i find it weird, but maybe hardly anyone here actually played arena in TBC, all i hear people say and all the youtube guides say Resto druid + warlock or warrior or rogue dominated arena, but they’re kinda clueless. I know the majority of top arena teams were those classes, but that’s because hunter players were so bad back then.
Hunter actually countered those comps. Most server groups had a skilled hunter sitting at the top most of the time. Skilled hunters are rare, but it is the best 2’s comp in TBC if you can play it.
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Hutners can be good for sure, it varies and depends of course, beast mastery was giving me trouble until i raelized i was never gonna get a fireball cast off on a hunter so instead i learned to just spam instant casts, all the hunters were using that wind serpent pet with the lightning breath attack that hits every .5 sec for 5 sec or w/e which makes a 3 sec fireball take literally 20 seconds to cast. fireblast blink blastwave arcane explosion arcane explosion arcane explosion fireblast dead, i rarely lose to those hunters anymore, that’s without having to use my cds like arcane power/pyro, but marksmen hunters with their ranged silence and other utilities are actually hard to work around, feing death interupt cast scatter shot, a good marksmen hunter can definitely kill me still unless i get the jump on them, they are a threat and i can see how they could do well. It will definitely be interesting to see how some of these players perform.
This is old news but forgotten news. The ability to sting into scatter and silence shot ensures serious damage to mana instantly on targets that have the tools to remove it. Add in how low of a cooldown silence shot has and its a solid drain.
It did take till season 3 though, a lot of hunter buffs such as arcane shot dispelling, MS on aimed shot and the deadzone being removed weren’t a thing when TBC was released and for awhile after it was released.
I learned and played against a good MM hunter in TBC. When the patch came where deadzone was killed, MS and dispel were given to hunters it felt like the most overpowered thing I’ve ever felt in Original TBC as a mage.
That’s why I’m maining hunter in TBC. Not BM for PvE, not Surv…playing the hunter that my friend played back when he played it. Except at full power at the start of TBC rather than more than half way into it.
I bet it’s a gear descrepency, why beastmastery is generally regarded the superior spec when marksmen is the upper echelon, in most cases it’s true but at the upper echelon of gear and with a skilled player the marksmen hunters can do better than the beastmastery hunters. beast mastery is the faceroll spec like full demo or sl sl for warlocks, doesn’t take skill to do but is efficient. i use that same example for mage vs warlock, a good mage can be more fun and do more than a good warlock can do, even though the warlock is generally regarded as more powerful by default, the mage has a high skill ceiling whereas there is only so much you can do on a warlock. i’ve played both in tbc and i prefer mage still, the warlock is boring faceroll
No. The reason why BM works early on is because the damage output and CC immunity window is good enough to finish games with resilience and health values this low in the game.
Most often the common Hunter spec was Surv/MM one that takes Wyvern Sting in Surv and Scattershot in MM. It’s a nice CC combo with traps and such and has decent anti melee options cause rogues are just everywhere.
Deep MM for silence shot is extremely underrated for many reasons. Having a 3 second blanket silence on a 20 second cooldown is extremely powerful.
Combining with several other tools, silence shot can ensure consistent mana drains as you’ll have the silence up shortly after viper comes off cooldown. This means any class that cleanses poison won’t really have the tools to deal with this except Shaman via totems.