[Furies..]

Hmm... how you deal with a hunter has a little bit to do with your spec I guess, but I see some advice that I wouldn't necessarily follow. First off, your best pet for a hunter is hands down, a succubus.

As a destro lock with not as much survivability as some other builds, if you don't react fast, and immediately rush the hunter, your not going to survive an equal gear encounter.

Step 1. Whatever spec you are, run at the hunter while you toss CoW on his pet.

Step 2. Seduce him immediately.

Step 3. Do Not take the time to dot up his pet, those 3-4 seconds of global cooldowns just put you at a huge disadvantage and when his CC breaks, your in trouble.

Step 4. Do Not fear the hunter, fear the pet if possible, but only try it once, don't recast if it resists, time is precious. If you do fear the hunter and not the pet, your getting interrupts while trying to nuke him, and when his fear breaks, he has the range you just tried to take away from him.

Step 5. At this point you should have him seduced, the pet feared and CoW on it, and its time to unload. As a destro lock, I shadowbolt, immolate, DC, searing pain, conflag, and shadowburn. Conflag and shadowburn are done as I am charging him still, ready for a silence with spellstone, and ready for a reseduce if he scatter shots.

Step 6. If he has any health left at all, my succubus is beating on him, I put up instant dots, and I chase. If he bends to lay a trap, I stop and drain the rest of his life.


Hunters are probably the most fast paced fight since you have to juggle so many things, and their damage output is insane right now. If I get a seduce resist I recast asap as I am charging, and if I get a fear resist on his pet, I suck it up and continue to do my same routine and pray I can kill him before he kills me. The interrupts and damage the pet causes can make it a pretty close fight usually.