Hunters and healers

[Kojiiko]

I have 5 Horde hunters at level 22 and I really dont like it, I really want a healer with them.

So what be good with 4 hunters a priest or a shaman?

Would the windfury totem work with the hunters? Or is it just better with stamina buff and the shield

[Purpleflavor]

windfury doesnt work with ranged weapons or pets.

I'd pick priest for simplicity and my style, but druids work really well with thorns and such and match the animal theme, and shaman arent bad either minus windfury which is their specialty. Druids are also great for skipping trash since you have stealth and the hunters can just feign death.

Shaman have wipe protection with Ankh which is pretty sweet. Druids only have battle rez which can be a problem.

[Kojiiko]

windfury doesnt work with ranged weapons or pets.

I'd pick priest for simplicity and my style, but druids work really well with thorns and such and match the animal theme, and shaman arent bad either minus windfury which is their specialty. Druids are also great for skipping trash since you have stealth and the hunters can just feign death.

Shaman have wipe protection with Ankh which is pretty sweet. Druids only have battle rez which can be a problem.

doh so I have to think which one over the three now, thanks for the info anyhow

[Apatheist]

Shaman is still the best choice.

Tremor totem is very useful in several dungeons. A lot of people don't realize it also removes charm and sleep as well as fear. Having your healer put to sleep for 30 seconds in dungeons is pretty annoying.

Stoneskin reduces incoming damage on your pets quite a lot. Grace of air buffs your hunters damage and pet armor.

The passive survivability of having a shield plus mail armor is also very nice. There will be times with a pet team where your healer pulls aggro and priests are super squishy and prone to dying fast.

[Battleshrimp]

Shaman is still the best choice.

Tremor totem is very useful in several dungeons. A lot of people don't realize it also removes charm and sleep as well as fear. Having your healer put to sleep for 30 seconds in dungeons is pretty annoying.

Stoneskin reduces incoming damage on your pets quite a lot. Grace of air buffs your hunters damage and pet armor.

The passive survivability of having a shield plus mail armor is also very nice. There will be times with a pet team where your healer pulls aggro and priests are super squishy and prone to dying fast.


Agreed. Also, don't forget ghost wolf which goes well with huntard aspect at lvl 20 for faster travel.

[Orkus]

Can't go wrong with any of them

I personally prefer Druid because they can also taunt if you need to. And I think Druids are better at endgame stuff like boosting, they can save time by stealth/feign death through trash, they are great at wPVP baiting/scouting, you have a flag carrier for the battlegrounds phase, and if you ever downsize to 2-boxes they can still farm dungeon bosses with a hunter.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Agreed. Also, don't forget ghost wolf which goes well with huntard aspect at lvl 20 for faster travel.
That's a really good point.

Also, since classic hunters are mana-based, Mana Tide totem isn't useless.

[The Crowd]

I have 5 Horde hunters at level 22 and I really dont like it, I really want a healer with them.

So what be good with 4 hunters a priest or a shaman?

Would the windfury totem work with the hunters? Or is it just better with stamina buff and the shield

priest synergy with hunters is low, very good healer but it’s slow, and clunky where as 4 hunters and a shammy are fast, grace of air etc is going to really help you and chain heal is numero uno when it comes to healing 4pets involved in a huddle tank-fest.
Priest) solid heals, moves slower, squishy.
druid) thorns and motw, has travel form at 30 (so 10 levels faster open world travel) no res.
shammy) chain heal, totems, spirit wolf at 20(same level as hunters get cheetah) res and wipe protection (also most durable healer)

for me it’s a no brainer. Even shamans stoneclaw totem is enough to let your hunters get distance from mobs when you get stuck in a dead zone. And earthbound. It gives your hunters a gimped form of kiting) which they had lost by multiboxing with them.

[nodoze]

Some folk play the right faction. What is the best healer for boxing 4 Hunters by Alliance players?

[Apatheist]

Paladin is the only healer on alliance side that provides meaningful DPS/mitigation buffs for physical DPS classes. Judgement of wisdom is also quite useful for hunters.

Otherwise, probably druid for fast boss runs using stealth and feign death. Though, since in classic it seems you don't enter combat with mobs automatically when your party members engage, I wonder if you could just pull mobs using standard hunter tricks, run your team past and park it around a corner then feign on the hunter to reset the mobs without even needing stealth? Might be possible.

[The Crowd]

Paladin is the only healer on alliance side that provides meaningful DPS/mitigation buffs for physical DPS classes. Judgement of wisdom is also quite useful for hunters.

Otherwise, probably druid for fast boss runs using stealth and feign death. Though, since in classic it seems you don't enter combat with mobs automatically when your party members engage, I wonder if you could just pull mobs using standard hunter tricks, run your team past and park it around a corner then feign on the hunter to reset the mobs without even needing stealth? Might be possible.

ill take Kings any day of the week for hunters, even BoM over BoW... hunters in a multibox will never ever ever go oom if you do it right. At least in 5man dungeons. It’s literally send pets (birds with screech) into a group of mob. Interact with target on hunters, and boom... hunters are now at max now range. Autoshotting a mob that has 4pets on it. The screech means healer never rips Agro unless you get a random additional mob. Then all you are doing is Multi-Shot or aimed shot every 6 or so seconds. And even if you oom. It doesn’t matter. 12 auto shots kill most elites that are at relative levels to you. So that’s only 3 auto shots from your slaves, circa (9 seconds) Sometimes I let the hunters auto shot the first mob, and the last mob in a group of 4+ enemies just so I can chain pull.

also feign death gets resisted, like a lot. A lot more than it actually should. I wouldn’t recommend a Druid for that reason alone. If ally paladin. If horde shaman.
Other wise your going to be running a lot of dead hunters back tothe instance instead of teasing

[Apatheist]

ill take Kings any day of the week for hunters, even BoM over BoW... hunters in a multibox will never ever ever go oom if you do it right.

You can judge wisdom while using kings.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

also feign death gets resisted, like a lot. A lot more than it actually should. I wouldn’t recommend a Druid for that reason alone. If ally paladin. If horde shaman.
Other wise your going to be running a lot of dead hunters back tothe instance instead of teasing
Yes, Ankh recovery is good for those occasional oopsies.