there are some core issues such as not letting pets completely replace a player role that even SOD shouldn’t do.
there are many, many tank mechanics which require some kind of player interaction, especially around movement.
It’s important to note that you will still be able to tank with your pet, that is not being removed. an adjustment does not equal destruction.
It just wont be literally a better tank than an equally geared warrior / bear / shaman anymore.
Put eyes of the beast as an instant cast if you need to move the pet around, and it would require a lot of micromanaging from the hunter anyways or as much as a regular tank. I bet it could have worked lol and I don’t really trust blizzard to not make pets feels very squishy after the nerf my pet was already being squashed when I taunted but maybe people were MTing with a turtle pet or something
Wait soD should provide the classic experience? Since when was that in the scope of SoD
it was… now with very good gear on my troll hunter, I have more hps and armor than my “the rake level 25” pet… wtf and why cant they fix the need to heal and feed your pet everytime you take a flight path? so frustrating
Explosive shot was one-shotting and it got pulled back. Other adjustments were made because, even after that initial fix, hunters were still too strong when compared to other classes.
But it’s classic hunter mantra to cry about such adjustments because every hunter ever thinks they should be light years ahead of all other classes in damage.
Completely changed into a almost worthless AoE.
There was bugged interaction with 1 pet, and slight over-tuning of another. These warranted attention. But Hunter builds were gutted and the only viable build was pet build.
Hunter has never been light years ahead of every other class in classic. It’s classic mantra to cry about hunters and ask for nerfs or deny them items.
Except in the case of explosive shot, chimera shot and their first attempt at fixing hunters pets.
It’s a new game. Roll with the punches and adapt.
That’s a weird way to say “made it like AoE for other classes”. But didn’t you also say:
Show me SoD Hunters 1 shotting a mob
Sounds like necessary adjustments to me.
How were they gutted?
Yes, it has. Every other class knows this except hunters. Unless, of course, you don’t know how to play your hunter, but that’s just a skill issue.
No one here has done that, but hunters certainly have been vocal regarding being brought down to the level of the plebs.
Don’t need to reroll on era…we have it right here.
You have a clear lack of understanding of classic in general, Hunters were middle of the pack dps. Only dangerous at max range in pvp.
Hunters have copped nerfs to explosive shot, no one runs this anymore and it shares a cooldown with aimed shot. Chimera got nerfed when it was already fairly crap and uses serpent sting as it’s damage boost which doesn’t even scale with AP.
Th only reason why Hunters were 3rd in damage in BFD was their pets doing 70% or more of their damage, that has now been gutted and now their survivability is so low pets won’t survive raid fights.
Hunters are now pigeon-holed into picking q pet that uses bite or claw. Apart from hunters being naturally strong in this bracket they are now just like era going forward. Able to do good damage on a cloth target but otherwise weak.