Quote Originally Posted by Ualaa View Post
Pretty sure the Warrior is immune to everything (aside from being killed), while the Bladestorm effect is up.
And he's in the middle of your team, doing massive damage to everyone.
Meanwhile you have your crappy melee attacks.

If the hunters pick the battles... and start at range, they're a powerful class.
Lots of damage options, for all three styles.
They can kite you, quite easily if you want to chase them.

My biggest problem as a hunter boxer, is that you don't have much defensively.
Compared to a lot of other compositions, anyway.
No real heals with 5x Hunters; I suppose you could be 4x Hunters + 1x Healer.
Melee range is really crappy damage.
It is hard to sync Disengage, although you could have them all pop it and IWT to face the enemy at range.

There are a lot of things I like about hunters; they were one of four teams I choose to RAF, way back when.
But they did stay at 60th, until I started alchemy for a reason too.
Change race to goblin and rocket jump away from warriors then? When I played shamans back in 2008 what you suggested earlier was how I dealt with melee. I had a spread macro which spread everyone out and had them look towards the middle. Then I focus healed the guy getting targeted and blew the melee up with the rest of the group. See no reason why hunters can't do the same, only with IWT turning to target it would be more efficient than it was back then. I'm not saying hunters are going to be the best team, but I don't think they are going to be useless if played to take advantage of the unique strengths BM hunters are going to have. Namely the ability to fight people with a 5 pet assist train from well outside intercept/charge or spell range. There is essentially no reason for BM hunters in a boxing situation to even get involved in a fight themselves come cata with what I've heard about BM pet sustained DPS. Hunters have always been a class that is terrible in the hands of a bad player, and a class that has shined in the hands of a good player. I don't really see boxing them being any different. Once a player gets their head wrapped around an efficient way to jump kite with their entire team, you've got a very powerful open field team. In fact I would wager a good player who gets that down turns 5 hunters in one of the preeminent BG boxer teams. (Why is it ignoring all my punctuation? That was actually 4 or 5 paragraphs)