Player versus Player (PvP) combat is in your Hunter’s future, even if you’ve avoided it so far. Wrath of the Lich King transformed WoW World PvP. There’s now a real time PvP battle zone called Lake Wintergrasp. There, the emphasis is on real-time World PvP. There players face off on the live server (no instancing) to win points they can use to shop for all sorts of rare and valuable items, including the new Heirloom items that any character in their account regardless of that character’s level can use.

Given the popularity of Lake Wintergrasp and the increasing amount of PvP combat in other popular games, there will surely be even more World PvP in the future. So let’s talk about Hunters and PvP:

Playing a Hunter class character in World of Warcraft PvP requires some of the skills of a real hunter. You need to be able to quickly pick out a target and understand its likely behavior so you can anticipate what it will do next. In addition, you need to know the capabilities of your character and its gear. And you need to be able to maneuver to the right position to take out your target before they can take you down.

But playing a hunter in PvP involves much more than that. Understanding the right time to employ your Freezing and Frost Traps and essential crowd control devices is one thing. You need to know how to maintain the ideal distance between you and your opponents so you can hurt them as badly as possible before they get close in each duel. And you must do all this against an intelligent character, rather than a wild animal.

If you want to be really successful in Hunter PvP combat, you need to understand the behavior of each class of opponent and have a strategy for defeating them. In particular you need to understand how Druids, Warriors, and Rogues are likely to come at you. You also need to have a strategy for countering quick charges into hand-to-hand combat range by Warriors and Rogues.

You can learn much of what you need to win as a Hunter in PvP simply by spending time in the arena. But I can tell you from personal experience that if you try, you had better be prepared to get crushed and humiliated for a long time. You don’t want to know how many hours I spent at the bottom of the standings in the arena before I finally started getting the hang of it. Once I started reading a Hunter PvP Guide, I started climbing in the standings rapidly.

Even if you do decide to learn the ins and outs of Hunter PvP combat yourself, you’ll find that a quality PvP Guide will contain information that you’re unlikely to discover on your own. In short, a good PvP Guide will save you vast amounts of time and energy you would otherwise spend trying to discover a Hunter’s combat secrets on your own.

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