Hunter FAQ and youFollow

FAQ and pre-raid thread seriously need to be updated, but I don't have the time to sit down for it and update it.
So, if anyone feels like it, please update (parts of) the stickies and PM it to me, I'll work it in and give you credit of course.

I've recently tried playing my baby paladin, and must say that the FAQ I looked up was loaded with acronyms, which means, within very few lines, I was completely lost and had absolutely no idea what they were talking about. (the Hunter FAQ DOES seem to do away with this excessive use of abbreviation, thankfully).

Maybe the way the FAQ is written isn't that obvious to everyone?

I, for example, have no interest in high-end raids nor arena. There have been times I've tried to get a bit of info in a more "basic" format, but had to face mountains of rather cryptic mathematical formulae and assumptions that the reader was in fact interested in raiding and arena.

Maybe what our FAQ needs at this point is a breakdown by levels? I think it might be safe to say that hunter class does change a bit at certain key levels (10 = getting your first pet, 40 = changing armor class, etc...).

I think the Hunter FAQ is great - actually, I think it's probably the very best of all the FAQs on Alla. But that doesn't mean it couldn't use some tweaking and improving.

Maybe (and quite understandably) part of the problem is that to create a FAQ you really need to have "been there, done that" and basically be level-capped. Which, of course, means you haven't actually BEEN in a position to require the assistance of a FAQ for quite a while. Being a teacher myself, I know how difficult it can be to cover material which seems so self-evident to you, but remains mysterious and elusive to the student.

I'm not excusing the "wuts teh best pet 4 kllng stuff?" posts. I believe Satan has reserved a very special place in Hell for people who post that sort of thing (I think it's in the condo next to where he and Chris live... near the luau pit).

Might some of the people who worked so hard on the existing FAQ consider a more "basic" version of it? Sort of a "Hunter 101... breakdown by level" approach? Maybe an approach that also takes into consideration those who play casually (the Hunter class appears to attract a lot of casual players, like myself)?

Edited, Jun 5th 2009 11:06am by capcanuk

After the first iteration, the FAQ has been a team effort of people on this forum. We'd love for you to write up or fix some of it and then post it for review. Aethien will then merge it with the current faq.

I'd like to put more work into it personally, but I don't have time at the moment. In July if nothing has been done I'll probably sit down and rewrite some of it, but June is extremely busy.

Edited, Jun 5th 2009 11:01am by Xsarus

I use the pre-raid thread weekly, and still try to keep it under my pillow. Question I have is which one gets updated most?

I want to update the GEM list. So that is in the Pre-Raid Thread. You are saying it might also go in the FaQ as it should be becuase questions that comes up with every Patch.

That raises another question; When do you use Epic Gems? The blue pre-raid gear or the epics after you get close to best in slot items? As a Jewelcrafter, I tend to put gems in sooner, as it seems I always have better gems than I do gear.

Something to include in the gem section might be that you can buy uncut epic gems with honor--I had no idea, and ended up wasting a fair bit of gold on raw gems when I could have picked them up pretty much for free. Since VoA bosses give honor when killed, even for non-PvP players it's a resource to consider.

I don't know when it started--I think somewhere in between me quitting my hunter and starting to play my shaman--but the last few weeks I've been getting like 300 honor per boss kill in there. It's bizarre.

It has to be a bug... but then, maybe it isn't. I don't know. What I do know is that free honor is awesome! :D

I think you're grossly over-exaggerating the level of intelligence required to understand some of these concepts. Moreover, when a question is asked that can be answered verbatim by a portion of the sticky (more frequent than you realize), it simply proves the rule. I don't think anybody here would have a problem with a question like "So I read the sticky but this mechanic is a little confusing. Could you explain it better?" Compare that to "im a new hunter and what is best talent also pet"

Nobody denies the fact that the stickies aren't perfect, but the sheer level of information that is already in them and is often eschewed anyway by those who can't be ***** to do a little bit of research is astounding.

I don't buy that logic.

Assuming your hypothetical person is as prevalent across this forum as you claim, if they understand English enough to ask a question that is already word-for-word answered in the sticky (which uses terms that the game itself uses no less; we're not using some pseudo-english when discussing this, and people know what Aimed Shot is because they can read the tooltip, not because of some magical instinct that tells them the pretty picture with the arrow on it is Aimed Shot), then they understand English enough to read the information that's already there and get the answer they need. There is no difference between these two concepts, reading and typing are two sides of the exact same mental process.

Furthermore, in most cases the people who persist in this continual state of lassez faire have even admitted of their own accord that they know they could do better, they just don't give a ****.