I have a lot of difficulties defeating a bm hunter in the open world with melee specifically (ret and ww). My difficulties are :
1- there are many bm hunters in the game, this class is extremely popular
2- bm hunter looks extremely fast and dynamic
3- lots of slows, roots, i free myself from one slow but then another one comes, feels like their pets aa slow me as well
4- versatily is the best or second best stat in them
5- 4 button rotation
I think that being melee and needing to touch bm hunter in order to beat him is a very uncomfortable situation. I wonder if i was a spriest or elemental i could beat them given that they could not use range at their favour.
Gonna be honest man, at this point right now your biggest issue is going to be gear. If a hunter is running around in war mode hes almost certainly going to be better geared and the difference is not going to be made up by any amount of skill. You still have your heart of azeroth on.
Good news is that 9.1 and season 2 is around the corner. Get started early in pvp and you should notice a big difference.
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They would have a better shot than pally that’s for sure. Either way it will be an uphill battle tho. BM hunt is a very good 1v1 class, especially so in the open world when often you won’t have pillars and the like to utilize LOS.
Outside of just out-gearing or out-playing the hunter, your best bet will be a stealthy. Granted hunters do have lots of tools for dealing with stealth classes, flare, traps, hunter’s mark, etc. But all of those tools require them to know the stealthy is there, like in arenas for instance. But in the open world, when the stealthy can sneak up on their unaware prey and guaranteed get the opener it’s a whole different ballgame. There’s a reason stealthies are widely regarded as the kings of open world PvP, the ability to choose when and how you engage is huge.
Ret has the advantage vs hunter in my opinion. Hunter has to figure out ways to scuff unbound freedom + horse charges and constantly go for camo resets because rets can tank BM sustained by spamming WoG.
Majority of hunters are venthyr/nightfae, they are very very easy to kill.
Eh I’ve had the opposite experience. Perhaps I’ve just gotten lucky and mostly fought bad fotm pallies on my hunter.
The thing is hunter is just so amazing at kiting, if they use their toolkit effectively the pally should never make contact. Sure it will take a while to whittle him down thru all the self heals, but the immobility of pallys vs the insane kiting capabilities of hunter means the hunter should win IMO.
Ya they can … they run out of range for all your burst and then run back whenever they need to hit you . BM is a very good WPvP spec as they can hit you continuously on the move and there is no pillar to hide behind for respite . Especially bad with Ele as a good BM will never be within 20 yards so we cannot use Lasso on them . I reckon S Priests will have similar issues as they are even less mobile than Ele
Of course there are many bad hunters who stand there and take your burst to their face before turtling and trying to run away .