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Moving Into Hunter Arena PvP!

Posted in addons, arena, Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 26, 2011 | 17 Comments »

A lot of hunters are starting to get into PvP, if only to fill in some gaps in their raiding gear. A lot of hunters don’t have access to epic PvE head and shoulders, and using Vicious Gladiator pieces in those slots can be a DPS increase, especially when you consider the 70 agility from [...]

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Vicious PVP Gear in PVE

Posted in Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , on April 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Many classses were using pvp at the start of the expansion to obtain gear that was superior in pve to anything that dropped in heroic 5mans.  Blizzard responded to that drift toward pvp gear by nerfing 4-piece pvp set bonuses across the board.  Yet, this did not bring an end to the well-reasoned use of pvp gear in pve settings by [...]

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Alliance loses a lot of battlegrounds.

Posted in battlegrounds, Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on February 22, 2011 | 19 Comments »

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2187-Battleground-Horde-Alliance-Win-Ratio-Setup-of-the-Month I used to enjoy a 70% ratio in Wrath, before they merged my battlegroup’s faction with the alliance on all the other battlegroups. It’s mostly afkers that cause the losses these days, however there is a lot people arguing instead of playing, and a ton of badly geared players. First and foremost, however, is [...]

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Hunting down flag carriers!

Posted in battlegrounds, Hunter, Marksmanship, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 11, 2011 | 8 Comments »

I’ve been grinding a fair bit of MM PvP since 4.0.6. I’m not so good at arenas, but I’m fairly decent in BGs. One of the most important factors in BG success with a hunter is your ability to play the map, and utilize the advantages of your superior class to the best effect possible. [...]

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Bloodthirsty PVP Gear Possibly Better than Dungeon Gear for PVE DPS

Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, pvp, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on January 2, 2011 | 22 Comments »

I was playing around with Zeherah’s online dps modeler and found that four pieces of ilvl 352 Bloodthirsty pvp gear were better for my dps than the pieces of ilvl 346 pve gear I had equipped.  This was true for all three specs (an SV dungeon build, an MM dungeon build and a standard BM build) that I ran through [...]

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How to Fight a Hunter in PvP

Posted in arena, battlegrounds, Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , on July 5, 2010 | 8 Comments »

I’ve been spending a fair bit of time on PvP lately, and while I’m far from an expert, I’ve logged a lot of battleground time, a little arena time, and have picked up a bunch of habits that I plan on writing about. As I’m fairly certain that I’m the worst PvP hunter on the [...]

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Hunter Leveling at the End of Wrath

Posted in battlegrounds, Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »

We’re in the doldrums at the end of Wrath.  The story is done aside from a token shrine.  Like captivated readers often do at the end of a good story, many players have opted to just flip back to the beginning of the game and create an alt.  This abundance of young hunters in the [...]

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How and When to use Scare Beast!

Posted in Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , on May 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Scare beast is my new favorite spell. Make sure it’s glyphed! Why is this my favorite spell? Use cases follow, however: scare beast is the only spell that can make a furry druid hit their head on the keyboard so hard, you can hear it through the internet. They never expect it because it never [...]

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Hunter PvP Expert Questions!

Posted in Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , on May 26, 2010 | 17 Comments »

Hi folks, this week we’ve invited Loinclothz, the top rated hunter in the US, to the Hunting Party podcast to talk about the journey from PvE to PvP mastery. Having dipped my toes in the battleground waters recently, I have a bunch of noob questions I plan on bringing up, however could use your help [...]

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Winning Strategy for Node Battlegrounds!

Posted in battlegrounds, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 11, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Node based battlegrounds (Arathi Basin and Eye of the Storm, mainly) are curious. The strategy for winning them relies heavily on the ability for individuals to balance two things that don’t match well at all: spreading out and grouping up. Most people in a random BG will be in a constant cycle of: Find nearest [...]

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Random Battleground Hunter PvP Tricks!

Posted in battlegrounds, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Here are a few of my favorite things in battleground PvP. Tactics If you have 5 people following you to a heavily defended node with, say, 6 opponents, how can you turn the fight to your advantage? Spread them out, distract them, and reduce their ability to focus fire. In Eye of the Storm, if [...]

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Communication In Battlegrounds!

Posted in battlegrounds, Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , on April 23, 2010 | 12 Comments »

Put 15 random people into a group, add a dose of epeen, a dash of afk, and a dollop of cluelessness, and you have your typical battleground group. At any given time, there will be a couple people in low quality (or high quality PvE) gear trying to figure out what the rules are, a [...]

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Hunter PvP for PvEtards!

Posted in battlegrounds, Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , on April 19, 2010 | 26 Comments »

I’ll admit it, I’m a PvEtard. I don’t stand in fire and I don’t pull agro, but I sure as heck forget where I have master’s call bound and blow my trinket at the wrong time. That said, I’ve been having moderate success the last week in battlegrounds PvP, and thought I’d share some lessons [...]

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Offtopic: In Game Event!

Posted in economics, Offtopic, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , on March 22, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Hi guys, I have a real post lined up for today, but I wanted to take a moment to direct your attention to this post on Call to Auction, my other podcast. We’re doing an in game event where the prize is 20,000g! Long story short, you’ll be rolling level 1 dwarves (or gnomes… ew), [...]

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The Right Stuff (Arena Edition)

Posted in arena, Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , on March 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Hey all. Today I want to talk about an issue that is about as near to my heart as anything related to arenas can be. Most people take a lot of time to figure out their gear and spec before stepping into arenas: they look for good teammates of the right classes, and they try [...]

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My Travels in Season 7

Posted in Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , on January 16, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I’ve been running all kinds of crazy comps this season, including double healer/hunter, hunter/moonkin/priest, hunter/DK/priest, turtle cleave, and every variation on hunter/shaman/paladin that you can think of. I probably played hunter/DK/priest the most, but lately I’ve been running hunter/protret/resto shaman and have had by far the most success with it out of all the comps [...]

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Mastering Isle of Conquest – Revisited

Posted in battlegrounds, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Hey all, today we’re going to revisit Isle of Conquest guide, because my old guide was written the same week the BG came out, and I didn’t have as much info then as I do now. Let’s see what’s what now that I have a little more perspective.

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