06-12-2007, 12:03 AM
Quote:I don't play enough 5v5. In 5v5 yeah they would be more valuable than in the lower stuff but I would still think you want a rogue or a mage over them.
Of course there are a ton of really really really bad hunters out there so that could play a part in how few of them make arenas.
I don't 5v5 much anymore (my team dropped then fell apart as the summer started), but we had an awesome rogue, and teams with a good hunter were a lot of trouble. A good hunter facing a team with 2 melee players (rogue+warrior) can have near-complete board control using frost trap to slow all opponents at just the right time. Meanwhile, the warrior gets every CC dispelled off him by the Paladin and runs around pwning anything soft caught in the frost trap. Typically, they'll pick a soft target (like a priest) and the hunter can use silencing shot to make sure that the soft target drops.
A counter to this (for teams with a druid) is (was?) to chain-cyclone the warrior and drop one of the other team's players before the warrior becomes cyclone-immune.