World PvP: Your Hunter Can Rule

PvP combat is in your Hunter's future, even if you've avoided it so far. Wrath of the Lich King (WotLK) transformed WoW World PvP. There's now a real time PvP battle zone called Lake Wintergrasp. There, the emphasis is on real-time World PvP. In this new zone, players battle on the live server (no instancing) to earn points that allow them to shop for all sorts of special items, including the new Heirloom items that any character in their account regardless of that character's level can use.

Given the popularity of Lake Wintergrasp 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 World of Warcraft 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. You also need to know the capabilities of your character and its gear. And you need to be able to maneuver into the optimal position to take out your target before they can take you down.

However, in Hunter PvP combat, there are issues that no real-world hunter has to deal with. Understanding the optimum time to employ your Freezing and Frost Traps and essential crowd control devices is necessary but not enough. You also need to know how to manage the space between you and your opponents so you can cause as much ranged damage as possible in each fight. And you must do all this against an intelligent character, rather than a wild animal.

To truly succeed in Hunter PvP combat, you need to understand the behavior of each class of opponent and have a strategy for defeating them. It's particularly important to understand how Druids or Warriors or Rogues are most likely to come at 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 was able to make real progress.

Because a quality Hunter PvP Guide contains the hard-earned combat experience of veteran Hunters, it will contain strategies and tactics that are not obvious to newer players. In short, a good PvP Guide will save you a big block of time you would otherwise have to spend dying in battle before you become skilled at PvP combat.

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