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The BM two beast thing is a neat idea too. Not sure how practical in terms of balance, though, but thematically it would look cool.
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Junrei wrote:Personally, no offense to anyone, the responses going "I'd quit the game if this happened!" is a bit overdramatic for my tastes. I get you wouldn't want it but I think that should be voiced without the dramatics.That'd be like me saying I'd quit the game if Mistwalker Monks no longer used yu-lon to heal but Chi-ji instead.
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This is a point I had never considered. Deth can be tamed as other specs since its a normal spider though. However Spirit Beasts require BM and nobody going toe to toe with Degu.Slapperfish wrote:If they made BM a melee class, we would have one hell of a time trying to tame Deth'tilac and the three Spirit Porcupines.
Deth wouldn't be an issue due to him being able to be tamed in other specs.Slapperfish wrote:If they made BM a melee class, we would have one hell of a time trying to tame Deth'tilac and the three Spirit Porcupines.
As a Hunter of any spec, why would you want an ability that only works in melee range? I could see putting it on the pet but not the Hunter himself except maybe for PvP when you get jumped by a melee class. Even then, you're usually stun locked and can't do anything anyway.Funk wrote:Okay. So this isn't a suggestion really, just me trying to have fun and think of an ability that could be somewhat realistic.
I have an idea for a Survival ability. I couldn't think of BM or MM counterparts since I don't play those specs so much, but this ability is conceived with the idea that BM and MM would have some juicy abilities to use also.
Right now I'm just calling it "BEES" because I'm bad at naming stuff.
So this goes in line with SV being about animal venom, sorta. Keep in mind it's not meant to be biologically accurate, just a vague reference to nature.
BEES would be a ranged ability which coats a friendly target (ie. player or pet.. or even the hunter himself/herself) in the pheromones of a Hive Queen, summoning a swarm of bees for 10 seconds that sting up to 10 enemies in melee range of the target, infecting them with some kind of instant damage and nature-type DoT that I also can't think of a name for.
Mechanics-wise and graphics-wise I was thinking it would be similar to unholy blight (a DK talent), except for another part which I will explain now.
I was also thinking the DoT could stack so that the damage is comparable one enemy as it is for ten enemies. So if you used the ability on a tank with only one enemy in melee range the bees would sting the enemy once every second for 10 seconds, applying ten stacks of the dot. This part I'm kinda iffy about cause it almost seems like it would make the ability too good, but then again it doesn't need to to heaps of damage. One enemy wouldn't get stung more than once every second, so the ten "charges" (ie. stings) would get used up instantly if 10+ enemy were in melee range of the friendly target, but would not be used up instantly if less than 10 enemies were present. This would actually make it best on 1 target since each sting would refresh the duration of the dot, but because I wasn't thinking of it doing heaps of damage I'd imagine using it as an AoE ability shouldn't be a terrible idea if you needed AoE. IDK just an idea.
I was also thinking there could be a minor glyph that adds another component to the ability which increases threat generation for tank-specced players and pets (ie. tenacity pets) for the duration of the swarm (10 seconds) to add some utility to the ability and make it aight for solo-ing stuff.
Also I have no idea what kind of duration the DoT would have (I figured it wouldn't last very long) or how much damage it would do or how long the cooldown would be, I just want BEES.
Also, I pictured this as SV rather than BM because they aren't true beasts (in the sense that they are target-able mobs) along with the fact that we aren't really summoning them ourselves but rather, manipulating them into attacking our enemies.
Actually since I'm not a raider I'd be interested to hear thoughts from a raiding PoV.
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