World of Warcraft Strategy Guides

Hunter Overview

Available races: Dwarf, Night Elf, Orc, Troll, Tauren
Standard Bars: Health/Mana
Pet Bars: Health/Focus

Equipment: Cloth, Leather, Mail (at lvl 40)
Weapons: Thrown, Bows, Crossbows, Guns, 1-handed Swords, 2-handed Swords, 1-handed Axes, 2-handed Axes, Daggers and Fist Weapons

Hunter's are one of the most well rounded classes available in World of Warcraft. The ability to deliver ranged attacks while managing threat via their pet makes the Hunter the class of choice for people looking to spend a lot of time running solo.

Strengths

* Long range attacks dealing steady damage with abilities that boost DPS
* Pet can draw attention of a crowd allowing Hunter to fight from a distance
* The pet can tank for the Hunter

Weaknesses

* Higher melee miss chance than other classes
* Reliant on ammo for survival. Don't get caught in the middle of a dungeon without arrows or you're in big trouble.
* Hunters survival is often reliant on the pets survival

Assorted Tips and Useful Info

Feign Death

Feign Death is first available to Hunters at level 30. Initially it may be one of those skills you deem 'useless', but don't be fooled. For the Hunter, particularly the solo hunter, Feign Death will be one of the most useful skills in your arsenal, and one that will keep you alive longer. In PvE play, you can run instances solo quite effectively. Draw a mob, take out as many as possible, before you croak, Feign Death, then repeat.

As a Night Elf hunter (my personal favorite), you can work your way deep into instances without having to do all that much fighting. Here's how, run past a few mobs and keep running, draw as many as possible, keep running till it looks like you may die, then feign death. Once you Feign Death, the mobs will run back to their original positions. Hit shadowmeld and you'll stand and stealth immediately. Wait until the Feign Death cool down is up, repeat the whole process again until you want to fight something (ie. a boss).

Volley

First available at level 40, volley can be used in conjunction with a high threat drawing pet to take out a number of bad guys simultaneously. Pretty simple, send your pet into a pack, wait a second until the bad guys are all drawn to your pet, then volley away. You can also use it in conjunction with a Frost Trap, or anything else that can help hold a group of bad guy in the one area for a few seconds.

AH: Auction House
Alch: Alchemy
Alt: A character created by a player that is not their 'main' character.
BFD: Black Fathom Deep
BE/Belf: Blood Elf
DnD: Do not disturb. Lets other players know you aren't available for a chat.
DPS: Damage Per Second. The amount of damage a player can deal out per second.
GL: Guild Leader
Main: Character that a player spends most of their time on.
NE: Night Elf.
Nelf: Another version of 'Night Elf'.
Palla/Pally: Paladin
PL: Party Leader
Robes: A nickname used for the casting classes, eg. Priest, Mage, Warlocks.
Tank: A character whose primary role is to absorb damage and prevent others from being attacked. Also known as "meatshields".
Toon: A players character/avatar
Twink: someone who reaches a certain level, and doesn't intend on leveling any more, Generally the top level of an instance set, 19, 29, 39. They mostly try to get the best items they can for their level, the most expensive enchants, merely for winning battlegrounds. May also be someones alt. that benefits from the gold earned by their main.

TBC: The Burning Crusade expansion.
Mats: Short for Materials, generally used in the context of crafting professions.
Prof: Professions.
LFG: Looking For Group, used when someone is looking for someone else to party with, generally for an instance, or quest.
LFM: Looking For More, used when a group is looking for more people to do an instance or quest, generally a class title and number follow this. Eg. (LFM 1 Priest, and 1 Rogue)
PST: stands for Please Send Tell, meaing you want to hear back from someone who is interested. Often used in the context of guild recruitmet.
Req: Requirment, Pre-requisite. Something that needs to be done before something else happens, eg. my be level 30 to get a mount.
Newb: (Noob, Nub, Nublet, Noobie) Someone without experiance in the game.
Rep: reputation, when killing certain creature, or doing certain quests, The rewards sometimes include reputation with certain factions in the game, these can lead to cheaper product buying, and even some special items only available to people who put in the time to gain the required reputation.
B.G.: Battleground: an area designated for the killing of the opposite faction, Can be entered from any of the major cities. three major pre-Burning crusade b.g.s are Warsong Gulch (WSG, a capture the flag style game 10 player/team limit). Arathi Basin (A.B. Capture and hold nodes to win the game, 15 player/team limit) Alterac Valley (A.V. the largest PvP battleground, kill the enemies general to be victorious, 40 players/team)
WT:B/S/T: Want to buy/sell/trade, trade offers generally start with this in the in-game trade channel.
Roll/Reroll: Roll is another term for the creation of a character, what race/class they are, Re-Roll is to make another character, generally out of dissatisfaction of the first selection.

Locations
S.W.: StormWind, The human race's main city (connected underground to Ironforge)
I.F.: Iron Forge, the main alliance city for most servers.
Dar: Darnassus, The Night Elf starting city.
Exo: Exodar, Drenai starting city.
Org: Orgrimaar, the central horde city, orcs and trolls start closest to here.
U.C.: Undercity, a city, literaly built under the ground. Undead start here.
T.B.: Thunderbluff.
SC: SIlvermoon City, Blood elf starting city.