Welcome back to the Scattered Shots, the weekly World of Warcraft Hunter class column. This week we continue our "So you want to be a hunter" leveling series as we look at Levels 60-70 and see why I really feel they're the best class in the game. So join me, Eddie Carrington, Brigwyn from The Hunting Lodge blog and podcast, as we explore what's in store for us hunters.

Maybe one day hunters being able to tame duids as their very own pet. Wouldn't that be awesome? I want to thank Dwarffinator and Lissana of Restokin.com for making this picture and sending it in for me to use.

This is part six of our, now eight part "So you want to be a hunter" leveling guide series. In what was originally to be our final guide, we will now instead cover 10 levels, 60-70, with levels 71 through 80 coming next week. Part of this change is in response to your feedback wanting a bit more information on the skills.

As we do in each, this week we'll review what skills you learn, suggest talent builds for both you and your pet as you level, we'll highlight some suggested dungeon quests that match your current level.

We've 6 previous installations in this series. Here's what we've talked about so far.

• Part 1: We reviewed racials and their impact on the hunter class. Reviewed each of the current races and what the benefits were of each racial.
• Part 2: We quickly talked about the first nine levels. We also went on to talk about each of the three hunter talent trees and their basic play style.
• Part 3: Last week we discussed what happened from levels 10 through 20. We also went over the quests to learn how to tame your first pet.
• Part 4: We covered some of the covered attacks, buffs and spells. We also began looking at how to teach your pet new skills by applying pet talents.
• Part 5: We covered levels 21 through 40. We ended up with you getting your epic riding mount and you now can wear mail. From now on completing quests and gaining levels will be much faster.
• Part 6: Is where we started to see that we were learning more new ranks than new spells as we leveled from 41 to 60. We ended our time in Outlands with our first flying mount.

That's where we've been. But where are we heading? This week we'll be levels 60 to 70. We'll wrap up Outlands, head out to Northrend. Next week we'll wrap it up by reaching level 80. Then we'll focus on gearing up join everyone having fun storming the castle to tackle the Sindragosa, the Lich King and his Scourge minions and anything else Blizzard can through our way as part of Patch 3.3.

Before we get to caught up and head out with our pants down around our ankles, we need to level up. So let's make sure we review the guidelines for using this guide.

• "So you want to be a hunter" is for the new player or at the least a new hunter.
• This guide is not a "How-to get to 80 in less than 3 days" leveling guide. It's more of a "Here's something thing for you to look out for and consider"
• In an effort to reduce confusion, this guide presents all of the quests, instances, and equipment at recommended gear level. It is possible for some players to complete quests while lower than the published recommended level.
• Due to the sheer quantity of quests available, from level 60 on we will only highlight the dungeon quests that offer significant experience gains or other rewards that would help improve the leveling experience. Also, with the new Looking For Group interface as part of the PTR Patch 3.3, finding groups for these instances shouldn't be as painful.
• If you've leveled a hunter before or are just set on skipping through all this wonderful content just to reach the end game, then I recommend you use the filters in WoWHead to help identify every possible quest for your level and faction.
• All talent build suggestions are taking into account that most players seem to have a tendency to either level by themselves, in very small groups of 2-3 players.
• All pet talent builds are based on soloing with a tenacity pet (e.g. turtle)Since this guide is about leveling, pet talent point allocations will be using a tenacity pet.
• This guide focuses on the leveling the PvE hunter. We will discuss PvP and raiding in other guides
• With all of that out of the way, let's get leveling.

In Part 6 we ended after achieving level 60 and getting our first flying mount. Now we can fly anywhere we want in Outlands and not have to weave our way through the giant mushroom maze that is Zangarmarsh.

Also, thanks to our new found freedom, you'll be able to zip through the quests faster. Also, get bored with a zone? Then it's just a short flight to zones that have similar levels of content and keep on leveling. Just don't forget to stop and pick up a Nagrand Cherry from time to time. Maybe maybe take some time complete the dungeon quests or even try soloing a group quests.

Levels 61 – 62

Speaking of flying around and leveling, what you know, we've arrived at level 62. I'm sure you can't help bu notice that this is more of a skill-up level and you don't learn any new skills or attacks.

We'll skill up Explosive Trap (Rank 4). It doesn't sound like much but couple Explosive Trap with Volley and it can make a pretty lethal combination for multiple mob pulls.

The other skill-up involves Steady Shot (Rank 2). Even though we use other shots in our rotation, Steady Shot is still our back bone and cooldown filler.

New Hunter Skills

• No new skills

Hunter Talent Allocations

• Pet Tanking Build
• Traditional Build

Pet Talent Allocations

Tenacity Pet Build

Dungeon Quest Chains to Consider

• Dark Tidings – 20,100xp
• Weaken the Ramparts - (The Handguards of Precision and 20,100xp.)

Rare Pets

• No Rare Pets

Levels 63-64

Man that was a quick couple of levels, we're moving right along. Thanks to completing a run through Ramparts and Blood Furnace we were able to get some great loot along with loads of experience.

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