Hey there I’m thinking of starting Arenas when I’ll get better gear, I’m currently playing MM in dungeons and BGs but I’ve heard melee is better at Arenas. I’ve played Survival for a while when I was levelling and like the spec too, is it the best spec to play in Arenas ?
Also, which pets are great for PvP and Arenas, and why ?
Thanks for your help.
mm if you want to be a metaslave, survival if you are a chad, undead raptors are best pet for pvp because they apply mortal strike, they give you a freedom and they are immune to many types of cc
Haha I guess Survival requires much more knowledge of the spec but is better then ? I’ll admit I don’t like having a melee in my face while playing MM as there’s not a lot I can do to flee before just melting.
I play BM in arena its good
Take it from a former SV arena nub:
It’s super punishing to make mistakes as SV, I got deleted super quick every game, especially in 3s.
But I’ve also seen SV played well in arenas by opponents, and they’re extremely hard to ever pin down and even damage at all. It has a high skill floor and a high skill ceiling compared to other hunter specs for sure.
BM seems to be doing alright too, they keep pretty good pressure up, and I’ve seen my partner getting kited around and absolutely murdered when it came down to 1v1. In games where both teams have survived the initial burst, BM deals respectable damage outside of cooldowns.
Yeah that’s what I read: high skill ceiling but highly rewarding. What is so hard about SV though ? Mismanaging CC ?
My problem is that Survival is less good in PvE, my main activity, I mean it’s good but MM is less effort for same result, + I’m ranged. Even in BGs being ranged is cool too. The stat priority is the opposite for SV so if I’m buying Gladiator pieces it’ll be better for PvP but I’ll handicap myself in PvE… Choices choices.
The mistakes I kept making were mostly CC related, yeah.
Throwing a net on someone who had a DoT on them I didn’t notice or someone who got hit shortly after, missing a trap during the heat of battle, staggering turtle/exhiliration so you don’t end up without a defensive, dealing with awful pet AI, protecting your pet if they suddenly go for it, basically you have a huge toolbox and need to use your tools well, and coordinate with your group to make sure none of your tools are wasted.
It’s a really, REALLY fun spec though, if it’s your jam flavour-wise, rest assured that it can and will be good for PvP when or if you master it.
I switched to DK because frankly, my boomer brain is slow and easily confused, so I needed a class less reliant on such a varied and awareness-intensive kit.
For PvE you are fighting uphill though. People will ask you why you’re not MM, people will decline you for playing what they see as a voluntary handicap.
But that’s PuG life, they’re rarely going to treat you well, or fairly.
I recommend looking up a community, I’m in one currently that’s all about chill and easygoing dungeon runs, where we don’t care about covenant choice or specs.
When you stop playing with PuGs, you’ll notice how nice people there actually are in the game, and many people, me included, would rather have a nice fellow who plays the spec they like than some elitist who needs meta specs for his +2 key.
So we did three Rated 2v2 with my DH Havoc mate (178 I think) and got promptly destroyed in around 10 seconds everytime, I think we’re not that good + undergeared 
We faced: MM Hunter + DK UH, then Druid Feral + Prot Paladin, and then Monk (dunno the spec) + Druide Feral again
We just get bursted down in 4-5 seconds each and die. Not much place for learning.
In the current meta that’s the way of things. You’re not playing a 1-shot comp, and you’re not playing an anti-opener cheese comp, so you’ll die every time to zero-IQ zerging if you’re not experienced and well coordinated.
Furthermore, SV needs to set things up and control the enemy team, and that’s really hard when your partner passively cleaves with his abilities and risks accidentally breaking valuable CC.
Basically you’re a team whose players need quite some skill to secure kills, but as you mentioned the current state of things doesn’t really allow for a lot of learning.
You hit the mark, I managed to Ice Trap a player once but due to the massive AoE dealt by a DH it broke it haha ! Need more practice is all.
But I just learned that RBG counts towards the spider mount (yeah I don’t know a lot about Rated haha) and I’m having much more fun in BGs as well as my DH partner, I think we’ll go this way instead.
None, Hunter is garbage in arena right now
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