Which is the best Race for a Hunter

[golan2072]

I love hunters - hitting things from afar is fun!

So far I've played Mountain Dwarf Hunters of Oka, which are quite good, but I wonder if any of the other races (and gods) makes a good hunter as well.

[Zicher]

Try a centaur with a bow, a halfling with a sling, or an Ogre with large rocks.

[Jenx]

I'd go for a halfling hunter of okawaru (or trog, you decide) for a good sling + tons of ammo.

[danr]

Yeah, halfling hunters are one of my favourite classes. They have a really good synergy of shields + slings + short blades + stealth + stabbing + dodging. Their starting sling is really powerful, it's just hard to train fighting when instead of softening things up you are one-shotting them with your sling all the time. And, it actually makes all those sling bullet gifts worthwhile!

[colma]

IMO Trog is MUCH better than Okawaru for a ranged user because he is much more likely to gift ammo, having his gifts limited to weapons and ammo only. MDHu of Trog was my first ranged win, but a Spriggan Hunter is sick nasty as well (my 2nd ranged win).

If you play online trunk, Mountain Dwarf Hunter is crazy hard to kill with the buffs to armor (you should be raising str for xbows anyway).

[Jenx]

I've been considering that combo as well since all my ranged users always end up with slings due to the shield+sling combo and I've been meaning to give crossbows a try. So aside from Str, should I bother putting any points into dexterity at all or just keep pumping str? (And I'm still not sure - does heavy armor like scale and plate reduce the attack speed with ranged weapons or not?)

[colma]

I've been considering that combo as well since all my ranged users always end up with slings due to the shield+sling combo and I've been meaning to give crossbows a try. So aside from Str, should I bother putting any points into dexterity at all or just keep pumping str? (And I'm still not sure - does heavy armor like scale and plate reduce the attack speed with ranged weapons or not?)

I won with it wearing some kind of plate I believe, so the penalty (whatever it is) wasn't too terrible .

But the str weight of xbows is 80% vs. the 20%/30% of bows so I just went all str.

[zasvid]

I won with a 3-rune crossbow user who Xbowed most things in Zot despite having a shield, crystal plate mail and pumping up Dex due to a demon whip, which wasn't all that useful, because even a fire orb could be quickly bolted to death. So I guess my advice is - crossbows are good, use them!