself up to level 70 as BM and then switch over to MM. For everyone else who has played a hunter before you already know what you like, so you should stick with it.

Pets

There are many types of pets you can choose from in the game, in my opinion the best pet that I have had it the cat type. It has decent dps and also has pretty good armor and health. I have played most of the game with cat type pets and have found that they do very well in just about any situation (dps, pinch/off tanking). I have played with other pets and have found that some are more of a pain to others, such as big flying pets (or any other over sized pet that you can get) that block the view of other players in a group. I am a level 80 MM specced hunter and I have found that I don't have to rez a cat as often as I have had to rez other types. There are other pets that have their benefits but for solo leveling, instances/raids cat type pets are, in my book, the best to have.