Killing Paladins as BMFollow

Proximo targets by using a /tar <name>. If I'm targeting Aethien and his pet is named the same, odds are I'll come up with the pet first (in fact always in my experience, it's how Blizz prioritizes the /tar function).

Anyway, as has been discussed in this thread, there are a few basic things that hunters need to survive in 2v2:

1) kiting/LOS ability. Knowing when to LOS and when to kite are very, very big deals.

2) Viper Sting. By far the best ability a hunter has in arena, bar none.

3) Scorpid pet. I don't care if anyone likes their cat or ravager, it's a subpar pet and if you want to do well in arena, get a scorpid. Reason being is you can hide a Viper in the scorpid poisons, letting you get a full-duration sting without having it get dispelled.

4) A healer. I can think of no good hunter comps that don't include a healer right now. Druids and priests are your friends. Paladins and shamans will get you killed.

If you're set on going with a double DPS hunter setup, here are some things that need to happen to do well:

You need to focus the paladin's DPSer while keeping Aimed Shot up. Kiting over traps and LOSing to bandage every minute while keeping both pets on the healer (except for druids, split your pets on druid teams) will help survivability.

As far as warrior/paladin goes, it should be easy. If you stay BM, make sure to keep arcane shots going on the warrior to dispel buffs, keep your pets on the paladin, and keep both Vipers up. Keep the warrior running over traps. One of two things will happen:

1) The warrior will drop dangerously low. The paladin will BoP to get heals off without you putting up damage. Arcane shot the BoP off. Pop TBW and take the warrior down. GG.

2) The paladin will run near OOM. GG, you've probably lost this one, unless the paladin has **** gear.

Lock/paladin will gib your team pretty hard, and there really aren't any other good paladin teams in 2s. Paladin teams simply aren't seen past 1800s or so (or if they are, they're pro and thus extremely rare), so I wouldn't worry about it.

You need a better comp if you want to do well in 2s, though.

Which is why you team with them.

Just go back to MM, and let your friend stay BM. YAY VARIATION!

Both druids and priests are tougher than a paladin or shaman to kill, priests have mana burn to help put pressure on the opponent as well as fear to help CC.
Druids are kind of like... CC gods with cyclone, root, feral charge, bash, whatever the catstun is called.
Not to mention that they can do some dps too, as well as their near CC immunity.

Oh, and HoT's allow them to run away from enemy fire, unlike a shaman or paladin who needs to be in LoS to heal you, and thus can be targeted by whatever your opponent has in the way of CC/mana draining.

Yes, I'm aware of that. What I'm saying is that I don't see the Pet naming strategy to be any more of an exploit than using a UI mod intended to give you an advantage. UI mods are legal and accepted, and so is naming your Pet. Naming your Pet after yourself or your Arena partner in order to try to counter a commonly used UI mod is just good sound strategy. To paraphrase Marie-Antoinette, "Let them eat click!"

By the way, welcome back. I haven't seen you around here in a long while.

Yeah, kinda. I really can't help it, I love PvP.

It helps that I'm decent at it, but I still maintain that anyone that works hard can be good too.


Thanks. I've been thinking about leveling my horde-side hunter, but then I realized what a pain in the *** it would be to get him decked out in all the PvP finery I take for granted on my rogue.

Either way though, I'm interested in pretty much all aspects of arena except for warrior (warrior arena = "ME SMASH FACE RAR!"), and I've been getting a few PMs about PvP from other classes.

Not to say I'm experienced in PvP as those classes, but I know how higher-tier players play, and a very good friend of mine is pretty damn good at hunter.

Nah, any time I play PvP on any other toon I start looking for CloS and Vanish for deathcoils, fears, etc.

On a warrior it would work (hi spell reflect), but every other class I blow some cooldown. On my priest I try and cast mass dispel or pain suppression and on my mage I evocate/use my water elemental.

It's bad.

I see. I was just considering going more heavily into PvP (not just World PvP) now that I am getting more active in WoW again. Will be costly Respecc wise, but still. *sigh* Now I've got tons of BGing to do so I can get a decent PvP starting point with S2 gear instead of starting out in T4-6 pieces with PvE gems/enchants. Anyway, thanks.

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