That is all. Still the lamest hero spec for such a huge lore pool
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It would make a lot more sense (to me) if it like turned our pets dark too. Like total shadow stuff. Shadow attacks, or at least a shadow cooldown, like totally themed out in shadow. I’d love it.
What do we even honestly get, a dark arrow?
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It is lame.
But Sentinel was honestly super disappointing to me too, so much so that I’m actually going Dark Ranger.
Lunar Storm proccing every 15s on your next Rapid Fire, but Rapid Fire not also being on a 15s window makes for a really clunky experience where RF comes off CD so you want to press it… but should you wait 4 seconds to proc Lunar Storm with it…? Or do you press RF and then potentially waste a whole Lunar Storm cycle?
And they didn’t learn from Shadowlands. Remember Hunters getting frustrated with the Night Fae Covenant ability because tanks would pull their mobs out of it?
Well that’s going to be happening with Lunar Storms too. Constantly.
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Black Arrow should be reworked and replace Arcane Shot and Cobra Shot, and our Trueshot cd should be pruple and give us shadow tendrils like Sylvanas
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All of them of lame. And it makes me sad, because I love Hunter and it was so easily low hanging fruit.
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This mirrors my sentiment as well.
I think all three are complete failures in their own ways.
When they announced Hero talents I thought Pack leader sounded very weak and non-commital. There was no lore or theme around it you could think of. So it was kind of blank. Dark ranger I was personally very uninterested for but it felt like a dead given success with the popularity and amount of lore around it. Then Sentinel was the one I felt intrigued by. I was imagining getting cool chakrams/glaive attacks or passives, also a lot of lore and a clear theme. Or so I thought.
Then they released them and… jesus was it not at all what I expected or would have done myself.
Pack leader while in theory and idea is quite good the execution of it is just abysmal though. It’s 100% passive and it’s all revolving around KC and pet basic attacks. God is it boring. And nothing even works. I feel like this was the one that was the wild card and boy did it not deliver.
Dark ranger despite feeling like they just couldn’t fail with it… well they did. It’s very bland and lackluster. You don’t look or feel like a Dark ranger at all. Mission failed succesfully?
Sentinel… oh boy did this one break my last hope for Hero talents. It’s poorly thought out, has nothing to do with what I’d expect Sentinel to be. And it’s poorly executed and the visuals is even worse than not having any at all. Just a failure through and through.
I feel like I am being a bit rough and harsh here but I’ve thought about this for weeks now and I just… none of them even slightly catch my interest as they are now. I had the hardest time ever to even just make myself test them on the beta.
So harsh but fairly so. They are no where near good enough for release. Pack leader needs to be more active and needs more bug fixes and VFX. Sentinel needs a whole rework into actual Sentinel stuff and Dark ranger needs to get more VFX.
The one thing keeping my hopes up for Hunter Hero talents at the moment is that we’ve gotten literally zero iterations/work done on them, many other hero talents have gotten work done. Is it because the core tree/spec trees needed work first? Or is it because they are doing extensive work on them? Time will tell. I am really hoping they will deliver some big and good changes to the Hero talents in coming patches.
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Sentinel would feel better thematically if it were Nightfae themed IMO. Sentinel is too Night Elf focused to really make sense for most races. Night Fae are obviously still a part of the lore since they are present at Amirdrassil and in the Emerald Dream so I don’t think it would be world-breaking if we got access to them still (also druids still have Convoke and I think it still has the SL animation so that still works).
Dark Ranger would be okay if it looked cool but everything I see in the beta about how it looks is awful. DKs gets riders of the apocalypse, Shamans summon their ancestors and SO MUCH LIGHTNING, spellslingers have a arcane shard gatling gun. Hunters get… an occasional purple arrow and explosion effect straight from 2004… 
Does Pack leader even get animations? On top of it being completely passive no interaction gameplay, I haven’t seen ANY special sauce animation that were promised with these hero talents. I am begging you to PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG, I haven’t seen ANYTHING.
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