Player versus Player (PvP) combat is in your Hunter’s future, even if you’ve avoided it so far. WotLK has brought a new emphasis to World PvP. There’s now a real time PvP battle zone called Lake Wintergrasp. There, the emphasis is on real-time World PvP. There players battle on the live server (no instancing) to win points that allow them to buy a wide variety of rare and valuable items such as the new Heirloom items. These are items that any of the player’s characters in that account from level 1 to 80 and beyond can take advantage of.
Given the popularity of Lake Wintergrasp and the trend toward PvP combat in the gaming industry, you’ll surely see more even more PvP in WoW in the future. Here’s what you need to know to handle your Hunter in this new world:
Playing a Hunter class character in World of Warcraft Player versus Player combat requires many of the same skills real hunter possess. You need to be able to quickly pick out a target and figure out how it will react so you can anticipate its next move. In addition, you need to know your own capabilities and the capabilities of your gear. And you need to be able to maneuver to the right position to take out your prey before they can take you down.
But playing a hunter in PvP involves much more than that. You need to know when and how to employ your Freezing and Frost Traps and essential crowd control devices is one thing. You need to know how to maintain the ideal distance between you and your opponents to cause the most possible DPS damage in each battle. And you must do all this against a foe who is trying just as hard to out-think and out-maneuver you as you are to do the same to him.
If you want to be really successful in Hunter PvP combat, you need to know the strategy and tactics for killing each class of opponent. It’s particularly important to understand how Druids, Warriors, and Rogues are likely to approach you. And you need to know how to respond against those classes that can charge into hand-to-hand combat range quickly, such as Warriors and Rogues.
You can learn much of what you need to win as a Hunter in PvP simply by spending time in the arena. But I know, from personal experience that if you try, you had better be prepared to get crushed and humiliated for a long time. I spent many frustrating hours ranking last or near last in the standings when I tried. Once I started reading a Hunter PvP Guide, I started climbing in the standings rapidly.
Even if you do decide to learn the ins and outs of Hunter PvP combat yourself, you’ll find that a quality PvP Guide will contain information that you’re unlikely to discover on your own. It will teach you the key things you need to know, saving you a big block of time you would otherwise have to spend dying in battle before you become good at PvP combat.
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