World of Warcraft

My gf has rolled a Blood Elf Hunter (she liked the sound of having a pet), and I'm wondering what might be a good class to level with her? We won't be doing any PvP, and raiding in the future is no concern either. We just wana quest and do instances.

So any suggestions? I was thinking perhaps a Pally to do a little bit of tanking and some heals?

Im brand new to WoW so any suggestions appreciated.

any hybrid will do you good.  pally for tanking/healing.  druid for anything, shammy for DPS/healing.

and a priest wouldn't be half bad either.  not that hunters have huge mana issues, but a shadow priest can add a little healing with a lot of DPS, or a holy priest for a little DPS and a lot of healing.

just stay away from another DPS class.  the two of you will do well against normal mobs with 2x DPS, but elites and some of those really nasty mobs will tear you apart.

and for 5mans, getting a hunter into a group isn't always easy, so having a healer or tank attached always helps.

I would say anything would work.  Just roll something where you don't compete for loot.

A shadow priest would be a really good choice.  Let the pet tank, the VE will keep the pet healed and the hunter's mana in good shape.

Originally posted by FischerBlack

My gf has rolled a Blood Elf Hunter (she liked the sound of having a pet), and I'm wondering what might be a good class to level with her? We won't be doing any PvP, and raiding in the future is no concern either. We just wana quest and do instances.

So any suggestions? I was thinking perhaps a Pally to do a little bit of tanking and some heals?

Im brand new to WoW so any suggestions appreciated.

Ret, ret, and ret.

First off, you'd share a starting zone with her.  That's not the important thing, though.  Ret and BM are really just a ridiculous combination at the moment, especially if she grabs a tenacious pet.

You wouldn't even need to tank with that combo, though.  Gorillas are generating massive amounts of area threat atm, and with devotion aura, talents, and decent hunter gear, tenacious pet mitigation goes through the roof.  With the appropriate talents, tenacious pets get a huge multipler on partywide armor buffs.  To give you an idea, my throwaway warp stalker that I used to tank HH during Halloween had ~15k armor unbuffed and ~17.5k armor with devotion up.  That's half-decent.  Tenacious pet armor is definitely more than adequate for tanking any group quest elite with you offhealing.

Which is another thing.  You would be able to heal her pet more than enough if you're trying a hard elite.  With the right talents, tenacious pets get +54% to all healing.  So even as ret, you'll heal it for significant amounts.

Second, damage would be through the roof.  You'd never be short on that.  Plus neither class has to worry about mana downtime in PvE.

Third, you'd have emergency abilities to complement hers.  Lets say you play a priest.  What happens if her pet dies against a hard elite, and she has to feign death.  What will you do?  You have no aggro drops.  As a paladin, you'd have your bubbles, Lay on Hands, and a number of other things to be able to survive, escape, or pick up aggro and tank in a pinch.

Pet choice will be important, though.  I'd grab a bear at lower levels, if she doesn't mind one.  It's the best multitanking pet you can get until gorillas.  Of course, it's up to her.  She'll enjoy the class more if she gets a pet she likes.

Lets talk about the likely scenario that she falls in love with a lynx in Eversong, as most BE hunters do.  Well, that's still a pretty solid choice.  Cats are by far the best non-exotic pet for DPS.  You can't tell by looking at the rake tooltip, but it deals tons of damage after scaling, and it's armor-ignoring.  Also, even if cats aren't generating any area threat, that only gives you the opportunity to deal more damage.  Paladin damage goes through the roof if you're allowed to grab aggro.  Even ret will deal tons of damage with consecration.  And ret consecration should generate enough threat to allow her to Volley.  Volley is now a very viable AoE ability.

"Third, you'd have emergency abilities to complement hers. Lets say you play a priest. What happens if her pet dies against a hard elite, and she has to feign death. What will you do? You have no aggro drops. As a paladin, you'd have your bubbles, Lay on Hands, and a number of other things to be able to survive, escape, or pick up aggro and tank in a pinch."

Erm... and Priests don't have bubbles   Priests are not as squishy as you might think, especially as Holy/Discipline. If the OP is considering a Priest choice, Holy/Discipline with a Smite build and a touch of healing talents would be great either until max level or until he can respec and purchase shadow form in Shadow straight away. Since the OP mentioned instances, the benefits to playing a Holy/Disc priest with Smite and a few healing talents is that he can heal in instances better as he levels up and still do decent dps.

OP, have you considered a Druid?

I think a balance/resto Druid would be an excellent choice for what you're describing. Moonkin form in the Balance tree is simply amazing. You'd do really great dps, decent heals even without Resto talents, and lots of crowd control. Druids are also the best escape artists: sometimes it's best to run away rather than to make a last stand. The problem with Pali's is without many crowd control options, they're almost forced to tank and hope for the best. With a Druid, you can run away the most easily and come back and rez your g/f's character. Balance has the best roots out of all of the Druid talent trees and from my experience with playing alongside BM Hunters in instances, you need crowd control a lot of the time. Sometimes the pets don't always do what you want them to.

Not only that Druids have 3 really strong talent trees. Get fed up with being Balance? Go Feral and have the option of being a tank or melee dps for a bit. Want to be a healer? Go Resto. But the nice thing is that Druids are pretty good at what they do even without speccing tons of talents. A feral Druid at low level, for example, is still a pretty damned good healer for instances, much better than a lot of the other healing classes who don't spec for healing.

I'm pretty much a Warlock player, but Druids just amaze me. Definitely a class I'm going to level up. Druids aren't as FotM either as Paladins are. Right now, there are simply too many, at least from what I've seen on my server.

Originally posted by FischerBlack

My gf has rolled a Blood Elf Hunter (she liked the sound of having a pet), and I'm wondering what might be a good class to level with her? We won't be doing any PvP, and raiding in the future is no concern either. We just wana quest and do instances.

So any suggestions? I was thinking perhaps a Pally to do a little bit of tanking and some heals?

Im brand new to WoW so any suggestions appreciated.

In WoW you can play any class solo to the top easily, so my piece of advice is: play yourself the class you love best and you'll complement a hunter by your sheer presence.

Pally Hands down I would say. My son rolled a Hunter and I rolled a Paladin and we have been rolling every NPC we encounter (even heroics two or three levels over). Retribution line for Pally and beast for Hunter (you both can't go wrong).

Now mind you this is for leveling haven't tried at 70 yet but blew through everything to level 50, hope this helps and enjoy the game man.

On a note make sure she gets one of those Raptor pets from Strangle Thorne and go the tanking line with increased DPS speed (I'll throw up what my son went exactly so you can check it out).

My wife rolled a hunter and I rolled a druid and it is working out real well. I can fit into whatever is needed for a given situation. If her pet is having issues holding aggro then I can shift into bear form and tank. If we need more dps then its cat form. Ranged attacks or healing I stay in caster form. Druid will allow you to easily fill in whatever roll is needed. Of course that means you have to be a cow since you'll be horde side .