I, Agio am redefining the word "Huntard" - General Hunter Discussion - Hunter Forums

This is gonna be long. You've been warned.

As none of you know I've not been playing this game for the years n years that many of you have however as I understand it, the term 'huntard' essentially means a hunter who can't play the class for shit.

For two reasons I am no longer of the opinion that this is what the term should mean and I ask all of you , even the elves to carry my message across the lands. The first and most selfish of reasons is that I happen to be the poster child for the original meaning and it has done irreperable harm to my already fragile ego. However the damage is done and I, through my ace therapist Dr. Billy Bob-Ray Schwartz P.F.W. have come to terms with my mediocrity.

The second reason is the one that matters a tad. Though it has been mentioned by many since the release of Cataclysm, since my return from my WoW sabbatical I have become increasingly disappointed with the seemingly endless influx of wanks into the Hunter class. For a soloing self-centered dwarf such as yours truly who for the most part has not concerned himself with the wank quotient to notice speaks of a problem.

Now I do not know where they came from. Perhaps they were always there, parked on their Celestial Steeds since WotLK loitering around the Capitals snivelling about the lack of content. Maybe they were people who thought huntering was for pansies as it’s supposedly such an easy class to play and they’ve decided to give it a go. Could be their folks told them at 25, well maybe it was time to move out of the basement, grab a job at Mickey D's and are realizing real life isn't full of phat loot and they're venting their impotent frustration in pretendland. I dunno and I don't care the reason, they are truly a pain in the ass. I've noticed more griefing of hunters from other hunters than I have ever seen. Maybe it's always been there and I've never noticed given I have the attention span of a gnat.

Last night I was doing the kill spidey dailies and Deth'tilac came up on NPC. Now as I wrote about previously, my initial encounter with that purple pig wasn't a big success. Anyhow, I suck up the dwarven belly and pop on over to his hang out. I see a corpse, well several actually. I get a whisper from a hunter asking me to please not kill it as she (iceyrose was my 1st clue she was a she, though I did briefly think of Ozolin) is trying to tame it.

I tell her that killing it solo prolly ain't that easy and I was going to try a tame but rez and I'll give her a hand with her attempt. I simply refuse to do a steal. She says great, rezzes and promptly goes after it and gets one shotted. 5th time that's happened it seems. So I say we have to stratagemize to pull this tame off (thanks Lodge folks) I'm telling her from my own fails this is a marathon not a sprint.

I go over the entire process with her to tame this bad boy. We go grab us a couple of spiders and give it a whirl. Okay 1st one, she trap launched instead of dropped then forgot the rez pet part and got ganked. Deth re-sets and we have another go. The 2nd attempt is going great, she's picking up on laying the traps, timing and the kiting but she is backing up, more on that later. I'm typing out quick directions that many of you who do the group thing may be used to but I'm not. “Ice, Con, Rez” was about the extent but I did it without getting killed ! Cookie please. We have that spider going back and forth and so confused it's absolutely lovely.

Now out of the middle of f**king nowhere an Elf hunter is there and he starts attacking Deth, sends in the pet and commences firing away. 'Kill Shot” comes up on my screen so I ask, well tell the Elf to pull the pet. This p***k doesn't. Now I know I've run into my new definiton of the Huntard. Given low-rent dimestore c***sucker and f**stick are… umm… too wordy; Huntard it shall be.

I fire off two kills, tell her to go after the tame but of course the pet is breaking the tame. I'll admit, at that point the new player screwed up and fired off a shot. So I fire a distracting shot, nope. I tell her to do the same. Okay she doesn't know what distracting shot is. Oy… . I tell her both of us stop firing but that wank bastard ended up killing it. He timed his grief perfectly. Wonder which trainer teaches that. Then he summons his tamed Deth'tilic. Oh I am so surprised. When I Armory him it's the only rare he has so he probably had his entire guild , the quest NPC’s and Dear Abby helped him do the tame. Sure as hell wasn’t his skills.

Naturally I am cussing at this dirtbag, unfortunately all of my creativity only comes out as % @ @#&*^%!@!# which loses a tad in translation. Then he pulls my all time fave these clowns always do about how long he’s been playin, how many L85's he has etc. I say that is so incredibly awesome he can waste that much time but watching him as a hunter he makes one helluva a warrior.

So check this , my pard tells me she’s so upset she’s practically in tears. Yeah she is new, yes this has happened to her a fair bit, yes she seems oh, I dunno, a tad emotional and no she doesn't play all that well but for FFS, if you've been playing for years like this dipstick claims he has , what's with the griefing, new player or whoever?

I give him the obligatory pointless go f**k yourself and then talk to the pard to see if she's had a nervous breakdown or some damn thing. Nah she's okay. She then asks if I'll teach her the stuff I was doing given I make it look so easy. Okay don't laugh, I know asking me for help is akin to asking Oprah for weight loss tips but I did says she was new and not so good. So for about a half hour we kite spiders, freeze em, she stopped backing up and started strafing and such. She was a happy camper.

Here's the thing. This type of player is the new Huntard. Yes, the new player should try to be a tad better and I do have limited sympathy- game takes practice but I think she will at least try; if she doesn’t have a nervous breakdown first. Natch I gave her this joints name n told her to commence reading.

Given the numbers, this type of griefing 'hunter' seems to be breeding quicker than bunnies on speed and they are aggravating quite a few not so new players as well. I truly do not see the point in ruining the game for others. I figure one can only try to KOS em until they go back to being trade chat wanks or crawl back under the rocks from which they came. Plus kill their offspring. This new breed of Huntards is a major threat.