Best Race For Hunter Out Of Nightelf, Tauren, Orc, and DwarfFollow

Depends on how you want to play him and what alliance you want.

Pet cleric and range fighter go with high intelligence. If you want to get in and mellee and sort of tank then go with a high strength and stamina one. Dwarf has probably the best "all around" stats but is so god awful ugly. I went with Tauren and the Horde.

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Yeah thanks I never really considered trolls because I was looking more into Nightelf and Orc/Tauren since I did best with them in the Warcraft RTS games. I was thinking about awesome range and decent melee hunter, but it's really a toss up between troll and dwarf. Pors and cons for these are appreciated.

There is no "best" race for any class. Seriously, there isn't. Those statistical differences you see disappear by level 10, and the racial traits are MINOR. Choose the race you like and enjoy any tangential benefits, but do NOT choose race based on which is perceived as "best".

Exactly. That is whta is so great about this game, be the class and race you want to be, no one race is better than the other. People don't seem to get that. Blizzard did a very good job in making this game balanced, enjoy it they way you want.

Thanks to all because you have really help make my decision. I've decided to be an Orc Hunter since the get axe bonus (and i wanted to use axe), Horde is more friendly from what I heard, and BECAUSE ORCS RULE!! =D Thanks again to all

I am going with dwarf because while Dwarfs lack some agility they more than make up for it with almost twice the HP, 6 points more str and 4 more stamina. this means that not only do they deal more dammage 4-5 (4-7) to elf's 4-5 (3-5) but they also survive alot longer as well because of their higher HP and stamina.

The only real advantage Night Elf's have besides agility is their armor which is higher by 16 points. but they need that because of their rather low hit points and once we hit level 40 that wont matter much as 16 points is not going to make alot of difference when you have 1000 def.

as for traits the Night elf only has 2 useful traits out of the 4 that were given to them those being.

Shadowmeld: Activate while immobile and out of combat to enter stealth mode (this is ok but you have to disengage the enemy and stop moving for it to work so in pvp this would really suck espically against another hunter)
Quickness: Dodge chance increased

now Dwarf's have 4 very useful traits

Stoneform: Activate to gain immunity to poison, disease, and bleed (this is godly against rouges, as most of their good attacks center around poisoning their target, the downside is that your speed is cut in half but with aspect of cheeta you can recover some of the lost speed)
Gun Specialization: Increase Gun Skill (rangers are ment to be long range so very usefull in my book)
Frost Resistance: Increase Cold Resistance (most cold attacks freeze or stun you so this is actually usefull)
Treasure Finding: Activate to see treasure chests on mini map - lasts until canceled - no cooldown (again no loss here this allows me to find the treasure chest before other people do.

with that said I still like rouge and will probably make and elven rouge for their pickpocket and picklock abilities, and use my Dwarf Hunter to scout out for and mark all the treasure chests as they usually spawn in the same location every time.

I played a tauren hunter until 16th solo, and then helped someone my wife which got in the extended beta catch up. I got to 21 and she 19th (shaman).

All I can add to this from what has already been said is that I cannot count the times that "stomp" saved my life.

Played a wide varity of Hunters in OB, don't worry about stats, gear and levels will fix that, mostly its personal preferance and racial abilities. The 2 I like most is Orc *increased pet damage* and Dwarves *increased ranged damage with a gun*. Your 2 major damage options. Dwarf will fly by the early levels using ranged attacks with a decent gun, and you pet will outdamage any other same level pet as an Orc. The other races abilities are used few and far between as a Hunter, but all have their place, NE can shadow then snipe, if the mob gets close your Tauren can stomp, then run back and fire a few more arrows, Trolls have less downtime. But if we're talking purely damage output, go with Dwarf or Orc.

Actually i think trolls have the higest agility not to diminish night elves, night elves the highest agility and intelligence combined and their hide in the shadows ability is great for an ambush or occasionally a duck and cover if u can move out of there fast enough but nothing an invisibility or speed enhancment couldnt cover at higher lvs. But think of how many raids you will be doing before 20 those are all just fun and games when your bored.

i think that i will choose a night or a dwarf

Couse it be drawf !!!! :)

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