To all mixed ranged teams in the making

[Zub]

Get a hunter.
Get a hunter.
Get a hunter.

I run a mixed group with paladin tank, priest healer, and shaman, druid, mage as casters..
I've started clearing some heroics and the ToC/ICC normals, and all i'm getting is mail/leather attack power crap >.<
it's so frustrating. A hunter could have made use of all those items and would be geared by now. the waste is infuriating.

I have a hunter at 70, on the mages account.. really thinking of trying him out.. but the mage tables and ports are really useful, and the mage's dps is not too shabby considering the gear he's in.
argh...
ow well, Disenchant and Vendor i guess, my loot (bad)luck will change soon hopefully.

-Zub

[Nighthawk38]

Zub,

It's the cruel humor of the RNG gods. You can see my mixed team in my sig, which includes a hunter, and you would not believe how much mail/plate healing gear drops for me...lol

Hang in there, the gear you want/need will eventually drop.

[Zub]

yeah i know, just ranting a bit after clearing a couple instances and having to DE every single bit.
i guess i should keep the attackpower leather / mail / plate, in case i want to switch my toons to other specs (feral/enhance/ret)
I wont bother for now because i can't be asked to redo my makeup, but will do in Cata and store the items somewhere... just in case
at least *I* can make use of the leather items :-)

[Nolife]

I would love to have a hunter in my team, maybe then my wlock wouldn't steal agro at the start of every fight, but hunter becomes pretty much useless whenever you need to keep your toons on /follow.

[Multibocks]

Ugh hunters are such bad dps comparatively. I can easily pull 8k dps with a warlock, but a hunter? Nope. Also, undergeared hunters are even worse dps than an undergeared anything (well except warrio, so gear dependent)

[Zub]

well, with all the drops i sharded i'd expect my hunter would have been my highest dps :-/

come Cata, i'll probably use those drops with my shaman/druid and make an all melee team by subbing my mage with my warrior (and keeping just the priest as caster)

[Maxion]

I give leather/mail ap gear to my druid and shaman for offspec *shrug* my multiclass team can use anything that drops.

[Bloodcloud]

I had : dk, priest, Lock, Mage, hunter and I replaced hunter for a shammy

Mage is actually highest dps and lock has lowest. I am all iLvl 232+

[DrunkMurray]

I had : dk, priest, Lock, Mage, hunter and I replaced hunter for a shammy

Mage is actually highest dps and lock has lowest. I am all iLvl 232+

Same boat, my warlock is coming in third in DPS after my Shaman and Mage (highest). Not far behind mind you, but still regularly last place. I'm wondering if I need to tweak my macros.

I have a 76 hunter I'm leveling up to join my team and swap out from time to time, but as Iru mentioned the deadzone for the hunter makes positioning of the ranged a bit more hands-on. That's unfortunate as my hunter is one of my older toons that I had put a lot of time in back when I single-boxed.

[Fat Tire]

I dont do a ton of pve but when I do I really really like my Arcane mage.

Thier rotations are so easy and their dps is excellent. Looking ahead to cata blizz has said CC is making a comeback. Mages CC is the best by bar- best of both worlds. Free water/food/ports etc....