Out in the world I can hold my own, or base sitting in an RBG and having to 1v1 the random Ret or DH that comes up to try and steal my node, everything is fine. I’ll pew pew. They’ll pew pew. Whatever for a good 70-80%.
BUT then I get them down to maybe 10-15% health and I just CANNOT kill them. I’ll get lucky sometimes or will get help from someone else, but it feels very hard to kill something as BM.
I didn’t start really playing Hunter until Legion, but didn’t we used to have an execute type ability?
Kill Shot, no?
I mean if you take the Kill Command talent it kind of gives you an “execute,” but it’s still crappy.
It was a real shame. Not only was it one of the only things keeping us viable in PvP, but it was a reference to a crucial old MM talent that most Hunter builds took (gave pet focus on critical hits).
It was fun, reactionary, and took a lot of skill to use to best effect (off target sniping). In someones (not so) infinite wisdom, they decided only warriors should have that type of fun in the idiotically conceived name of “spec fantasy”. Of course someone down the line realized it was idiotic, and they “gifted” most executes back as talents: for all classes except Hunters (and to a less extent Warlocks (Shadow Burn is no longer an execute, even though I use it as such sometimes)).
Why they don’t give hunters back their Kill Shot as well, I can’t say. I can only say they absolutely should. For MM especially, it was quintessential. Just as much as for warriors.
Edit: Ah, i see you mean something other than Kill Shot. Well, now we have nothing.