How To Choose Optimal Hunter Talents

When choosing hunter talents in World of Warcraft, remember that whichever of the three trees you choose to specialize in, the hunter is going to be effective at leveling. As you start getting into raiding or high level player versus player combat, you have to get a little more judgmental about the talent builds.

Beast Mastery focuses on making the hunter’s pet more powerful. Although all talent trees are good for leveling, BM is considered the best specialization for leveling very quickly. In fact, early specialization in this tree has been called ‘easy mode’ with the right pet. Obviously, specializing in this talent tree makes a hunter more dependent on his or her pet for success, which can be risky.

Most recently, Beast Mastery has been outpaced at raiding and player versus player by the other two talent trees, Marksmanship and Survivability. Even under ideal conditions and with ideal equipment, Beast Mastery just isn’t as effective, long-term, as it used to be.

In the Marksmanship talent tree, putting at least fourteen points into talents like Careful Aim, Lethal and Mortal Shots, and Go For the Throat are necessary for any specialization. These talents, like the rest of the tree, will improve your ranged attacks. Going farther into this tree is popular as a very high burst damage specialization in raids and PVP.

Even though Survival is not the most recommended talent build to level up a Hunter, it becomes more powerful in end-game instances and against other players. Usually, talents like Replenishment help out the other players in a raid with mana management. Explosive Shot is the final talent in the Survival tree and well worth the additional points.

The Hunter character is one of the most popular classes in World of Warcraft. There are a lot of different builds that can be utilized through the talent tree.

If you need to stay current on the best hunter talents, search the Warcraft forums and always check the patch notes to see how changes to the game will affect your build.

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Posted on April 15th, 2010 by admin and filed under Article - How To Choose Optimal Hunter Talents | 3 Comments »
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