Hi everyone, I can’t wait for TBC since I never played it, and I made the decision to play a different class, which is hunter (levelling a night elf hunter right now in Classic for this reason).
But I have a question, as I said I’m a TBC beginner, so I’m asking here since people in this forum have much more knowledge and experience than myself.
How is hunter going to be in PvP for TBC, especially arena? I’ve been hearing that there are some other classes that are better in arena like rogues, warriors, warlocks for example, and I’ve been told that hunters aren’t that great for this aspect of the game, since there are several other classes that have an easier time in arena and PvP, and as hunter it will be harder to find team mates compared to other classes for 2vs2 and 3vs3.
What is your opinion about this? Are hunters any good in PvP and arena in general?
Also what professions do you think are the best for arena and PvP?
Thank you for your answers!
I think they are just difficult to play thats all
They are harder to master and are inferior to the classes you mentioned. It will be harder to find teammates for sure. On top of that playing a night elf hunter makes you even less attractive to potential teammates. The only viable race in alliance is dwarf. You will be meeting a lot of rogue teams and stoneform is the most valuable spell you could have vs them. In horde all races are good but I would put them in that order:
- orc
- tauren
- troll/be
been playing Hunt/dru on TBC servers for a long time so feel free to follow my advice 
Haven’t played hunter in tbc. Could you write a few point of view from your own experience? Both pvp and pve if possible. Always nice to get information from other players! 
Hunters have a very unique thing as opposed to other classes, namely: every spec is viable in PvP, neither of them is top tier but you can play SV, MM or BM at a decent high level. Classes like warlocks, warriors and rogues have basically 1 build with a few minor differences based on preferneces. The best overall spec for hunters is MM in PvP.
For PVE you should play BM. Hunter in TBC is the best physical dps. You can pump huge numbers using 1 button. The dmg is insane but its very boring. In later tiers guilds would have 1 survival hunter in raid that stacks agi and has expose weakness talent boosting all melees and hunters dmg.
Hunter is allright, you have the scorpid pet to make huge stacks of poison in order to make your mana drain shot undispellable. This was the thing back in TBC and the first ever tournament hosted by Blizz was won by a team with a hunter.
This is interesting news!
Thank your very kindly for your experience. I am looking forward to get this hunter to 70.
Could usually count the numbers of hunters getting shoulders and weapon on a server on one hand.
Hunter is prolly not as bad as people make it out to be , but the question being is it worth for you to invest in it being harder to optimize. Well its up to you , but since you say you are a noob about tbc I would pick an easier class to pvp with.
Hunters are strong but they’re hard to play because you have so much choice in what to do at any given moment. So considering equal skill levels you will have to work harder for your results and until you reach a high level of proficiency you might feel like the class is holding you back.
In non-arena PvP they’re pretty strong because the big red pet hurts and you can even stay PvE specced for overworld stuff and BGs without missing out on too much.
As far as profs go, for PvE go LW/ench and for pure PvP you can be completely selfish and go ench/JC for the most personal benefits.
The “run around a pillar” meta will give a hard time to the hunters in arena.
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