Re: Hunter Talent Updates
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 10:33 pm
I intend to stick with huntering, but I really wish I had a better reason for changes than 'Sorry you cause problems in PVP, even though you don't PVP'
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I was talking with my boyfriend about this today and we came to a conclusion similar. Rogues suffer from this, too. It's something you have to think about when you have multiple talent trees for a pure dps class. They sure did a great job differentiating the warlock specs this expansion, and mages have their gimmicks; now if they would just make the flavors of MM SV and BM wholly different from each other I'd be happy. They need to stop with this constant flip flopping between "burst is your niche" and "NO BURST IS BAD MAKE THE BURST GO AWAY" back to "wait no, burst is your niche and you need it" because IT MAKES MY HEAD HURT.Nachtwulf wrote:Just... meh. Oh, sure, I imagine it'll put all the specs pretty much in line with each other, but they're complaining that the specs 'all feel the same' in one post and then homogenizing the hell out of them in the patches.
Mine is 80, and if I can get comfortable with him soloing stuff as well as I do with BM once he's 90 and geared... goodbye hunter. My goal is the have the lock ready and raid geared for patch 5.4 to have an equal choice between my spriest, hunter and the lock, and see which works the best going in. The trend for the hunter isn't looking good.Nachtwulf wrote:I suppose it's good my warlock's almost 90...
from Rants/raves/thoughts on 5.3Nachtwulf wrote:Apparently blue posts have said they're -removing it completely- and the 1% is a typo/datamining error.
so tell me why exotic beasts are a lv69 skill, again? Because it's about 100x as lame as any other spec's 69 skill (Titan's Grip anyone?) -aside- from the purely cosmetic factor of having a shiny pet.
This exactly. I cannot stand playing Gim in PvP atm, and this won't make it any better. I can't imagine coming back for PvP with this severe a nerf, when I can have much more fun on F2P MOBAs, like LoL.Nachtwulf wrote:Yeah, it's like... I have no idea what the hell they're thinking. The hunter changes, never mind being unpleasantly nerfy, just don't make any freakin' sense.
They admit that Silencing Shot feels too 'mandatory' soooooo, they remove Binding Shot and toss it apparently randomly at Marks, take Intim(?!) away from BM... a skill of fairly specialized use in the first place... and put it across from Silencing...which as far as I can tell is only going to make Silencing Shot MORE mandatory since the other two things in that tier are now totally no competition.
They remove the haste boost off Exotic Beasts... which relegates it pretty much to being 'hey my pets are fancier than yours' instead of actually, you know, contributing a real and potent value like every other Class/Spec's signature 69 skill. (In point of fact, while I know that Exotics have always been 'the end of the talent tree' and all, I STILL don't think it's ever actually measured up to most other signature 69 skills even at its full capacity. I think BM players should be able to tame Exotics at 10 as the de facto class ability... because really, a Lv15 chimera is -still- a lv15 pet, since all pets now have the same stats. How OP can it possibly be?)
They buff Blink Strike. (Okay, so maybe this one needed to happen to make it more appealing compared to Crows and LR)
They nerf.... bats. Because.... people use bats? I don't know. But bats get nerfed with the nerfbat. (see what I did there)
They give us five zillion stable slots. At this point I'm thinking this is supposed to be a distraction/cookie to keep us from focusing on being nerfed.
And while Noxxic is not perhaps the best source, it lists BM hunters (our best spec atm) as pretty much middle of the pack dps, and Surv AND Marks flat at the bottom. Even allowing for variance.... nerfing BM -out of the middle spot- to make it closer to the evidently rather poor performance of Surv/Marks instead of, you know, boosting the performance of the latter two (which moving Binding into one of them will NOT accomplish)... just... makes me go 'what'.
AoTH got a buff as well.Nachtwulf wrote:According to todays blueposts, they're saying 'hunters are getting buffed slightly' in 5.3...
honestly, I'm not seeing any buffs except POSSIBLY the blinkstrike buff, and that's only if you take that particular talent.
Am I missing something? As far as I can tell, it's nerfbat city.
Yeah, I'm slowly getting convinced they actually don't know what they're doing if they're calling hunter changes a buff.Nachtwulf wrote:According to todays blueposts, they're saying 'hunters are getting buffed slightly' in 5.3...
honestly, I'm not seeing any buffs except POSSIBLY the blinkstrike buff, and that's only if you take that particular talent.
Am I missing something? As far as I can tell, it's nerfbat city.
Remember they were talking about dps, not command&control for pvp, etc.Zhinru wrote:Yeah, I'm slowly getting convinced they actually don't know what they're doing if they're calling hunter changes a buff.Nachtwulf wrote:According to todays blueposts, they're saying 'hunters are getting buffed slightly' in 5.3...
honestly, I'm not seeing any buffs except POSSIBLY the blinkstrike buff, and that's only if you take that particular talent.
Am I missing something? As far as I can tell, it's nerfbat city.
The buff to Hawk aspect is huge, so yes Hunters are getting more than slightly buffed. They're gaining more than 5% dps in PvE even with all the other changes. The Blink Strike change makes it another 1% total dps better than Lynx Rush as well.Zhinru wrote:Yeah, I'm slowly getting convinced they actually don't know what they're doing if they're calling hunter changes a buff.Nachtwulf wrote:According to todays blueposts, they're saying 'hunters are getting buffed slightly' in 5.3...
honestly, I'm not seeing any buffs except POSSIBLY the blinkstrike buff, and that's only if you take that particular talent.
Am I missing something? As far as I can tell, it's nerfbat city.
What I've seen said just "hunters are getting buffed". You can't say a class is getting buffed when you give significant nerfs at the same time to another aspect of it. PvP? I used a lot of CC while questing and soloing and with AoE now insta-killing pets and the CC nerfs, hunter soloing gets really pointless.Slickrock wrote:Remember they were talking about dps, not command&control for pvp, etc.
The AoTH change is a clear buff, and Blink Strikes could be.
So both are true, the did buff dps, and they are appear to not have any sort of plan except to repsond to PVP QQ by whack-a-bat.
No argument there. CC (and general utility) is certainly getting nerfed, particuarlly for BM.Zhinru wrote:What I've seen said just "hunters are getting buffed". You can't say a class is getting buffed when you give significant nerfs at the same time to another aspect of it. PvP? I used a lot of CC while questing and soloing and with AoE now insta-killing pets and the CC nerfs, hunter soloing gets really pointless.Slickrock wrote:Remember they were talking about dps, not command&control for pvp, etc.
The AoTH change is a clear buff, and Blink Strikes could be.
So both are true, the did buff dps, and they are appear to not have any sort of plan except to repsond to PVP QQ by whack-a-bat.
That matches up with what I'm seeing. The nice thing about both the buffs is they are passive buffs, which means better uptime and a free GCD, making the rotation a bit easier.Danielfboone wrote:The buff to Hawk aspect is huge, so yes Hunters are getting more than slightly buffed. They're gaining more than 5% dps in PvE even with all the other changes. The Blink Strike change makes it another 1% total dps better than Lynx Rush as well.Zhinru wrote:Yeah, I'm slowly getting convinced they actually don't know what they're doing if they're calling hunter changes a buff.Nachtwulf wrote:According to todays blueposts, they're saying 'hunters are getting buffed slightly' in 5.3...
honestly, I'm not seeing any buffs except POSSIBLY the blinkstrike buff, and that's only if you take that particular talent.
Am I missing something? As far as I can tell, it's nerfbat city.
In my gear and with full raid buffs , femaledwarf shows 95692 dps on Live.
With the Ptr changes in effect and still with LR I get 102329 dps. Almost a 7% increase
With Blink Strike instead of Lynx Rush it shows as 104194. Another increase of 1.8%
This is in the BM spec using a Spirit Beast specced ferocity. The increase comes out to 8.7%. I'd call that a significant buff. The only nerfs are to CC in PvP and since I don't do that, I don't care
Exotic Beasts once again lists a cooldown reduction of Pet Special Abilities by 30%, up from 0%.