I keep hearing people mention talk about a “Demon hunter” rework or overhaul alongside rogues? Im not sure what they mean or why they assume we’d get one.
But if I had to ask for some toys to go with it… it’d be the following
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I’d like the option to stay in demon form, and demon form to be brought to the barber shop and updated like so many other class features
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I’d like to see sky-riding be an option for us to do with our meta form, to some degree
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I’d like the empowered demon forms to look different when using fel-scarred … kind of more fel infused, with more flash outside of the explosion (Which I love)
All and all I dont expect us to get one, unless its been mentioned somewhere prior… but Id really like some more options for the class and for it to be modernized a bit more considering some classes have a ton of options and customization. Feels kind of bad considering DH feels like a low hanging fruit when it comes to that stuff… given the illidan novel and how it describes both meta and the demon hunter process.
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With you on all of this, talked about it with some others in this other post on the DH forums here.
I think the whole rework desire for DH and Rogue might be related to that they believe it’s the same dev who works on these classes, and suspiciously (not really) both of them have had very little changes in gameplay rotation, flavor, style, etc. since post-Legion. Random rogue complaint – WHY did they bring back slice and dice, and why is it still here, it’s the most annoying button to keep track of and spend on!!! With DH my complaint is that my gameplay as Veng feels pretty much the same as it did in Legion with some added Havoc buttons from the shared tree. Yay chaos nova.
Also, both of these classes have very underwhelming hero talents with minimal visual effects and class fantasy amplification compared to some other classes. It stings a little when smth like Hunter gets more new visual effects to their hero tree and ours are still like. What is that. Where is any of the flavor. What is trickster and fatebound even supposed to represent in the class fantasy??? Fel-scarred and aldrachi reaver are just more of the same and don’t add anything to the already present class fantasy, with the former having an explosion with glowing buttons when you meta now.
Maybe it’s nitpicky ,but as a writer and roleplayer who really enjoys diving deep into class, spec, race, magic, etc. to create interesting, unique ideas that build off of the present lore and environmental storytelling, it’s sad when the person paid to do it and implements these things doesn’t seem to care about any of that.
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They said they’ll be revisiting hero talents for classes as the expansion rolls around. We sadly just have to wait. I don’t think DH needs much changes but a lot of people just aren’t happy with how Havoc plays (moving into year 3 of this divisive topic now), and even more are disappointed by the hero talents. That is where the talk of rework comes from.
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It’s so hard to believe that ‘revisiting’ means anything other than adjusting numbers. There was some vague hope that maybe adding visuals is there because it just happened to Dark Ranger. But if they can roll that out this fast for a class that already had visuals to begin with, what’s going on here?
I can try to find the quotes but they said both numbers, talents being changed/replaced, and animations will be added. I am jealous of the dark ranger animations, but it is honestly a good sign. That means we have hope we’ll get some too, even if waiting sucks.
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It’s good to see some optimism on the forums. Not even saying that sarcastically. Few patches down the line, I hope that’s true, and I won’t come back to this comment and just do like a frowny face reply.
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I just hope we don’t have to wait long. I’m okay with 11.0.7. and 11.1 wait. I think anything later is stretching it. This is how WoW is now, nothing is finished for the launch of an expansion and I’m not really okay with that but what can we do?
I’d say the 11.0.5 patch notes are a good sign though. Those boomkin and paladin patch notes are as long as the bible. They’re not holding back from making major changes during a season instead of waiting for a season start. I’m all for these changes being rolled out as soon as they’re ready. Fingers crossed for DH. I mostly just want animations for our hero talents!
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My Vengeance DH feels weak as heck, so im trying to hold on. Im at 583 Item level and cant seemingly run through a level 5/6 delve. My undergeared warlock though? Easy peasy.
Even my Bear druid was able to even though I haven’t geared them as much, I dont know what is going on with my DH but my damage feels eh when in havoc when compared to litterally anything else… and my sustain just doesn’t feel like its there.
Maybe Im rusty… I dont know but I can for sure feel a massive power gap here
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DH Needs to split the momentum and Metamorphosis play styles into two separate specs. This would give them far more room to balance the two.
I doubt will see a DH rework in this Xpac. It would take too much time/ energy that Blizzard doesnt want to invest.
Im only 567 and crushing 6’s as vengeance. I tried aldrachi reaver for one and uh it has some really clunky design choices. Felscarred does as well but not quite as bad.