The Unofficial World of Warcraft Hunter Guide, Reviewed

Capsule review - If you're new to the Hunter class this guide will fill in all the gaps. If you're familiar with the class you'll pick up some very useful info. If you're an expert then you might well find some areas to argue with the author.

So what's in the Unofficial Hunter Guide?

First off is an intro to Hunters and an overview off the various server types (PvP, etc.) and then the different races, covering their strong and weak points as far as Hunters are concerned.

Next is a section on game mechanics and how those apply to Hunters.

Natually there's a section on pets with some pretty useful advice as to which pets best suit your playstyle.

Like PvP? There is a whole section here on how to rule at Pvp and deal with any other class.

Talent builds - Not only does the guide gice you the info on each talent, it also tells you how useful each talent is in raiding, PvP, leveling, for teams, and solo.

There's also a leveling guide and a gold making guide. While the leveling guide doesn't stack up to Joana's Gudie or Brian's Guide, much less Zygor's, it's not a bad place to get started.

Lastly there's a useful gold making guide. Again, it doesn't stack up to the big gold guides, but it's definitely useful.

If this guide had a leveling guide and a gold guide like the others then it would be 600 pages long and cost $85. For that price you can get their 18 guide package...

A Little More In Depth...

While more experienced players will scoff, I think the discussion on servers is of value to the new World of Warcraft player.

My view on the various races is to play whichever one you like, but each race does bring a couple of special abilities to the table. Some of these are of more use than others as far as being a Hunter is concerned, so if you want to be really efficient then you should pay attention to these.

Game mechanics: newer players willpick up a lot from this section and so will more experienced players. Those who already make a study of game mechanics can probably skip this section.

Next is a section that discusses how the game mechanics
works, such as stats, attributes (eg: armor and
resistances,) modifiers, and just how much of a modifer
you need to get a real effect on your game.

He also tells you how much you don't need. There's a
limit to how much value you get from "add attack," for example.

Fighting as a hunter. He covers the basics here and
hits the strategies later. Also covered as the spells
used by a Hnter:

Some advanced stuff - if you're a new hunter you'll find

 aspects
 shots
 stings
 traps
 tracking
 
Shot rotations - you can't just auto-shoot and be effective.

Threat management in t4eams and in reaids

Kiting

Pullling

Care and feeding of yoiur pet
 tanking and how not to pull aggro of fyour pet
 DPS and use of your pet's special abilities
 Earning your pet's loyalty
 
Pet types,good and bad points

Love it or hate it, PvP is part of the game, so here ya go!
 PvP Vs ....
 Areas