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Training a Night Elf Hunter - Beast Mastery

I know everyone is a master at the World of Warcraft and how you should spec (train) your character. I currently have two hunters. One is a level 42, with his specs all over the board. The other is a level 28 Hunter primarily in Beast Mastery (18/0/0). Once I hit level 29 with my 28 Hunter he will be aligned as (18/1/0) for the improved concussion shot.

A little background behind the decision of beast mastery. I am not much of one to do a ton of Battlegrounds. In such I like to solo or do a small group for most of my quests. Reasoning is I am very new to WoW and want to experience the quests first before I dive deep into the battleground. Although with this hunter I will probably be twinking at the BG once I hit level 29 for at least one or two nights mainly because I want to earn enough honor to get a very nice PvP mount at level 60 and a few other items when I am a higher level.

I also figure that at level 29, most people's skill level is decent but not crazy like in Higher level BG's so it should be fun and one side should actually win. We will see. I am anxious to see how my level 29 hunter will do. I do talk up about twinking, but really I am going to throw him into the BG with the equipment I use for normal questing. Reasoning is one, I do not have the gold to buy twinked out items and two it makes it more interesting when your not completely a twink.

I will report my losses/successes with this spec of hunter in the Battle Ground. I can tell you already for questing, Beast Mastery is the way to go as at a Level 29 hunter I can take on Level 34-35 mobs (1-3 at a time) due to my pet aggroing and maintaining them. Where as when I was on my level 42 hunter my pet could only handle maybe 1 or 3 at level 33 and no higher. So there is a huge improvement for my solo questing which I love to do.

Questions feel free to ask away!