Welcome to the Hunter Simple Questions thread. This thread is for all your simple questions which you expect to have simple answers and thus do not require their own thread.

Note that all forum rules still apply: we said simple questions, not stupid questions (which have no place on these forums). You're still expected to make a reasonable effort to find the answer yourself by searching and reading the threads and making use of spreadsheets and any other tools that may be available. If, however, you're fairly confident that your question is not easily answered with available information, but don't think it will generate sufficient discussion to require it's own thread, this is the place to ask.

I believe the point of the new sub forums is to allow a more specific approach to different mechanics rather than grouping everything into 3 or 4 massive mega threads.

ie: No more massive BM hunter/Shot Rotation/Survival threads, but more threads which focus on different specific elements (like the thread comparing DPS gains of Stormstrike for Windserpents vs. Elemental Shaman).

In other words, start over with new specific threads for questions/discussions!

How does Intervene and Taunt for my pet work? I have those spells on autocast but my gortilla doesnt use them / I cant figure out why it used them

Hi. I'm a french hunter and i am going to start leveling in wotlk.
I would like to know what is the best template and the best pet in order to lvl up ?

Thks for answers.

Have a nice day.

A few questions:
1) Anyone have a good MM or Survival leveling build? I know the common BM specs but I want to try something else. Either one would be appreciated. I haven't seen any example specs of those posted, and there doesn't seem to be a totally clear path.
2) What pet and spec to go along with those? This I am totally clueless on.

you have to manually use them, (click or macro), they cant be on autocast since that would have no sense.

for the build I refer to Enova, and for the second question I recommend a Tenacity pet with extra agro, maybe a Gorilla or Warp Stalker (+dodge and extra talent thx to warp).

Well, if you're dead set on not going the BM route, I guess THIS MM Spec might be more to your liking. The only real must have talents are Rapid Killing and Rapid Recuperation, though, so feel free to fiddle with it, until you get something you like.

As for the pet, I said it before, I'll say it again. A gorilla is probably the best option, although boars, bears and warp stalkers are also really good. Just don't forget to tame something else for raids

According to this EJ post, the conversion rate at level 80 is 32.78998947 hit rating to 1% to hit.
Level 83 boss mobs require 9% hit for us to not miss.

0/3 Focused Aim: 296 (295.1099)
1/3 Focused Aim: 263 (262.3199)
2/3 Focused Aim: 229 (228.5299)
3/3 Focused Aim: 197 (196.7399)

I've been a diehard SV hunter for a long, long time, and I ended up having to leave the game prior to the WotLK talent tree patches. However, when I came back, a LOT of stuff had changed, and I'm no longer sure of my feelings regarding being survival... I love it to bits, and the mana regeneration is always nice, but... It feels subpar even more than before. I played around with a MM build where my crits from Aimed and Chimaera were in the 4K range, while I'm lucky if my explosive can crit for 900-ish. >.o And whenit comes to BM, I've never been able to stomach it due to huntards... however, it really is looking like it's the best spec, nowadays. Can someone tell me in what main ways, play-wise, the trees have changed, and how an old-school SV hunter would best spec to feel useful while not doing entirely poor damage like that again?

I have a question, but not sure if it belongs here, so move it if need be My spec is BM/MM (went to Readiness so I can pop BW a couple of times). That being said, I've seen a lot of haste trinket/neck items from quests. I was wondering if Hunters should be stacking haste now?

Haste grants the most DPS per Rating when it is still decreasing the casting time of Steady Shot down to 1.5s (equal to the global cooldown). At this point, you cannot fire SS any faster, so the value of haste lowers.
What is that inflection point?
Well, a 2.0s SS fires in 1.739s with the 15% haste of your quiver/ammo pouch.
Add in there the 5/5 Serpent's Swiftness for another 20% haste, and your 2.0s SS now fires at 1.45s, which is below our 1.5 threshold.

This means that for Beast Mastery with 5/5 S'sS, you don't need any additional haste to get your Steady Shot down. Thus, people will say that haste is a worthless stat, though this is incorrect. Haste will always* increase Hunter DPS, because more haste means firing more Auto-shots. The Haste:DPS increase ratio, however, sharply declines once SS casts faster than the GCD.

For those not of the Beast Mastery persuasion:
To get Steady Shot down from 1.739s to 1.5, you need another 15.94203%, which (at 32.78998947 rating to 1%) means you need 523 Haste Rating

I hope that helps.

*This assumes that Auto-shot does not have a floor value by which it cannot fire faster.

I agree that the knockback doesn't generate much aggro. I usually send my Rhino (FourTonnes) to one mob, and Misdirection a second mob to him, then DPS the first. I also find that sitting in (and it pains me to say this) Aspect of the Beast helps his aggro quite a bit.
In terms of AE tanking/grinding: get a Gorilla. They generate far better AE aggro; however, the fun of the Rhino far outstripped the benefits of the Gorilla. Combine Charge and Stampede, and you have mobs flying all over the place. Add in Disengage, and you have hunter and mobs going all over. For leveling, I went with fun over min-max.

In terms of Camera view, the Rhino is, indeed, massive, especially when you have Big Red Rhino. But the first time an member of the opposite faction sees a giant horned beast barreling down on it... priceless.