Even though Hunter is the squishiest, defensive lacking class in this insane PvP damage meta…nothing at all, all you do is take away double tap from MM.
I usually am pretty hopeful about things when it comes to balance but this has really just shaking my head in disappointment in the disconnect from the balance team and Hunter representation.
You buff the classes that didn’t need buffs, AOE Shiv to Sin rogue, Spriest FULL damage buffs across the board, Feral DAMAGE buffs across the board. But Hunter sees ZERO changes.
That wasn’t datamined, that was literally posted by a developer for the 10.0.5 changes. It is still on the PTR and incoming btw. Double tap is getting removed.
DT is absolutely getting removed. What makes people post with such confidence when they are so completely wrong? I could see you saying, “I think” or “as far as I know” … but coming in hot with the wrong info. Damn.
I tried really hard to stay positive despite everything, but it looks like they’re just buffing everyone that is worse than any spec of Hunter at anything.
BM single target is currently good. Not the best, but good. Now a dozen specs under BM is getting their single target buffed.
MM AoE is currently good. Not the best, but good. Now a bunch of specs under MM is getting their AoE buffed.
SV is still the black sheep of the game and not even a mention of changes.
There is a little voice in my head that keeps telling me they have bigger changes for Hunters that will require it’s own massive post, but 10.0.5 is weeks away and still not even a whisper, other than hamstringing MM in PvP.
I doubt HUGE changes and talent reworks will happen in the .5 and .7 patches. So I wouldn’t hold my breath. BM’s burst needs to be addressed in talent reworks though, whenever they do occur. If not, then they just need to come out and own the fact that they want some specs doing m+, some specs doing only ST, etc.
I mean the Druid changes show they aren’t opposed to it. A couple other classes got some of their 2pt talents reduced as well. A lot of the issues Hunter trees are experiencing are things that are being addressed for other specs.
I do feel bad seeing no changes for hunters. While MM is doing pretty well, the possibility of DT being on the chopping block it is scary. I don’t play enough BM to have an opinion on the subject, so I’ll skip it. My biggest concern is Survival; is once again the least played spec in the game, outside PVP it doesn’t do very well, unless you are a GOD gamer. I’ll be honest I don’t want to go through another Shadowlands, where for a patch Surv was really good and the forgotten. The developers keep ignoring the community’s cry for help and they no addressing these is just sad.
So, hear me out though. No DK changes, no Disc Priest changes, no Hunter changes except a couple baseline damage tweaks for pve for SV.
This leads me to believe they’re back from the holiday vacation and working on stuff, but they’re not releasing it all at once. I still think there will be changes coming.
This is true, I quit SL after season 1, and after checking back in I realized it was a good choice for me.
However, I am 99.9% sure there are different devs on the team, and so far they’ve made a LOT of rapid and (mostly) accurate changes. This tuning pass for pvp changes on tuesday is pretty solid (although incomplete).
I don’t recall this many changes even early on in SL. Given the holidays I expected the downtime period, but now that they’re back in office we’re seeing lots of notes coming out, so I still have some hope. But I’m also not holding my breath or going to be pikachu shocked meme if there aren’t…