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As repeatedly admitted, I am a level-caped World of Warcraft player. The nerdiest of the nerdy. Since I usually take into consideration that most people don't particularly care much about the World of Warcraft, I mostly keep my opinions to myself. However, as this is a webpage of my design, I am going to take the liberty to rant and rave about my beloved hobby. Namely, my 'main' player Character- Ruppi.

Ruppi is a level 90 Troll hunter, and was the first character I made on the game back when I was about 15. Back then, I initially rolled her as a Blood Elf hunter. Blood Elves are very popular, especially the females as they are rather pretty and cute. However their racial abilities cater to be more for spell casters and healers. They are better adept at using magic and spells as oppossed to weapons. Eventually as I became a smarter player, and grew out of my 'Pretty Pretty Princess' faze, I became fond of the trolls. The tall, gangly, hulking trolls. Not only did they have better racial skills for the hunter class, but they are much more feral and ugly looking. Their racial passive skill- a passive that gives them a little boost in their ranged weapon skill is invaluable for a hunter, who relies mostly on shooting bow, crossbows, and guns while they have a pet to run in for back-up damage. There is also the Berserk skill which is a spell that temporarily allows a player to cast and attack faster, again when you're playing a DPS (damage per second) class, speed is everything. And lastly, Trolls give a little bit of added damage against beasts, and let's face it... that is kind of the very definition of what a 'hunter' normally does isn't it?

Hunters: Hunters are a class that use ranged weapons, such as bows and guns, against foes, and also acquire the aide of a pet. This is what makes hunters very popular to new players (hence why it was the first class I rolled). Like all classes hunters have 3 different specializations they can choose from, each one honing in on different strong suits of a class. In some cases it can make the difference between a character being a healer, a DPS, or a Tank. Hunters, however, exist solely for DPS, but there are three different ways to do so, the Survival Spec, Beast Mastery Spec, or Marksmanship Spec. The survuval Spec focuses on a hunters skills at setting traps, and shooting venom covered arrows. It's good for explosive and fast damage, and allows a player to be a bit tricky in a fight. Beat Mastery focuses on a hunter and their pet. The pet's stats get a significant boost, and spells become available for the hunter that enhance the pet's power for short bursts of time. It also allows for the hunter to tame 'exotic' beasts, basically, beasts with better skills and stats than other pets, such as the ability to heal the hunter, or even revive fallen players! However, this spec with it's bonuses, generally does less damage than the other two specs, but makes the hunter more hardy for playing alone, using the pet as a tank or a healer. Then there's marksmanship, this is all about shooting things and shooting them good. It gives the hunter a mulitude of different shots, powerful shots, however, it eats up a hunter's engery so they frequently need shoot a 'steady shot' to regain energy. Steady shot is a fairly weak shot, and it has an annoyingly long cast time, thus making this class tricky to handle for the inexperienced.

Helpful links

For more on hunter pets.
Petopia
The official World of Warcraft Website.
Battlenet
More on trolls!
Troll lore
The playable Trolls

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