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Say the hunter is oom from viper spam and at 40% and I'm at 75-60% health and 50% mana. How. EVERY FUCKING TIME! HOW?! How do I keep dying if my gear is vastly superior. I'm absolutely mind blown and about to just give up on my hunter. Any other class, I can take a hit against.. Should I be spamming serpent sting instead?

don't bother with aimed shot in a 1v1 situation...with pet dmg and FD to break it, you wont get it off. Stick with mutli/auto shots... idk what do you currently do?

phaseNeglect wrote:don't bother with aimed shot in a 1v1 situation...with pet dmg and FD to break it, you wont get it off. Stick with mutli/auto shots... idk what do you currently do?

Viper until oom (I usually oom them and have 25% mana left over), then multi/sting if possible and weave into melee and ranged to get a multi or sting back up. I've never used aimed unless I know for certain I can get it.

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Hunter VS Hunter is pretty much "who can nuke down the other person first".

You could try to Viper Sting their mana while running away, then attack them once they're OOM, but I don't think it'd work all too well, unless you manage to trap their pet.

gotmilk0112 wrote:Hunter VS Hunter is pretty much "who can nuke down the other person first".

You could try to Viper Sting their mana while running away, then attack them once they're OOM, but I don't think it'd work all too well, unless you manage to trap their pet.

Honestly, I've done that before and usually do when I'm definitely going to lose and it's definitely a loss I might try something new then.

Drop multi+auto+serpent, jump to melee, use raptor strike cd, clip the dude, jump out to auto/multi/reapply sting again ; repeat.
Having a slow 2h with savage strikes works wonders.

Ohr wrote:Drop multi+auto+serpent, jump to melee, use raptor strike cd, clip the dude, jump out to auto/multi/reapply sting again ; repeat.
Having a slow 2h with savage strikes works wonders.

I did that and I actually won.. I guess my dalrends just lack the damage to keep up with the 2h's. I will have a rhok staff eventually and I can presume my normal pwnage xD Also, good for you.. It's amazing how many hunters underestimate raptor strike talent! I never see them take it for their pvp builds.

MEYLEY HUNTARD MEYLEY HUNTARD!!1

Ohr has it right. Slow 2H, raptor strike with Savage Strikes. If you want to startle another hunter, you should try to get the jump on them so that you can nuke them down faster with the element of surprise, which being a night elf helps sooo much with, and then from there play it with attention to your talent tree. Got a beefed-up BM pet? BW that thing and send it in so they can't Scare Beast, and stay close enough to hit it with a rank 1 mend pet w/ Improved Mend Pet in case they freezing trap it or something. That still works on BW'd pets, right? Or does "cannot be stopped" account for that? I haven't been here on Vanilla for long. MM? Stay at range. You can outrange pretty much everyone else with your Hawk Eye talent, and unless another hunter has that, they're easy prey for you. Use cheetah to get closer if they try to run or back up quickly if they turn for you. Survival? I've had a tremendous amount of success by getting close, dropping a Serpent Sting on them and FD / Immo Trapping them to DoT them up, and with pet out and Monkey up, meleeing them like crazy. Usually hunters don't expect you to get close, from what I've seen, so you can really startle another hunter with such a strategy, but don't forget to weave out of melee if you get the opportunity to drop some more shots on their face.

I actually went over this in my Hunter Macros & Tips thread. Here's the quote:

In a melee encounter, Survival works like a charm. The idea of hunter melee is to get in, do burst and CC, then get out. A hunter can't sustain melee DPS very well, but there are ways to account for that: Serpent Sting before a warrior charges you, then while that DoT is ticking away at them, FD / Immo trap to DoT them up some more. They'll take a lot of damage from the DoTs, your melee, and your pet's melee, and after you deliver a nice raptor strike, just Wing Clip and stay between max melee range and minimum Intercept range while they die. Having someone to assist would be nice too, but you work with what you've got. If you aim for melee in a hunter-on-hunter fight, you might be able to startle them and gain the upper hand with this sort of strategy.

If you wish to automate some of your gameplay, that may help as well. Check my Hunter Macros & Tips thread for more: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=21017