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I am not sure weather it is me (hunter) or all hunters that really suck in BGs. Everything PWN me, and I seldom damage others. I know I need resil gear and a lot of upgrading, but I do know how to play BGs, at least the old 4. Clothies own me, they all can bubble and damage somehow. then there is all the melee classes. That only leaves hunters, and they kill me faster than I can hurt them.
before I got geared, I would get rolled by anything more than 1-2 enemies. Your best bet is to stick with a big crowd, stay back, and pick off melee at max range. make sure you use traps, that ice trap really sucks, especially in towers/bunkers. Feign death also works on me, sometimes in a heated battle, i see a hunter drop, and i move on, and dont notice him hopping back up and continuing to fire. make an arena team for points and get discounted deadly gear. it will take time, but once you get your resil up, you will start to last longer and pwn more. Patience, young padawan...
I'm not sure what your comp is, but if it's all hunters (or all ranged) I would take advantage of hiding spots like trees and hills that you can shoot through, and just pick off people from there. Avoid terrain and areas that don't work well with your group - if your positioning is bad you negate all the advantages you gain from multiboxing. I don't know much about other ranged groups, but I can tell you that shaman, even in full relentless, are extremely vulnerable in close range and very easily controlled when multiboxed. It's still best for me to find a good place to be a turret and just fire from there, as once I'm spotted I'm not likely to kill more than 2 or 3 people.
I think of hunters are grenade launchers. You can see people 60 yards away (zoom mini-map all way out -1). You can throw the pets 70 yards. The pets insta-respawn with no downsides. So see the person from long way away, have a person tracker (stalker/spy) and send your pets at them. For me, 90% of the time, time, they want to ignore the pets, but when they see their health go down, they turn around and run away.
If they do come after you, you have 2 options, shoot from 40 yards and try to burn them down, or multiple sting (I do 1 scorpid, 3 serpent and 1 viper) and run like hell with your pets chewing on them.
Other things is to just use non-DOT attacks and then put down some freeze traps if they get too close (round-robin style). I would stil throw my pets from a distance. Tracking is your friend.
Other things that I like, beastial wrath just before I attack a priest (fear, and prevent healing through the increased damage). Always DOT a rogue, no matter what. Intimidate (round-robin). Disengage/deterence (not on GCD). Mostly everyone now runs from my pets since they know I won't come at them or near them. Chasing down a cheatah-hunter with 5 ferocity pets on you is not a good plan. I usually get ganked by me having to stand still and fight. I like to guard stuff, so standing still around a node is my weakness. /cry
PS. One fun thing is to send your pets at stuff, and then park them (CTRL-3). It makes them stay there. Even after a fight, they will go back there after they are done. So it helps when you want to stand at a distance and not have everyone see where your pets come from or go back to.
I don't think Hunters suck at BG's.
And I don't think it is you who sucks.
It is the case of being relatively undergeared, in relation to the playing field.
As the gear comes, and your experience with your team...
The ability to kill quicker and not be killed as quickly, will come.
PvP gearing a single toon in BG's, was a distinct pain in the ass, prior to boxing.
Some toons would not die, if I cast at their back as they beat a friend down.
And then they'd turn around and get me too.
But with gearing, I was able to take out groups of 3 toons, fairly consistently with 1 toon.
Of course BG's seem to be... no gear on 95% of the players.
And a ton of gear on the other 5%.
I am in the same boat doing AV in the 70 bracket with my 4 druids. The difference in druids compared to my shaman at the same lvl are crazy. With shaman, switching from dps to helaing then back to dps is sooo less complicated then trying it on druids.
My solution, which will not help you :), was to spec all 4 to resto and rock out like that. I can survive a ton a shit, problem is that trying to melee in tree form sucks.
Then again, if its a large BG like AV, you won't have to melee or cast offensively at all.
Your trees will be very hard to take down.
And you'll stick with a group, or someone who puts out large dps.
And ensure they cannot be taken out.
I am not sure if I would run 4 resto in BG. I would stick with Moonkin or even more fun feral. Bears have crazy survivability just pop your Oh Shit and swipe with all 4 rotate bash. I think that would be fun.
I know when I first started BG I just got rolled. Heck a mage took down my 5 box a few times just embarrassed the crap out of me I hate that resto have tree form it just sticks out in a group begging please kill me first. Things changed as soon as I started to get resilience it is much more enjoyable.
yeah, PvP resto druids are like walking targets... it takes a bit longer to spot the holy priests and paladins, Shamans, follow the chain heal lines lol. I've thought about making an all healer boxing team. be pretty fun to try out, but only for a diversion, i'd want to zomglazerpewpew too much....
I have a set of Disc Priests, from RAF.
They're all 60th, and haven't done anything in a couple of years.
Envisioned them for "a change of pace".
Staying well back from the fray.
And acting as support.
Possibly mana burning x5, the other healers.
I suppose a Resto druid loses too much, if they aren't in a tree form.
And the armor is not there, etc.
Not sure on the survivability of 5x Resto Trees each healing the others.
Especially if they stick with several DPS types.