To update BRKs post for some of the other 25-man runs:

Rule #1: dps pet skills trump everything – dump points in Gore, Bite, Avoidance, Cobra, Claw, Rip, Shred whatever — Dash is also pretty clutch – you can never underappreciate a speedy retreat from serious AoE damage. Once these basic talents have been point filled… move on:

Gruuls:

The only damage your pet is taking here is physical – stock the points in full dps (always – especially avoidance rank 2) – and then put the remainder of the points into Natural Armour and Stamina – remember, your pet will receive Fortitude and I would recommend grabbing a scroll of Prot to help out some more. As always – pet control is key – if a Cave In is on melee – get your pet out and toss on an IMP.

SSC:

Like the later 25 mans – different bosses demand different resistances – however, youre fairly safe early on with a combo of Nature/Natural Armour — or Nature/Frost (Hydross + trash). Its generally a tough call since the trash throughout SSC blends some serious physical damage with nature damage – so I almost always rock at least 50% Nature resist.

TK:

Serious physical and arcane damage in this instance. Id go full Arcane and the remainder in Natural armour.

Hyjal/BT – see the post in the hunter forum at http://www.maxdps.com

Good luck huntards.

yes yes and yes, at least for claw. u really need to train claw on your pet no question about it.
u can skip bite imo, i just use claw growl and dash on my nice little kitty, i find bite beeing to focus consuming to the amount of dmg it actually does. not worth it imo.

and as far as i know, at least in pve, ravagers and cats do more or less the same dps. main difference is ravagers can learn gore which i think has bleed effect as well, i dont really know never used a ravager.

Best Regards,
Hunzul of Runetotem

I’m way, way behind on reading BRK (why oh why do you post so much, BRK?) so you may never come back and see this. . . but I also have a Blood Elf hunter on Bonechewer! I’ll watch for you and /wave if I see you. I’m a still a lowwwbie though (22) so I’d have to bump into you in an old world city.

Elahnia & Deja
Bonechewer

Exactly.

I may have 20k+ HK’s spread amongst my toons. I could have gotten much more if all I did was guard a node or flag etc. It’s incredibly easy to get HK’s to tell you the truth. You could just go ‘rambo’ mode and attack everything in sight. That doesn’t take skill.

But, in a controlled setting like the arena – greater skill is involved. Because, your rating is entirely dependent upon your win/loss record.

I just started a BM hunter – now at 57. I stopped along the way to BG at the top of each bracket. If I wasn’t always at the top of the charts (or at the least top 3) it was because I didn’t actively seek out hordies to kill. It’s _extremely_ easy to play a hunter in BG’s. So much so – I have now abandoned my other toons to concentrate on my hunter. I _never_ had such an easy time in BG’s before.

It takes much more skill to play a druid well in the BG’s. I don’t even want to talk about the skill involved to play a druid in the arena’s.

This is what I laughed at: “Call us back when you have a scope on your ranged weapon and more than 1/3 of our honor kills and we’ll talk. We blewbies want to learn about PvP.”

Just because you have high HK’s doesn’t mean you are a PVP god.

Q.E.D.