How to fight locks?Follow

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Beast spec'd hunters have the easiest time vs locks. Bestial Wrath and Beast Within usually means one dead lock (my lock just runs when a BW'd pet comes after him - hoping he can escape it - let bw hit cooldown, and then come back at the hunter --- but I stand and die if I can't run, say, becuase I have to protect or kill a FC or defend a node/take a node).

But give us more info, and people will fill you in. Someone's working out a pvp guide (one was posted, also someone is working on another one - Theo and ___, was it? Sorry, can't remember for sure). Can't wait to see it!

In my opinion it all depends on the locks skill because he will zerg you and get rid of your bow completly. This zerg will often involve DOTs and an occasional fear this is one of the hardest things to do for a marks hunter. I find it easy to lay freezing trap if they have imp and freeze the zerging warlock. Then kill the imp as quick as possible. killing the imp does two things 1) it gets rid of there stam buff 2) takes away nagging imp dmg.
after that step back mark him and start an aimed shot. he is a clothie and it should hit a decent amount. follow the shot up with aracen then concussive. DONT SERPERNT sting because you may need to freeze him again and the serpent stinf will knock him out of block. If you are gonna sting viper sting (if you can) and sap his mana. If you can outlast his three fears (2 if you have signet) and you can follow up your freeze with good dmg he will drop extremly fast

Hunter pets aren't a problem for me, if they're attacking me and I'm close to the hunter I'll run up to him and instant howl of terror. Otherwise I'll just HoT the pet. But IponemaGirl is right, beast spec is the hardest for me. I get really pissed of when I try to fear the pet and it says it's immune =/. In battlegrounds (which I'm assuming you're talking about), the best thing to do is sic your pet on the warlock and try to stop him from casting DoTs, however possible (I don't know anything about hunter spells, so I can't help you on which to use). If you can prevent him from casting shadow spells, he pretty much can't do anything for however long it lasts (I usually just try to run). But the fight definately depends on which bracket you're in. In 10-19, you don't have bestial wrath and locks don't have HoT or deathcoil. I don't know when you get bestial wrath, but I think 20-29 is the same. Until level 42 (and maybe 46), locks can only DoT you and hope fear lands before you kill them. I forget when we get HoT, but it sucks until it's instant. At 42 we get deathcoil, which for me is the greatest skill ever. I think that 10-19 hunters and locks are evenly matched, 20-39 hunters are better, and 40-49 hunters and locks are even again. I haven't pvped past the 40's bracket, so I don't know how the fights are past that.