Mail can be overrated. Some leather has the better stats for a hunter, especially in a group.
If you're going to solo pve outlands, however - you may want to start going mail.
Or amp up your cc/evasion skills. Outlands is tough because it's really easy to get adds.
Are you dying from adds? Or cuz your pet can't hold agro?
If
you get an add, you have options. FD. Trap it in an ice cube. Sic pet on it to get agro on pet - then put pet back on orignial target, kill it, take out the add.
Or better yet, take steps never to get adds in the first place. Use track - alternate between track human/animal or demon/animal
or whatever to get a sense of where the clusters are, where the patroling mobs are - and where the spots are.
Instead of blundering into dangerous, mob-rich areas, hunt from the safer areas - i.e. pull singles to your "safe spot" to fight. Don't mindlessly send pet into a target rich area. Pull one mob to where you can expect not to get adds. Then, if you do, know what to do to deal w/ the add.
Some hunters hunt multiple targets at once. They use a pet like a carrion bird w/ an aoe that semi-taunts - screech. CB has medium armor and hp. W/ bm spec, you can use claw and regen focus pretty fast - w/out a talent to regen focus, have the cb use bite. Once two screeches hit several targets, you can get away w/ multishooting and healing w/out pulling agro. Not all the time, but you can make it work - experiment.
And if one of hte mobs comes after you, know what to do. Sic the pet on it. Back off.
Learn to kite well.
All that said, you
can easily get decent mail in outlands quests and on the AH. Not killer, but you can get mail w/ decent stats.
That said, if your leather gear just beats all the mail you can find hands down, go w/ the leather. Learn to use the pet and to use other tricks to keep meleeing mobs off you. Evasion, FD, clip and kite, ice cube trap - fear animal and so on.
If you pvp, you will want the best chain you can get. Pvp - totally different.
GL
(edit - important - tell us why you are dying, mostly - i.e. are you dying mostly in solo pve due to adds? Or dying cuz your pet doesn't hold agro? If that's happening you have to stop pulling agro off the pet - or make sure Growl is maxed up (if growl is maxed, then you have to let the pet growl - maybe even twice - before you start pounding hte target - or something - or FD a lot, evade (or whatever it's called) at the right time). Anyway, tell us why you are dying; we can help you
a lot better that way - it's probably not just your armor).
Edited, Sep 3rd 2007 4:35pm by like im getting really often told that I suck at WoW....They tell me the main reason, "Your wearing leather" And I think it sux because some leather things are good? No?
And when I look in AH most of my stuff is better than
the ones in AH so why they complaining?
"Your dyiing in outlands because of you got too little mail armor, so now im doing outland quests getting mail armor and stuff is that good or? I'm really not sure whats the problem with Leather?-Europe server Darkmoon Faire.
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