Comments on: What’s the Resilience-Noob Barrier?

By: Vivified

Vivified — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:08:23 +0000

Get the s3 Helm, it is the best upgrade you could get, grind out the 10(ish) losses a week and get that helm!

By: TheeNickster

TheeNickster — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:10:45 +0000

I feel your WSG pain. I’m a 59 BM spec hunter who’s pulling very respectable numbers on the scoreboard. So you’d figure that all that DPS goodness would translate into some wins right?

Nope! In fact all I seem to be doing is dragging these battles out, which slows the rate that I get WSG tokens! In fact I’ve got teammates urging me to “let the horde win” and abandoning the BG when we’re not losing fast enough for them!

I’m wondering if this “let’s just lose this fast” attitude is common in WSG? Is it REALLY all about the tokens?

Ankel and Catbert

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:00:07 +0000

What are you using for the stat-comparison between your 2 leggings? Looks cool, and I would like to check it out.

By: Kraige

Kraige — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:56:05 +0000

My alliance BM hunter has had 3pts into Hawk’s Eye from the very beginning and does mostly pvp right now. After reading about your build a couple months ago, I respecced from 41/17/3 to 41/20/0 and noticed a BIG difference. My overall damage went down quite a bit. The extra range in Hawk’s Eye is crucial in the battlegrounds because it can keep you out of harm’s way but still let you dish out all of your damage. Camping towers on defense or defending choke points (Icewing Bunker and Alliance Bridge) are a lot more enjoyable when you can slow someone on a mount running by to let the archers finish them off. The 3 pts. in Hawk’s Eye, while subtle if you haven’t used it before, is sorely missed when you’ve used it for so long. So I quickly and happily changed back to my 41/17/3 build. If I were raiding a lot, I might change it but it’s hard giving up that range.

On another pvp battleground note, I’m really digging the buffs for Aimed Shot and Viper sting. Now anyone with mana gets a viper sting (especially hunters). I don’t know about anyone else but I hate running out of mana almost as much as I hate the horde killing my kitty. Aimed shot is reserved for healers. I’ve been having pretty good luck against pallys, druids and shammys playing defense. Dropping a snake trap, send pet, rapid fire, concussive shot, viper shot, aimed shot, concussive, then start kiting, drop another snake trap for them to run over, intimidation and bestial wrath to keep range and pour on the dps. Arcane shot is used as much as possible, too, same with multi-shot which is nice for getting rid of totems. Of course this depends on you having range to start off with so works best when my night elf and cat is stealthed and defending a node that has a good view of the area and some room to move afterwards.

By: jumb

jumb — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:23:48 +0000

My PvE gear has 95 resil :s

By: Zabrz

Zabrz — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:18:42 +0000

@Doomilias

I jump off teams all the time. I dropped off my 2s team yesterday to play a few matches with a friend so he’d get points for the week.

My 5v5 broke apart after 2 weeks into Season 3.
58 wins 5 losses 1903 rating – #1 in Battlegroup

3v3 Broke apart last week after the mage quit the game
Ranged from 2080-2200 Always top 15 in the battlegroup

2v2 I do with friends to help get points. Season 2 I maxed out as 2300 with Rogue/Priest but due to win traders we were pushed out of Gladiator (20 teams win traded to 2400+ and stole many titles from the deserving players.)

As for my gear, I’ve been 5/5 Season 3 with Dual Season 3 Weapons and Season 3 Throwing Weapon for 2 weeks now.

By: Thaumaturgos

Thaumaturgos — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:50:34 +0000

I do agree about the chest piece. I have the piece you can buy from the Cenarion Group when you are honoured, and with the bonuses formt eh sockets I can see no reason to buy the S1 chestpiece.

I also agree about the Vindicator bracers/ belt/ boots. The only reason I went for the S1 set first is because my Orc Hunter was so undergeared in those areas. She’s only just reached 70, and isnt even keyed for Kara yet, so this was the easy way to get some serious HP and resilience in prep for raiding. As I (hopefully!) move through I’m sure I will pick up some much better PvE pieces, but to start the process with a character who has a faint chanc eo fsurviving to assist with massive dps seemed a useful skill to bring to my guild (Ten Ton Hammer on Hydraxis).

By: WyldKard

WyldKard — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:18:18 +0000

Why do Shammys give you a problem under a BM spec? I’ve found them to be pretty easy to dispatch under a Survival spec, and I’m not even using anything extravagant. The problem is when they’re close to you to begin with, but at range, they’re as easy to kite as a Paladin, only have much less armor for a quicker kill.

By: nomakk

nomakk — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:10:57 +0000

Dude, go survival, enjoy over 32% crit and 10k health! Sleep people that are annoying you! Join the revolution!

By: Pyrius

Pyrius — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:57:13 +0000

Next for honor: Any of the Vindicator’s gear. I love the boots.

Next for arena points: The helm. With hit, I’m likely going to use it for raiding. My only concern is meeting the meta gem requirements when I complete my PvP set (because the Relentless Earthstorm Diamond is so far ahead of that 24 ap/run speed gem it’s ridiculous).