Building A Hunter From Lore: Marksman

Given the name of the class is slightly misleading, I'll admit, but the idea of the marksman, at least from a lore perspective refers to a very specific type of hunter, a Gunman. Where as most hunter have a connection to nature you could care less. The Marksman represent the other end of the hunter spectrum, the advanced warrior who wields the new technology of firearms to great effect. Marksmen love to spray hot lead into their enemies plain and simple. Masters of guns in any form be it pistol, rifle, or shotgun. For the marksman there are two possible paths Gunman and Sniper. Essentially they represent ranged versus really far range combat. To transfer this to the game takes two distinct Builds. one SV and one MM this is where dual specs might come in handy. Spec wise the MM build as potential to do fairly good DPS while the SV buil looses a some potency by ignoring traps and explosives, its more about discretion.

SV Build (Sniper)

MM Build (Gunman)

The MM build focuses on single target damage and efficiency, with a focus on physical damage and arcane shot. Utility and CC are pretty much ignored entirely. While the SV build does much of the same focusing on single target damage Lock 'n' Load procs will go towards Arcane Shot rather than explosive. Since the SV build focuses on range and sniping traps and explosive shot aren't very fitting, but you could work in Explosive Shot if you really wanted to. Improved Aspect of the Hawk is a great addition to either bui

ld if you move some points around.

SV Glyphs

MM Glyphs

The glyphs are pretty standard for marks in both builds, Glyph of Kill Shot, Glyph of Chimera Shot, and Glyph of Hunter's Mark, swapping Chimera for Glyph of Aimed Shot in the SV build. If it existed a glyph of Black Arrow would have worked as well but since traps and explosive shot are ignored Aimed Shot or Steady Shot if you prefer are your best choices. You really have no choice but to use guns in this build, that being said Engineering is gonna be your profession of choice, goblin if you're gonna be raiding ICC and can get the recipe for Shatter Rounds. Dual Wielding daggers is gonna be the most sensible choice for your melee stat sticks. As for pets Wolves are a good choice, Birds of Prey are good picks thematically, but for the most part you don't to much care about pets so pick what you want. Now the only things missing are pistols, but more on that at another time.

Note: I finished this post last week but waited to finish the formatting and forgot about it. Sorry to anyone who was waiting for it.