Beta Marksman Changes!

[Xaedys-thrall (Xaedys)]

@Tondrill-area-52

A bit more movement would be nice … like the mage’s icefloes talent , where you have 3 charges that let’s you cast any 2 second spell while moving , i mean being sittign ducks in pvp and loosing dps because you have to move constantly and can’t use your big shots sucks.

The fact that ~80% of our rotation can be used on the move isn’t enough? Outside of Trueshot, we’re rooted for 2.5s out of 12, both of them scaling down with haste. That’s 20.83% of the time.

Now, I’ll grant you that MM has issues in PvP, but people make a much bigger deal about our mobility than it deserves. We’re already the 2nd best ranged spec in the game at dealing damage in high-movement situations.

@Painlyss-altar-of-storms

You left out the current option: You cast a normal SS for crap damage because you have no other choice. Why not, on the occasion that you HAVE to cast SS (which will be much more often in SL), you can enjoy better than negligible damage?

Because I’d rather save that charge and use it on Arcane Shot, where it will provide more damage. Why on earth would I want to waste that buff on an ability that barely half the damage of Arcane Shot.

@Painlyss-altar-of-storms

Honestly, I’d like SS to be affected by Trick Shots, and Precise Shots to always generate 2 charges so that damage slider isn’t being balance around a huge chunk of RNG.

You honestly think the RNG of gaining 1-2 charges of Precise Shots is a “huge chunk of RNG”? Seriously? MM has some of the least sensitivity to RNG out there right now.

@Gladewolf-medivh

Firstly, I’m not in the beta, that’s why I’m asking all of these questions. I’m trying to understand what is happening to the ONLY hunter spec i have left. As for Chimaera I am also seeing that it was “bug fixed” so that it’s single target power is NOT better than Arcane…true or false?

What “bug fix”. It is currently bugged. The tooltip AP coefficient is 32% higher than Arcane Shot. The issue is that CS isn’t benefiting from all of the passives and buffs and such that Arcane Shot does, but devs have made it clear that it is supposed to. It will be a single target DPS increase, by increasing the damage of what would otherwise be Arcane Shot by 32%, whilst also providing solid passive 2-target cleave.

@Gladewolf-medivh

I get that this is in no way final, but we have all seen any number of scenarios where poorly designed specs simply went live.

Right, and that was my point. Don’t focus on the numbers right now. Number tuning is the very last stage of the beta. Right now they are working on mechanics. Focus on those.

@Painlyss-altar-of-storms

I think true and false. It was applying both portions to a single target, rather than just one.

Ah, ok, might have been that bug fix.

Yes, the prior incarnation of Chimaera Shot was hitting the primary target with both shots (and thus dealing double intended damage) if there was no secondary target present.

That bug has been fixed, and I still see it as being clearly unintentional. The tooltip suggests the opposite, that the second shot only hits a secondary target. The BM version in BfA did not work that way, nor did the version MM had since they added the 2-arrow cleave version in WoD.

However, since it no longer has a 15s CD, and since it is intended to benefit from all of the passives (ex. True Aim) and buffs (ex. Precise Shots) that Arcane Shot does, the new incarnation is actually substantially better.