Bliz obsessed w/ Dark Ranger

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I noticed this expansion that Blizzard seems to be obsessed with the idea of Dark Ranger (they are super cool, who wouldn’t be?).

They keep spending time and development on creating a talent tree, then completely revamping that talent tree, now they seem to be revamping black arrow for the next patch, and it seems like they keep adding more and more so that hunters can create this weird sub spec into being a Dark Ranger, but not really being a Dark Ranger.

Blizzard, I have to say it, just rip off the band-aid and make the Dark Ranger spec, or better yet, make a Dark Ranger class already. Leave the hunter class alone.

We’d love to see another class using a bow/gun/crossbow, and you could have two DPS specs, one making you an undead Dark Ranger, one making you a void Dark Ranger.

We have Sylvanas and Alleria and various other NPCs to teach us how to become this new class.

Just do it, we know you want to.

Love, Acalian

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And give it to rogue.

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Can rogue get the same treatment, and get combat back in exchange for making Outlaw it’s own thing? It’s basically a pirate/buccaneer theme anyway, right? Pretty please.

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Your terms are acceptable. I’m happy to trade Outlaw away to get Combat back.

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Outlaw spec is the only reason I play a rogue. I hate the other options.

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I’m not really seeing anything foundational changing in 11.2 for dark ranger, just fiddling with the order of procs to make the rotation smoother. Certainly nothing that screams “this idea actually has three totally viable specs that are just dying to be spun off into their own class”.

Blizz gave all three of the hunter hero specs a revamp in 11.1 because frankly, they were all kind of bad. The other changes haven’t been unusual, all specs get tweaked over time. I think the only one “obsessed” with dark ranger is… you.

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An actual dark ranger class would be sick

Have it have a total focus on ranged weaponry
Bows, crossbows, guns, bombs, traps, no pets at all, and maybe a stealth element and quick movement. Specs might be something like one for single targets, one for aoe that is kinda like a support (suppressive fire, aoe slow/chain/trap)

Make hunter the class totally focused on having pets (to varying degrees per spec)

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I was really disappointed when they made this class a hero specialization for hunters. Just another idea thrown out by being made into a temporary design that will fade into nothing next dlc.

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You dont speak for all hunters

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Dark Ranger tree is getting a mini rework where some talents are being removed and replaced with other things

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I’m not so sure, really. The Dark Rangers have actually been a piece of lore Blizzard has held onto throughout the years. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the concept baked into the Hunter kit in some way, shape, or form next expansion.

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Could have just gone out and say you want it as a spec/class off the rip.

No need to try and project hero talent changes into whatever you’re after. Dark Ranger is just fine as a Hero talent.

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Give it to demon hunter, make all types of hunter unhappy at the same time.

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Dark ranger is actually really good on PTR, kill shot granting trick shot with bleak is exactly what it needed to be good in AOE.

Who would have known.

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Let’s tone down the micro aggressions a bit here folks, we’re all friends here :slight_smile: I just wanted to make the thread fun. We love this game and love talking about this game and I hope you’re having a wonderful Sunday afternoon!

I really like the concept of a dark ranger and if you enjoy seeing it in game in a way that differs from my way, that’s cool :slight_smile:

I LOVE pet specs, but I appreciate that a lot of people don’t, so I would make an undead dark ranger have pets and a void themed dark ranger have no pets.

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I haven’t looked over all the changes, but they never got the dark ranger look and fantasy quite right, as far as animation appearances go. Was disappointed on roll out.

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For instance never allowing us to summon skeletons. And they made it lag behind pack leader by far.

Nathanos was the one who trained Dark Rangers and they killed him off.

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Could be a bow themed spec for death knights.

Or give hunters free access to undeads.

Hm… Looking at the tree, i would have liked to have it for survival. And give survivla option to dual wield.

Think a worgen hunter, with a wolf companion, summoning crows and wolves on attack.

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Cause girl boss yo

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My hot take is that hero talents were a way to add new specs to the game in theory without having to actually dedicate the time needed to make new specs. Because they would only be able to do new specs for certain classes at a time, and people would get really mad at that and say it’s “unfair” and they were “left out”. And I can already see the complaints of “but DH only have 2 specs this isn’t fair!”.

I really wish this wasn’t the case, because I’d love to get new specs like Dark Ranger for Hunter like you said. They don’t need to be fully fleshed out new classes, just new specs.