Some advice on Hunter VS Lock?Follow

use the beast withing, point and laugh


or silencing shot if you are MM.


and just 1/2 shot his succy.... it has virtually no hp.
multishot+arcane and its gone, and it cost you ~2.5 seconds.
send in pet and use either tBW or silencing shot.
use trinket to break fear if you dont have tBW.
eat when he dies to make sure you dont die from his dots afterwards.

Edited, May 26th 2007 3:34am by Aethien

how I duel locks ( not using the I win button.)

duel/fight starts, lay a freeze trap, succy, or the lock will trap themselves.

if succy gets trapped,ranged dps lock until they run at you, then FD and melee his *** while he tries to dps you, you HAVE to move around and stay behind his back for this to work, but it works well, until you can get more range, when you get back in range, they generally have low hp, some shots can deal with that.

If the lock gets trapped, kill their pet, then back up,and send pet in on the war lock, range SOME, arcane shot,multi shot,serpent sting(or viper if the lock is near oom,) then FD to have them untarget, run in and keep to their back all the while using raptor swing with a good 2H.

You can really ***** warlocks up by charging them,as they have no instant AOE's, its also safe.

shots to deal damage, FD to detarget yourself, charge in and raptor for DPS, freeze trap when needed.

this generally works all the time, especially if you are BM,and have intimidation, that can extend your ranged dps time.

and of course as BM there's always the I win button.


with silencing shot, just start fight off with freeze trap at feet, silencing shot, multi,arcane, run in and scatter shot, get behind their back and dps them melee, raptor strike works well.



Locks aren't the strongest thing, a freeze trap on their pet,or the warlock, can seriously ***** up a lock, along with using FD on them,and most their time is spent recovering from the beginning of the fight.

Edited, May 25th 2007 10:49pm by FFGamer

even if it did stelth wouldn't flare shot work on it??

Muahahhaa.... I don't think he knows the succy isn't full stealth. THe multi shot would also work well. Thanks for the tips, guys!

Anyone know what the range on fear is?

Thanks, that is good to know.

I hope my questions don't seem n00bish... this is my first toon and I've never rolled anything else, so I'm not 100% on some of the skills other classes have. Don't get me wrong, I've studied a bit and know the basics of most classes, but some of the smaller particulars escape me... you know?

Well, AI... since you roll both, what is your reccomendation for overcoming the succy?

pet set to aggressive or even defensive so it will attack succy (and chew her out) when she tries to charm you will probably work too.

I do think BM would be better for casters, but I find there are certain things in MM I just don't want to give up... I LOVE scatter shot and silencing shot.

I think maybe I just need to re-think my playing style. I do well against most classes but have a hard time against locks. Maybe that's indicative of me just not knowing what to do.

It doesn't seem like it'd be that hard--send pet, wail on him/her from a distance. Meh, I guess I just need more practice.

When I fight a lock I send my pet in. shoot a conc shot. then as I see the lock about to cast i cast Beastial Wraith drop ice trap and cast intimidate. By the time intimidate has worn off lock is laying on the ground twitching. Works like a charm!

i am curently lvl 22 hunter when i was lvl 19 a lvl 20lock waved to me in barrens when i already thought he looked funny so i move in closer then relize hmm aliance (i'm troll) so i send pet in i didnt bother with his VW he had out at the time cause i know no t much damage. he kept trying to fear me but would only last like 2 sec if that but he ended up dieing i thought about camping his body for kicks but desided better when i tryed sending him a tell and it told me he wasnt on i figured he loged main so i got out of there little didi know it was just cause he was aliance. well that's my hunter vs lock story. dont help you none but oh well ijust hate rouges pain in the **** toons

If the opposite faction leaves me alone, I leave them alone. I'm not one of these folks that has to make a pain of myself when we're all clearly out there adventuring.

I don't mind a roughly 'equal' fight, and my stance usually lets the opposition get in the first shot, but what I dislike is unfair fights from the get-go. These twits that see someone significantly lower level, in the middle of a fight with something else and have to 'prove' their toonliness, well, that torques me off. It was never equal footing to start and all it proves is that that kind of enemy has the maturity of a 12 year old.

If you want a rush, pick on someone your own size. If you pick on an easy kill, it's just a waste of everyone's time.

Me too. Normally if I see a player of the opposite faction coming towards me, I sit down and put my pet (if on a toon with one) on passive. (Long as I'm in a place where this is a safe option!). If the stop beside me I will wave, or greet or something.

If it's a high level that decides to gank me I don't put up a fight. If the corpse camp me I make a point of ressing on top of them and do /pat. Usually only takes 2 or 3 times of me ressing on them making no resistance and a few pats for them to either just find it boring or perhaps realise I am patronising them.

Of course, if I player in my level range decides to attack me I'll put pet on aggresive, freezing trap, move to good range and put up a fair fight. Normally I win, probably because with me first being passive about it and trying to stay away from a fight they think that it's going to be easy. :P

There are tgimes I've been ganked so much that I get aggressive for afew hours and kill all opposing players I can, but it's not really a lot!

Anyway, back to original topic, it's hard to say what your tactic should be without knowing what spec he is. I would say the other suggestions have been good (I've been down both the affliction and demonology path on my lock and from the examples I know I would have a hard time dealing with either).

I would say though, that with his attitude he sounds like someone who thinks warlocks are "easy" to play, so your best bet is to utilise as much of your own class as possible. Anything which incapacitates him is good, and have your pet on him the whole time to stop any non-instant spells he has. As others have said, the succubus doesn't have a whole lot of healthand should not be the hardest to down. And also, most locks will want to keep you out of melee range since they are cloth wearers, which should mean you can get a few goo´d shots in even between fears.

Also, never studied this myself, but since damage caused breaks seduce I am guessing dot's will also break it? Cause then I don't really know how the succubus should be much of a help with seduce? :P

It is amazing sometimes how useful FD can be in PvP. At the least, it breaks any spell casts with a timer. Not so helpful against Warlocks with all of their Instant casts, but if they decide to Shadow Bolt you then FD, they lose that cast, stand and fire.