Hunter Leveling Build (10-19)

While working on leveling my new hunter, Lestunter, I found very few good leveling guides as to where to put your talent points. So, I decided to write one of my own as I go and let you know why I did what I did.

After a lot of research, it seems (to me) that the best leveling spec is Beast Mastery, so that's what I'm going with. I'm also choosing to level with a Tenacity pet, so I'll basically have a pet that serves as a tank for my leveling.

So far, it amazes me how easy it is to level a hunter. The survival ability that you gain with a pet amazes me. Although, after making a bad call (or just being dumb), I do find myself wishing I had my pally bubble to get me out of trouble.

So today, I'm going to look at the first 10 points to spend.

Tier 1

Endurance Training - 5/5 - Increases the Health of your pet by 2/4/6/8/10% and your total health by 1/2/3/4/5%
This is a must have for leveling. You and your pet can both take more of a beating. Great Talent! Put your first 5 points here.

Improved Aspect of the Hawk - 0/5 - While Aspect of the Hawk or Dragonhawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 10% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 3/6/9/12/15% for 12 sec
This just isn't a great buff while you're leveling. I would say it's definitely good for a DPS build, but just not for us.

Tier 2

Thick Hide - 3/3 - Increases the armor rating of your pets by 20% and your armor contribution from items by 10%
I feel this is the best place to put your 6th, 7th, and 8th points. This helps your tenacity pet mitigate more damage, and since they'll be tanking for you, that's a good thing!

Focused Fire - 2/2 - All damage caused by you is increased by 1/2% while your pet is active and the critical strike chance of your pet's special abilities is increased by 10/20% while Kill Command is active.
This isn't a spectacular talent (because we won't have Kill Command until level 66), but 2% more damage will help speed along the leveling process. Put your 9th and 10th points here!

Improved Aspect of the Monkey - 0/3 - Increases the Dodge bonus of your Aspect of the Monkey and Aspect of the Dragonhawk by 2/4/6%
You "shouldn't" be getting hit that much to make this a good talent for leveling, plus there's another, better place to put your other 3 points right now...

Improved Revive Pet - 0/2 - Revive Pet's casting time is reduced by 3/6 sec, mana cost is reduced by 20/40%, and increases the health your pet returns with by an additional 15/30%
This just seems like a silly talent to me. If your pet dies, things have gone horribly wrong, and you're more than likely going to die too. So this would save a little time and mana when you die, it's really not worth any talent points.

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So there you have my suggestions up to level 19. I think it's a solid starting build, focusing on leveling with a tenacity pet. Feel free to comment!

Hunter Leveling Build: Part 1(10-19)
Hunter Leveling Build: Part 2(20-29)
Ferocity > Tenacity? - Ferocity Talents (20-29)
Hunter Leveling Build: Part 3(30-39)
Hunter Leveling Build: Part 4(40-49) - Coming soon!
Hunter Leveling Build: Part 5(50-59) - Coming soon!