Demon Hunter flight

Classes Demon Hunter
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It’s time.
Give us a reskin of dracthyr’s soar ability.
Functionally a one to one copy.
Change it to us transforming into havoc meta form (or something updated if you feel super ambitious) while the spell casts and launch us into the sky. Same controls.
Have meta break on landing. Maybe a crater/fel scarred effect too.

Earn a little good will back with the class you’ve neglected for about a year!

If you really want to knock some socks off:

Update meta form.
Add moonkin or at least lock pet style meta form customization.

Add some new wings/permanent wings.

Add claws/hooves, felstalker dreadlocks and some more demon-consumed-via-initial-DH-ritual customization.

Or, you know, actually change the glaring issues with our class.
We have weakest defensives in game.
Darkness mechanically makes no sense for our movement based class. Have it follow DH or be MUCH bigger.
Have someone that actually plays DH play a role in tuning or at least listen to the feedback of your top players if you don’t understand why buffing auto attacks and filler damage doesn’t move the needle on our dismal sustained dps.

Just my thoughts ignore at your leisure :slightly_smiling_face:

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I agree with the topic of giving dh flight in the form of a meta-form ability, like Soar, we’ve had Rain From Above for awhile, and I’ve always felt like DH’s class mount should have been demon form flight since Legion.

On the topic of improved customizaton for DH elf and Demon forms via barber shop, I’d love to see it! Let us pick various levels of bulky for our Metas, various fel mutations themed on various demons, things like that.

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good luck, this has been suggested since BFA/SL era and still nothing.

we can’t even get them to buff us (or a full rework as we need) to be on par with every other class in the game. what makes you think they would do this?

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As much as I like the idea of flying with a DH I think we should get a glide with extra boost, like how the dracthyr charge up and jump into the air but instead we would glide to our destination instead of fly.

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As a hat in hand gesture of reconciliation?

Sounds clunky, slow.
Skyriding is where it’s at

I wouldn’t mind a separate ability that bring us to the level “rain from above” brings us vertically, or even half that height, and then let us glide short distances from there

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lol good luck my dude. someday I hope, but with how much most of community hates DH and how hostage we are held by the mods in the discord, I doubt we will see much for awhile. (anything meaningful and good at least)

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Oh buddy,
I know where we stand and how we are perceived by the community
I still see “4 button spec” and “they’re broken” comments. It’s absurd.
But doesn’t hurt to hope for change…
astronomically improbable as it would be

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This is fine if my warlock can subjugate you.

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This was so much fun in SoD. But it was other warlocks who had meta. It was like a full minute at first too!

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I thought it would be cool if DH had a special type of flying where using the space bar made you flap your wings in their special flight form. Not quite flying, but closer to what we see Illidan does. Usable while falling would be awesome.

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Glad this was here because I was thinking of posting into the DH forums but felt guilty as I am a newbie without much “current news” value to add, can’t tell you how to play the class… I’m learning myself*… yet I wanted to provide feedback akin to this thread.

*New to WoW, sans a short stint in vanilla, but not not new to Illidan as I was a HUGE HUGE fan of him in WC3 and even in custom games just adored using that hero model. Not new to MMOs but I am primarily a FFXIV player giving the game a try due to warband creating a job-“like” parity which is essentially an MMO requirement for me since FFXI.

Anyway, here it goes and I apologize the slight tangents at the end:

While I was playing, I was enjoying playing DH and I really wanted to be able to go even more demon / utilize wings. Particularly I was hoping to hold the wings like Illidan in The Frozen Throne part of WC3, really love this look.

Please also consider adding to the open world mobility with these wings. I don’t have a strict preference, but one example would be continuing the glide mechanic (spacebar). So like if you HOLD spacebar a bar will appear and after approx 1 - 1.5 seconds you enter flight mode.

I would hope for a parity to Soar; although, I certainly probably like more and wouldn’t argue if it was a visual remix of the dragon flight system :stuck_out_tongue: . Remix can simply be Druid but for DH, or it could be “good, but different”, for example being a more skill hectic / faster acceleration (and faster falling, where if you don’t engage more actively you’ll probably just be landing on the ground soon), where you use your skill animations like fel rush akin to soar, vengeful retreat akin to updraft / regen energy, etc.

The tangent… please add the skull of Guldan demon form… I love that metamorphosis so much (again from being a WC3 player). For context, that’s the one where they become a big shadowy demon (Warlock in season of discovery gets quite close to be honest). The greedy desire would be to just add demon form customization, so players can unlock and choose some options (including even Havoc vs Vengeance).

Super tangent- I like the eyebeam, but at least to me while Illidan has had an army (Naga, etc) in WC3 I always envisioned them as a lone wolf (I know our DH is not Illidan… duh… but I cannot separate these vibes in my mind). So, the talent that empowers Illidan’s eye beam by summoning another demon… no desire to remove that if someone likes that thing, but I just wanted to toss feedback that I feel if there was an option that was just bigger badder eye beam that’d be neat. Feels weird (not horrible, just weird), that I have an ally and I prefer to just be a bigger badder demon lol.

Thanks for the thread, glad I didn’t have to decide if I wanted to make one. I know from reading that it has been asked in the past, but I feel given the current re-energization of blizzard that there is a higher chance someone might bother to consider feedback. Which is another reason why I gave the game a try recently, that’s pretty big and I hope they can keep it up / improve it. Too many companies ask for the check and then give you the finger as thanks. Yes the company needs to make money (it is a job after all), but can have fun making a great game and working with the players while rolling in the wealth lol.

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Very interesting ideas!
Hopefully they’ll give us something new in Legion:remix
Even if it’s just a new Fel green enchant similar to demonic tyranny or an HD version of the OG warglaives. (The battle pet Murkidan has one, so they exist somewhere in the files)
It would make me so happy to give us any form of flight, but just a tune up on our animations and meta form would be incredible.
What better time than the remix of the expansion we were introduced?
Come on Blizzard! :crossed_fingers:

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