Thread: Things a Hunter would like you to know...because we've got a little free time, s'cool

Originally Posted by Kragald

Muwhahahaha, YES! W00T! I've also been known to use Quick Shot, Barbed Arrow, and Swift Arrow at point blank melee range!

Yes, it pleases me greatly to receive the "You're insane" response from another hunter haha...

You're just like me! I won 1.5g yesterday from a friend because I told him I could solo that troll in Trollshaws without my spear and sword and he said I couldn't. Leave the melee for the Champs, we don't need it, we're Huntar*s!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!! HUNTAR*S FTW!!!!!!!!!

This is so funny cuz its true. I literally spent ten minutes in the GB 112112ing it while everyone was like stop we need to organize to defeat the barrow lights.

Fellowship: Don't forget you need fear pots for Ilzkâl.

Hunter: I don't need fear pots. He is not scary when I am all the way over here.

Originally Posted by Nindolvoth

Fellowship: Don't forget you need fear pots for Ilzkâl.

Hunter: I don't need fear pots. He is not scary when I am all the way over here.

Fear pots? Pots? Whaddya mean, pots? I'm way back here, those champs/guards/wardens are up there in the thick of battle!

Pots!? We don't need no stinkin' pots!

Originally Posted by Kragald

Fear pots? Pots? Whaddya mean, pots? I'm way back here, those champs/guards/wardens are up there in the thick of battle!

Pots!? We don't need no stinkin' pots!

Uhhhh, yeah we do. What the heck is the Hobbit going to cook with? BRB, food.

Originally Posted by hex2323

What's the moors? Be a creep if you want, just lay off my mobs, dude.

Your mobs you say?
Well I could just have my burglar suddenly appear in the area where you are and play a little with your mobs.
I'll show up near a mob, attack it and vanish again, only to appear again near another mob and do the same thing again.
And hopefully in the process try and confuse you a little. :P

Originally Posted by Ethelryn

Your mobs you say?
Well I could just have my burglar suddenly appear in the area where you are and play a little with your mobs.
I'll show up near a mob, attack it and vanish again, only to appear again near another mob and do the same thing again.
And hopefully in the process try and confuse you a little. :P

And I'll tag everything with rain of arrows. My mobs.

Originally Posted by hex2323

And I'll tag everything with rain of arrows. My mobs.

I'll get my 65 friend to tag everything with Rain of Arrows and Thorns. ALL MINE!

-B

--HUNTAR*S FTW!!!!!

Originally Posted by Harc

There are many explanations for this...

Originally Posted by hex2323

He had to be joking. You waste all the quicklots you could be using for shortcuts to battle cries and emotes.

My sides hurt from laughing- I love the O P and the thread.

Back when I was a li'l hunter, I spied a quest mob I needed around Bree. So being the very cool hunter I am, I popped an arrow into it from max range. Needless to say the little hoppit burg that was stealthing up to it was a bit upset.

I lol'd and went on to kill more things from range.

Originally Posted by Tenerial

Back when I was a li'l hunter, I spied a quest mob I needed around Bree. So being the very cool hunter I am, I popped an arrow into it from max range. Needless to say the little hoppit burg that was stealthing up to it was a bit upset.

I lol'd and went on to kill more things from range.

Man... that explains something that happened to me. I was killing stuff (from range, awesome dude) and this mob pops out of nowhere and starts to sass me. "What do you think you're doing, you noob ks!" it says. So I target it, but NONE of my attacks work.

I figure it's bugged, so I submitted a ticket. Something along the lines of...

"Dear Turbine,

This mob has lore breaking dialogue and ruins my immurder. Please remove. Oh, also, it's way overpowered. I was like super stunned or nothing was working, like my spells and stuff (bow spells, HUNTER here). Please remove 'Burglor' from the game. Way OP. Don't make me post in the forums. You have one hour. Thanks."

Huh. It's a PLAYER class. I'm a little embarassed. I even got a full fellowship to try and take it down.

"We have to kill everything in this special area to get him to spawn. THERE HE IS! On my target!"

No wonder they quit and reported me.

Originally Posted by hex2323

Man... that explains something that happened to me. I was killing stuff (from range, awesome dude) and this mob pops out of nowhere and starts to sass me. "What do you think you're doing, you noob ks!" it says. So I target it, but NONE of my attacks work.

I figure it's bugged, so I submitted a ticket. Something along the lines of...

"Dear Turbine,

This mob has lore breaking dialogue and ruins my immurder. Please remove. Oh, also, it's way overpowered. I was like super stunned or nothing was working, like my spells and stuff (bow spells, HUNTER here). Please remove 'Burglor' from the game. Way OP. Don't make me post in the forums. You have one hour. Thanks."

Huh. It's a PLAYER class. I'm a little embarassed. I even got a full fellowship to try and take it down.

"We have to kill everything in this special area to get him to spawn. THERE HE IS! On my target!"

No wonder they quit and reported me.

I'm confused... I was in Rivendell doing Book 4, and this imposter walked up to me and started talking to me. Guess what his name was, Arragornn, Son of Arrathornn!!! AND HE THOUGHT ID BUY IT THAT HES ARAGORN, WHEN I WAS TURNING IN A QUEST TO ARAGORN. The shame...

Click mes please.

This is all I could think of as he talked to me.

Originally Posted by hex2323

Uhhhh, yeah we do. What the heck is the Hobbit going to cook with? BRB, food.

Oh, THOSE kind of pots. Ok, cook away, little hobbits!

Did you know there's a hunter melee attack that -heals- a baddy's bleed from the hunter's very own barbed arrow...? That's jacked up.
I don't need shortcuts for battlecries & taunts on any of my hunters, either...but my champs & guards do...!

Originally Posted by Kragald

Oh, THOSE kind of pots. Ok, cook away, little hobbits!

Did you know there's a hunter melee attack that -heals- a baddy's bleed from the hunter's very own barbed arrow...? That's jacked up.
I don't need shortcuts for battlecries & taunts on any of my hunters, either...but my champs & guards do...!

I meant like chat stuffs. Like "OFF MY MOBS, DUDE", "WHO TOOK MY LOOT", and "vIRGINIA, THE SPAGHETTI'S READY". Stuff like that.

funny stuff...thanks

ADD Hunter to the max. This post is so stereotype that it's not even stereo anymore.

Originally Posted by Kiratom

ADD Hunter to the max. This post is so stereotype that it's not even stereo anymore.

Headphones, dude. Stereotype sounds better on headphones.

Surround Sound hunter!

Originally Posted by Kiratom

ADD Hunter to the max. This post is so stereotype that it's not even stereo anymore.

This post is so stereotyp(ical) that it's not even typical anymore (or topical). It is epic. Good hunters get you comin' and goin'. Been there and back again. ^_^

Pew pew is stereo.

Also, lol @Lohi <3 surround sound hunter very nice!

Originally Posted by Vilost

This post is so stereotyp(ical) that it's not even typical anymore (or topical). It is epic. Good hunters get you comin' and goin'. Been there and back again. ^_^

Pew pew is stereo.

Also, lol @Lohi <3 surround sound hunter very nice!

This might be a good time to point out that they're changing a bunch of hunter stuff. If you play a hunter, this largely will not affect you.

If you group with a hunter, please be patient, as they changed our junk and we probably won't notice for weeks.

If you're thinking of playing a hunter and never have, don't bother checking out the changes. All you need is 1,1,2...1,1,2

Hmmm - surround sound of 2 PCs with 5.1 speaker systems each (10.2 speakers!) Install LOTRO on each computer and login with 2 different accounts with Hunters on each account...that'd be some epic surround sound!

Make sure to pop Focus every once in a while so you can get a Penetrating Shot off first!

Originally Posted by Kragald

Hmmm - surround sound of 2 PCs with 5.1 speaker systems each (10.2 speakers!) Install LOTRO on each computer and login with 2 different accounts with Hunters on each account...that'd be some epic surround sound!

Make sure to pop Focus every once in a while so you can get a Penetrating Shot off first!

I make surround sound by getting my group surrounded by mobs! That's a FIGHT!

Oh, gosh, this thread is so darn funny! I'm fairly new to LOTRO but I've always played archers all the way back to paper & dice D&D in the 80's and so much of this is true. It's also why I so often solo - my most recent online experience was evercrack a couple of years ago but I could never find a group who understood how to use an archer/hunter without getting him killed. Only time I grouped there was to get into instances that required a raid and that had something I needed to advance. I never could find a group that understood the simple concept of "let the ranged guy pull MOBs in one or two at a time so we can clobber them without getting anybody hurt."

Instead, they'd end up running pell-mell through a bunch of MOBS drawing agro to us but without killing them - leaving me to bring up the rear and get pounded in my ever-so-protective leather armor.

I remember one raid in particular where I don't think I took a single shot, but ended up flat on my face waiting for someone to bring a feather to revive me 7 times! We could have taken fifteen minutes longer IRL and wiped the place clean without a single casualty. Pretty much soured me on evercrack as I'd reached the low fifties where I couldn't advance any further without grouping a lot.

Originally Posted by Gregoth

...and used Rain of Arrows EVERY time it became available...

Heh, heh. My guess would be he hadn't soloed much as a hunter 'cause that's a prescription for quick death if you ain't got a party to bail you out of your stupidity. What the heck is the point of playing an archer if you're going to aggro whole groups of MOBs? Might as well be a tank and walk up to 'em if yer' gonna be that stoopid!

John

Originally Posted by OldePhart

Heh, heh. My guess would be he hadn't soloed much as a hunter 'cause that's a prescription for quick death if you ain't got a party to bail you out of your stupidity. What the heck is the point of playing an archer if you're going to aggro whole groups of MOBs? Might as well be a tank and walk up to 'em if yer' gonna be that stoopid!

John

No no no! Rain of THORNS! Then they are stapled to the ground and can just look at you mean while you 112112 them to death. Plus that way you tagged them all so they are all your xp of course.

Originally Posted by OldePhart

Heh, heh. My guess would be he hadn't soloed much as a hunter 'cause that's a prescription for quick death if you ain't got a party to bail you out of your stupidity. What the heck is the point of playing an archer if you're going to aggro whole groups of MOBs? Might as well be a tank and walk up to 'em if yer' gonna be that stoopid!

John

With a bit of crit luck I can chain 5-12 RoT attacks on a group without pause. In my recent experience it is me bailing out the rest of the PuG with that sort of sustained firepower. And any hunter worth their salt can handle any survivors in melee.

And in solo it is even easier.

Always open with rain of arrows solo to show them your serious. Kill 2 of em and DF. Then, go back and rain of arrows again.

Rain of thorns is for when you get so super powerful that you need to give the mobs a chance to sit and think.

Originally Posted by Kongas

... And any hunter worth their salt can handle any survivors in melee.

And in solo it is even easier.

Difference in philosophy, I guess. I like to pull them one at a time and have them drop dead just as they reach melee range so I don't have to walk far to loot.

If I need more than two melee licks to finish them off I consider it a fail. I also consider it a minor failure in tactics if I have to walk half a bow-range out of my way to loot. Just wierd that way, I 'spose.

I have noticed that hunters are way more powerful and survivable solo in LOTRO than are the various archer/assasin types I've played in other games.

Leveling is also crazy fast. I've been leveling faster than I want to and I haven't even done any major quests or anything (well, I did do that insanely long "getting ready for the festival" quest in the shire but that wasn't even challenging and shouldn't have been a level 30 quest other than for the decent reward). I've been trying to develop my character in balance, keep my crafting level such that I can craft my own bows for hunting - but I keep leveling just from killing critters for hides or to push them off a woodpile.

I seem to have missed this when it was first posted. Glad it got revived! Hex, you have a wonderful sense of irony and humor. I thoroughly enjoyed that and now I have to go and read the other one since it is apparently the same kind of humor.

A big plus rep to you, even though its a bit late

Originally Posted by hex2323

Always open with rain of arrows solo to show them your serious. Kill 2 of em and DF. Then, go back and rain of arrows again.

Rain of thorns is for when you get so super powerful that you need to give the mobs a chance to sit and think.

If they get to melee range then the proper response is "AHHH! Bard's ARROW! Heartseeker!" or "AHHH! Distracting Shot! Heartseeker!"

Silly hunters waving swords around. Trying to convince people you are a champion??

Originally Posted by hex2323

Minstrels Is there any way to turn that music off? My iTunes gets borked when you do that. Dude, chill. All you do is heal anyways, so why do you freak out? No, you don't have to heal me. I'm fine with dying. Seriously. I do it all the time solo. Why would it bother me here?

A minstrels response:

Why would I turn off my music when it is allowing you pew pew mobs? Freak out! How dare you ask use why we freak out when you should already know that it is you that causes us minstrels to freak out. You over dps and pull mobs off the tank forcing the minstrel to heal you while the tank takes damage, cause even though you are self centered we need you to burn down the mobs. And sometimes those mobs you pull of the tank do aoe damage and that damage sometimes hits me and i have to stop and heal myself while everyone else takes damage. You die all the time solo!? Then you must be a terrible hunter. A good hunter can kill a mob be for the mob reaches them.

Originally Posted by Nindolvoth

A minstrels response:

Why would I turn off my music when it is allowing you pew pew mobs? Freak out! How dare you ask use why we freak out when you should already know that it is you that causes us minstrels to freak out. You over dps and pull mobs off the tank forcing the minstrel to heal you while the tank takes damage, cause even though you are self centered we need you to burn down the mobs. And sometimes those mobs you pull of the tank do aoe damage and that damage sometimes hits me and i have to stop and heal myself while everyone else takes damage. You die all the time solo!? Then you must be a terrible hunter. A good hunter can kill a mob be for the mob reaches them.

Someone forgot to take their humor pill this morning. My entire post pokes fun at us silly hunters. No need to go all offended minstrel, Bro. I got hunter earmuffs on and can't see my screen because my bag of Doritos takes priority.

Originally Posted by hex2323

Captains, Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I understand sir. Yes sir. Sheesh. Get a load of this guy. All that planning to kill stuff. HA! He made me bow! Cool. Bow looks just like Bow, as in my Bow and Arrow. One time, I tried the Bow emote because I thought I could show off my weapon. What? Right. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. (I'll talk to you when he's not looking)

Now you see I stay quiet as a mouse in raids. Mainly so no one notices I gots the war banner up. I like to start the instance with the moors banner down, then swtich to the war banner when no one is looking. I also make it my personal mission to rip stuff off the tank, but thats just me.

Originally Posted by Armitas

Now you see I stay quiet as a mouse in raids. Mainly so no one notices I gots the war banner up. I like to start the instance with the moors banner down, then swtich to the war banner when no one is looking. I also make it my personal mission to rip stuff off the tank, but thats just me.

Wondertwin Powers! (see the tank section). *sings* Caps an Tanks. Tanks an Caps. Go together like cats and naps.

Oh ####, pulled the boss. BRB. Smoke break. *logs*

Originally Posted by hex2323

Wondertwin Powers! (see the tank section). *sings* Caps an Tanks. Tanks an Caps. Go together like cats and naps.

Oh ####, pulled the boss. BRB. Smoke break. *logs*

LOL, great to see the OP again! One of the all-time best posts.

You hit the nail on the head with this thread.

I promis ill slow down on the music as long as you take all the agro from the tank !!!!

In Mani Corp!

(Because the board is lacking humor today)

Originally Posted by hex2323

Someone forgot to take their humor pill this morning.

It's cause of this whole war on drugs thing.

Originally Posted by OldePhart

Oh, gosh, this thread is so darn funny! I'm fairly new to LOTRO but I've always played archers all the way back to paper & dice D&D in the 80's and so much of this is true. It's also why I so often solo - my most recent online experience was evercrack a couple of years ago but I could never find a group who understood how to use an archer/hunter without getting him killed. Only time I grouped there was to get into instances that required a raid and that had something I needed to advance. I never could find a group that understood the simple concept of "let the ranged guy pull MOBs in one or two at a time so we can clobber them without getting anybody hurt."

Instead, they'd end up running pell-mell through a bunch of MOBS drawing agro to us but without killing them - leaving me to bring up the rear and get pounded in my ever-so-protective leather armor.

I remember one raid in particular where I don't think I took a single shot, but ended up flat on my face waiting for someone to bring a feather to revive me 7 times! We could have taken fifteen minutes longer IRL and wiped the place clean without a single casualty. Pretty much soured me on evercrack as I'd reached the low fifties where I couldn't advance any further without grouping a lot.

What the OldePhart said, same here. Gave up on EQ when I hit 40 for the first time, rejoiced, died - and lost experience to put me back to 39. Sucked. Permanently logged out.

Funniest thread ever, laughed until I fell out of my chair. Thank heavens I could still reach 112112 because I couldn't quite reach the ESC key to log. Thanks for the laughs!