Little guide on how to grind your characters

[FlyingDeadBirdie]

With the new rech arrows, grinding is pretty much the same until a mob hits me, which I think stops regeneration. That means that if a mob hits me once, my health goes wayyy down and so does my mana. It doesn't help that every 2 minutes some syrtis hunter galumphs down and attacks me when I have really little health. Basically I have to kite and hit mobs that are my level or lower (more damage and fewer hits needed)

[kannC]

i am playing a hunter recently and have it leveled to 51 in inner realm (thanks to the new realm tasks).
I will start to grind in WZ soon and actually i did abit for the last 2 days. I am asking some advices from you fellows about an effective setup for me to reference.

My question is whether i should use a pet to grind or not. It worked fine in inner but with the gank (or rvr) activities in WZ i found my pet sometimes become my burden (sorry my little cat ). But my pet definitely helped for my grinding.

If i stayed with my pet line, I can only focus on one bow line which is my SB atm. Without using pet, i can add LB or putting more points in other skill line. I tried that but seems i didnt improve my damage alot or in terms of DPS.

Regarding the damage, I can only do like 200 normals on normal mobs but i saw some hunters can do lots more damage than me. I tried using CB and SS to boost but the CD makes it not very efficiency for grinding. I suppose that is the equipment i use in compare with others.

Anyway, I would like to hear some advice from you all so I can learn more to play as a hunter.

[Freeverse]

Originally Posted by kannC

Anyway, I would like to hear some advice from you all so I can learn more to play as a hunter.

A pet makes grinding definitely much faster, so i would keep it. The damage a pet makes is also the best dot-skill for a hunter in my opinion, especially combined with Bestial Wrath and SS.

Many 60 lvl hunters who prefere pet-setups don't use lb and sb trees (maybe just some of the first spells). Only Evasion (Son of the Wind is a must-have, without a shadow of a doubt), Tricks, Scouting (many must-haves in this one) and Pet.

You won't be able to avoid 100% of ganking-acts on you, but you can help yourself by using Enemy Surveillance (4)/(5) and camo, to disappear and hide for a while, when you see enemys coming.

[kannC]

Thanks for your advice Freeverse. I havent tried BW before so i will give it a try.
I use Enemy Surveillance (3) as i read from some posts that beyond 250m, the info is sorta incorrect. I current dont have enough points for SOTW yet but will try it once i gain more level. One more question, I saw some players attacked me with Death Sentence and I am not sure whether that give bonus on pet attack too. I know i have be 3m in range 8)

This will be my new hunter setup and at level 53 i will probably make sb to 17 so that i can have hinder mainly for getting some kills for WMC quest.

http://goo.gl/3LwY7

Appreciate any kind of suggestion and recommendation.

[Freeverse]

Originally Posted by kannC

One more question, I saw some players attacked me with Death Sentence and I am not sure whether that give bonus on pet attack too. I know i have be 3m in range 8)

Honestly, i don't have a solid opinion about Death Sentence yet.
It gives a damage bonus to the pet's attacks for sure, but Bestial Wrath has a bigger %-bonus and a longer duration, so i would choose BW.
Ofc you can use both - Death Sentence AND Bestial Wrath - which, combined with SS, can work very fine; in some cases you will see your pet cause even 400-500 dmg on easy/normal mobs or unbuffed low-lvl players.

Originally Posted by kannC

Appreciate any kind of suggestion and recommendation.

Just ignore people, who call your setup noob just because it is different than theirs.

[71175]

About Death Sentence: yep, it is great in pets setups (tho in ganking i use it without pet even , cuz 1k enshares), and combined with said BW and SS it can make ur pet do OP dmg on enemy.
On your setup: dunno, i would drop sbs to 7 and get enshare 5. Why? In grinding enshare > dual shot any day. Well, unless u got amu :3

[kannC]

Originally Posted by Freeverse

Just ignore people, who call your setup noob just because it is different than theirs.

Ya i will reference all the information i gather here and make a setup which i find fit my style. I admit i am still a noob

To 71175:
Thanks for your suggestion also, i put Ensnaring 5 now 8) but i keep the sb line and reducing the evasion line to 11, adding distract shot plus upping the camo by 1 to 4 (ie 15s more camo). Wish this to allow me having more cc and longer hidden time to compensate for the lowered defense. I also keep the Dual shot as i dont want to lose the dmg when i use CB (upped CB+1 for the increased scout line).
Just tested the damage i made with ensare after Death Sentence, SS and CB was 8xx. Not bad in my standard 8)

Will try whether i can squeeze in a dual shot within the CB time and will post the result here later 8)

Revised Setup

URL: http://goo.gl/FfBcz

[Tamui]

I'm no expert in hunter as mine is only lvl40
I'd like to point out, why don't you get parabolic shot and perhaps rapid shot?
Also, Spell Elude is useless unless you have Lady Luck on your side.

[Quincebo]

Most of the times, 2 normals + ensnaring + normal and the mob is dead.
Only applies if you use a pet

[Piotin]

What about petless "grind"setups (or hybrid if possible). Any tips on that?
My hunter is only lvl 35 but those pets are more of a nuissance to me than anything else ...