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I guess this would be true if you discount PvP and you plan to spend inordinate amounts of time NOT leveling.
If you PvP, a 300+ health bonus to a decently geared hunter is more significant than a 300+ health bonus to a decently geared warrior.
I understand what you're trying to say, but saying that a health bonus is better for a hunter in general than a warrior isn't true. Obviously health is important in PvP, but other than that I can't see why 300 health is better on a hunter than on a warrior. Yes, its a smaller percentage increase of their health, but 300 health on a plate wearing warrior is worth just as much as 300 health on a hunter imo.
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In addition, in PvE your pet can die, FD can be resisted, or you can inadvertantly aggro too much at one time, so the health bonus from mining could still come in very handy.
So after your pet dies, after FD gets resisted, and after you get snared so you can't drop trap/wing clip and run away, health is important? You're trying to get around the issue that outside of PvP, hunters should NEVER take hits. Warriors take hits when leveling, PvPing, and have a spec where they take all the hits for a group. How your trying to validate that health is more valid on a hunter and negligible on a warrior, I don't know.
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Also, the crit rating bonus from skinning would probably not be super-beneficial to either class, but usually a hunter is absolutely loaded with crit rating, while a warrior probably wouldn't have as much crit rating, so skinning would probably help the warrior a bit more.
You'd have to look at total class mechanics to even try to answer that one. Procs on crits, DoTs, that sort of thing. Again, I don't believe hunters getting a smaller %increase of crit rating than warriors validates crit as being better for warriors.
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Yes, along the way from 40-70, LW is superior to BS for the hunter. From 70-80 it makes no difference. The same is true of BS and the Warrior. If the OP has WotLK and plans to level at a reasonable pace, the quest rewards and dungeon drops that the hunter and warrior will acquire along the way will be more than sufficient for getting to 80, making the choice of professions before level 80 pretty much a mute point. Unless Blizzard suddenly adds really nice BoP sets at 80 (LW for hunter and BS for Warrior) which they have not yet done, I really wouldn't bother switching unless you plan to level at a snail's pace.
There is absolutely no point in making level 60 or level 70 BoP craftable purples while levelling to 80. For one thing, even if you skin and mine, the mats are either expensive or time consuming to come up with, and the items made are only slightly superior to dungeon drops and quest rewards. If you just use the dungeon drops and quest rewards on the way to 80, you can save your money for things like flight training, epic flight training, and cold-weather flight training all of which will be more useful to both of your toons than BoP craftable level 60 or 70 purples would be in the long run.
Whether you level quickly or slowly, I would still switch. Being under level 300 means that he hasn't run into the more expensive mats yet. It won't cost him that much to get back up there. A few hours of mining/skinning and it'll be done.
Edited, Nov 24th 2008 4:38pm by baveux