Can you teach me how to kite in PvP?Follow

1. This is all about preference. Whatever makes it easier for you to preform the Jump-Shot is how you should have your buttons arranged. Hotkeys are a must, so you can continue to move, jump, turn around, fire a shot, turn back, and keep running. You really only have to turn enough to fire at them, it's not even a full 180, just a 90 degree turn would be sufficient, but definately practice on a mob.

2. Your biggest problem will be people in front of you obviously. As a hunter you always need to look for your exits, and points of least resistance. What this means is, before you go into attack, look at the others around you. Are there people behind you? Are your allies close by? Could you run to them easily?

Look at your options and always make sure you have enough room to run around in. If there's 1 person in front of you, and 3 behind you, it might be better to run to the person in front of you, Wing Clip them, and continue running past them. Again it all depends on the situation.

3. Kiting is very dependant on how far away they are to you. For a rogue you want to keep them at a distance so they can't "Blind" you and get close. You need to stay out of casting range for most casters such as Warlocks, Priests, Shamans, Druids, Mages, and Paladins. You definately need to stay out Charge and Intercept range from warriors. For other hunters it's more or less a stand off and running from them will allow them to get more Auto-Shots as you're attempting to run away.

Best suggestion is to get to know your ranges. Research the other classes a little more and find out exactly how far they can reach with their spells and abilities. Mages and Hunters can get the most range, so it's important to either stay out of that range, or be prepared for a fire fight.

Concussive Shot, Frost Trap, Arcane Shot, Serpent Sting, Wyvern Sting, Scatter Shot, Silence Shot, Multi-Shot, etc. All of these can be used while kiting if you have enough room. You can even pump out a few Auto-Shots before they get close too. The key is always stay at a distance, because up close we can't even compete.

It's more or less a judgement call on your part. If you feel you have enough space and time to fire off a few auto-shots by all means go ahead, but if you see that mage blink next to you while you're trying to fire off another shot, it's probably best to start running away.

If you have 5 people chasing you, it's probably a better bet to run back to your friends and attack with your group rather then trying to kite all 5 of them running after you.

You will die, have no doubts about that, but if you can stay at ranged combat for as long as possible then you'll help wittle and kill the other side.

I’ve talked to hunters who kite based on a (large) square path, straight path, and back-and-forth path.

For the square path, you are never far from your opponent because you just move around to 4 different points, keeping him slowed by whatever means you have (including melee wing clip). This may work better against some classes than others. Eg, a warrior will intercept you if you get too close in this path.

For the (relatively) straight path, you are hoping to not get near the opponent again…this can effectively lead to his death if you can keep the distance. Just make sure you’re not running while he’s whacking at you from behind (eg a rogue on sprint). This will require more of concussion shot, scatter shot, intimidation, etc.

For the back-and-forth path, you have to take chances to be hit, snared, blinded, etc. You run in one direction, shoot as long as you can, including auto-shot, then run back through the opponent, either doing a wing clip or raptor strike as needed. One reason for this is that maybe the area you’re in is hostile, ie aggressive monsters nearby, and you need to keep your distance from those mobs as well. Another reason is that if you use frost trap, you are forcing the opponent to go back and forth in this trap area for a bit. This is dangerous against every opponent but especially warriors who can do large crits on you when you thought you could take a few hits, and soon they’re in the zone for a quick Execute, which also can crit. Along with that are all the classes who can slow you down as you get close to them: crippling poison and hamstring come to mind as some examples.

Some people just run regularly, others strafe-run. Find which way works for you, or practice both. The jump-shot is a good tactic to learn.

Be flexible to use all your hunter skills. The thing about pvp is you never know who is prepared, and who isn’t. Eg, a freeze trap is quickly undone by someone with a pvp trinket, yet not all your targets will have this trinket handy.

Thanks for the help guys! I'm still curious what your button set up is so if you could please post that as well. I guess one big problem I'm having is how do you run and monitor the distance your target is behind you? I mean if I'm kiting I need to look in front of me to see where I'm going. But if I'm not paying attention to the target I might miss that he stopped following me or pop'd a trinket or something.

1. Auto shot
2. Melee macro
3. Arcane shot
4. Steady shot
5. Multi shot
6. Conc shot
7. Viper Sting
8. Hunters mark
9. Kill Command
0 (mouse button) flare
- (another mouse button) intimidation
= feign death

(other keybindings)
`. Beastial Wrath
Shift-W. Freezing trap
Shift-D. Frost trap
T. Mount
G. Rapid fire/trinket macro

aaandd.. I think thats about it :) I've got the scroll button on my mouse as auto run, helpful for kiting, and I move using W, Q E and S for strafing, no idea why I dont use standard WASD I jus got used to it. Also obviously using the mouse to turn/look around. Hope this helps.

Also, kiting only works when you've got space to run. The trick is just to keep strafing away from the enemy. When you use concussive shot it gives you time to use an auto shot or multi shot, otherwise you can do jumping-arcane or serpent stings. Kiting rarely works in anything more than 1v1 situations as well.

Edit: to look behind you while running, you can either put on auto run, and hold down the left mouse button and turn the camera while still running forwards, or do the same just holding down W. If you cant keep a strong awareness of your surroundings up all the time, then you wont be good at pvp :P being aware is one of the 3 key factors in BG.

Edited, May 25th 2007 9:21pm by Zysac

I would rate you all up but for some reason I cant. Instead I can only thank everyone for your help. Now that I am getting better at kiting I have been even deadlier than before. I cant say for sure but I think I made 2 rogue twinks leave because they couldn't even touch me. I made it my goal from that point on to go after the other teams twinks and flag. Thank you very much!