4 Hunters + ???

[Fear The Wrath]

Also what pets should the 4[5 if you think a pure hunter group is good] hunters get? why?

[Emo?]

What are u aiming @dooing on 70?

[Havelcek]

Definitely priest, you want AoE healing.

[Gallo]

Definitely priest, you want AoE healing.Does Prayer of Healing hit pets as well? I've always wondered that.

[Kaynin]

No idea on if it hits priests.

But for PvE I'd go resto shaman. Coordinated chain heals is sufficient for aoe healing and will go on pets definatly. And totems! Bloodlust/Heroism is imba too. :D

Basicly, I think a resto shaman is sufficient for healing, and adds more in terms of buffs then a priest could ever do.

Shaman all the way. :p

(I can't seem to vote. :( )

[Ilion Sturmlied]

For PvP Resto Shaman

For PvE Resto Shaman

For Instances I would make 3 Hunters, a Priest and a Paladin.

[Jaws5]

for a pvp grp paldin. Holy one with improved might and blessings of kings. He adds to most to a pvp hunter grp. this alllows hunters to move out of totem range. (limits of shaman) if paldin dies his blessing do not go away. Priest would be second. pick. shammy third.

[Kaynin]

for a pvp grp paldin. Holy one with improved might and blessings of kings. He adds to most to a pvp hunter grp. this alllows hunters to move out of totem range. (limits of shaman) if paldin dies his blessing do not go away. Priest would be second. pick. shammy third.

A paladin doesn't have any aoe heal tho and requires more micro management. You could play a shaman as alt, but a holy paladin you probably have to play as a main, which makes it kind of annoying, since as a hunter you need to move around a lot.

It'd require too many keybinds to alt a paladin in a hunter group effectively and hunters can't be played as alts unless the main is a hunter too really. :p

And apart from that, the main (the char in front) is most often targeted in PvP. If you have your healer their, you have your weakness exposed. So, for PvP a paladin? Feasable, probably, with a lot of keybinds and micromanagement. But I'd not prefer it. :p

[Nirthal]

As someone who's played paladin for quite some time, I'd advise AGAINST using one as a main healer in a multibox team.

The Paladin healing 'style' is to spam (and when I say spam i mean it) Flash of Light - a fast-casting low mana heal while wearing a lot of spellcrit gear and talented with illumination, which returns mana on every healing crit. This makes us mana-efficient and sustainable healers (although apparently after the recent spirit changes, Druids are equal if not better) but, since we have a grand-total of 3 single target healing spells, we are very poor when it comes to party-wide healing.

The myth that Paladins are good healers comes from raiding, where it is commonplace to have a Paladin as your main tank healer, where they can happily heal constantly and for large amounts over a very long time.

I'd say take a Priest since they are extremely diverse and have the largest capacity for AOE healing. I can see skills like Holy Nova and Circle of Healing, as well as my favourite Prayer of Mending being an absolute godsend in a multibox scenario, where you have other things besides healing to concern yourself with.

[Sarduci]

Smart chain heals + mend pet FTW!

[qcumber]

Do pet resists stack with shaman resist totems? If so that would be another nice synergy for hunters.

I have a 70 priest but am leveling a shammy with my 4 hunters (all at lvl 38 right now) to see if the added buffs make up for the worse healing. I am hoping chain heal + mend pet + earth shield can get me through some of the outlands instances.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Undead priest IMO. I've tried a pally and while they're very survivable against melee, against casters they're no better off than the priest and the pally heals just don't compare to a priest's big heals or insta heals or renews or CoH or PoH or bubble or pain suppression, etc. etc.

All just my opinion, of course. I've only played a priest and pally up to about 60 with my old hunter PVE group. My pally/priest are both 70 on mag but I haven't used them with hunters yet.

[Tamu]

Regarding your question on which pet to use, I prefer using a boar for each hunter. They eat just about anything, have high armor, and have the charge/stun/interrupt ability. I used ravagers for a while, which have great dps, but I just couldn't stand to hear the sound they make when I send them in to attack. I know it's a goofy reason to abandon them, but it really got on my nerves after a while.

I use a priest with my hunter team and although I can't add any additional dps buffs to the group, I can add a significant amount of health and survivability.

[Speedbump]

Have any of you higher level hunter teams tried mixed pets for PvE? I know a few of the pets have nice utility abilities like Screech, Furious Howl, Poison, etc.. What combinations have you tried or thought about?

I'd consider for my 4 hunter team PVE:
1 Wolf for Furious Howl (for pet dps), 2 Owls for DPS / AOE aggro, and 1 Boar for tank / charge

How about 4 Gorillas for AE? I know the Ravager, Raptor, and Cats are better dps, but is that dps really needed over potential utility / survivability of the others? I mean... with 4 hunters focus firing, stuff won't live long anyway.

[Lyonheart]

Boars are getting nerfed soon. One reason they are so good for PvE now is that when they "charge" it makes the first "growl" they do such a big agro that is next to impossible to get agro from them. thats getting nerfed. However, they are still going to be excellent pets for PvE and PvP due to that charge+stun ability they get.. and if your BM.. you get intimidate as well.



source of nerf>> http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=5591269594&postId=57802683033&sid=1#134