fighting a hunterFollow

Maybe im weird but as a frostie I have never had too many problems with hunters....I usually just frostnova the pet blink towards hunter and just blow all my instants on him and that usually does it.....I also pull out my elemental before as well too add some extra dps and too keep pet busy or add another frost nova if needed.....It also helps if u make the first move obviously, the more nukes u can get in the faster hell go down with instants.

i will admit hunters to me are definitely the hardest class to solo as a mage, i would say rogues, but in actually i embarassingly destroy rogues til they CoS which is such a god damn crutch (sigh) and usually try to ice block it out if i can, since im a human perception when i come out of ice block and trink out of stun i can usually take them.. (rogue 101)

but yea hunters, what i usually try to do if given the heads up is sheep the pet, unless theyre BM, if so i blink directly at the hunter you have a much much much better chance beating them if they cant flurry arrows at you.. so what i usually do is blink at them, hit em with a fireblast, dragon breath them in the face, which allows u time to get 1 or 2 scorches off, then nova them in place (if u time this right the pet should be attacking you now, and will also be frozen in place) at this point fireblast should be ready to go again, but i usually try to get an ice lance or 2 off while theyre nova'd then follow that up with the fireblast and blastwave, at this point its usually a few scorches or arcane explosions finish them off.. keep in mind u wanna calculate your distance to the hunter very precisely, try to stay slightly out of melee distance, but not too far where they can get the arrows off, its usually a 50/50 outcome, unless of course they get the jump on you, which can be devastating at that point i run for my life, hoping to successfully nova the pet and prey impact and sprint kick in then invisible, go drink and eat come back and suprise them, unless they marked u, ******, keep running lol

but yea key is dont give them distance

ps- i completely disagree with whoever said mages cant successfuly solo most classes, i dont have that problem you might wanna brainstorm your tactics =/

As a BM hunter, if I get my stun off on you, you're dead. by the time you can get out of the stun and IB you've lost most of your health. TBW is also 18 seconds, so your 12 second IB will help you but isn't everything. You will have 6 solid seconds of my pet beating on you. Probably more, as most mages don't IB before I get the stun in.

If you time IB perfectly, you'll have a chance. Good luck with that.

MM hunters have silencing shot/scatter shot, and super high damage shots. I'd guess they'd be easier for mages, because they can be CC'd, but the hunter would still have the edge in a fight I'd say.

Edited, May 29th 2008 2:24pm by Xsarus

Nope, you can't blink out of Beastial Wrath stun.

I must be blinking out of concussive shot stuns then. Hunters probably don't even bother to intimidate my clothy self since I'm so easy to shred....

Can anyone report from the front lines on this dispute over blinking out of intimidation. In what must be a first, my mage didn't get targeted by any BM hunters during the few games I was able to play over the weekend, so I wasn't able to test it out. Has anyone blinked out of intimidation recently?

Blink:Teleports the caster 20 yards forward,unless something is in the way.Also,FREES the caster from STUNS and bonds.

Intimidation:Command your pet to intimidate the target on the next successful melee attack,causing high amount of threat and STUNNING the target for 3 seconds.

Yeah,it does remove any kind of stun.

for those you would have to be an engineer and i know very few mages that are engineers.

I had a successful 1v1 with a hunter in WSG over the weekend. Pigged the hunter (I don't use sheep) and focus fired on his pet. As soon as pig broke he started his aimed shot and I blinked through to behind him.

Cone of cold to slow him/the pet. I was basically running a twisted form of circles around him. Dancing along with my instants I killed his pet. Pigged him again and bandaged, mana emerald, mana pot, and started my normal attack sequence of fireball, scorch, fire blast, etc.

I had 100 HP left and he dropped. Was the scariest 1v1 I've had to date.

So my suggestion/tips are: get behind or to the side of a hunter as much as possible. Hunters have about a 180* field of shot vision. If you get past that they can't take a shot. If they like to stand still and plug away you have a better chance of survival.

Kill their pet. The sooner it's down the easier they will be. Try to treat it like a 2v1. Take one completely out of combat while you nuke the other.

Edited, Jun 9th 2008 2:22pm by Ebonspine

Riiight,according to that theory neither of the rogues,warriors,and shapeshifted druids should be able to use any of their abilities as they're CS'ed.

No, it's because counterspell locks out a school of spells and a hunter's shots are all (or mostly) marksmanship spells. So if you counterspell aimed shot you should have locked out arcane and concussive, too. Just as if you counterspell a mage's pyroblast the mage cant fireball either.

Read back through the thread. I thought it was ridiculous aimed shot could be counterspelled. Someone here insisted it could. I tested it out in AV. Lo and behold, I was able to counterspell it. (Same holds for volley.)

Now, I think that's silly game-wise, akin to counterspelling slam, but it worked. That's why I posted here about the aimed shot counterspelling. It actually works. And the hunters whom I counterspelled didn't hit me with anything other than auto-shots, implying that it locks out their MM school. I don't know how to determine whether that's true other than get on my hunter and run around trying to aimed shot mages, hoping they counterspell me.