5 Hunters (cause they said it cant be done)
Shorty before Christmas, I parked my 4 locks + priest and started 5 orc Hunters on a pvp server. I have asked on a previous post what everyone thought of the viability of 5 hunters and the idea was not exactly thoght to have much hope in instances past L50 and it was said PvP would be hopeless.
Since then, we have made it to 60 (should ding 61 within minutes of next login). We have cleared BFD, SM (all), RFC, Mara...etc up to BRD where we did around 5 or 6 bosses then moved to BC skipping Scholo and Strat. We have started Ramparts and have taken down first 2 bosses and working on Nazan (need to work of fire pots).
I am not 100% sure why this team was thought not to have a chance. My thinking was that 5 hunter pets more then equal 1 tank. Hunters have a variety of crowd control methods such as traps and FD to get aggro back on pets. We have massive DPS which I am hopeing will make up for the medicore healing this team offers. Someone said pets would be 1-2 shotted by later bosses and I just knew from past hunters I played that this was not true.
Up to now, bosses have been very easy. I honestly cant think of a boss where I lost a single pet. Pulls of 5 are the challange of this (or any team). We focus first on cloth wearers, and make use of above mentioned crowd control. Wipes tend to come from bad pulls, or unseen patrolls.
As for PvP, I see the biggest problem for this (or any team) will be a fear bomb. But, what team does not have problems vs this? And, I plan to make things as difficult as possible to get close enough to do it. 5 traps, pets on aggressive, tracking...etc. We did some WSG early on, had fun...but, decided to hold off and focus on 70.
I will be getting fraps soon and will post some vids of our advances. With 2 bosses down in Ramps...we have beaten the expectations and time will tell how far we can go....and no matter what, this is the most fun I have had playing WoW (thank you Bradster for getting me hooked)
Thanks for reading, and a big thank you for all the help every one has given me getting all this set up.
RE: 5 Hunters (cause they said it cant be done)
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Originally Posted by 'Zenthor',index.php?page=Thread&postID=31558#post3 1558
Shorty before Christmas, I parked my 4 locks + priest and started 5 orc Hunters on a pvp server. I have asked on a previous post what everyone thought of the viability of 5 hunters and the idea was not exactly thoght to have much hope in instances past L50 and it was said PvP would be hopeless.
Since then, we have made it to 60 (should ding 61 within minutes of next login). We have cleared BFD, SM (all), RFC, Mara...etc up to BRD where we did around 5 or 6 bosses then moved to BC skipping Scholo and Strat. We have started Ramparts and have taken down first 2 bosses and working on Nazan (need to work of fire pots).
I am not 100% sure why this team was thought not to have a chance. My thinking was that 5 hunter pets more then equal 1 tank. Hunters have a variety of crowd control methods such as traps and FD to get aggro back on pets. We have massive DPS which I am hopeing will make up for the medicore healing this team offers. Someone said pets would be 1-2 shotted by later bosses and I just knew from past hunters I played that this was not true.
Up to now, bosses have been very easy. I honestly cant think of a boss where I lost a single pet. Pulls of 5 are the challange of this (or any team). We focus first on cloth wearers, and make use of above mentioned crowd control. Wipes tend to come from bad pulls, or unseen patrolls.
As for PvP, I see the biggest problem for this (or any team) will be a fear bomb. But, what team does not have problems vs this? And, I plan to make things as difficult as possible to get close enough to do it. 5 traps, pets on aggressive, tracking...etc. We did some WSG early on, had fun...but, decided to hold off and focus on 70.
I will be getting fraps soon and will post some vids of our advances. With 2 bosses down in Ramps...we have beaten the expectations and time will tell how far we can go....and no matter what, this is the most fun I have had playing WoW (thank you Bradster for getting me hooked)
Thanks for reading, and a big thank you for all the help every one has given me getting all this set up.
Yep, my 4 hunters has been progressing great....and I only have 4! I'm always wondering what is gonna happen when I run ramparts with only 4. I'll probably have to wind up powerleveling a 5th person, either pally or priest.
I did a little pvp at level 29. Was rocky at first, but wound up at the top of the list in kills every game. Granted we never capped flags and wound up losing every game, but killing people superfast is my main goal. Ha ha ha.