I’m really tired of the pet, is so freaking bugged!!! As a hunter, i can’t even use my class skills without the pet getting bugged every freaking minute. Use retrieve? Nop, the pets gets bugged. Use rush dog? Nop, the pet will ignore you 90% of the times. Use coursing??? Nope, the pet will prevail stuck even if the mob dies, and then gets stucked.
PLEASE! Fix the pet AI for god’s sake…
Don’t blame the class because of the pet system, you say one thing on the title and other on the content of the thread.
That happen with any class, the pet get stuck somewhere, attack when want, i see a stubborn dog on it lol.
At least the falcon on Falconer do what it is supposed to do.
The difference is that the Falcon is always ready to take commands, pets normally do the heck they want 
The falcon is considered a summon, so it is bound to skills, different from the ground companion.
The thing is that other players don’t need to rely on the pet to do it’s thing.
The hunter class is built around that companion though.
I know that, but it is not the class problem but the pet system.
That is what i believe it to be.
It may be a pet system problem, but it is a problem for the class too if it’s basically useless like that.
My alt is a hunter. I leveled her to level 67 or something, hunter c1 and in my opinion the skills work quite well if you know how to work around the pet AI issues.
For commands like Coursing and Dog Rush make sure that you are actually pointing to your enemy and your pet is somewhere between you and your enemy. Then it will work quite accurately.
Sometimes Coursing wont trigger correctly, then try to move out of range from your targeted enemy and as soon as it attempts to move Coursing will trigger.
Bossmonsters are a different thing though. Dog Rush does not deal its full damage as it should and Coursing (and I suppose Retrieve too) does not work at all on bosses.
Snatching on the other hand works very well against flying bosses (saw it in game play videos), as it locks them down completely. Coursing and Retrieve also lock down normal monsters completely and are very strong skills, especially in pvp.
Growling is a massive aoe crowd control, as it fears monsters in a huge radius. I can imagine a very good synergy with connoneer with that spell.
Hunter is a support class (green icon ;)) and as such it will work quite well. Pet AI could use some improvements for sure, but playing this class with its current drawbacks is in my opinion still rewarding enough.
Great overall review.
I want to point out that Growling has some issues because some monsters just walk away from the effect area with the Growling debuff on.
Your pet also gets its growling canceled if its HP reaches 0 (gets KOed/Stunned)…which is quite easy to happen.