Hunter

Bow, traps and a loyal beast at your side. One of the fastest classes to level.

Damage

Armor: Cloth, leather; mail from level 40
Weapons: Bows, crossbows, guns, axes, swords, polearms
Resource: Mana; the pet uses Focus
Leveling: The fastest leveling, about 8% faster than average

Pick a race Specializations

Specializations

Ranged damage, a lot of damage from the pet

Buffs the pet and shoots from range while the beast deals most of the damage.

TipBest tree for leveling in the open world.

Unleashed Fury
Pet damage
Ferocity
Pet crit chance
Summon Hawk
New
Focused Fire
New, replaces Improved Eyes of the Beast
Intimidation
The pet gets 100% crit chance

What is new in Forever

Warcraft Tavern, LFCarry

Compared with Classic. Blizzard may still change the numbers before release.

You can play without a pet: the Lone Wolf talent.
Traps work in combat.
The pet gets 10% of your attack power and 100% of your crit chance.
New pet family: foxes. Many beasts have new abilities.
Survival can go into melee.
Improved Tracking replaced the talents against specific enemy types.

Races

Tap a race and the picker opens that combination: racial abilities and everything about the class.

Alliance

Horde

TipHuman hunter is a new Alliance combination. Troll is good against beasts, but such bosses are rare.

In a group and while leveling

Group value

Trueshot Aura boosts the group ranged damage
Freezing Trap: reliable crowd control
Scatter Shot interrupts casts
Aspect of the Pack speeds up the whole group on the road

Leveling

The fastest leveling, about 8% faster than average

TipLeatherworking and Skinning, or Engineering for guns and ammo.

Pros and cons

Strengths

Fastest leveling
Great solo
Traps and crowd control

Weaknesses

Close-range deadzone up to 8 yards
You have to manage the pet
Survival talents are still buggy on the beta

Other classes

Mage