Hunter Talent Builds
Hunters are one of the best classes to play in the world of warcraft, they can do a little bit of everything, which makes them very flexible. However that flexibility does start going downhill when you get into your talent builds.
However with good talent selection for your hunter, you can keep most of that flexibility and still be a good all around hunter.
There are several hunter builds you can go with, WoTLK talents have expanded a little more, and have made some skills a lot easier to use, even a few have combined which have increased the value of some talents greatly.
The three talent tree’s you have on the hunter are beast mastery, marksmanship and survival. Perhaps the most popular talent tree is the beast mastery tree. Followed by a distant second by the marksmanship tree. While the survival talent tree has some good talents in it, it is mostly seen as a supportive tree, and not many people at all spec into it.
The beast mastery talent tree is the most popular by far, it’s purpose is to increase the abilities of your pet. Pets are good start with, but with the beast mastery talent tree, they can get considerably more armour and damage, along with special abilities that can make them extremely dangerous. Infact, a well spec’d beast mastery hunter can take on some group content solo, which is quite amazing on it’s own.
The marksmanship tree is very popular as well, as it increases the damage the hunter does directly. The purpose of this tree is to increase the damage a hunter does, and just make them more deadly, and it does it quite well. Most of the talents increase the damage done by the hunters weapons or special abilities, however there are some abilities that increase your stats directly like the combat experience talent, which increases both your agility and intellect. It also provided a couple of group buffs for your party when you’re grouped.
The most common combination of talent spec’s that people take are, beast mastery as primary, and marksmen as secondary. The other is marksmen as primary, and beast mastery as secondary. The reason for this is, either your pet is going out and doing most of the damage and your hunter is supplementing the damage, or your pet is holding agro long enough for you to mow down your target.
Hunters can wear chain armour after level 40, however as a hunter most of your damage is done at range, so you should be planning on keeping monsters and targets as far as away as possible. This is why the beast mastery tree is a most for most hunters, it makes sure that your pet can obtain and keep aggro while everyone else finishes off the target quickly. Combined with a great wow quest helper addon, you’ll find that leveling fast will never be an issue.
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Druid Talent Builds
Druids are one of the misunderstood classes of world of Warcraft. You’ll find there are a few druids running around, and most people won’t look twice at them. Well that is until there is a bear running at them, or a cat chasing them, then people on the pvp battle grounds flee in fear.
You’ll find there are two main builds of talents for druids in wow, They are the feral druid talent builds, and the resto talent builds, which is short for restoration talent build.
The Restoration talent build is straight forward, the entire idea of it is to make your druid into a primary healer, and it works very well. Once you have spent 15 talents into the resto tree, you’ll be into the gold so to speak, that is when all the good restro talents start becoming available. As you go further into the tree, you’ll see your healing powers growing quickly. You’ll find you’ll be able to act as the primary healer in a group by the time you hit somewhere around the 30’s.There isn’t much more you can do with a restoration build, but in the end, the idea is you stand back from the front lines, and provide healing and buffs to your group. If you keep most of your talents in the resto tree, you’ll find you’ll become a very powerful healer .
The Feral Druid builds come in two distinct versions, bear and cat, you can interchange the the forms, but what it comes down to, is bear form for tanking, and cat form for dps. However you’ll find that the bear form can still cause a lot damage and the cat form can still quite a bit of damage. If you want to look at it from another angle, the bear form is a lot like a warrior, and the cat form is alot like a rogue. In the end, which one you fire up will depend on how your group is configured and what you are hunting, or the instance you are about to run.
The one thing you need to look out for as a feral druid, is if you want to do PvP or not, the reason for this, is there are a few talents in the feral tree that aren’t good for Standard PvP, like adding in stun to your attacks, while this will be great for PvP a lot of monsters in WoW are immune to stun, so it won’t work at all.
Now, do you go Feral PvP Druid, Feral PvE druid, or Resto druid? The first thing i would suggest to you would be to get the dual talent build specialization skills, this will allot you to keep two sets of talents trained, and you can swap easily. I would recommend a resto druid build as one of your builds, as it’ll mean you’ll always be able to get a group easily. If you’re not into Battle grounds, or on a PvP server, going a more PvE build for your feral build. In the end, you need to work out if your play style is sit back and heal and help, or if you wish to rip things apart… fast.
The real fun with a druid doesn’t really start until your in your 70’s, if you want a fast way to get to your 70’s, and also afford the 1000gold needed for the dual talent specialization skill, check out our wow quest helper addon.
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feral druid talent build
Feral Druids are one of the most feared classes on the battle grounds, but they are also great at PvE as well. The Feral Druid builds are based around the bear form, and the cat form, depending on how you want to do your damage. Both can be highly damaging in the game, they just go about doing their damage in different ways. Most druids will put 14 points into the resto tree, just to boost some basic talents, but after that, it becomes useless unless you are doing a resto druid build. Or you can check out our general druid talent builds post.
Depending on how you want to go about your feral build will dictate how you’ll spend your points into the feral tree. In the PvE Builds, druids will generally skip brutal impact, as the stun bonus isn’t that good when most of the monsters you’ll be killing are immune to it. However it is a great talent to have in PvP and battle grounds as it’ll knock out casters pretty well.
A couple of the other skills that skipped in general on both PvP and PvE builds are feral aggression and Demoralising road. Ferocious bite is skipped over mostly as well; however it can be used in PvP in the right places, but not much. After that, you’ll want to spend every other point into your feral talent tree as you can. The talents in the tree will make you a great combination of tank and dps, which is good in groups and raid, yes, even feral druids can tank in a few raids! All the points in the Feral tree either make skills cost less to cast, or boost your attacks or boost your armor, you can’t argue against that when you’re going to be the primary tank in a lot of groups.
At the end of the day, been a feral druid is great, and you’ll be on the front line most of the time, and in pvp you’ll even see people avoiding you as much as possible. That is pretty good for a class that is supposed to be an all a rounder isn’t it ?
You can find more talent builds here, and you can also find a great wow quest helper addon guide here as well.
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