07-04-2005, 11:10 AM
My main surprise was that there were so few hunters in that list. I partied up with Cragb, a hunter who was the #1 cp person for Horde on Tichondrius for the longest time. He had to take a couple weeks off, so he lost his top spot in the rankings, but until then, he was the undisputed king of cp on the server. We would roam in groups of five and hit the stretch from Kargath through the Searing Gorge through Blackrock Mountain, and if the pickings were slim, the Burning Steppes. The idea was to stay in a small group so that the cp's were concentrated, avoid the Hillsbrad Foothills battle where diminishing returns quickly built up, and find a place with a steady stream of high-level opponents coming through. We were fighting mostly groups coming to Blackrock Mountain or Alliance groups doing the exact same thing as us. The small party battles against organized groups were really fun. In general, we'd hit a group, and then keep moving constantly over and around the map, never keeping to one place.
Now, Cragb was fantastic at this, and so many hunter abilities were crucial. Track humanoids made it so much easier to know where to go to find fights. Whenever we didn't have a hunter in our party, we always ended up spending so much longer roaming around trying to find someone to fight. In addition, all the hunter anti-rogue abilities were great, as we would always hit those areas where we knew that Alliance rogues loved to hang out at -- and we'd always rack up extra cp's doing that. But even when we did join the Hillsbrad zerg, Cragb and the other hunters I played with, would rack up massive numbers of kills, since they could aim shot crit people from a 41 yard range and just keep a barrage of fire going.
I'm actually surprised that so many mages appeared so high on the list and so few hunters did. I would expect that while mages can kill things fast, the fact that they are so fragile would hurt their overall cp-gain rate. It's just interesting to see how it ended up.
Now, Cragb was fantastic at this, and so many hunter abilities were crucial. Track humanoids made it so much easier to know where to go to find fights. Whenever we didn't have a hunter in our party, we always ended up spending so much longer roaming around trying to find someone to fight. In addition, all the hunter anti-rogue abilities were great, as we would always hit those areas where we knew that Alliance rogues loved to hang out at -- and we'd always rack up extra cp's doing that. But even when we did join the Hillsbrad zerg, Cragb and the other hunters I played with, would rack up massive numbers of kills, since they could aim shot crit people from a 41 yard range and just keep a barrage of fire going.
I'm actually surprised that so many mages appeared so high on the list and so few hunters did. I would expect that while mages can kill things fast, the fact that they are so fragile would hurt their overall cp-gain rate. It's just interesting to see how it ended up.