Cognizant:
The entire BM talent tree is a mess. I think the main reason people call BM a braindead spec (despite the fact that there are no hard to play classes in WoW) is because all of our best DPS talents are passive. That seems to go against Blizzard’s common design strategy of making active abilities stronger than passive. In my opinion, Dire Beast, Chimaera Shot, Murder of Crows and everything in the 45/50 tier need an overhaul to make the active abilities stronger.
It seems Blizzard doesn’t have time for Hunters though. The pseudo-promised changes that were coming in 9.1 never happened and instead we got weird +dmg buffs that resulted in Cobra Shot doing more damage than Kill Command in PvP. Don’t get me wrong, the buffs made the spec playable again, but it’s a lazy fix that doesn’t address the real issue
I agree with much of this.
There are ofc many ways to “fix” the spec, going forward. In regards to the main subject of this topic, that being the Animal Companion and what should be done with it, along with the spec as a whole really, my thoughts on this can be found in the link below:
I know this is a big overkill in terms of suggestions for a 0.5 patch(any mid-expansion patch really). But I though I’d take another look at what I would like to see from Beast Mastery in the future, based on it’s current design.
Some things, such as a lack of potential single-target burst, cleave, or burst AoE/AoE in general, have been mentioned by others in regards to the spec several times both recently and further back in time. Along with the “squishy” nature of Hunters. Hopefully, some of …
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