Quote Originally Posted by Boylston View Post
I just don't get it, but maybe something has changed that I'm missing.

Multi-hunter teams are pretty mediocre at best in PvP. Good damage output at range, but many, many classes have a way to tear you apart SOLO. Hunter defenses don't translate well to multiboxing, unlike multiple other classes, so as soon as someone makes it into your group, you're hosed. It can be very, very frustrating.

In PvE, you can make them work, but why on earth would you go through tremendous effort to be marginally effective. In great PvP gear, stacking stamina and some resilience, and using multiple tank pets, you can eek out some heroics. It's a really dismal choice for heroics, honestly.

So, again, I just don't get it. For PvP, they're a crummy choice. For PvE, also a crummy choice. Maybe if you really, really, really like hunters and are fine to suffer through gearing them inefficiently so that you can be mediocre, I'd recommend them.

Few things have made me smile as much as sending in 4 Gorillas to work over pull after pull of normal mode instance content as I leveled from 70-80. What a rush. It was so much fun! But after the fun of leveling was over, they've been shelved ever since.

Proceed at your own peril. Almost no one in the community that started 4-5x Hunter teams a year ago plays them anymore. There's a reason!
On the link posted in one of the posts above there is a video of a hunter pet tanking heroic FoS... if you can pet tank that instance, I'm pretty sure you can pet tank any heroic.

There have been a few things that have changed recently that have made pet tanking more viable...

- MD now lasts for 4 seconds (no longer uses charges), and works with Volley - which makes AoE tanking quite viable. Especially when used with Crocodiles who have this nice AoE threat ability - Bad Attitude
- Pets get 90% AoE damage avoidance
- Pets get 100% of master's resilience, and with talented 4% crit reduction, they only need 132 res to be uncrittable in heroics.
- Cower now causes 40% damage reduction for 6 secs (45 sec cooldown) and doesn't affect threat

You're still going to need a dedicated healer of course, but from what I've been reading it seems disc priests are the way to go.

I haven't looked at PvP hunter teams for a while...but solo hunters are doing well:

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...=Vicious+Cycle
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...t&gn=F%C3%AERe
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...ourne&n=Ruddia

Interestingly, all three examples are ranked highly, and have completly different specs...I not saying this would make hunters viable for arenas, but if played correctly I think they could do well in BG's / WG.

Cheers,
S.