Player versus Player (PvP)
Apparently the new patch that came out in preparation for the burning crusade expansion.. fixed what I hated about PvP. I had (until that patch) done PvP about 3 times. All of which sucked terribly as I was up against a swath of people with fantastic armor (all blue’s) and wicked cool weapons (all fiery enchanted). At the time I was low in level and hunters don’t have much going for them except having a pet at those levels.. and I sent mine into everyfight I saw. But usually it, and me died.. VERY VERY QUICKLY.
enter new patch
Now I rule at PvP. Which I really did just to goof around since it sucked something terrible in earlier levels. I went in @ level 38 and played until I hit 40. I would play maybe 2 times each day. My friend noticed that I would have had a “good round”. So I started looking at the stats page. I am not just good.. I am usually fantastic! I average anywhere from 28-35,000 damage and at least 30 honor kills. Killing blows, I don’t always do well with, but I figure if I am weakening them for my team to beat, thats good enough.
THEN I started sorting it to see how I rated with JUST my team.. I am always ranked either #1, or #2. And I ALWAYS have the most damage dealt out.. Apparently ppl on roughly equal footing I tend to whoop up on.
**One slight caveat to this is when I did PvP when I was lvl 40. I was the LOWEST member of my team, everytime. I felt I did good just getting 20,000 damage. I tried to be mostly support (run with the lvl 49 warrior tactic) since I knew I couldn’t stand up and deliver damage to quickly run down anyone at 48-49. I would bandage the warrior in a fight too, which made me a good partner and made him more likely to try to hamstring the guy after me, since I was tagging everyone that moved with poison shot, and casters mid fight with viper shot (drains mana, if you didn’t know). I didn’t wanna be a threat, but I wanted to help out. I did consequently smoke a lvl 49 rogue, which RULED. I think it was an undead or a troll.. Anyway I was behind a BIG bush (remember I am a dwarf) and got him with a hunters mark, poison shot, aimed shot, arcane shot, multi shot and he got screwed cause my autoshooting has a 20% chance to daze you.. Keep in mind the whole time he is trying to get away from my wolf (who is wicked stacked for his level all his resistances are at the top nature/fire/arcane/shadow and almost top in armor/stamina).. May not matter much that he’s stacked but he was doing his biting and I was shooting and right when said rogue makes it to me.. he finds.. (wait for it).. an ice trap.. SO I run off and tag him with an aimed shot for over 300 and kill him.. I am sure he was pissed (if I was 49 and got smoked solo by a 40 I would be pissed too). I seem to have a general dislike of rogues too. I think its cause I always end up with one after me.. which if I don’t kill I bring him close to the brink of death That and the fact that every town I go to, rogues want to duel me. (I mean once in a while, sure.. but all the time?). I try to take out mages and warlocks in PvP. Why? I don’t really know, but prolly because they wear cloth armor and I feel my shots/poison can drain them the fastest. Rogues I smoke whenever I can too.. hate those guys. The guys I run from are warriors and druids. I can’t seem to hurt a warrior too bad in a group, and druids shapeshift and ditch my poison (which is a MAJOR reason I do so much damage, I come into a combat area and tag every single guy with poison shot.. sometimes twice if there are a lot of guys).. and if I see more than 2 warriors and rogues going at it in a group.. I go in and drop an explosive trap.. let the bad guys burn.. 