Master of Alterac Valley

One of the nice things about being a hunter is being able to almost single handedly turn the tide of BGs like AB. If you time things right, and especially if you’re willing to buy agility pots, you can 2-shot a few healers and/or clothies at the start of an assault on a node, giving the attacking force the time needed to clear and cap the node. Stacking wolf and cat buffs with dismiss trickery, casting roar of courage, popping pewpew trinks, grabbing zerking, and popping an agi pot I’ve seen aimed over 100k, followed by a similarly nasty chimera shot. I usually equip Vial when I open an assault, and if it procs under all those buffs it’s pretty dreadful too. Healers just cant react to that fast enough. It sounds like a lot to coordinate, but zerking and cat/wolf buffs are long enough duration that you can do your thing before riding up to the node, and then it’s all just clicking the “kill stuff” buff buttons/macros. I’m sure there are tricks to jack up initial burst with BM as well, I’m just less experienced with it (you’ve been motivating me to give it a real shot though). But when you mow down half the enemies including healers before the rest of the attackers even sink their teeth in, you’ve really changed the game. Deterrence/FD and change trinks and pets to something with sacrifice if it doesn’t go well. ezpz.

That being said, I think AB perfection is the hardest to pick up in a pug since it requires more teamwork and coordination. I havent gotten resilient victory yet, but there have been a number of times I’ve come in to a losing game and turned it into a winning game. I’m confident I’ll get it before perfection.

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