Questions for Theo, from a Arena noobFollow

A friend and I have just started to dabble in Arena; we play together pretty much constantly, he moved to a raiding guild, but we still talk smack on my guilds vent, and are fairly consistent in our play-styles.


I, of course, am playing my Rogue, who is the standard, cookie-cutter Mut build. My friend is a Hunter, Marksman spec. Yesterday we played our 10 games, and went 50% in wins. Our rating is of course not spectacular, but we did improve from our previous week.



I realize we are not the optimal 2s team by any means. We are mostly in it to gather some points to improve our PvP gear, and learn. Thus, the crux of my post.



When faced with a 2 warrior team ( as we did yesterday ), what the hell can we do? The bleeds from their attacks, the lolstorm, christ, I was amazed we were able to drop even one of them. We lost, of course. What is the strategy for that particular team, if any? Or do we just laugh and queue up again, and hope for better results.



Also, any advice on spec, for myself, and my friend, as well as general noob arena pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.




P.S. We do fairly well against casters, but melee combo's seem to be agonizing.

Preparation glyph if you don't already have it. Dismantle when the warrior bladestorms and (if dismantle is on cooldown) prep immediately if you see him switch to sword and board so you can dismantle and remove shield wall and shield block immediately. You should blow a lot of the cooldowns preparation returns fairly early against warrior teams therefore. Don't rely on a hunter using chimera shot to disarm, you need serpent sting up to do proper damage with chimera.

And just use your impressive cc on the healer i guess. Hunter should probably open with scatter shot, to hold the partner still and then freezing arrow/trap them and you can alternate stuff later like blind, wyvern sting etc. You might like to practice vanishing and sapping the warrior's partner when an 8 second cc is wearing off and they have left combat 2 seconds earlier (not wyvern sting cause of the dot). Tricky but very pro when you pull it off and then turn round and cheap shot the warrior!

I would say save silencing shot for use when the warrior gets low, mages do this with improved counterspell (csing even when it doesn't interrupt a cast just to get the 3 sec silence) and it works very well. In terms of positioning, just be aware that very good warriors will have focus charge and focus intervene macros so your hunter should try to stand somewhere that means the warrior intervening to the healer wont be a problem with los. Tranq shot on cooldown too to remove any shields or heal over time spells.





Edited, Sep 6th 2010 8:46am by ArtemisEnteri

Good advice for anyone is to just play a lot. Getting experience is important so that you're not nervous or excited. The more calm you are, the better decisions you make.