Hunter/PriestFollow

I play on a druid/hunter team, and 1: 11/41/9 or a varient thereof is nessecary, you just need silencing shot, scatter shot, imp. wingclip and entrapment to be able to survive against rogues/mages/druids/warriors/warlocks, or usually a combination of those.
Basically, the most important thing for you is that you both survive, focus on that, just stay alive as long as possible.

And the seconds thing: there is more than 1 way to drain a healer.
Doing some dps to their DD will force them to heal, thus come out of hiding and allowing you to CC/drain them.
And ofcourse, healing costs mana as well.

The differences between Druid/Hunter and Priest/hunter are that druids have more CC wich allows you to basically lock down 1 opponent for the entire match if you are well coordinated.
Priest/hunter thus needs a way to make that CC less important, wich will be draining.
Your priest will need to sneak in quite a lot of mana burns whenever he/she can, as well as run and drink whenever you arent taking damage.
(draining can also be used on the dps if it's a caster, because no dps = no win)

Also: read this.
It's aimed at druid/hunter but there are so many invaluable tips and tricks in there it's worth checking out no matter who you're playing with.

Hmm forget the war/sham there is no way you can win this combo with priest/hunter.
Lol even 2 BM hunters they will destroy you.:)
Find another 1 priest and make 3v3 team

I play with holy palla and we have serious problem with resto.My point was that priest need protection.Druids dont.And hunters arent so good in protection.
I am not expert in arena my self.But resto/hunter counter priest/hunter.The Druid cyclone priest ,the hunter will kill pet ..its over
Even if hunter is oom you cant kill him with a druid with full mana.And druid will allways be full of mana cause he can drink.A good resto is a god in 2v2.

But the 3v3 team with hunter/priest/priest its easy and good.:)



Edited, Jul 16th 2008 8:34am by dorogodess

You seem to miss the fact that a priest is a good healer in 2's and a pala is the worst possible healer in 2's.
And also, that priests are nearly as hard to kill as druids.

The only thing priests have serious trouble with are melee dps, exactly as mulgrin described.

Oh, and an OoM hunter wont do damage so although it might take time, that druid is going OoM too sooner or later and you will win.
Also, you dont let the druid drink if you can prevent it.
That's why your pet has full nature resist.
And havent you ever heard of silence and scatter shot?

Also there is a thread about hunter/priest and all the things we talk about before.
You can take a look if you want.

http://www.arenajunkies.com/showthread.php?t=31534

Thanks for all the posts. I agree that hunter/priest can be a good combo. Like I said I am BM at the moment and am going to go MM/SV for the CC. Hopefully this weekend it will show to be a good move. The one thing I notice is I have problems using my scorpion do to his speed. Even when I CC a druid or paladin can get away. Do you think using a ravager with dash and gore is as effective as a scorpion with poison? I know against paladins it wont be.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/hunter/talents.html?tal=0520120100000000000000505051055013001135102301030000000000000000

That is what you are talking about correct? I was trying to get to surefooted since I am lacking +hit without using the +hit +agi gems. so due to that the AP is lacking but my crit is 31%. I need to get surefooted enchant then to make up for it I guess.

Thanks again for the responses. Appreciate it.

Scorpid Poison max,Shadow Resistance max, Nature Resistance max, Frost Resistance 3/5, Greater Stamina 3/11, Natural Armor 3/11, Avoidance max, and Cobra Reflexes.

Edit:

The url is this.



Edited, Jul 16th 2008 2:01pm by Yuppley

Well, shadow for fear, nature for hibernate and frost for mage roots.

If you look at the calculator, you can see that with avoidance, cobra reflexes, scorpid poison, and two resistances maxed, you cannot get past 3/5 in any other resistances, and since arcane/fire aren't very useful, I just threw these leftover points into stamina and armour.

Yes, its an easy way to get the pet off of you to go and drink in 2s, so it happens a lot. Steady shot is very inefficient in arena, because you need to be standing still, and people will be attacking you, which ups the cast time making it useless. Instead, you could go for an aimed shot, which reduces healing done (its like a ranged mortal strike but for hunters). YOu will most likely want to have more than one macro for the instances that you will be standing sitll though, such as a 1:1 (Auto:Steady), 1:1.5 with cc (Auto, Steady, Arcane), and a 1:1.5 with no cc present (Auto, Steady, Arcane, and Multi).

I really haven't seen much debate about which meta to use in arena, and it is usually varied among top players, but I would use the 3% crit damage meta to counteract resilience. The snare resist isn't the greatest, and you can get a run speed enchant to boots if you really need it. If you have the money, you will want to replace all of the +ap gems and enchants with agility ones, because it is much better.

I started running Hunter/Priest last week and we're at 1736. There's still a lot we're trying to figure out and have a lot of room to improve. As far as talents go you pretty much have three options.

There's 11/41/9 where you get Improved Revive Pet/Bestial Swiftness. There's 7/41/13 that a lot of Hunters are using since the drinking changes and what I've been using lately. It drops the pet quickness and allows you to pick up Clever Traps and Deterrence. Those are the two main ones and the only two I'd really recommend if you were playing 2s, but you could also go something like 0/43/18 or 0/41/20. As easy as it is to kill pets I don't think I'd use a spec without Improved Revive Pet, but I've seen some that have.

As far as meta gems Aethien is right with his list, in my opinion though there's two real options. Run speed meta with Surefooted/Dexterity boots, or the AGI/Crit meta (Relentless Earthstorm Diamond) with either Cat's Swiftness or Boar's Speed for the boot enchant. I have used, and currently use a run speed meta with Surefooted on my boots, but when I get the S4 helm I think I will go with a Relentless Earthstorm Diamond and Cat's Swiftness.

As a Hunter/Priest you're able to pull off nice CC chains with a Scatter Shot/Freezing Trap followed by a Fear, then a Silencing Shot if it's a healer. You also both have draining capability with Viper Sting and Mana Burn, and you have the ability to burst at times.

Two things I'd recommend if you haven't already is for you and your Priest to both have Star's Tears (Arena water) and to grind out two S2 one handers. You enchant those with 30 Intellect and now you have a larger mana pool with a better AotV regen.

What teams are giving you problems right now?

Do you guys think the +Ap on gloves is a nub enchant? I got that am thinking of switching to +Agi but havent decided yet.

Same go for savagery over +35 or is that kinda up in the air since I dont have a paladin partner and my crit is over 30?


Edited, Jul 16th 2008 5:47pm by ammerman