Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
I'll agree that pets aren't likely the whole as to why Hunters are popular, but all but one spec has (infrequent) cast or channel times and magical abilities, with the only spec not to have either being the pet-centric spec, but as for "how many Hunters in WoW" don't use a pet, historically (was always an option for at most two of three specs and viable only for one), now, or on the Beta... they're very few.
You mean the most popular hunter spec is the one that only has instant cast abilities and is the most mobile class in the entire game? I get it, I played BM hunter too. The pets were fun, but the reason I played the spec was because it had the simplest rotation and had the most mobility by far.

Thanks for making my point for me, as it's been a while since I played WoW.