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Dotsgaming's video serves as a comprehensive beginner's guide to the Hunter class in World of Warcraft, covering the key aspects of all three Hunter specializations: Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, and Survival. Hunters are primarily damage dealers who can fight both at range and in melee, supported by different types of pets.
The guide begins by explaining the Hunter class basics, including their use of melee or ranged weapons, the resource called Focus, and their ability to perform many actions while moving. Pet specializations—Ferocity, Tenacity, and Cunning—are detailed for their respective benefits in damage, tankiness, and utility.
For Beast Mastery Hunters, the video emphasizes ease of use and area-of-effect damage, recommending a specific talent build and pet usage for various scenarios. Key abilities and a simple rotation are provided to maximize damage and survivability.
Marksmanship Hunters, who forego pets for a Lone Wolf buff, are suggested for players seeking a complex ranged playstyle. Important cooldowns and ability rotations are outlined, along with defensive tactics and stat priorities.
Survival Hunters, a melee-focused specialization, are highlighted for their high mobility and use of defensive and healing talents to enhance survivability. A detailed rotation for optimal damage, both single-target and AoE, is provided along with defensive strategies and stat recommendations.
In conclusion, dotsgaming encourages viewer interaction and subscription for more helpful content, aiming to support new players in mastering the Hunter class.
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In this part of the video, Dots introduces the hunter class in World of Warcraft, providing an overview for beginners. He explains that the hunter is a pure damage-dealing class that can fight using either melee or ranged weapons, supported by their animal companions. Dots describes the three specializations: Beast Mastery (focusing on synergy with pets), Marksmanship (focusing on powerful ranged attacks), and Survival (a melee specialization with high mobility and damage over time skills). Hunters use a resource called Focus and benefit from the ability to cast many skills while moving. They start with leather armor and eventually use mail armor. Dots also mentions that any race except Dracthyr can play as a hunter. He then previews upcoming builds designed for new players, emphasizing ease of use and defensive augmentations, before briefly touching on pet specializations.
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In this part of the video, the focus is on pet specializations and talent builds for Hunters, particularly for new players. It explains the differences between ferocity, tenacity, and cunning pets in terms of their roles: ferocity pets for high damage, tenacity pets for tankiness, and cunning pets for utility. Recommendations include using a ferocity pet for questing and group content, a cunning pet (like a raptor) for PVP for its healing debuff, and a tenacity pet for better survivability during quests. The video also advises having a range of pets stored in stables for various situations.
Moving into the Beast Mastery Hunter talent build, the video highlights its suitability for new players due to its focus on augmenting area of effect damage and providing passive boosts for healing and defense. Importing the talent build is facilitated by a string provided in the description. For rotations, it suggests using specific pets like spirit beasts or core hounds based on group needs, and details a simple damage dealing rotation involving abilities like beastial wrath, death chakram, barbed shot, kill command, and kill shot, with multi-shot recommended for dealing with multiple enemies.
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In this segment, the speaker provides tips on optimizing damage and survival for different Hunter specializations in World of Warcraft. For Beast Mastery Hunters, they advise using abilities like Bestial Wrath for big damage, Primal Rage for a group haste buff, Kill Shot at low enemy health, and Tranquilizing Shot for removing buffs. Defensive strategies include using disengage, Aspect of the Cheetah, Exhilaration, Mend Pet, Aspect of the Turtle, Survival of the Fittest, Intimidation, and various traps.
The segment then transitions to Marksmanship Hunters, noting they do not use a pet, instead gaining a Lone Wolf buff that increases damage by 10%. This spec is more complex and suited for players wanting a deeper, ranged play style, especially effective in dungeons and questing. The speaker mentions focusing on area effect damage and taking talents for extra healing and defense. They also provide hints for PvP and tough fights, where using a pet might still be advantageous for healing debuffs or added support.
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In this segment of the video, the focus is on the rotation and abilities for a Marksman Hunter in a complex and detailed manner. The key damage cooldown to use is Trueshot, with other abilities like Volley, Double Tap, Death Chakram, Explosive Shot, Rapid Fire, Kill Shot, and Aimed Shot to be used on cooldown or when they proc. Arcane Shot should be used to spend Precise Shots charges generated by Aimed Shot, or Multi-Shot in AoE situations. Steady Shot is used when no other abilities are available.
The video emphasizes maintaining this rotation, noting Trueshot significantly reduces the cooldown of Rapid Fire and Aimed Shot. For defense, use Disengage, Aspect of the Cheetah, Exhilaration, Mending Pet, Aspect of the Turtle, Survival of the Fittest, Freezing Trap, Binding Shot, and Tar Trap for various situations. The stat priority for a Marksman Hunter is Agility, Mastery, Critical Strike, Versatility, and Haste.
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In this part of the video, the focus is on the Survival Hunter specialization within a particular game. Survival Hunters are noted for their melee abilities, high mobility, and the use of pets and two-handed weapons to deal damage. The build discussed emphasizes enhancing area-of-effect damage, which is beneficial for new players engaged in dungeon or overland content. Key talents offer extra healing and defensive capabilities to recover from mistakes. The recommended pets for PVE are ferocity pets, particularly raptors for PVP, to gain damage boosts and buffs like bloodlust.
The video outlines a specific rotation for dealing damage, prioritizing abilities such as Coordinated Assault, Kill Shot, Kill Command, Serpent Sting, Death Chakram, Explosive Shot, Flanking Strike, and Wildfire Bomb. For groups of three or more enemies, Butchery is used, and when other abilities are on cooldown, Mongoose Bite is spammed.
Defensive strategies include using abilities like disengage, aspect of the cheetah, aspect of the turtle, and survival of the fittest. Tools for crowd control and enemy debilitation include freezing trap, binding shot, wing clip, and tar trap. The stat priority for Survival Hunters is agility, haste, critical strike, versatility, and mastery, in that order.
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In this part of the video, the creator, dotsgaming, concludes their hunter beginner guide for World of Warcraft. They hope the content has been helpful for new or potential hunter players. The creator invites viewers to leave comments for any questions, like the video if they found it useful, and subscribe to the channel for more beginner class guides and future content. They express gratitude to the viewers for their support.