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Arcane Shot weapon damage reduced by 32% and additional damage reduced by 52%.
Glaive Toss base damage doubled, but the primary target will take 4 times as much damage from each strike, down from 8 times. AP scaling was doubled to 20%.
Serpent Sting damage was reduced by 20%.
Steady Shot damage was reduced by 29% and additional damage was reduced by 75%.


Talents

Barrage now has a 30 yd range, down from 40. Weapon damage to secondary target doubled.
Blink Strike damage bonus upon blinking tripled.
Glaive Toss now costs 15 Focus, down from 20. Damage bonus was halved.
Lynx Rush damage doubled.
Powershot damage to secondary targets doubled and Focus cost halved.
Thrill of the Hunt now has a 30% proc chance, down from 20%.


Beast Mastery

Beast Cleave now strikes all other nearby enemy targets for 30%, up from 25%.
Focus Fire now grants 6% haste per stack, up from 5%.
Kill Command damage and scaling reduced by 30%.


Beast Mastery & Survival

Cobra Shot weapon damage reduced by 30%.


Marksmanship

Aimed Shot weapon damage reduced by 30% and additional damage reduced by 51%.
Chimera Shot weapon damage reduced by 30% and additional damage reduced to 2,617.
Mastery: Wild Quiver weapon damage reduced by 15%.


Survival

Black Arrow damage and AP scaling reduced by 20%.
Explosive Shot damage reduced by 20%.


Pets

Bite Bite the enemy, causing (1.8 * (208 + 21% of RAP))) damage. 1.5 * (142 + 16.8% of RAP)) damage.
Claw Claw the enemy, causing (1.8 * (185.5 + 21% of RAP))) damage. 1.5 * (142 + 16.8% of RAP)) damage.
Smack Smack the enemy, causing (1.8 * (218 + 21% of RAP))) damage. 1.5 * (142 + 16.8% of RAP)) damage.

Ghostcrawler wrote:We just did a pass on Hunter pet abilities, and took any that are expected to be kept up the whole time off the GCD. Also, if any had durations equal to their cooldown, we either reduced the cooldown or increased the duration, so that there’s some slush room for overlapping.

Ghostcrawler wrote:We have made several adjustments based on player feedback, raid testing, and fixing some bugs. Some of the changes were made to keep secondary stats scaling appropriately and some were when specs were doing too much damage. Here's a quick cheat sheet for where we are. Even "tuned" does not mean set in stone and ready for ship.

Priest -- Shadow roughly tuned.
Warlock -- roughly tuned except for Sacrifice.
Mage -- roughly tuned except Arcane and Invocation.
Druid -- Feral and Balance tuned except for Dream of Cenarius.
Paladin -- Ret roughly tuned.
Rogue -- tuned (but we'll look at Assassination numbers posted above).
Shaman -- tuned.
Hunter -- tuned.

We are working on monk, warrior and DK next.

Taeliana wrote:I am concerned about Survival...I have always loved the spec (shooting explosives and whatnot) and was very happy raiding as SV all this expac. Now it seems like it will be at the bottom of the hunter pile. I imagine we're going to be running as primarily BM/MM. I have very limited experience with BM (I only use it for screwing around while leveling and taming the fancy pets) and haven't liked MM at all since they put in the double steady shot mechanic when the class swapped to focus as a resource.

Equeon wrote:So, I guess it depends on what kind of person you are: but if you're anything like me and tend to stick to one spec, don't let preliminary beta patches change you.

Taeliana wrote:Even though these adjustments make it look as though hunters were gutted, we were performing far and away above the next best classes in most raid parses. I'm talking like, 30k dps above the number two spot. And, as I've said before, I'd rather ride the nerf/buff coaster while we're still in beta, rather than have to choke down changes on live

Ghostcrawler wrote:We have made several adjustments based on player feedback, raid testing, and fixing some bugs. Some of the changes were made to keep secondary stats scaling appropriately and some were when specs were doing too much damage. Here's a quick cheat sheet for where we are. Even "tuned" does not mean set in stone and ready for ship.

Slickrock wrote:That is an exaggeration that was perpetuated on the forums, on ONE FIGHT we were that much higher, otherwise we were the top spot, but not that high.

I know it may come as a shock, but this forum is not our sole conduit though which to monitor player feedback. The twin strategies of "shh, don't admit we're overpowered" and "shh, don't let them know we're happy" are about as transparent as you would imagine. I would suggest leaving the psychological warfare at home and just be honest about how you feel (and as I said above, backing it up with evidence of some kind is vastly more helpful to us).

Slickrock wrote:Now go ahead and say how bad I am and I complain too much and all that, I'll not comment or argue further.

Your so bad Slick!!! You complain to much!!! (did I do it right?)
But honestly, thanks for the update.

Slickrock wrote: I wouldn't call less that 2 months to launch preliminary...

Spiritbinder wrote:

Slickrock wrote:Now go ahead and say how bad I am and I complain too much and all that, I'll not comment or argue further.

Your so bad Slick!!! You complain to much!!! (did I do it right?)
But honestly, thanks for the update.

Slickrock wrote: I wouldn't call less that 2 months to launch preliminary...

That's true, but then if we look at the swings and changes we have gone through over the last month or two... who knows where we will end up in the next few..

Makoes wrote:One thing that really confuses me about all these changes and fluctuations is how these newest numbers compare to what is on live now.
Ie) Spell "A" gets buffed by 260%, nerfed by 90%, buffed by 20%, nerfed by 40% = 150% buff

Sickhuntz56 wrote:Personally VERY VERY excited for Triple Blink Strike dmg (:
And glaive toss buff!
And Lynx rush buff!