Druids give windfury buff if you didn’t know, and if Blizzard came out and said warriors are scaling too well so they’re not allowed to get windfury anymore the meltdown would be predictable and terrible. SOD will become like this
SEASON OF DISCOVERY
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I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here.
All melee, including melee hunters (who are median 4th performing right now btw) benefits from windfury, not just warriors.
Are you trying to compare the removal of a core raid buff to the slight downscaling of your busted overpowered pets that can tank a boss better than player tanks, solo most players in pvp and do half of your pve dps?
well if expansions had you start at level 1 and max level has only a tiny part of your toolkit and everyone had barely any health and we have a long history of what this PVP is like at this level, and the expansion only lasted like a month. then I’d get that
I dont base what team is best by how their reserve grade side performs. I don’t base what formula 1 team has the best car off of the touring car championships.
You can’t argue that there isn’t other classes that have a higher potential than hunters do. So why nerf hunters? Because they’re easy to play? So then good players are punished?
The jump in the dps ceiling for warriors is already insane and this is when everyone is still using quest greens, so yeah if Blizzard decided to take the nerf hammer to warrior via for example not letting them get windfury buff anymore you’d understand their “logic” especially with the precedence warrior legacy has. But the point is it’s not like warriors would be like Oh ok that makes sense, they’d be pist. And hunter pets are doing half your dmg with literally every single resource going into buffing them your spec talents runes, that’s what made SOD hunter different compared to Era Hunter they can nerf the tankiness but letting them tank doesn’t seem like it should be a problem
why nerf hunters?
The developer notes cover it pretty well.
" Pets that cast spells such as scorpid poison or Lightning Breath were scaling too well and pets using physical abilities were scaling too little. We’ve now normalized the amount of attack power gained, to scale with the focus cost of individual pet abilities. This means that abilities with a higher focus cost, that are cast less often, will receive more benefit from attack power per attack than abilities with a lower focus cost that can generally be used more often. Overall this should level out the damage and reduce situations where some abilities were scaling too much or too little with hunter attack power."
Notice that this is actually saying that some will get nerfed but other abilities will get buffed, it’s a change, not a flat nerf.
Hunter pets were gaining far too much durability from hunter stats, to the point where some pets could get more than double the health and armor of a well-geared level 25 player. We still want dedicated hunters to have the ability to tank certain dungeon and raid encounters, but pets shouldn’t be so effective that they become the objectively correct choice.
I’ve personally witnessed this myself, a hunter pet was objectively performing as a better tank than both of our dedicated player tanks, this just should never happen.
To compensate for some of these changes, your aspects are getting a buff.
In addition, melee hunter is getting a further buff to balance out your specs.
they specifically said physical abilities, I would be incredibly shocked if this doesn’t turn into everyone using cats again I don’t really trust blizzards ability to make wind serpent and scorpid still good but we will see it’s not like I played it
they specifically said physical abilities
No, they said physical abilities were not scaling well, but the actual change is:
*This means that abilities with a higher focus cost, that are cast less often, will receive more benefit from attack power per attack than abilities with a lower focus cost that can generally be used more often.*
I don’t know all the hunter pet abilities, but this reads like claw (low focus cost) will not get a big scaling buff. Maybe some other pet with a high cost ability will become strong now?
This isn’t classic wow…this is a new vanilla+ experiment, why are you complaining? it’s a new game mode, you people expect perfect balance 2 weeks into a new game?
I don’t know if even blizzard knows what they are talking about there, the big dmg focus spender has always been Lightning Blast but they specifically said they want to nerf that and if they want to buff physical abilities they must have Bite/Claw in mind considering they’re like the only physical abilities 90% of pets can learn. Unless they had wolves in mind and Furious Howl just becomes completely jacked and we’ll be using wolves just like we’re doing now in WOTLK
they expect to be permanently broken, it’s all the classic no changes warrior andys
i guess we will just to wait and discover what will be good
i will eat my left foot if it isn’t cat. if they stealth buffed tallstriders I will praise blizzard forever
it’s insane going through the forums reading everything, legit people crying about balance, but didn’t the developers say at Blizzcon SOD will be a fun new experiment and things may not be balanced? And it’s supposed to spark new metas and ways of playing?
I don’t get it the complaints, I went into SOD blind, not expecting it to be “vanilla” lol.
No they are effectively fixing a broken rune.
One could argue that the rune giving your pet +30% health/damage in addition to your base talents and scaling on new raid gear is also broken 
Lol, a flat stat buff is broken? Yet warlocks can run around sucking life as a tank. Yeah right.
Hunters got the crappest runes in the game.
SoD is effectively no different to era for a Hunter, play wise.
that rune is badass, pet has never felt better
Yep, it sure is badass, it’s letting some pets perform as better tanks than equally geared level 25 player tanks.
totally doesn’t need to be adjusted at all!
How is that not badass, they should have let hunters be a fully fledged tank spec with their pet why not it’s SOD who cares