This is my official 2.3 Hunter/Druid strategy guide, if you look at the evolution of my original strategy guides in comparison to this it's almost a different guide.

The other guides gave you basic idea's of what to do in situations in 2v2, like "Oh, I see a Shadow Priest OOM him and LOS!", I go into a lot of detail in this guide on "Why?", by giving you my thought process on why I do things certain ways, then you guys can hopefully become strategists yourselves. Playing your opponents is equally as important as knowing the general strategy on beating a team. One Warrior/Druid team will not play like another Warrior/Druid team. Understand that you will need to play differently depending on the other players. Understanding why you do things from my guide will hopefully help you adapt to different play styles.

Knowing your opponents and understanding game mechanics is an important factor in being able to play them, so if your having trouble figuring out a combo with my guide study their strengths and weaknesses.

I make these guides because I learn just as much from you guys as you learn from me. I grow as you guys grow.

Megatf on Tichondrius is my new main, my Dwarf has quit all his arena teams and sits in retirement.

General Tips in no particular order

• Since your partner is a Druid, this combo is VIABLE for ANY race. Night Elf, Blood Elf, Troll, Orc, Tauren, Dwarf. Abolish poison REMOVES wound poison and crippling poison.
• We can put out burst damage, but we're still a drain setup, putting heavy pressure on DPS to force enemies to use their mana. Most fights are won by draining the other team dry.
• Your Druid becomes the ultimate tank. He can tank Rogues/Warriors, he can Feral Charge, Bash, pillar hug, CC, and Stealth. I love it! It is important that your Druid can react quickly, know when to hold your target in place, when to heal, when to drink, how long he can drink for, who to CC, to make sure he's letting you know when he's CCing so you don't waste Scatter on a Cycloned target.
• Drink a lot, especially with Druid/Hunter games which can last 10-20+ minutes. If your healer and yourself are pretty much good and he can sustain himself and your out of mana pull the pet off of his target for a split second, feign, drink then send your pet IMMEDIATELY back on the target, get a couple ticks of drinking off and get back into the fight.
• Casters love to CC us, how do we avoid this? Feign Death, Scatter Shot, Silencing Shot. You have to be quick - really quick, especially with Feign Death. I bound Feign Death to Mouse4 so I can do it quickly, Scatter and Silencing Shot are close by as well.
• On double DPS teams use Aspect of the Hawk, on DPS/Healer teams use Aspect of the Viper.
• Be mindful of where your Druid is at ALL TIMES. If you LOS your own healer (Which is rare since you'll usually always have HoT's up) or you are letting him get focused, then you're going to lose. Use Raid Icons. It will help you locate your healer and he'll be able to find you easier through Poles, under bridges ETC. I recommend using Icons, I always give Chances the orange, I get the green one, and my pet gets the blue one.
• Do not use Steady Shot if you are taking any kind of damage, it's really bad and 99% of hunters do this, use steady shot to maximize damage ONLY when you are not being attacked.
• Use Line of Sight to your advantage. We can use it just as effectively as they can use it against us.
• Hunter/Priest is good too, but for high end arena Hunter/Druid is better.
• YOU NEED THE 17K HONOR PVP TRINKET, GET IT.
• Your healer CANNOT be CC'd by Sheep, it's a beautiful thing. Make sure any Druid you want to try out knows he can shift out of polymorph. (You'd be surprised.)
• Common sense tip for most: if a Rogue gets the jump on you, don't trinket the Cheap Shot. Cheap Shot is his first stun, which he can immediately follow up with a Kidney Shot if you trinket out of the first one. Same thing goes for Vanish to Cheap Shot. I usually don't trinket the stuns unless it's an emergency.
• Get a Scorpion Pet. I can't stress it enough, it's critical. Give him full Nature resist, Full Frost Resist, Cobra reflexes, rank 5 Scorpid Poison, and the second or third highest Shadow Resist you can give.
• Coordinate drinking with your Druid. Make sure if your Druid is off drinking you are near full HP, one of their team is CC'd, and you at least have a HoT on you to survive, it's really easy to survive if you play right. If you're going against a pet class and your healer needs to drink, Wing Clip the pet so your Druid can Travel Form away faster, this is really helpful in Blades Edge Arena. If you're off drinking your Druid has to stay and keep the other team in combat as it's really not hard to ditch/CC your pet so they can get drinks off. IE. Blades Edge Arena.
• This is the Hunter point of view on how to fight these combo's, I can give you the basic knowledge of what I know about the Druid strategy but your Druid is going to have to figure out his side. I can tell you what mine does in certain situations but I can't give you the nitty gritty of everything he does.
• With a Druid, your pet should rarely die, I've fought 2200+ rated Warriors and between Cyclone, Freeze Trap, Roots, Bash, Swift Mend and 3 Lifeblooms your pet should rarely die, but lets face it does happen. Your teammate is a Druid, you can afford to run away resurrect him, heal him, drink and then go back to fighting because you're playing on the ultimate outlast team and fights last long enough for pet ressing to be viable. With the 11/41/9 spec it just takes a quick Scatter Shot on one target, and a cyclone on another and they won't even get a drink off.
• When using Viper sting on a Paladin, try your best to IMMEDIATELY follow up with a Silencing Shot to delay the Dispel whenever possible.
• With a Druid, your team is all about control and CCing the other team into oblivion. Chandlereeve and myself have controlled a Rogue or Warrior team pretty much until his healer was dead.
• Pouncing one of the DPS at the start is so clutch! Always have him try to get a pounce. Though sometimes it doesn't happen.
• Cyclone + Roots + Bash + Pounce are your best friends. Coordinating Scatter Shots + Freeze Trap in combination is incredible and you can survive lots of things.
• If your pet gets stuck in one of the pillars in Nagrand, which happens frequently, you can do two things: dismiss your pet and bring it back or you can use Eyes of the Beast which is Instant and move him out of the pillar. I'd recommend using Eyes of the Beast! Special thanks to Ullzang of Tichondrius for this tip.
• The Best Tip I Can Give: It's really important to avoid getting frustrated and yelling at your partner. At the end of every loss me and my Druid talk about what we did wrong, what we can do the next time, and how we'll be more on the ball.
• Most of the strategies are similar. With the addition of Cyclone and Roots making melee teams a serious joke. Warrior/Paladin becomes your easiest matchup and Warrior/Druid loses to Hunter/Druid if played right.
• Casting Hunter's Mark on a target will cause them to stand up if they are drinking.
• Learn to coordinate damage together, sometimes it can be really tricky finishing off that Druid by yourself at the end of a match, me and Chances will frequently coordinate a burst to finish him off at the end.
• Target switch a lot. Sometimes the best way to force a healer in LOS of a Viper Sting is for you and your Druid to put pressure on the DPS. Me and Chances are very aggressive with teams now, putting pressure on DPS to force the healer to come out.
• Chances uses Cyclone offensively as well as defensively. We'll burst down players and pets by coordinating Cyclones/Scatter Shots/Traps on the healer then Cycloning the DPS who's low before the second Cyclone wears off. Boom another Cyclone, then he'll start his Cyclone rotation on the healer again with a Feral Charge Bash, it rarely works on really good teams but it will put a lot of pressure on the healer forcing him to expend a ton of mana and making their DPS play defensively.
• Against any team with a Priest: if they aren't smart enough to put that Shadowfiend on your pet and they put it on you or your Druid, KITE IT! Every time it hits something the Priest regenerates mana, the exact opposite of what we're trying to do to him via Viper Sting.
• These are random thoughts, a lot of the really pro stuff you'll randomly read in the strategy guides below. I mention certain things in some strats that you can use universally, so just because I mention something in one strat but don't mention it in another doesn't mean you cannot use it.
• I recommend that your Druid spec Insect Swarm, it's amazing for soloing pets.
• Switch between 1 handers and 2 handers depending on the team your fighting.
• KNOW YOUR OPPONENTS. Ever heard the saying knowledge is power? Instantly recognizing your opponents talent specs and knowing their strengths and weaknesses is possibly one of the MOST important things to being successful in the Arena. For example: Differentiating between an Affliction Warlock and a Soul Link Warlock.
• When and if your pet dies (It happens, sometimes it's impossible to avoid, darn random number generators), unless you want that enemy healer to drink back several thousand mana your Druid needs to keep that enemy healer in combat while you CC the other with Freeze Trap/Scatter Shot/Cyclone/Root. Remember with 11/41/9 you only need 1700 mana and 4 seconds to get your pet back into the action. If they both stay on you to prevent a resurection that means the healer is not drinking and using even more mana to delay the inevitable res.
• Always keep Hunter's Mark up on your primary DPS target. 100+ mana for a spell that gives you an extra 110 attack power for 2 minutes on that target is a no brainer.

Mods that I Use

I use the InsomniaxUI coupled with Zhunter, KHunter Timers, Proximo.

You can find Insomniax UI at www.curse.com

This is what my current UI looks like

Keybinds I Use

EDSF - Are my movement Keys, they open more buttons on my keyboard for binding spells, and is more comfortable for me, I've taken keyboarding and my pointer finger rests on the F key naturally, WASD feels alien to me.

• 1-Aspect of the Viper
• 2-Raptor Strike
• 3-Autoshot
• 4-Wingclip
• 5-Hunter's Mark
• Q-Concussive Shot
• A-Viper Sting
• W-Arcane Shot
• Shift+T-Aimed Shot
• G-Scatter Shot
• H-MultiShot
• Z-Silencing Shot
• Shift+1-Scare Beast
• Shift+R-Rapid Fire
• Shift+H-Rank 1 Multishot
• 6-Petattack/Petfollow
• Shift+D-Weapon Switching macro for 2 hander and 1 hander's.
• F1-PVP Trinket
• F2-Battlemaster HP trinket
• Shift+4-Therst's Pet Feed/Pet Call/Revive Pet/Mend Pet macro
• T-Steady Shot
• Shift+F-Flare
• J-Mount
• Mouse4-Feign Death
• Shift+Mouse4-Feign Death Drink Macro
• Shift+S-Stoneform/Shadowmeld(Depending on Hunter I'm using)
• V-Freeze Trap
• Shift+V-Frost Trap
• Shift+G-Snake Trap
• Shift+B-Deterrence for my 5's spec
• B-Healthstone
• Shift + W-Scorpid Sting

Macro's I Use:

Thanks to Copious for helping me out, he gave me the modifier that lets me mouseover target or if I want to shoot my focus target I can press shift and keybind and it will do it! Obviously you can change shift to something else if you prefer a different key. Note these are the macro's I use for my success in Arena, using keybinds and macro's that increase my efficiency is part of the reason why I do so well.

#showtooltip Scatter Shot
/cast [modifier:shift,target=focus][target=mouseover, harm][harm] Scatter Shot
(Keeps your target, you highlight the person you want Scatter Shotted with your mouse and press your keybind and it will Scatter that person, not the person you have targeted. If you don't have anyone highlighted it will attack the person you have targeted. This will cast Scatter Shot on your focus if you hold down shift while pressing your keybind if you want to hit your focus target.)

#showtooltip Silencing Shot
/cast [modifier:shift,target=focus][target=mouseover, harm][harm] Silencing Shot
(Keeps your target, you highlight the person you want Silenced with your mouse and press your keybind and it will Silence that person, not the person you have targeted. If you don't have anyone highlighted it will attack the person you have targeted. This will cast Silencing Shot on your focus if you hold down shift while pressing your keybind if you want to hit your focus target.)

#showtooltip Viper Sting
/cast [target=mouseover, harm][harm] Viper Sting(Rank 4)
(Keeps your target, you highlight the person you want Viper'd and press your keybind and it will Viper that person, not the person you have targeted. If you don't have anyone highlighted it will attack the person you have targeted.)

#showtooltip Viper Sting
/cast [modifier:shift,target=focus][target=mouseover, harm][harm] Viper Sting
(Keeps your target, you highlight the person you want Drained and press your keybind and it will Viper Sting that person, not the person you have targeted. If you don't have anyone highlighted it will attack the person you have targeted. This will cast Viper Sting on your focus if you hold down shift while pressing your keybind if you want to hit your focus target.)

#showtooltip Concussive Shot
/cast [modifier:shift,target=focus][target=mouseover, harm][harm] Concussive Shot
(Keeps your target, you highlight the person you want Slowed and press your keybind and it will slow that person, not the person you have targeted. If you don't have anyone highlighted it will attack the person you have targeted. This will cast Concussive Shot on your focus if you hold down shift while pressing your keybind if you want to hit your focus target.)

#showtooltip Wyvern Sting
/cast [modifier:shift,target=focus][target=mouseover, harm][harm] Wyvern Sting
(Keeps your target, you highlight the person you want CC'd and press your keybind and it will CC that person, not the person you have targeted. If you don't have anyone highlighted it will attack the person you have targeted. This will cast Wyvern Sting on your focus if you hold down shift while pressing your keybind if you want to hit your focus target.)

/petfollow [target=pettarget,exists]
/petattack [target=pettarget,noexists]
(Pet attacks your target if he does not have a target. Pet follows you if he is attacking something already. Thanks to Arenajunkies.com and the Hunter who donated this macro.)

#showtooltip Mend Pet
/castsequence reset=15 Mend Pet, null
(I'm leaving this up, but I do not use this because if you accidentally try to cast Mend Pet again before the 15 seconds is up it resets the timer and you still can't cast it so use at your own risk.)

Totem killing macro:
/petattack [target=Wrath of Air]
/petattack [target=Searing Totem]
/petattack [target=Grounding Totem]
/petattack [target=Windfury Totem]
/petattack [target=Tremor Totem]
/petattack [target=Poison Cleansing Totem]
This will send your pet back to the focus target after killing the totems. (Thanks Revchapman, nice tip.)

#showtooltip [nocombat, pet, target=pet, nodead, nomodifier] Feed Pet
/cast [nopet, modifier] Revive Pet; [target=pet, dead] Revive Pet; [nopet] Call Pet; [combat][modifier] Mend Pet
/stopmacro [combat]
/cast Feed Pet
/use Clefthoof Ribs
This macro feeds your pet when you're not in combat, heals it if you're in combat, resurects it if its dead, and calls it if its alive but not currently out. (Therst's Macro)

Weapon Switch Macro:
/equip (Your Mainhands Name)
/equip (Your Offhands Name)
/equip (Your 2-Hander's Name)
This macro will between your 1 handers and 2 hander.

This section will be donated to people who want to add their macro's to this list, you'll get credit for it:

/cast [target=focus] viper sting
/petattack [target=focus]
/castrandom [exists, target=pettarget] kill command
Ensures your pet stays on the drain target and also allows you to hit Kill Command manually on your focus - RevChapman

/petattack [target=Windfury Totem]
/petattack [target=Poison Cleansing Totem]
/target Windfury Totem
/target Poison Cleansing Totem
/cast Arcane Shot(Rank 1)
/targetlasttarget
This is my macro for taking out those annoying totems, uses up Arcane Shot CD but if you are about to kill someone you should be totem killing anyways. Also, because of the order of the /targets it will prioritize poison cleansing totem over Windfury. -HellaciousD

Strats

All the most popular combo's will be listed here. Some things listed here will work with other combo's, like I mention stuff you should do in Warlock/Shaman that will apply to Warlock/Druid, same with Rogue/Spriest in Rogue/Mage etc.