THE HUNTARD is the World of Warcraft’s master of ranged damage. It uses a gun or a bow and arrows to kill things far away, and if an enemy gets close it uses a weapon stolen from a different class. It’s important for the huntard to not get in too close because its damage is awful. Hunters can wear leather clothes but when they hit lv40 they can upgrade to wooden clothes, which have more protection against melee damage and are also vegetarian.

The most important thing about the Huntard is that it has a pet. This is an irritating animal that the huntard has trained from the wild. There are more than one million different animals on Azeroth that the Huntard can befriend, and each has its own unique abilities such as “run” and “hit.” The most popular type of Huntard pet is a cat, followed next by a dog and then a goldfish. The Huntard must give its pet a stupid name.

Huntards have a health bar and a mana bar. The health bar is used for dying but the mana bar has no function, a little like the human appendix. It is a leftover from the Beta stage of development when the Huntard used mana. Blizzard cannot remove the bar because of a game breaking bug which would cause all rats to become invincible.

The Huntard has three talent trees called Animal, Shooting and Miscellaneous. The Animal tree has a number of skills which buff your pet’s Run or Hit powers, including one which makes it glow bright pink. The Shooting tree is the best, since it makes the Huntard better at shooting. Put at least 35 points into the Shooting tree. The Miscellaneous tree has a range of talents designed to make the Huntard more annoying to fight, plus a number of “placebo” talents which do nothing.

Tricks of the trade - the tactics that will help you become the greatest WoW player.

(1) Always try to do damage from far away. If an enemy runs at you so you can’t shoot, back away while facing them directly and flail your melee weapon.

(2) It is considered honourable to dismiss your pet before entering a battleground.

(3) All good Huntard builds are based around the Aimed Shot talent. This is a very powerful ranged attack which charges up for four minutes then one-shots the entire server.

(4) Your pet is your best friend. Remember to give it food, sex and water or it will die.

(5) If an item drops when you are in a group, roll need.

Thank you for reading my Elite Guide to Huntards. Hopefully one day I will see you on the battlefield and you will kill me with what you have learned.