hunter vs hunter fights i win all the time !
its called SCARE BEAST !
even if i lose 1 second to cast it, it still gives me the advantage as his pet cannot trinket out of it, thus 10 whole second without pet is too much and they usually run away. unless there are multiple people with him, 1v1 against other hunters i win easily !
at one point i even meleed against one, i guess he just sucked though !
anyway...
it is true that going OOM in the middle of a fight sucks, but aren't you suppose to grow back your mana before going into it ? even if my stats aren't that big i have more then enough mana to go at fights. of course i'm not the kind that goes for kills only, i play with people so having 1v1 is quite rare for me. i can say that agility has done a lot for me up to this point.
right now i have sacrificed life for more agility though... i've dropped mining to get skinning, i've gotten the fang pants, i've switched 12 dodge for 3 agi on my cloak. switched 7 stam on boot for 7 agi. i'm now under the 1200 mark by 3 life point which really bothers me. at this point i guess that getting more DPS would need me to go fetch that AGM and fishing hat while dropping engineering for herbalism ! it will be time for me to try my luck again.
for the 6 yard better going...
you do know that you can shoot off 60 yard distance.
so to try and shoot back the question to you... how come ya need that 6 yard more ?
dont answer that, its a rhethorical question noob !
learn to kite, yeah like you can kite 5 people at once with concussive shot and winclip without going melee ! so i'm telling you back the same dude, learn some skill !
having more intellect is helpfull, i've never doubted that, but for survival, and burst damage, AGILITY is just better. as for the intellect being the survival best or king as the noob said. sorry but i eat those intellect hunters for breakfast ! their steady damage is just not enough against my burst ! not to mention i know how to play and get rid of their pet right from the start. not by killing it, that'S a waste of time.
EDIT:
time ace: agility means more on arena, thats for sure, the burst damage is just better then steady damage... but i play BGs a lot mroe and seriously, my agility builds rivals more then all those int hunters i've seen. of course my character is missing two things so i've been holding back. otherwise i'd have to drop my life which is not so good of an idea. it is true that having intellect and mana in general helps. that'S not even an argument here. but considering that concusive shot is on a 30 second CD and wing clip is a melee type of CC... i think the mana itself is not sufficient to keep you alive, as you can't go faster then your CD to begin with.
just to see how you'd act...
you are in a BG you are kiting a warrior, he's half his life done, then a shaman comes in, heals the warrior and then puts totem down and rush for you. and in your back there is a pet rushing at you with a hunter just rezzed from their graveyards and coming at you from afar.
right now you have the shaman and warrior on your ass, and a hunter soon to be there...
how do you react to this ?
for my part i just do as much as i can, and then try to find friends to back me up cause i cannot go against all 3 at once with so few health. for the sake of this let's consider that all are knowing how to play and are not noobs with 500 health ok.