SoD Hunter Looks Excellent - WoW Classic Season of Discovery Rune and Builds First Look 

Guys new hunter bible dropped

+1 for an overall class review! So glad you are making some dope sheeeet again. Ps - audio waaaaay better

Literally the only SoD Hunter video that agrees that Lone Wolf works really well as a Marksmanship Rune NOT a Melee Hunter rune. Loved the insight and explanations. Earned my sub :)

God I've missed your videos. I played hunter at the end of the classic release, and got to main it in TBC when you were doing your videos, and I absolutely loved the videos and it made enjoyment of my hunter even more getting to see your videos. So glad you're back

Lmaoooo 9:09 "Some say Kosm." The real nightmare of that game was chasing Micolash. Great video :)

Audio sounded great. Really glad to see your content again, and also REALLY excited for SoD Hunter. Thank you for all the work.

audio-perfect! so good to have u back! keep the vids coming! hunter- JESUS! Maybe give us a lvl 25 BIS list for hunter

Really happy you’re back mate, I’ve always really appreciated the time you take to investigate and flesh out legitimate meta builds for hunter

Your audio was on point. The subtle reverb was *chef's kiss*

So glad you are back! There arent as many good content creators for hunter as for other classes. Looking forward to your future vids

Ditch carve for beast mastery on single target / bosses so your pet crunches a bit more when you use flanking strike imo

Great vid. Glad to see you back. Audio is buttery smooth.

The audio was great btw. I’m excited for a BM hunter build, something similar to what we had in TBC, it was really fun. I hope they do some tweaking with Kill Command and Pet Avoidance. Amazing video brother glad to see you back.

Hey fellow Hunter. I really like your videos. Taking a break after tbc, this gave me a deja vu from tbc classic when i used to watch your videos. Keep up the good work in the name of hunter jesus!

Snap! Almost as hyped to see you post a hunter sod vid as I am for sod itself. ❤🎉

Cant wait to play a hunter in SoD myself! Though I think it may be an alt to a warlock tank we'll see how things shake up. Great video though, you really give a good analysis of the abilities and how one could use them in combat. Got yourself a new sub!

Audio worked super well, ty for the video :)

right on man, keep it up. been watching you for a long time, love your break downs on hunter!!

Great video Big,can’t wait to see the other classes keep up the good work!

Great vid. Excited. Audio was perfect.

Dayum where this hunter boi been hiding out? Used to watch your pre TBC vids :D

For lvl 25 I'm going marks to get aimed shot with the mm rune, beastmastery rune, and either kill command or flanking strikes. Will also get a windserpent to punish anyone trying to abuse deadzone. I think pet and myself will be pumping big dmg for first phase. So glad you're making vids for sod, most hunter stuff out rn is garbage.

Loved your video. A PvP focused video would be amazing, discussing best runes and lvl 25 specs. I know good PvE runes like Sniper Training will not be so good in PvP, as you hardly have the chance to stay 6 sec in the same place. I'm particularly excited for the Beast Mastery rune as it will make Wind Serpents so much more viable, similar to TBC.

That intro and music is so charming, I love the feel of your videos.

First time seeing your videos. You have a good voice, are informative and knowledgeable. Solid content, here's your sub and like sir

Love that shot of Thunder Bluff

Great video man. Subscribed, love your humour

12:20 I wept tears of joy, for he said the words I needed to hear.

Nice vid! The audio was perfect

By far the best video on Hunter SoD. You confirmed every choose I made so it's perfect. Thanks

FINALLY get a BigBobbed vid... I have missed this sweet, sweet ear chocolate.

I hope they keep the in combat traps! Looking forward to melee hunter so much! Audio is great

I really wanna be a melee hunter fighting on the front lines with my pet. Flanking strike is a sick rune for that and im really excited for SoD :D

Nice video. Subscribed. I think melee hunter might be fun. Might try it out as a duo with druid.

THANK YOU!!!! Finally after half a dozen dedicated Hunter "Guides" you're the first one to EVER mention Sniper Training as a BM rune, all others instantly turn off their neurons and go for KC, while mindboggingly still maintaining Cobra Strikes (even though Hunters have a laughable normal crit% by lv25, I guess their idea is to spam a dozen Arcane shots and hoping for 1 trigger?). Your BM 0/13/3 talent tree sounds very interesting, but going a level further, I think maxing Improved Arcane Shot could be even better. My plan is to spam lv1 Arcane Shots for their low mana cost just to trigger 2 pet crits as often as possible (Lighting Breath or Bite, either reaches native ~40dmg at lv25). With that talent we get 12 shots per minute instead of the usual 10, which pushes the average Cobra Strikes trigger (assuming an easy 40% crit) from 4 activations to ~5, reaching the Godly 10 pet crits per minute. Man I can't wait.

I'm super excited for melee hunter as well, and I'm thinking that due to the nature of Flanking Strike, the Beast Mastery hand rune might be really good for melee hunter as well, depending on whether you can cleave or not. This is of course assuming that switching when out of combat is quick and simple enough that you can simply slot it in for single target fights. So with that, a sort of Survival/BM hybrid, where you fight in melee in tandem with your pet, seems really fun! As a tangent, I also imagine that with the Beast Mastery hand rune changing Growl into an actual taunt, along with the other buffs, pet off-tanking has never been better.

Thank you so much for actually adding substance to your discussion of the runes rather than just going “wooow looks OP!” like all these other youtubers pumping out “content” of reading the patch notes we already saw on wowhead

I’m sooooooo hyped for melee hunter! I’m interested to see at how many targets Carve will outperform Beast Mastery. With pet scaling added and us likely always using Aspect of the Lion… let’s are gunna be so strong- and that may be overall better than Carve in most situations (outside of heavy cleave, ofc). But eventually having that Beast Mastery cooldown… even as a melee hunter that feels so strong and will likely out perform deep survival for Melee hunter (me just projecting, of course. Who knows) 🤷🏼‍♂️ but I simply foresee the melee hunter build being a pet-focused, raptor strike spamming, flanking strike weaving build - which is awesome. I always felt BM should be more melee heavy, fighting alongside your pet, rexxar style

Very good insight on the new mechanics, thanks ! Was wondering if you would be interested to make same kind of videos for Warlock and Priest ? Im torn apart when choosing what two classes to play (i dont really want to play three characters) and Hunter, Warlock and Priest all seem very interesting so far.

If they add in an avoidance rune for pets which I think they will, I would love to do a Rexxar like build. Something like Aspect of the Lion on chest, beast mastery on gloves, and flanking strikes on legs. You could either go deep survival into lightning reflexes and then dabble in BM down to ferocity or you could go deep bm down to beastial wrath and then dabble in survival down to surefooted. It would basically be a combo pet and melee build, obviously this is planned out for 60 but i thought it would be a cool idea if it works.

Call Your Shot gives me rogue's Vendetta spell vibes. On The Move could be some sort of warrior's Heroic Leap idea, just not leaping away but like a quick sprint and zig-zag animation.

Sneaking in a Bloodborne reference, love it

Idk much about wow. But awesome hunter build you got there. Hope you have fun in classic wow season of discovery 😊

I was debating playing Ret or Hunter, but i’ve been a Hunter main for literally as long as i can remember. That’s wild i was 7 when vanilla dropped, when i did get to play i cherished it big time.

Audio is crystal clear. I can almost count the e’s when you say sheeet

Well done,can’t have the cussin with my GS here

Great video bro

Wow! Good stuff here!

I really love your take on Melee hunter. I've been "theorycrafting" a bit and watching a bunch of videos but I feel like everyone else is way off with their Melee Hunter builds. Like they don't take into consideration that the tooltip for traps changed, they don't put points in Humanoid/Monster slaying and instead put them in Deflection eventhough they are talking about PVE builds. So yea, thanks for your video and thanks for actually knowing your stuff.

Amazing video as usual. Grats Still praying hunter jesus to give dash to raptor tho🙂😂

Would love to see "Call Your Shot" to be some sort of max range increase for a fed seconds, like mastery for hunters in retail

Very good video!

the range on the traps might just be some placeholder thing according to the wowhead guy who released the datamine said on a podcast. iirc they said it didnt have some other thing that you'd expect to see with a ranged spell but i think that might indicate that there are some ranged traps coming

On the Move could definitely be a future rune ability that functions similarly to paladin's bubble, making the hunter unhittable + giving a speed buff but also giving some kind of a major offensive debuff to the hunter to balance it out. So you can't do much offensively while it's active but it'd be a nifty multipurpose tool for either safely engaging in melee or disengaging back to max distance once per combat (assuming the ability has a hefty cooldown) .....OR you could use it to run away like a b-

You're back!

do u think i can main a dwarf hunter if i want to pvp on Sod? or night elf will be to broken because of shadow melt ?

Nothing wrong with the audio. You sound great.

On the Move and Call your Shot look to me like buffs that would be used for events or quests tied with unlocking the Runes themselves. Little mini-games you must accomplish in order to obtain them, and these strike me as buffs you would get during the event/minigame you use.

Very interested in a meta video going over all the classes!

I think the key for melee hunter in PVP will be group fights and timing. Generally youre gonna have to rangeweave and poke until someone gets out of position and then get your ramp in. Luckily the kit is built to keep people away form you, which just inversely flip, makes it hard for people to get away as well. Melee is gonna burst when they can, and chill. You cant charge into mass basically. Its a skirmisher not a true a melee brawler. In classic i played a marks/surv hunter at 60 with Giantstalker and Ass-candy for pvp. Would do the ranged thing until people got close, whip out the big ole hog and slap em for a 2k raptor strike. I imagine it will be very similar. The biggest thing will be realizing its more of a hybrid for pvp then pure melee i think.

I know you said you think that Raptor Strike doesn't consume the Flanking Strike buff, and I agree with you. The buff only lasts for 10 seconds, and the Flanking Strike CD is 30 seconds, so if it consumed it, there would never be a way to stack it. I think the idea is that you FS to get the buff up, and pray that your RS resets the FS CD ASAP so you can do it again before the buff expires, thus stacking it.

That thumbnail makes me hunger for the blackblade, i hope the big raids aint open right away so i can try to get it pre raid again

Love the vids, have you ever thought of streaming i think your comedy would attract people

I'm going melee runes + trap spec for pvp. Entrapment will be hilarious to chain cc everyone

Definitely wouldn't mind more videos regarding class meta from you. Maybe just whatever you find Interesting to slightly interesting.

For "Call Your Shot". If it's a thing I'm thinking it may be like Monk's Hit Combo on retail. Chaining shots together for a damage multiplier and not using the same shot twice in a row. Maybe something for level 60 where there could be faster CD shots or no CD shots.

Look who's back

Beast mastery hands rune might be nutty for melee hunter with flanking strike. BM rune increases pet damage by 30% and flanking strike seems to scale with pet damage.

Audio is better. Great job ~

I think being able to get Aimed shot is gonna be amazing early on. Will have to see the numbers tho.

BIGBOBBEDBOI IS BACK!!!

so both trap spells still exist (in combat and out of combat). I watched a vod from blizzcon and the default trap is still only usable out of combat.

I would hope so much for Lonewolf working for melee hunter. I would love that range/melee fightingstyle with no pet. I wonder if Flanking strike will work without pet

I think for PvP hybrid hunter is gonna be the way, there's nothing better for PvP than flanking strikes no matter what you pick at least for now. Having better burst at melee as range is huge, also love the new raptor strike alone makes being at melee better.

Good video as someone who has leveled not 1 but 2 MELEE hunters (1 who used no ranged abilities at all and the second who only used serpent sting) to 60 in Classic hardcore and the pre-classic hardcore (Kargoz HC addon mode) I disagree with your MELEE hunter build slightly. However, more for a pvp Melee Hunter. I would go all in on deflection 5/5 and leave the 3 in humanoid. Other than that I like the build. Very nice video.

So why are classes different on SoD than in SoM or in first classic wow? It's not like it's different expansion?

in your opinioncan you tame Humar at lvl 25 ?

A speculation type video with a dps tier list would be pretty rad

Your audio is good!

Audio is perfect sir

Is cobra strikes really going to be worth 5% crit or 10% stats? I mean, maybe, It just doesn't seem like much, but thats only feelscraft at best.

Best SoD Hunter video by a mile!

I'm really curious if they will touch Hunter Deadzone in SOD somehow.

I wonder… Is melee like Sv retail? I want to go 2 handed melee.

Praise Hunter Jesus and good to have some nuanced coverage. What do you make of shot rotations? Classic was extremely sensitive to weapon speed, favoring slower weapons due to aimed shot mechanics. Is the rotation still aimed/multi or will chimaera replace aimed? Chimaera says 125% wep dmg afaik and aimed at 25 has wep dmg + 70 so it's likely aimed will hit harder but if Chimaera is instant it might tip the scales?? Big big questions that takes a boi with pair of big bobbs to answer, at the very least

i kinda thought melee hunter sounded bad when I first heard the announcement, but actually i was wrong and it looks so sick lol

Is there still melee weaving?

if we get pet scaling i think lion aspect would be pretty broke for BM due to double dipping ofc at lvl 60. unless pets scale 1/1 with our stats it would pretty much wasted before we get actual stats on our gear

Will it be Vanilla Pets? AKA BT 1.0 AS???

Make one for druids, please! I love your videos!

Audio was mint bud

Audio is great!

Audio was great! JBL Headphones. Had some low end growl to it. Clear and sharp ends of words.

I was thinking which class will perform the most consistently in all phases and hunter came to mind as number 1

100% going hunter

The audio was good!

u are awesome dude! Melee hunters for the people! the rexxar dreeeeeam

Yeah? Where are we getting the mana to use all of this?

Call Your Shot looks like some kind of improved Hunter's Mark.

No audio issues here. 👍