Hunter Leveling Guide - Speed Leveling Tips & Advice

If you're looking for some useful advice for leveling your hunter faster, then this guide was written for you. Specifically, we're going to give you some general info on the hunter playstyle, which talent build you should use while leveling, and finish with a few valuable tricks for leveling quicker. By the time you've finished reading this guide, you'll be well informed on how to reduce the time it takes to get levels as a hunter.

The hunter is one of the most popular classes in WoW, and they're great fun to play. The are primarily a ranged class and use long range weapons such as bows, crossbows and guns. They are also the only class to have an animal pet, and they have the capability to train a variety of different and exotic animals. They specialize in high damage and crowd control abilities through trapping and chain trapping. They also have the advantage of wearing mail armor.

Which spec is best for leveling your hunter? It depends greatly on how you wish to play, because the hunter has many valid leveling specs to choose from. Perhaps one of the most popular is the beastmastery spec. With this talent build, your pet will do the majority of your damage. Your pet will hold aggro on the mob for you and leave you free to do damage from range. You can also try the marksmanship spec, which focuses on long range damage and sacrifice's the damage-dealing abilties of your pet.

Which pet is best for leveling your hunter? Most people choose cats, because they offer high damage output, as well as a fast attack rate. Scorpions used to be the best for arena PVP due to their unique ability to place a poison onto a target. This has changed with the start of Wotlk though, because beastmasters can train new exotic pets which offer a variety of unique skills such as poisons, snares and more.

Now let's move on to some useful tricks for leveling faster. One of the best ways to move around quicker before you have a fast mount, is to use the aspect of the cheetah skill. This makes you and your pet, and later on your whole party, move quicker. However, make sure you remember to turn this aspect off while your in combat, otherwise every time you or your pet is struck you will become dazed, which slows your movement speed by 50%.

Also remember to stock up on ammo and food for your pet before you go out questing. If you don't have a large supply of both, you will soon run out and your pet may become upset, or your damage output will become awful because you can't fight from range.

Finally, make sure that you make good use of your unique ability to set traps. A well placed trap can crowd control one mob or enemy player while you finish killing another. Learning how to trap well is a skill that will often save you as a hunter.

In conclusion, we have covered several ways to improve your skills as a hunter in this guide. In particular, we covered some good general advice on playing a hunter, which leveling spec to choose, and a few useful tips for leveling quicker. Now that you've read this guide, you should know much more about the hunter and how you can level quickly as one.