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Hunters have been underrepresented in the Arena until recently, but they've been a staple in battlegrounds for a long while, so it's nice to see them finally gaining a foothold. Today's build focuses on increasing stamina, survivability, ranged damage, and picking up a few nifty utility skills. This is definitely more of a PvP build, and as such you'll want gear that maximizes your ranged attack power, resilience, and stamina to support it. Once you're geared up though, this build should serve you quite well.

One thing this build doesn't include that I'm curious to hear your thoughts on is Improved Arcane Shot. It seems like with the new dispelling power of this shot, you'd want to take this talent but I can't find 5 points to spare for it from anywhere. Perhaps that's why I haven't seen too many builds that have it, but I'd like to hear your thoughts. Is it worth it, or is it more situational? Better in some brackets but not in others? These are some of the questions I'm hoping you can help me answer (because honestly, I don't PvP on my Hunter... I PvP with my Warlock). Read on for my dissection of the 0/45/16 build!

Between Arenas, V'Ming spends his time as a lock laughing ominously in AV, tanking Olm with his own minions and pondering troll fashion from Zul'Aman. He's recently started to plumb the depths of SSC with his 0/21/40 build and bragging about 8k shadow bolts.

I've been playing my Warlock main since forever. While some guildies have kept themselves busy by bring their fifth or sixth toon through Karazhan attunement, I've been content pottering around with my warlock, dipping into alts only when there aren't any groups or raids going on.

From my other characters points of view frost is a pain to go against due to the utility of the elemental and the slowing effect. I always have to pop BW on my hunter to just not be slowed and then they're in trouble, but on my rogue or warrior (lowbies) frost mages suck to fight due to kiting. Though a highly geared fire mage will wtfpwn you and you'll be wondering the license plate number of the truck that hit you while you're waiting to rez. From a mage perspective (I hit 59 last night) I like the high numbers of fire when compared to frost - you also have a very limited amount of frost spells, so I switched back to fire after giving frost a week (my fireball did more damage then anything frost I could throw at them) but I'm gonna give frost another try once I hit the level where I can get icelance.