DH has been going downhill for years, because the class receives nothing new that is meaningful since its creation, or if it does, it gets removed
Demon proc where you killed a demon that spawned to heal up and get a dmg bonus was very fun, got removed because of PvE crybabies
Chaotic imprint promoted synergy with caster DPS, because it boosted their damage too - removed for no reason
Almost all Melee specs received new spells which make DH die much easier through Blur. Blur remains a 1 minute CD that is essentially not enough to counter big burst CDs from most classes anymore
Darkness is a defensive that doesnât really allow you to continue being aggresive since people can just easily move away from it
Netherwalk doesnât allow you to press anything except Incap and is not usable in stuns either
Passive magic damage reduction got gutted 5 times in a row. And while when it was like 22% it was WAY TOO MUCH, being 5% is way too little. It was the most balanced at 10%.
So all in all the only 2 things DH received in the last 4 years that matter were Eye Beam becoming uninterruptable and Glimpse.
Letâs look at what Mage received in the last 2 years:
All specs can DB
All specs can knockback you
Greater invisibility grants a 60% damage reduction wall
All specs can Ice Wall
All specs can Ice nova
theres probably more that I missed
Why do I say this? Because Havoc doesnât have another DPS spec to cannibalize spells from. It requires new ones.
Your damage being RNG was terrible and not fun lol.
Mirroring into another DH who gets 5 fodder procs to your 1, heâs not only out healing your team - heâs crapping on you in damage despite being rotationally the same to severely worse.
I maintain sinful brand was the superior way to play and they removed it before of PvE morons complaining about dot management.
No, Iâm pretty sure this was universally hated by a lot of people because it felt awful to die to not getting a proc or to lose to a DH because they just got good procs.
This was also removed because it was just a flat 10% damage increase and was ALSO complained about by DH mains because it felt âmandatoryâ because of how much damage it offered and limited other utility talents like big incap, reverse, blood moon, glimpse, and immo aura dispel.
Blur is still excellent and I donât think any DH is ever dying through it.
Sure, but itâs also an aoe team defensive so there are pros and cons. In general dark is annoying that itâs RNG, but overall has ways played the same.
Sure, but it also shouldnât be a bubble when you have blur on a short cd on top of glimpse and meta immunity frames AND darkness.
I actually think itâs finally in a fair spot. Dh shouldnât be inviable as a kill target vs wizards because of what they rolled at class selection.
DH IS weak right now, but it has nothing to do with the kit or survivability. It just needs damage.
If they got rid of EB and just made the hunt hit like a truck again, that would be a way better fix. Hunt is stoppable, has a long enough cooldown, and is an âiconicâ DH ability. And itâs not essence break which just sucks to play.
Maybe some buff management that like every blade dance final hit has a chance to increase your hunt damage by x%.
They need to remove some of the PvP specific nerfs from previous expansions. Un-nerf Essence Break completely, those nerfs are from a time when Essence Break + Death Sweep did half someoneâs HP, now with the massive HP pools they do 1/6th. Un-nerf our leech, thatâs one of our iconic abilities and our self-heal is trash right now compared to other classes. Buff our base abilities like chaos strike and blade dance so weâre less reliant on our hero talents, which are completely terrible.
Unless you cast it mid glimpse. Cause with the hunt your character flies at a target and never touches the floor, so cast the hunt right after glimpse and you charge at them with immunity.
I said fair spot in reference to the passive 5% dr being at a good value. Legit everything had your quotes to provide context, why are you trying to take context out of what I said?
Literally, in the same post, I said:
Nope! Not at all! Thatâs why Iâm advocating for buffs to DH because it needs them, but not in a way that makes them broken or oppressive.