How Your Hunter Can Dominate World PvP

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Even if your Hunter has avoided it in the past, Player versus Player (PvP) combat is in their future. 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. There players go at it on the live server (no instancing) to win points that allow them to buy rare and valuable items such as the new Heirloom items that any of the player’s characters in that account regardless of that character’s level can use.

With Lake Wintergrasp’s high popularity, 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 some of the skills of a real hunter. You need to be able to quickly pick out a target and understand its likely behavior so you can anticipate its next move. 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 on your prey before they can take you out.

But playing a hunter in PvP involves much more than that. Understanding the best time to use 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 hurt them as badly as possible before they get close in each battle. 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 enemy class and have a strategy for dealing with them. It’s particularly important to understand how Druids or Warriors or Rogues are most likely to come at 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 can tell you 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 most important things 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.

Find out how your Hunter can dominate any kind of Player versus Player combat with the PvP Bible. Visit PvP-Bible.info to learn more about this great Hunter PvP Guide, or order your copy of the Guide here.