Wednesday, October 29, 2008

What is it about hunters?

Wow Insider inspired this blog with their post a few days ago, you can read it here. Being a girl gamer I was very suprised at the female players and their preferences.
It showed that women largely preferred to play alliance druids and hunters. What is it about hunter that is so alluring? Why do a large majority of female players choose to play hunter? Well hunters are a powerful class, they can put down some of the best dps in the game. There are a wide variety of races that can be hunters as well, so the ladies of wow have a nice selection to pick from. That is definitely important! ;) I play a blood elf, they are hands down my favorite race in wow. Blood Elves are small, quick, and have attitude, and I also like their design. Night Elves were a close second place for me and I have since created a cute little ally night elf hunter alt named Desmonde on Darkspear. :) Hunters are versatile in their choice of weapon as well, ranged weapons can be longbow, crossbow, or gun. Melee weapons can be swords, daggers, axes, fist weapons, etc... a very large list of options indeed!

The allure of hunter for me was the pet. Leveling up was hard without a pet, the I was missing an integral part of my class. When I first got a pet it was a shock, leveling was a lot easier now! But with hunter as my first character leveling all the way up to 70 (soon to be 80!) was hard, even though hunter is said to be one of the easiest classes to level. Nevertheless I would never replace Escada for another main, I love fighting with my all time favorite animal in real life at my side, and a black one at that. :) I love the wide range of pets a hunter can have and that they can also have more than one, and even name them. For me, my pet is an irreplaceable part of Escada's make-up. I hate it when Motomo dies in fights...very irritating. Mend pet only goes so far sometimes, and if my boyfriend is healing an instance we are running he always does his best to keep Motomo alive, and if not I get a hasty /sorry. :) (/hug <3)

So why do you play a hunter?

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