29 Twink Hunter Guide

Here are my notes from making Tomten, my 29 hunter. I did most of my research online (wow forums, armory, etc.) the best guide I found is linked at the end of this post.

- - A R M O R - -

HELM (+100HP or +8Agil)
Enduring Cap
OR
9/9 monkey helm or 9/9 eagle helm…
Pathfinder Helm of the Monkey / Eagle
Leather headband of the Monkey / Eagle

NECK
28 Warsong Gultch Necklass

SHOULDER
Forest Tracker Epaulets
Watchman Pauldrons
Mantle of Thieves

BACK (+12Agil)
Parachute Cloak (engineering)

CHEST (+6 all stats)
Raptor Hunter Tunic (quest item)

BRACER (+9Stam, or +24AP)
Emissary Cuffs of the Monkey / Eagle
easier…
Barbaric Bracers

HAND (+15Agil or +26AP)
Razzeric's Racing Grips (quest item)
alternates…
Flecter's Gloves (crafted item.. good for pure mark builds, +3% ranged crit @29)
Wolfclaw Gloves

RING
Deadmans Hand
Charged Gear of the Monkey / Eagle / Falcon
alternates…
Protector’s Band (Warsong Gultch Ring)
Plains Ring
Talvash's Gold Ring
Seal of Wrynn

BELT
Ghostwalker Belt of the Monkey / Eagle
Arathi Basin Belt (AB PvP Vendor)

LEGS (NetherCleft or NetherCobra armor kit)
Petrospill
+9/+9 Green Pants on AH (monkey, eagle, falcon)
Troll’s Bane Legging

BOOTS (+7Stm or +7Agil)
Highlander's Padded Greaves (AB PvP Vendor)
Harbinger Boots

LEG ARMOR KITS (Can Not Be Applied Once Soulbound To A 29 Twink!)
Nethercleft (+40Stam +12Agil)
4x Heavy Knothide Leather, 16x Thick Clefthoof Leather, 8x Primal Earth, 1x Primal Nether

Nethercobra (+50ATP +12Crit)
4x Heavy Knothide Leather, 4x Cobra Scales. 8x Primal Air, 1x Primal Nether


- - W E A P O N S - -
*IL = ‘item level’

RANGED WEAPON
MasterHunter's Rifle [+7scope]

AMMO POUCH
Bandolier ammo ouch (dustwood chain)

2H WEAPON
Thermaplug's Left Arm (Mongoose) .. lL35 and will take BC enchants
alternates…
Archeus .. IL35 and will take BC enchants
Corpsemaker (weapon chain)

1H WEAPON
Main Hand
The Butcher (+15agi) .. this weapon has +5/+4 agil/stm base stats
Off Hand
Crescent of the Forlorn Spirits (+20agil or +30int) .. IL35 and will take BC enchant
Zealot Blade (+15agi or +22int) .. this weapon has +5int base stat
I didn’t know about the Forlorn before I made mine and now I don’t want to mess with my exp for such a small gain. But I recommend you get both of these off handers. Put +20 agil on the crescent (for a total of 40agil btw this and your main hand). In games where you are burning through your mana swap out the 20Agil crescent for the 27int (5+22) Zealot.


- - T A L E N T - -
Most of the best 29 hunters i know are survival spec'd, it gives you the ability cope with most of the situations in WSG and come out on top, marksmanship is also a valid option, especially for Night Elves, however beast mastery is a lacking at such low levels.

I put 5 points into Improved Concussive and the other 15 points into survival and I’m very happy. In ranged mode I’m almost always in the top three in damage output, but on a couple of occasions I ran out of bullets at the start of a battleground but even in melee-only mode I was still at the top of the damage charts. I can definitely hold my own against melee classes in 1v1 without a problem. At some point I may put a Nethercorba on a second pair of Petrospill Leggings, put AP enchants on alternate bracer/gloves and give full marksman a try. But I don’t think I will like it as well.


- - P E T --
High DPS pet or a boar for the crowd controlling stun effect. Personally I find the boar incredible great for slowing flag runners. If you do go boar.. don't forget to Tame Bellygrub in Redridge to learn Charge3 & Gore4 and Tame a Giant Wetland Croc to learn Bite4 ASAP so you're not messing with this when experience points are a premium. Whichever pet you choose you'll want to increase their loyalty and level so you can allocate them the max pet skill points.


- - B E F O R E L 28 - -
1.) Start Sleeping Outside (no rest exp)
2.) Get all the drops you will need out of Gnomer/SM/RFK
3.) Get all the discovery bonuses (STV, Shimmering Flats/Gadget, Thousand Needles)
4.) Get the bandolier ammo pouch (dustwood chain)
5.) Get the crescent of forlorn spirits axe (dustwood chain?)
6.) Learn all the pet tamed pet skills you will need


- - @ L 28 - -
1.) Tame Pet
2.) Do the Following Quest Chains:
Big Game Hunter (Master Hunter's Rifle)
Panther Mastery
Tiger Mastery
Raptor Mastery (Raptor Hunter Tunic)
The Weathered Grave (Archeus)


- - @ L 29 - -
1.) Get the Racing Grips Gloves (chain in thousand needles)
2.) Save your experience points for new twink items in future patches
3.) Enchant your gear and go to Battle


- - E N G I N E E R I N G - -
Engineering gives you access to the following useful items (partial list):
Parachute Cloak
Gnomish Harm Prevention Belt
Catseye Ultra Goggles
Mind Control Cap
Shrink Ray
Net-O-Matic
Goblin Sapper Charges
Goblin Mortar
Iron Grenades
Mithril Frag Bombs


- - G U I D E - -
This is was one of the best online guides I found went I first decided to make Tomten a 29 Twink...
“The ULTIMATE 29 Twink Hunter Guide” (wow forums):
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=86848576&sid=1

19 Bracket Twink Professions

Some notes regarding twink professions for the 19 bracket.

First Aid and Cooking can be leveled to 225 for level 19 toons. By contrast, fishing, and the various primary professions can only be leveled up to 150. Gnomes engineers are an exception because they have a racial passive which adds a +15 boost to engineering.

First Aid (225) - Level 19 characters can level first aid skill to 225. This allows them to make bandages up to mageweave bandages, but at this skill level use one can use up to heavy runecloth bandages, the later heals 2000 dmg over 8 seconds! This is 250 health per second! The strongest healing potion available at this level only restores 280-300 health, so even if you can only get two seconds of healing you've restored more live than drinking a potion. Also bandages and potions have separate cool down timers. For Expert First Aid (125-225) you'll need to buy a book for 1 gold from Deneb Walker in Stromgarde Keep, Arathi Highlands. Deneb also sells the manuals that teach Heavy Silk Bandage and Mageweave Bandage (22 and 50 silver respectively).

Engineering (150) - most twinks are engineers because with a few notable exceptions (lucky fishing hat, and bloodsail admirals hat), the green tinted goggles are the best avail. headgear for most classes at this level. You can also make/use the following items: big bronze bomb, explosive sheep, aquadynamic fish attractor, minor recombobulator, discombobulator ray, and target dummies (which work against pvp pets only).

Blacksmithing (150) – is another useful, and apparently overlooked, profession for twinks. Many character classes can take advantage either the heavy sharpening stone or the Heavy Weightstone to add damage to melee weapons. These are particularly practical twink buffs because they persist through death! Thick Bronze Darts are also favored by some rogues for the stat bonus. Although more crafty rogues will obtain Throat Piercers. Unlike Engineering items, which generally require engineering to use, all of these items can used by non-blacksmiths so a reasonable alternative would be to purchase these items or make them with an alt.

Engineering, and blacksmithing require stone and metal to to skill up and restock consumables. These items are easily farmed and the tend to be overpriced (imo) at the AH. So if you don't have a mining alt or friend you should consider taking mining as your toon's second primary profession.

Fishing (225) - Many twinks take the time to max their fishing. This can easily be done in the canals of SW between BGs. At 150 toons can fish in STV for a chance at some of the BB fishing contest prizes (highly sought by twinks). 

Edit Aug. '08 - The book to take fishing to 225 can now be learned by level 19s. This should make fishing in the contest a little easier if not less boring.

Cooking (225) - Like first aid, cooking can be learned up to skill 225. Cooking does not play a particularly important role for a twink since food with +4 or +6 stamina buff will cancel out the +15 stamina buff provided Rumsey Rum Black Label (the rum also gets you buzzed, which after hours of grinding in WSG is much appreciated). So I've included cooking here mostly since I like to cook and eat a Savory Deviate Delight at the start of WSG before the gates open (they taste better hot). Also if you're gonna spent so much time maxing all the other twink stats, why not hit cooking too. The Expert cookbook can be purchased for 1 gold from Shandrina at the Silverwind Refuge covered pavilion in Ashenvale.

Thistle Tea is an interesting cooking item for Rogues as it restores rogue's energy. The recipe is a rogue-only quest reward / vendor item from Ravenholdt Manor in Hillsbrad (vendor version avail only once quest is completed). However, the level requirement to begin the quest is 24 and the recipe is now BoP, so you would have to have rogue toon make these for your 19 twink. A friend of mine had the recipe banked from before Blizzard made it BoP and sent it too me, but that was extremely lucky.

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