When we previously posted about today’s hotfixes, there was still one Hunter adjustment underway. It’s now finalized and has just gone live:
This will appear in the next hotfixes update, but has just now taken effect (~6:20 p.m. PST).
Great change!
tfw you give up trying to do your job and just remove hunter from the game, that’s cool!
Fantastic change
Fortunately wind serpents can learn bite and hunters won’t have to run out and tame another pet
Since you are nerfing the pets to hell and no other Hunter spec is viable, at least remove the Hunter deadzone!
Constant knee jerk reactions. What are you going to do tomorrow after everyone complains about CATS.???
Instead of reducing focus cost and damage or something yall just gonna make the rune only useful for 1 pet. Derp
Kinda peeved ngl. It was broken asf, but the fix is really lazy
what a lazy fix! lol so you’re forcing beast mastery hunters to only have certain pets??? wtf is this!
Hunters are now essentially identical to Era. 70%+ damage from auto attacks, no scaling, no new buttons because every rune that added one is a DPS loss. Epic, of course vindictive players cheer it because people don’t want balance, they just want people punished for being strong once.
Warriors 30% ahead on DPS and nerfs nowhere to be seen
they still chunk! as a bm hunter this is probably the best way it could have been handled for now
as a hunter I say fair change
nerf chimera shot mana so it is viable please
Season of Discovering the exciting new meta of having a cat pet while standing there using multi/serpent sting until oom.
Very fun, very engaging.
Man, there is a lot of gripes, bugs, and problems with this first Phase, but damn are you guys fast once you pick up on it.
Most likely these changes are being made early in preparation for buffs to actual hunter abilities rather than pets doing 70%+ of your damage passively,
Probably didn’t want more hunters to waste their time getting wind serpents
In retail BM hunter still uses pets at its core, pets do a ton of dam, but still some effort and abilities are all maintained by the hunter themselves
They haven’t made the change yet man.
I’m just happy to see devs working on the game and not only doing updates every phase. Keep it up blizz.
Also tone down penance, Signed by a priest.
No they are not, this was already addressed in the Community Council thread from a blue post. They cannot buff or change regular abilities in SoD, because the database is shared across Era, any changes in SoD affect Era. They can only tweak rune abilities.
Nonsense. Improve the other specs, they are complete crap. Remove the deadzone…there are many things that could have been done. It was lazy with zero thought!
Great change. Lets take a look at penance and avengers shield next