Alpha Marksman Hunter Aimed Shot Cast Time Too Long

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Currently in Alpha, they have removed the talents which provide Streamline for MM hunters. Streamline’s purpose is to reduce the cast time of Aimed Shot. That leaves the spell taking 3 seconds to cast. The design philosophy around this is that Aimed Shot is meant to be a “long cast worth the wait”

Aimed Shot is a rotational ability. It has 2 charges and takes 12 seconds to recharge. That maths out to spending 6 out of every 12 seconds casting Aimed Shot.

I find this sort of gameplay to be VERY unfun to conceive. I am not on Alpha to test it, but I feel like I don’t need to test it to know that spending 3 seconds casting any spell feels like forever. Never mind one that you are casting so regularly.

PLEASE do not keep this cast time on Aimed Shot. I have said in other threads that no amount of damage can compensate for gameplay that is not fun.

I disagree with the concept of “long cast worth the wait”.

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Blizz devs have clearly never played CoD. Kids these days can aim with no scope while jumping in under a second and still get me in the head from 100 yards away. :rage:

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You think they would give Aimed Shot the evoker treatment, make it like their hold cast abilities. The longer you choose to hold it down the more powerful the hit, 1 to 5 bars.

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A ranged character having to stand still sometimes to use their abilities?! That’s unheard of!

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This… this is absolutely brilliant and I can’t fathom the fact that they haven’t thought of this for any long cast spells.

I love this! You win the internets today!

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OP wasn’t complaining about standing still. They’re issue is that it’s a 3 second cast time.

Do you cast Pyroblast when it doesn’t proc? Or do you save it for when it doesn’t take over 3 seconds to cast?

Let’s cut the snark.

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Well, Warlock Chaos Bolts are in the same boat. Long, hard cast, consume a resource.

But haste helps a lot, Hero is wonderful, and when all sorts of stars align: fast casting, fast shard regen, etc., it’s a gatling gun.

But, yea, CB makes Warlocks turrets.

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I’m assuming that Trueshot still speeds up Aimed Shot casts. Maybe they’ll let us drop it down to a minute CD, if they insist on taking Streamline I mean. Or they could just lower the cast time a bit, ofc.

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I hope trueshot lowers cast time of AS liked it used to before the last rework. Its already slow enough.

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Going back to the days where “bro, aimed shot is for pulling only, noob”

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Perhaps moving this the the alpha forum would get the proper attention.

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are you telling me currently in alpha there are zero ways to speed up that 3 second cast time??? zero???

do the devs play their own game? three seconds is a horrendously long time in this game. thank BEEP that my hunter is surv because i could not handle that…

also since AS is already just a long STANDING THERE POSING FOR WHATEVER REASON ability, might as well make it look cool. take a knee, aim that shot, maybe some cool wispy trails converging into the tip of the arrow…?

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Warrior shouts should be like this too. But make it also more annoying the longer you shout.