2v2 Arena & HuntersFollow

Hi all. I'm a long time browser of these forums, about a year and i've been playing WoW for about the same amount. Anyway, my main is a lvl 70 Surv hunter http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Alonsus&n=Phobic
and i'm currently in a 2v2 team with my brother who's also a survival hunter. I'm wondering if this is a viable team for 2v2? The only teams we lost against seemed to be the ones with healers. Our strategy was to Wyvern Sting the healer and maximum dps on the other target.

One of the healers i remember was a Druid and one a Shaman. I left my bro with stinging duty as i have more dps. He said the Druid was able to dispel the sting. I'm not an expert on Druids but is this possible? Against other teams without healers we were pretty much in control. Both have Clever Traps and for melee classes we just threw down a snake trap and kited them.

We did do about 4 games last week but my bro then was BM spec and i was still getting to grips with Survival since i'd been MM until then. Also, is my spec ok for arena? I didn't spec it specifically for arena, more for Kara & Heroics. But it seemed to work well in bg's but i know arena is a different animal. But would we be better off getting a healer in the team? Or do we just need to change tactics when it comes to a team with a healer?

The change from SV & BM hunter to both SV seemed to work well since we lost all our games last week. We are both gonna get a piece of arena 1 gear when it's released and hopefully build on that. But any advice would be appreciated.

Edited, Nov 27th 2007 9:53pm by Hobophobic

Hey,
I'm also a survival hunter, and I've recently started doing arenas. Just before the 2.3 patch so I could get practice. and now a bunch since the patch. I'm lovin the minimum range change.

But as far as survival hunters, let me throw in my 2 cents. Our strengths are CC, with additional AP added to team mates. What I would suggest to you, since you DPS a lot, and your brother usually stings, switch YOUR spec. Get into marksman, or BM if your gear isn't peak. That way, you benefit from your brothers Expose Weakness, and you both get your Trueshot aura, which is a total of 225-250 AP extra each. Plus, you still have 1 wyvern and 2 trap in terms of CC. Plus the scatter shot in marksman is invaluable.

As far as tactics, focusing on the healer first is the best way I find. That means stinging the DPS. If you sting the DPS, you got all your guns on the healer - They usually don't have as much health or armor, so you can feasably kill them in the 10 seconds from wyvern, as opposed to a DPS which probably has either 10k plus health, plate armor, or a frost bubble or something, that you wouldn't be able to take down as fast.

Cause then, when the wyvern breaks, if you haven't killed the DPS, the healer can just fill him right back up. Where as, if you haven't killed the healer, he has to keep healing himself, which drains his mana and leaves the DPS open to attacks.

Another good strategy with 2 hunters is to even out your dps. Put both pets on one person and both hunters on the other, or one hunter and one pet on each target.... this way you keep pressure on all sides, which makes healers freak, and sometimes they miss a beat. This will work better if they are wearing cloth (ex. mage and priest, warlcok and priest).

Toughest healers to kill are paladins, because they can bubble which screws with prescious CC timing. Toughest DPS to kill are either druids, cause they can run and heal, or warriors, because they wear plate.

Just my 2 cents. More like 2 bucks, but I guess it still counts.

Good luck!
Jhag

i dont believe you can shift out of sleep. i know it gets them out of sheep and frost traps, but it doesnt get them out of scare beast or hibernate, so i shouldnt get them out of wyvern sting.

Edit: I do agree that for a while, your classes and specs dont matter nearly as much as they will later. Enjoy the company and the rush of the arena!

Edited, Nov 28th 2007 2:43am by DukyFrodo

Well thanks for your input Dorogodess, but we are both Arena noobs but not hunter noobs. These are still our first matches and i don't think 4 wins out of 10 are bad. I think we'll stick with the team and specs as they are for now. DPS doesn't seem to count for a lot in arena when you're dead, so i think we'd much prefer survivability to have a fighting chance. And about my HP, i'm normally wearing PvP shoulders which adds another few hundred HP. And today got some Gladiator's Chain Leggings which also added some nice HP and resilience.

Interesting thought about the points in concussion shot though. I'm thinking i could take points out of Thrill of The Hunt and put them into Imp Concussion. And possibly take 2 points out of rapid fire and put them into imp Arcane Shot since arena would rarely last long enough to pop Rapid Fire twice anyway. But i'm happy with my build apart from that. When i was MM i couldn't touch Rogues or any other melee class but now they're pretty easy to control.

I'll do some more games tonight and see how it goes =)

You cant put scorpid poison on someone you CC. The poison breaks Wyvern Sting. Scorpid poison and your tactics works for Viper sting though. It's really helpful if the games last long enough. I just recently switched back to my cat from my scorpid for 2v2 though because we rarely fight long enough for anyone to go oom.

Any damage breaks sleep of all forms... Guess ill log on and check now. brb!

It's late and i got distracted: havent checked yet. if anyone else wants to, they can go ahead (i take the credit if i was right, you take the flames if i was wrong).

Edited, Nov 30th 2007 2:08am by DukyFrodo