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Hunter Talent Updates

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Hunter (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Aspect of the Hawk The Hunter takes on the aspects of a hawk, increasing ranged attack power by 25% (was 15%). Only one Aspect can be active at a time. Instant. 1 sec cooldown.

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Aspect of the Iron Hawk The Hunter takes on the aspects of an iron hawk, increasing ranged attack power by 25% (was 15%), and reducing all damage taken by 15%. Only one Aspect can be active at a time. Replaces Aspect of the Hawk. Hunter - LvL 45 Talent. Instant. 1 sec cooldown.

Blink Strikes
Hunter - LvL 75 Talent
100 yd range
Your pet's Basic Attacks deal 50% increased damage, can now be used from 30 yards away, and will instantly teleport them behind their target.

Powershot
Hunter - LvL 90 Talent
15 Focus 40 yd range
2.2 sec cast 45 sec cooldown
Requires Ranged Weapon
You wind up a powerful shot, which deals 600% weapon damage to the target and 300% weapon damage to all enemies in between you and the target.
Enemies hit by Powershot are also knocked back.

Beast Mastery
Beast Cleave After you Multi-Shot, your pet's melee attacks also strike all other nearby enemy targets for 75% (was 30%) as much for the next 4 sec. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec.

Marksmanship
Bombardment Your critical hits with Multi-Shot cause your Multi-Shot to cost 20 less Focus and cause 60% (was 30%) additional damage for 5 sec. Hunter - Marksmanship Spec.

Blink Strike might just be my BM hunters' new favorite passive skill. :mrgreen:

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Beast Mastery
Beast Cleave After you Multi-Shot, your pet's melee attacks also strike all other nearby enemy targets for 75% (was 30%) as much for the next 4 sec. Hunter - Beast Mastery Spec.

Hell yes! Decent aoe, what the BM doctor ordered!!!

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Hells yeeeeeah

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Rawr wrote: Blink Strikes might just be my BM hunters' new favorite passive skill. :mrgreen:
Pretty much this.

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I like the Powershot and MM one :3
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Blink Strike is now a passive. Nice :)!
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Blink Strike I love you 'kay.

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Don't get me wrong, I like the new Blink Strike...

..but why would ANYONE choose Murder of Crows or Lynx Rush now?

Your pet innately does 50% more damage with it's basic attacks, can attack from range, and instantly teleports behind targets when it can?

Expect it to get nerfed.
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Myzou wrote:Don't get me wrong, I like the new Blink Strike...

..but why would ANYONE choose Murder of Crows or Lynx Rush now?
CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW

In seriousness, I agree; it seems unlikely that this will be going to live. Is there no internal cooldown?

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Kalliope wrote:
Myzou wrote:Don't get me wrong, I like the new Blink Strike...

..but why would ANYONE choose Murder of Crows or Lynx Rush now?
CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW

In seriousness, I agree; it seems unlikely that this will be going to live. Is there no internal cooldown?
Nope, it seems its a passive that's always running. :mrgreen:

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Kalliope wrote:
Myzou wrote:Don't get me wrong, I like the new Blink Strike...

..but why would ANYONE choose Murder of Crows or Lynx Rush now?
In seriousness, I agree; it seems unlikely that this will be going to live. Is there no internal cooldown?
Yeah I was looking at that and guessing it's "Kind of" balanced. The old one did an extra attack that was 600% normally damage, every 20 seconds. So if you remove the attack itself as this only works on its basic attacks, and work out how many of them it has enough focus to use over 20 seconds.... it "should" be 12 attacks at the 50% to equal the 600% of the old blink strike. Who knows, it may even be a dps loss to balance its passive nature.

Then there is the benefit and utility of making your pets basics ranged and throwing in a teleport for giggles. This new utility is almost enough to make most BM what the skill. I think we will just have to test it out and see how it goes.

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All I can say is if (and it's terribly unlikely) Blink Strike remains as it is, I want Murder of Crows passively on targets that have hunter's mark. :lol:

What? I've gotten used to my murder. <3

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So I hopped on the PTR and Blink Strike is functioning like it was before. I presume this will be in the next build then?
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Kalliope wrote:All I can say is if (and it's terribly unlikely) Blink Strike remains as it is, I want Murder of Crows passively on targets that have hunter's mark. :lol:

What? I've gotten used to my murder. <3
Me too... perhaps they'll make it like Glyph of Marked for Death, where Arcane Shot, Chimera Shot, Kill Command, and Explosive Shot automatically apply Hunter's Mark. The talent would change to have something automatically, or have a chance to, apply Murder of Crows.

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Agravaine wrote:
Kalliope wrote:All I can say is if (and it's terribly unlikely) Blink Strike remains as it is, I want Murder of Crows passively on targets that have hunter's mark. :lol:

What? I've gotten used to my murder. <3
Me too... perhaps they'll make it like Glyph of Marked for Death, where Arcane Shot, Chimera Shot, Kill Command, and Explosive Shot automatically apply Hunter's Mark. The talent would change to have something automatically, or have a chance to, apply Murder of Crows.
Didn't another patch note indicate that arcane shot won't be applying it anymore?

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and also, I would not want MOC in its current form to randomly apply, the cooldown and damage is to big for it to "accidently" proc on a small add/target, it could and would waste a lot of damage.

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Spiritbinder wrote:and also, I would not want MOC in its current form to randomly apply, the cooldown and damage is to big for it to "accidently" proc on a small add/target, it could and would waste a lot of damage.
It was a joke! :lol:

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Spiritbinder wrote:
Rawr wrote: Blink Strikes might just be my BM hunters' new favorite passive skill. :mrgreen:
Pretty much this.
its always been my favorite skill from the get go.
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I like this so much
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I don't understand.
Where does it say that Blink Strike is a passive ability?

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Sukurachi wrote:I don't understand.
Where does it say that Blink Strike is a passive ability?
http://ptr.wowdb.com/spells/130392-blin ... 6825-16837
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Name: Blink Strikes
School: Physical
Level:75
Global Cooldown: None
GCD Category: None
Class:Hunter
Flags :Passive
Increase Direct Damage Done Amount: +50%
Increase Range Value: +25 yds
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