I played a hunter in Vanilla, but never got around to trying a mage. Overall, does either class have a clear advantage in PvP?
Overall, no. Both are very good in various situations.
I’d say mage might be slightly better on average, but it’s definitely not a clear ‘pick one over the other’ case.
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I didn’t play hunter at all in Vanilla but I knew a few who really made it look fun. In the video thread I posted 2 videos of a really good mage in fire and frost spec. The frost video shows the mages ability to 2, 3 and even 4 vs. 1. Some of the clips, actually a bunch of them, are from early TBC but the play style is similar.
Mages are a fun class that gets more fun when you really learn to pvp with binds and everything else.
Not having ice barrier talented made you weaker then a hunter I think.
Or so it felt like, but if I chose not to take ice barrier I would most likely almost 1 hit a hunter if I were to land a pyroblast on them unless I am unlucky.
Casting spells at hunters without ice barrier made it painful and mana shield drained your mana so hunters could have an advantage against a mage in a duel because of that.
Hunters clear advantage is tracking,armor,pets, and placing traps.
Mage polymorph castable in combat, unlimited food water, iceblock, interrupt, teleport to major city you know when major pvp events are going on you want to be there, and blink.
Depends on how you spec as a mage they have instant spell cast or aoe slow blizzard that roots targets if got frost bite.
I was a hunter in classic. PVE sucked. Most hunters were not good. So those of us who actually know what we were doing were not trusted. My guild didn’t even allow us to bring our pets in raids a lot of the times because idiots forgot to dismiss their pets all the time and wiped raids. In PVP vs cloth wearers it was not even close. The only thing I feared was a good rogue getting the jump on me. Mages had great dmg output though.
The Mage is stronger in PvP. They’re easier to be good with.
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I played a hunter in vanilla, did a lot of pvp, it was great, felt very strong even tho I was not a superior player. I geared my toon solely through BG’s. Was not a HWL but got the purple shoulders. Took A LOT of fighting.
Hunters were able to kite in pvp very effectively. Survival talents added survivability, buffed traps, and made melee abilities hit hard, especially on cloth and leather. It was required to spec into Aimed Shot, but if you could pull off the scatter shot>freeze trap>aimed shot play you could really blast someone. Felt amazing.
Mail armor made it possible to tank a rogue opener (unless said rogue was super geared). If you caught a rogue out in the open, lulz. Hunter’s Mark, Serpent Sting, Concussive Shot, nuke them down fast.
Haven’t even mentioned the pet. Great additional damage and really fun to use to knock a rogue out of stealth (Vanish was broken forever). No one ever called hunter’s OP in PvP, but hunters were a different class back then. Really fun, and if well played could really bring the pain.
Cannot speak to mages, but I had some great fun fighting them.
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Mage is very glass cannon so you need to learn how to kite. Hunters can be a pain. Hunters have a dead zone though were you can use your ranged weapon in roghlt melle rage. It was funny youbwould see hunters jump alot to get a range to shoot. Inremember that in tbc but never got a hinter to mac in vanilla or pvped.
Mage.
Better in almost every route. You are more in demand for dungeon groups, premades for PvP, dueling, WPvP, random BGs, and virtually every other content.
Hunters are good, but mages in Vanilla have an answer for everything.
Also, rank 1 spells are cancerous.