You’ll have varying tactics for one on one combat which depend on which talent tree you have chosen. For example, the Beast Mastery Hunters will find their pets, Bestial Wrath and the Beast within talents invaluable whereas Marksmen will find the talent enhancement to their shots useful and the Volley enhancements can help rain death on many huge cluster battles that tend to occur in the battlegrounds. But Survival Hunters will get lots of use out of their traps and explosive shot attack. However, all three trees will have a need for their pets and the Volley attack. If possible, you should target cloth wearing, lighter armored enemies and stay clear of heavy armored foes like Warriors, Paladins and Death Knights. Your damage can be of more use eliminating healers and DPS than trying to break through the heavy armor classes who have healers backing them up. After all, beating up a heavily armored meat shield with a ton of hit points that are constantly being refreshed is rather counterproductive. Fight smart and take out the healers first.It can be a bit different to prep your Hunter for level 80 PvP combat than prepare for a raid. So we will tell of this mainly here to help you understand.
You must know the first thing to obtain victory is your role in combat. As a Hunter, your role does not differ much in PvP combat as it does from fighting in groups and raids. You can stay with your group and keep your distance in combat or use your ranged attacks to take out enemies from a safe distance. Often you’ll have huge clusters of enemies that you can fire your Volley attack. Sometimes with all the chaos, this goes overlooked and you can gain several honorable kills by the distracted enemies. Some areas like the Alterac Mountains battleground, offer many places such as towers that you can climb to the top of and fire ranged attacks at the enemies below.
Even if you are fighting a one on one battle, just keep one thing in mind never there are no other enemies around. It’s moments like these that a sure fire win can turn into a severe ganking. It’s best to stick with your allies unless you enjoy getting blindsided by a small army.
Generally speaking, the Strand of the Ancients is run by level 80s and works in two phases. One team defends and another attacks. The two factions switch positions after the 10 minute battle duration is up or the attacking team captures the defending team’s relic. Hunters can play a very important role in many parts of this battle. If you’re on the attacking side, you may want to get in and ride shotgun on one of the siege weapons. While this doesn’t always provide you with the best opportunities for kills, you can play a key role in keeping enemy melee off the siege engine so it reaches its target and brings down an enemies wall. Concussive Shot is useful when those pesky melees try to come up behind the engine. This and your other attacks can buy the engine to bring down an enemy gate. If you are quick and crafty enough you can aid in bringing down the enemy walls by planting Seaforium Charges which can be picked up at friendly locations. So make sure you grab one before boarding the engine or trying to bum rushes a wall.
There are many other battlegrounds you can choose from for some fun PvP action like Alterac Valley, Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, Eye of Storm, and the Arena. Each battleground allows a certain number from each faction. However, you sometimes find yourself incredibly outnumbered or outnumbering the enemy yourself. While the battlegrounds are fun, which provide PvP, the numbers game can get tilted in one direction pretty quickly.
You are able to buy a number of items from PvP vendors for your faction with HP and Markfs of Honor earned from the various battlegrounds. For the Hunters, there’re a number of useful items but getting them will take plenty of Marks and Honor Points. You can utilize the walls to your advantage if you are on the offense. There’re small ledges that have cannon placements on them you can man or stand on to fire ranged attacks at enemy below. The cannons deal splash damage to enemy units and can help bring down enemy siege weapons before they reach the walls. If you find these are already controlled by someone, use the ledge to fire down on enemies that get too close. In all other cases, stick with your group and try to take out healers and casters first.