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Quor wrote:
i personally have to disagree with project up there. TBW is a nice talent, but easy to avoid the brunt of it's effect in the arena; hunters pop TBW for damage and to get distance, which makes LoSing such hunters much easier. meanwhile, i can easily taunt their pet onto me and use its damage to feed my rage and kill the pet, severely gimping the TBW hunter.
scatter shot provides a lot of peeling power, and combined with ice cube trap gives you 15s of continuous CC on a single target every 30s. compared to TBW, which is 18s of CC immunity every two minutes, the net gain of scatter shot both as a self defense tool and peeling tool trumps it. paired with a priest, you get a lot of anti-caster defense and you're able to control the hell out of things that don't have defensive dispel. your worst matchup is likely going to be rogue/priest or other hunter/priest combos, as theyll be the only things that can reliably counter your main form of CC (but even that can be mitigated by good use of LoS).
TBW is great to get some distance and damage for 18s, but really, its usefulness in an overall group environment is much lessened compared to scatter shot.
i should add that this is my perspective playing at the 1800-1900 level in 2's as a war/druid and war/pally combo.
SS just isn't as powerful as it was pre-bc, Intimation is much better. And all things considered there are no hunter/other class combo in 2v2 combat can beat any team with a druid on it bottom line! Don't believe me? Go poll some hunters and ask how they feel about fighting druids, I'm confident they will give you a losing record against them.
So when fighting any team with a druid on it; the hunter is already at at huge disadvantage regardless of spec your pretty much gonna lose, because other than ice skate kite a bear druid around there isn't much else a Hunter can do to a druid.
Edited, Mar 21st 2008 8:34am by daaronte