Dark Ranger Hero Talents on the way

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According to WoWhead at least: Dark Ranger is going to be one of the Hero Talents Paths for Hunter.

While not a class fantasy I’m personally excited for, I know it’s one of the most requested and awaited classes in a long time.

What do you all expect from it? Black Arrow has to make a return, obviously. Possibly with some Skeletons as pets to back it up? Or possibly Wailing Arrow will be moved to the Dark Ranger track of abilities?

More interestingly, Which 2 Specs do you think will have access to Dark Ranger? I can only assume Beast Master and Marksman, But the Wild Animals and Nature magic aspects of Beast Master don’t really fit Dark Ranger at all.
It’s a Conundrum. :thinking:

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I think it will be % modifiers, turn all vfx purple, and buff rapid fire /s.

I can’t wait to see the actual talent tooltips for these.

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I thought the hero talents was one of the more interesting reveals of the day. Looking forward to hearing more about it this afternoon.

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Adding VFX Changes really open’s the floodgates on potential ideas, but I hope it goes a little deeper than that.

I don’t really see a Dark Ranger going around loving nature and animals, and summoning spirit beasts to attack their foes.

That is to say: I hope these Hero Talents very sufficiently add “Flavor” to a class and not just a few bland increases.

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I am pretty excited about this whole (Hero Talents) system being added in the new expansion, and really excited about the Dark Ranger theme.

Can’t Wait!

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It feels like it’s going to be cosmetic reskins? So probably aimed shot will play with a scream sound effect and purple shadow trails, sentinel owl (for the 4 hunters that use it) will summon a val’kyr or an undead owl…

it would be cool if it changed spell schools (like kill command becoming necrotic command and dealing shadow damage) but i can see that becoming a nightmare to balance.

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Dire Beast should be replaced with “Summon Skeletons”

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Whilst im hyped for it, watch it turn out to be a bunch of previous eh stuff given back to us like its new.

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Agreed. I feel they could be to gameplay what the expanding race customizations are for aesthetics/RP (more choices to explore other facets of the class)

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VFX are going to be central to the fantasy to me, or im going to go back to my class skin soapbox.

I can see, in the case of beast master, having an added buff to your pets if they are undead. However, Dark Rangers were former Farstriders who used a variety of weapons, so I can see that skill line being MM/SV to cover that other side of the fantasy.

I could see a sentinel or priestess of the moon theme being a choice for BM and SV, but I’m spitballing here.

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it’s prolly gonna be black arrow and some stealth emphasis
prolly without a pet

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Counter point;
We know that a Dark Ranger hero talent path will have to share 2 specs, I think we all agree Marksman is one of them. But the other spec has to be Survival or Beastmaster and those have to have a pet to function.

So I hope for Undead Minions instead of animals.

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yeah true
however, i suspect that these hero talents will change current skills/talents. perhaps in this example, it would make the BM/Surv skills that need a pet, not need a pet
maybe we’ll get some more details today in the deep dive

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That would be unbelievably cool.

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Not sure what i want other then i would like new stronger spiders as pets for the Dark Rangers. The spider in game dont scale as well id like.

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There are dark rangers patrolling the ruins of southshore on live with spider pets, so I don’t think pets are particularly out of character for the skin

edit: posted too soon! I meant to add, ‘they’ve also added a wide variety of undead/cursed pets to the game, even going out of their way with 10.2 to add drust wickerbeasts purely for hunters to tame, so I don’t think a dark ranger paired with eg an undead hound is antithetical to the idea’.

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I hadn’t considered that. :thinking: I guess the “Dark Ranger” archetype for me is still very simple like it was in WC3.

Elf Archer, arrows full of dark magic, Mind Control, Silence. And undead summons.

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We did it, boys and girls, Dark Rangers is going to be a thing. I’m very curious about the sentinel spec which I assume is Survival hero talent. Does this mean we are bombs are going away (Pls let this be real) . I wonder what the play style is going to be. something like Maiev from Warcraft 3, I know she is a Warden but I can’t think of anything else unless they are making survival range again (Pls let it be real)

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while i hope they keep it primarily melee, that’d be cool if one of the specs let you forego your melee weapon for a ranged weapon and changes the abilities to match

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Sounds like a ranged sub rogue