so instead of actually trying to fix the class, they’re giving us a 5% dmg increase.
talk about lazy
that should bring us up from bottom 5 to wait still 5 since theyre buffing every class as well
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Are you thick in the head? This is how Blizzard does balance now and it’s miles better than it used to be. Small changes until things are in line, if 5% isn’t enough, they will follow up with more.
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Agree, they are doing a much better job this expac. Imo the 5% is welcomed, and I’m sure we can expect a deeper look at sooner rather than later.
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Imagine crying because a company put a 5% buff 3 days before a reset on a hotfix and said that they aren’t done yet. You guys want a 100% damage buff and god tier survivability traits.
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Yeah I’m good with small adjustments to damage. Much better than the wild swings in tuning we used to see.
I’m still hoping the MM talent tree is being looked at for 10.0.7. Pathing is just awful.
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this is always what they do with hunter. just some baseline flat damage buff. they never address the real problem.
bm single target is fine. it is lacking in aoe. they need to buff bm aoe.
mm aoe is fine. well it was until they removed double tap. it is still o.k. but something else should have been given or buffed to mitigate the removal of it. but with that they also need to buff mm single target.
we shouldnt need 2x elemental lariats with different stats and different gear sets to swap back and forth from bm to mm for fights like terros and council etc… it is insane.
survival. either revert back to ranged or just delete it already and put it out of its misery.
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Imagine being upset about a buff to the damage. We don’t need a huge rework right now, the way they’re doing things in Dragonflight are way better than previous expansions, small changes and finer tuning later on.
I read MM is getting a 15% buff in RF and AS, if that is true it will help a lot.
Copium everywhere…
Guys of course we need a rework.
Otherwise we will be forever hostages of “small buffs” .
Have you already forgotten DT removal and the placeholder we received in its place?
Stop satisfying yourselves with crumbs.
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Exactly this.
Number tweaking is the equivalent of being given a bucket when you ask for the leakage to be fixed.
Only difference here is that it’s a whole pipe flooding the entire house.
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“the way they’re doing things in Dragonflight are way better”
Let’s remember the MM’s chronology
1- MM had 10% dmg buff + hunter class had 15% ExS buff
2- MM had 3% dmg nerf
3- MM had DT removed without any explanation.
4- MM got a placeholder in DT place.
5- The placeholder had its position swapped with SF, trying to make us lose another 2 talent points.
6- Now we got 5% dmg buff and another 5% pet dmg, including MM. Maybe now we can forget Lone Wolf… Ohh it is mandatory to be able to get Hunters Knowledge. Nevermind.
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Literally no one in this thread is saying hunter design is fine. Even the title of this thread expresses dissatisfaction with the changes. Are you just rage posting to farm <3’s or something? 
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Nobody is (or rather should be) upset about a 5% buff.
The reason people are upset is that this class has many design problems and Blizzard isn’t solving any of them.
For example their stubborn stance on MM and trick shots on 2 targets.
It is literally the only spec in the game who can’t AoE on 2 targets.
They are so proud of chimera shot (which sucks) that for some reason they gimp the spec.
Or Lone wolf.
Or beast cleave lasting 6 seconds. Got buffed to 10 in SL via borrowed power and is back to 6 seconds.
Edit: and it was changed because it sucked at 6 seconds as far as I am aware.
So how are we back at 6 seconds.
It’s those things that feel unnecessary and literally wouldn’t break anything but make everybody enjoy their time in azeroth a little more.
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five more tuning passes and we’ll be at like +25% damage and like +15% to kc/wfb
we rise
not far, but we rise
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You know, that’s a fair take and I can see I was a bit wrong. Albeit, there has been worse, DF could do better. I also don’t play MM so I can’t compare to how it was vs is but that’s one wild ride. Hopefully a better revision soon.
the point I was making is that a flat 5% dmg buff means they arent dedicating any actual development to the class.
BM has so many issues, from aoe to survivability, pet issues, no burst nadda
all we keep hearing is you can do everything on the move so ya
the best part of it all is that BM and MM are the only specs in the game that are entirely dependent on one Item dropping from the last raid boss. with out the Raz bow you’re not even close to being competitive. Which other class has this massive bottleneck?
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Yeah. Switching back to my paladin until they rework. I reallly wanted this to be a hunter expansion but until that happens those ret changes are looking JUICY.
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There was a patch literally 10 days ago. Getting a hotfix this quick is very fast considering WoW’s history.
There is a 10.0.7 PTR going up soon. There will likely be substantive changes on it.
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My friends, just learn to love average and find inner peace.
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On the PVP side of things…
- Developers’ notes: With the removal of Double Tap, Marksmanship Hunter damage has been lower than we would like to see, so we are increasing several main rotation abilities while decreasing Unerring Vision, with the goal of higher sustained damage.
Whaaaaaat? What a truly unexpected turn of events. Removed the button that enables MM to burst and suddenly their damage isn’t up to par? What a weird but unrelated coincidence.
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