Faction Champions Advanced Tips!

I’ve had a chance to burn through the Faction Champions fight on 25 man normal mode a few more times, and it’s time for me to redo the guide.

First, a bit of background. Faction Champions is a fight against a large group of mini-bosses, the composition of which changes for every instance ID. An excellent list of the possibilities (as well as a long wall-o-text strategy guide which I relied on when mastering this fight) can be found here. Essentially, this encounter is meant to be like an arena match, except you outnumber your opponents, and they’re each about 50x stronger than your average player. Agro doesn’t matter for long, and the enemy will focus their fire on who they perceive is the greatest threat to them, or is the easiest to take out.

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A Hunter’s Guide to 5v5 Arena

5v5 has always been the hunter’s strongest bracket. We’ve never had enough support abilities to really shine in 3v3, and always lacked the burst to dominate 2v2, but in 5v5 playing a hunter feels just right. I really live for the moments when my 5v5 gets to queue. If you are lucky enough to find 4 (or 5, or 6, or 7, because people tend to quit before a season ends…) dedicated people to play 5s with, I guarantee it will be the most fun you ever have. How do you do your job, though? After some preliminaries, that will be the question I address today.

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Hunting the Faction Champions!

[Edit sep 28, 2009: there is an updated strategy here]

The Faction Champions encounter is the third in the trial of the crusader. Unfortunately, at this time, there are no general wowhead (or whatever) guides I can refer you to for further reading, however since we two shot made short work of this last night, I’m going to write up a list of advice I have to pass on, and go and edit it for accuracy as it’s completed more often.

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Tricks of the Hunter Trade!

This post will feature useful tips for hunters versus each class. The tips are meant to be general, and you should look for ways to apply them in any setting you can. Playing your class to its fullest is one of the few remaining ways to enjoy WoW, since the advent of the Death Knight ;)

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Survival spec details!

patch 3.1 edit: while some of this is still good, patch 3.1 changed the game a little for survival. Here’s the guide, and here’s the shot rotation.

OK, I’ve rambled on about how to play a survival hunter, but unless you have a good spec, you’re still going to suck, even if you take all my advice.

First off, whenever discussing specs, the cookie cutter response from elitist jerks huntards everywhere is “Use the spreadsheet, n00b”. Then they report you, then someone gives you an infraction, then you write up a complaint by PM to the moderator who gave it to you because they mocked your grammar in the comment, who then gives you another week off for mod sass. I watch this process repeat itself ad nauseam.

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