Hunter Changes in 5.4
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Hunter Changes in 5.4
Hunter (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Arcane Shot An instant shot that causes 100% weapon damage plus 2,306 150% weapon damage plus 3,459 as Arcane damage. Requires Ranged Weapon. 20 Focus. 40 yd range. 30 Focus. 40 yd range.
Talents
Aspect of the Iron Hawk The Hunter takes on the aspects of an iron hawk, increasing ranged attack power by 25%, and reducing all damage taken by 15% 10%. Only one Aspect can be active at a time. Replaces Aspect of the Hawk. Hunter - LvL 45 Talent. Instant. 1 sec cooldown.
Binding Shot You fire a magical projectile, tethering the enemy and any other enemies within 5 yards of the landing arrow for 10 sec. If targets move 5 yards from the arrow they are stunned for 5 sec (3 sec PvP) and will be immune to the effects of Binding Shot for 10 sec. Requires Ranged Weapon. Hunter - Marksmanship Spec LvL 30 Talent. 30 yd range. Instant. 45 sec cooldown.
Spirit Bond While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 2% 3% of total health every 2 sec. Hunter - LvL 45 Talent.
Beast Mastery
Exotic Beasts You master the art of beast training, teaching you the ability to tame Exotic pets and reducing the cooldown of your Pet Special Abilities by 0%. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec.
Marksmanship
Silencing Shot A shot that silences the target and interrupts spellcasting for 3 sec. Requires Ranged Weapon. Hunter - LvL 30 Talent Marksmanship Spec. 40 yd range. Instant. 24 sec cooldown.
Major Glyphs
Glyph of Mend Pet Gives your Mend Pet ability a 50% 100% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic or Poison effect from your pet each tick. Major Glyph.
Glyph of No Escape Increases the ranged critical strike chance of all of your attacks on targets affected by your Freezing Trap by 20%. Major Glyph. 100%. Major Glyph.
I'm very unhappy about Silencing Shot...:<
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Re: Hunter Changes on wednesday
Wow. So Binding Shot is going back on the talent tree, replacing Silencing Shot, which will once again be MM only? I'm not sure Blizzard knows what to do with us at this point.MaximumOverdrive wrote:Notes from MMO Champ: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/327 ... uild-17056
Hunter (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Arcane Shot An instant shot that causes 100% weapon damage plus 2,306 150% weapon damage plus 3,459 as Arcane damage. Requires Ranged Weapon. 20 Focus. 40 yd range. 30 Focus. 40 yd range.
Talents
Aspect of the Iron Hawk The Hunter takes on the aspects of an iron hawk, increasing ranged attack power by 25%, and reducing all damage taken by 15% 10%. Only one Aspect can be active at a time. Replaces Aspect of the Hawk. Hunter - LvL 45 Talent. Instant. 1 sec cooldown.
Binding Shot You fire a magical projectile, tethering the enemy and any other enemies within 5 yards of the landing arrow for 10 sec. If targets move 5 yards from the arrow they are stunned for 5 sec (3 sec PvP) and will be immune to the effects of Binding Shot for 10 sec. Requires Ranged Weapon. Hunter - Marksmanship Spec LvL 30 Talent. 30 yd range. Instant. 45 sec cooldown.
Spirit Bond While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 2% 3% of total health every 2 sec. Hunter - LvL 45 Talent.
Beast Mastery
Exotic Beasts You master the art of beast training, teaching you the ability to tame Exotic pets and reducing the cooldown of your Pet Special Abilities by 0%. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec.
Marksmanship
Silencing Shot A shot that silences the target and interrupts spellcasting for 3 sec. Requires Ranged Weapon. Hunter - LvL 30 Talent Marksmanship Spec. 40 yd range. Instant. 24 sec cooldown.
Major Glyphs
Glyph of Mend Pet Gives your Mend Pet ability a 50% 100% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic or Poison effect from your pet each tick. Major Glyph.
Glyph of No Escape Increases the ranged critical strike chance of all of your attacks on targets affected by your Freezing Trap by 20%. Major Glyph. 100%. Major Glyph.
I'm very unhappy about Silencing Shot...:<
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That is even FURTHER backwards.
Silencing Shot is seriously key for hunters. Sigh.
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I too am dispapointed, just... erk.Kalliope wrote:What....
That is even FURTHER backwards.
Silencing Shot is seriously key for hunters. Sigh.
I had a scout through other classes to see it they were pulling moving around others CC to try and balance/remove some from the game (as they have been saying there is too much CC these days)... but sadly I failed to see anyone else's CC be effected like this.
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We're the only pure dps class that doesn't have its silence baseline as I recall. Sigh.SpiritBinder wrote:I too am dispapointed, just... erk.Kalliope wrote:What....
That is even FURTHER backwards.
Silencing Shot is seriously key for hunters. Sigh.
I had a scout through other classes to see it they were pulling moving around others CC to try and balance/remove some from the game (as they have been saying there is too much CC these days)... but sadly I failed to see anyone else's CC be effected like this.
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Sigh. Just.... sigh. It was bad enough fighting mobs like the panda rares to start with; now it will be impossible since Marks can't pull the power to drop one and no one else has an interrupt (unless you bring an interrupt pet and I'm not totally sure they aren't immune to such things). Also if you Intim a panda rare (instead of silencing) they just immediately recast their heal instead of being halted for one cycle, so it basically doesn't help.
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blizzerd water u doin' ?
No really, I find every other class I play loads more fun than my hunter - the only redeeming aspect of my hunter is the ability to tame pets. Maybe I'm being a bit dramatic but I've just found playing my hunter to feel very sloppy lately. I really do hope for some changes to come that make playing the game more fun and interesting but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe some neat changes to survival? Or all the specs, for that matter. It doesn't have to be a buff to make me happy haha, but I know I don't speak for everyone.
I mean I saw what some hunters were able to pull off in arena with Hunter/Disc/melee and it was really a bit out of hand. I agree that in some cases, I think, changes should reflect the differences in PvE and PvP. While I understand that they don't balance anything around solo-ing things, I do wish they would keep solo-ing and Brawler's Guild in mind when they balance. Just... keep it in mind. IDK that may be too much to ask for.
I think I'm making my Boomkin or Monk my main now. It's not even about how much damage I do - it's about how fun it is the play the class. So on the bright side, while I don't get a lot of damage out from my Boomkin (she's not geared so well yet) it is a very fun spec to play (for me at least). As for my hunter, I have fun hunting and taming pets but that's just not a huge aspect of the game to me. Maybe I'll find a way to start having fun on my hunter again.
Er... am I making sense?
EDIT: on the bright side - it looks like they are adding new pet icons like Wain asked so that's good
IDK I'm not gonna give up hope on hunters just yet.
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Re: Hunter Changes on wednesday
Stampede nerf then this because of PvP... sucks for those of us who only PvE.
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"We're the only pure dps class that doesn't have its silence baseline as I recall. Sigh."
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Sigh...
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Problem with the pets is with the nerf to cooldowns, you have once chance in 2 minutes to get it right, otherwise you are dead.SpiritBinder wrote:I guess we could use a interupt pet for rares and such, but still I'm echoing what Kalli said earlier.
"We're the only pure dps class that doesn't have its silence baseline as I recall. Sigh."
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Slickrock wrote: Problem with the pets is with the nerf to cooldowns, you have once chance in 2 minutes to get it right, otherwise you are dead.
I believe the Gorillas "Pummel" ability is still on a 30 second cool down, which is not quite as good as the 24 seconds that silencing has, but it's better than dead I guess.
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Not sure why people are acting like it's so foreign. You haven't even had it more than a year as BM/SV. o_O
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Prior we didn't have solo content that required it. And everyone was Marks anyway.Myzou wrote:Silencing Shot was MM only prior to Mists.
Not sure why people are acting like it's so foreign. You haven't even had it more than a year as BM/SV. o_O
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The truth of it is that the removal of Silencing Shot is actually just to do with PVP, Blizzard does add any weight about whether it effects your ability to solo Pandarian rares or not, it's not even a blip on their radar.Slickrock wrote:Prior we didn't have solo content that required it. And everyone was Marks anyway.
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