NE over Dwarf HunterFollow

It's not a recent explosion.

I personally have both a NE Hunter and a Dwarf Hunter.
I like both just the same, however I tend to play my NE more, I just like their starting zone over the Dwarves. Since I really can't stand the Human/Dwarf areas of the game.
For me it's not really a choice of the racial traits since shadowmeld is nice, but isn't really that impressive. It's more about the quests and for me, the NE have the better quests.

Did anybdoy think this would tick me off?? :P

Look at my pick, look at my sig...

IM A ****** DWARF!!!

AND I LOVE IT!!!

I mean come on, PVE how much viability does Shadowmeld have over Stoneform, PVE which is more likely to save your ***??

SToneform out of those crippling poisons or Shadowmeld and hope to god you one shot that mage?

Come on, isn't it just nice having a pet thats BIGGER that YOU are??

DWARVES FTW!!! Have a pint?

Let’s see…

Female dwarf hunter – 65
Male dwarf hunter – 61
Male night elf hunter – 60

I guess that means I prefer dwarves to night elves two to one. *grins*

The main reason I started out with dwarf hunters is because I don’t like Blizzard’s version of elves. Night elves just look wrong to me. I don’t care for the blue skin. I loath their twelve foot long floppy ears. Male night elves look like their parents strapped corsets on them at birth and didn’t remove them until adulthood. And female night elves look like an anorexic’s wet dream.

I’m a big fan of elves in many different fictional environments, but World of Warcraft is not one of them I’m sorry to say. I’ve also enjoyed the many dwarven cultures I’ve had the pleasure to read of over the years. Thankfully Blizzard did not deviate far from the standard when they added dwarves to their world. So of the two I much prefer dwarves.

Trashing Dwarves around here is a *bad idea,* m'kay? I like Dwarves (and have several)! Care to join me for a pint?!

A little history:

back in the day Dwarves did somewhat "lose out" to NE's on the old "stat pwnage" meter. Why?

Stoneform snared you, slowed movement.

And Shadowmelded, you could start an AS and *stay invisible!*

But then Blizz sent Mr. Equalizer along... and Stoneform was massively improved (mostly it no longer snares - also I think the cooldown was shortened, something like that). And now when a S-melded NE starts an AS, he becomes visible!

Smelding and ambushing is still good, but not nearly as good as it was.

Oh, if a NE has a non-prowling pet, the NE has options to keep pet from giving him away - NE can always dismiss pet, hide it in a bush, hide it around the corner - and shadow meld. If pet is dismissed, whistling is easy to do to bring pet.

Speaking of pets giving you away, the other night in WSG I saw a NE rogue pop out a mech squirrel, then stealth and head off down tunnel! Hah. I wanted to say something, but I got attacked and forgot ... wonder when that rogue's going to figure out "something's up." Hahah!

Edited, Mar 29th 2007 3:03pm by IponemaGirl

It’s not a bad idea to keep a large non-combat pet out as a rogue when questing/grinding. It’s easy for someone to “steal” your mobs because they don’t see you sneaking up on it. The pet can sometimes help.

When the game was new my human rogue managed to loot a red dragon whelp. I had grate fun going into newbie areas and stealthing along with my whelp out. All the new players would see was a little red dragon flying around. Those were good times.

YAY DWARFS, the only thing I would change is the Male/Female, I would rather have had a female, Males are too Widely built

QFT

Heal your pet in a pinch using no mana....

Yeah

I chose Dwarf for a number of reasons:

1.) Stoneform vs. Shadowmeld, Wisp Form and +1% dodge.

- I click the Stoneform button and poof goes the Crippling Poison and Deep Wounds. Not to mention any diseases I might have contracted while questing (gotta hate those 30-minute diseases). I sort of regret not getting Shadowmeld instead. Only because it's the best anti-gank ability there is and I happen to play on a PvP server. Oh well, I'm almost level 64 so people rarely try to gank me anymore.

2.) Emotes.

- The Dwarf emotes (/silly, /flirt, etc.) just owns the Night Elf versions hands down. This. Is. My. BOOMSTICK!

3.) Epic mounts.

- I just prefer the look of the epic rams over the epic nightsabers.

4.) Animations.

- I played a male Night Elf Rogue from level 1 to 60 and got tired of the swing animations and shoot animation. The male Dwarf has a more direct shooting animation compared to the Night Elf. And I refuse to play a female Night Elf simply because of the amount of perverted whispers I get on my Priest.

Edited, Apr 4th 2007 3:08pm by Mazra

This post is very hurtful .:sniff:. Anyone consider MY feelings here? I mean, I play a male NE hunter, and I must say, they look pretty awesome with long hair. The ones with pontails or whatever look wierd though =P. Still you can always cover up your face with a helm. Also, to me, like Aethien said, Night Elves are more ranger type characters, and after hearing about NE when starting the game I wanted to be one badly, and the appearance when I did start the game didn't let me down. To me, female dwarfs are just, ewwwwwwwwwwwwww. Male dwarfs are OK but I like looking at my NEs more =)

I agree! When I started this game, I knew nothing about racials and abilities. I choose the race that looked best for me.

My horde hunters are trolls, can't deal with the body of the orc and I like the mowhawk :P