Even if your Hunter has avoided it in the past, Player versus Player (PvP) combat is in their future. Wrath of the Lich King has brought a new emphasis to World of Warcraft’s 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 go at it on the live server to win points they can use to shop for all sorts of rare and valuable items, including the new Heirloom items that any character in their account regardless of that character’s level can use.
With Lake Wintergrasp’s high popularity, and the increasing amount of PvP combat in other popular games, there will surely be even more World PvP in the future. So let’s talk about Hunters and PvP:
Playing a Hunter class character in WoW Player versus Player combat requires some of the skills of a real hunter. You need to be able to quickly pick out a target and figure out how it will react so you can anticipate what it will do next. 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 on your prey before they can take you down.
However, in Hunter PvP combat, there are issues that no real-world hunter has to deal with. You need to know when and how to use 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 fight. And you must do all this against an intelligent character, rather than a wild animal.
If you want to be really successful in Hunter PvP combat, you need to understand the behavior of each enemy class and have a strategy for defeating them. It’s particularly important to understand how Druids or Warriors or Rogues are likely to approach you. At the same time, you have to have a strategy for countering quick charges into hand-to-hand combat range by 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. It wasn’t until I picked up a Hunter PvP Guide that 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 strategies and tactics that are not obvious to newer players. 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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