Help with charaFollow

Your plight is common with Hunters. There is some relief for us coming with the next patch, but it helps to remember that people die in BGs/arena a lot, and there's often not a whole lot you can do about it. If you've unloaded your ******* to keep someone at range and they still make it to you, you've got some options to try and get away. If you can't get away, it just wasn't your fight to win.

I have a few PvP tips I can offer.

For starters, make good use of feign death and shadowmeld. Shadowmeld will help you "get the jump" on your target, catching them by surprise offering you a second or two before they retaliate (and in PvP a few seconds is can be quite long.)

Feign usually takes their pet off you (assuming they have one) and cancels their targeting, requiring them to click on you again to continue fighting (again, giving you a precious few seconds to kill them).

As for weapons and whatnot. I'd drop some of that spirit in exchange for stamina... in fact... I'd drop A lot of that spirit for some more stamina. Putting a few points from IAotH into Endurance Training would also help you live a bit longer and IAotH will only help the speed of your auto-shot, which isn't something you're going to be using too much anyway. Lose that main-hand sword you have, a hit effect is useless for someone who shouldn't be melee-ing in the first place, especially since hit effects are too unreliable. Get something with agility and stamina, the damage it deals shouldn't take priority but get as high as you can for those mongoose and raptor strikes (which should only be one or two of each per fight at most).

EDIT: spelling mistakes. Keyboard's fault, not mine. I swear!

Edited, Oct 21st 2007 9:39pm by Jonofthedead

The only advice i can give is dodge all your SPI and stack the STA and AGI
TO DA MAX!

Also what i do is grab all the PvP armor and weps (which you said is wat u were gonna get :D) i can get because they are greatly attuned to dmg and everything PvP.....Might i recommend the epic bracer's you can buy from WSG

During the time your farming marks for PvP armor you will learn yourself how to play and progressively get better at playing your class....trust me practice makes perfect and you will know how to deal with every class that springs on you

o yea totally unrelated but Feigning death and running can get a chars pet and focus off of you to give you enuf time to lay a trap and gain the advantage :P

hope i helped some how

Hey Gerinimo, I call dibs on first drink at your blue party :)

Went to rate you up for asking a decent question, and you turned blue on me :P

someone probably had issues with him going blue after only 24 posts. I hope that's not the case, we need all the good posters around here we can get! (Not saying the ones already here aren't good but always like new info that comes with new experienced folks.)

I would think in Arenas less than 5v5, Hunters are disadvantaged too much to be successful. The changes may improve that but it will be wait and see.

As far as BG's go, did that quite a bit. Wasn't really well geared for it but good enough to be competant. Stamina, Agility and melee abilities, or super ranged ones tend to rule. You either fight like heck at range and die in melee range trying to get range back or do damage all the way through and have better melee survivability and hope your pet or buddies can get the other player off you.

I did best when I stayed with the crowd and did assistance from range. Clothies died first, then Druid's/Hunters/Rogues and followed by Pally's/Warriors. If everyone had the same kind of order, it went well for us. If it was total choas, it didn't. Sadly, did far too many of the latter kind of fight.

All specs can PvP, but MM does very well at damage, less so in living. SV and BM are pretty close but just by watching, it seems like SV died the least of all 3 specs. BM or SV would probably be my choice for Arena style play. Harder for some classes to deal with. MM seems to do better in open field play where you can get serious ranges and keep line of sight, as well as dropping injured targets by the score because your burst damage is good.

If yer bm, consider the 59 bracket, where you have beast w/in - and become unstoppable like your pet. Makes kiting easy when it's up.

You have several ways to slow/stop meleers: frost trap, freezing trap, wingclip, conc shot, that talent that lets your pet stun - if you go hybrid build, scatter shot - and possibly engi'd bombs (or tailored nets). Or netgun.

The main problem is that they get you hamstrung, crip pois'd, frosted or earthbound.

You need to time your, say, stun, so that - well, I'd clip first - if he has a trink, hope he burns it to kill your clip. Re-clip, now stun. Now hit your trink and strafe in a good direction. If you're a dwarf, stone form (or whatever it's called) nixes poisons - and is great for escaping rogues. You can use antivenom made w/ FA.

If rogue, circle strafe, conc shooting as clip is about to go away (make sure he's marked and stung to hurt vanish).

If war he can still intercept - try to stay as far away as you can. You can make a big circle - or you can even just run and let your pet chew on him.

If sham, try to stay out of frost shock range and circlestrafe/kite.

You can also do the following general tactics:

hang back - let the wars and other meleers go forward - come in a few seconds later when most enemy have already made their choices of target - hope you don't get targeted and pick things off from range.

Get increased range talent so you can stay even farther away.

Move around. Don't just plant and autoshoot. A stealthed rogue is slow, if you're moving, you make it generally harder for him to nail u - he may get frustrated and pick another target.

Mark rogues from great range. Druids too.

Mostly learn to kite, learn to escape meleers and kite. GL