Hello.
You guys remember pre-rework Ret Paladin, pressing all their non-bubble defensives in the opener of a game, dying through anyway and having to Bubble in the first 30 seconds just to get Mass Dispelled and die anyway?
Yeah. Well now that is Demon Hunter, only you can’t Bubble out of stuns and just die anyway.
The truth is (try for yourself if you don’t believe this) if you tunnel vision a Demon Hunter every single Arena game, they will simply die. You stun them on Blur, you knock them out of Darkness and patiently wait out the 6 second Netherwalk (if they even specced it) and then just win.
Currently, if a healer player is not a literal God, they cannot save a Demon Hunter from dying if they are the permanent kill target (which they are almost every game).
It has the highest Death rate in all PvP, with nothing coming even close.
Hear me out. I know a lot of people hate this class, hate facing it etc. And having very little buttons IS NOT THE PLAYER’s FAULT. In fact, I would LOVE TO HAVE MORE BUTTONS to press, especially DEFENSIVES.
Let’s be honest. You can basically sneeze as almost any other DPS and global the guy playing it. Healers in Solo Shuffle literally start smoking cigarretes from stress just to keep the guy alive if he is being focused down.
Giving the class 15% auto attack damage and it being well-paired with SS+ tier Moonkins that literally carry them doesn’t mean the class is getting any kind of help - and a lot of people get the wrong idea that it is actually in a good state.
Look around you, compare how often you see Demon Hunters to how often you see Warriors, Rogues, Ret paladins. That’s right, almost never. There isnt even any good trade-off for playing good either. Your damage just gets outhealed, you don’t have a single spell that consistently goes above 100k dmg even when you are using all your burst cds.
Please provide DH with a soft rework - provide more meaningful defensives, like another charge of Blur or a completely new spell (like Shamans got Burrow and Rets got Magic Bop) and added more buttons to the DMG rotations. The list of things which just completely counter you in PvP is just too long.
This also applies to the PvE players. It’s boring to have to reroll because a class has no options whatsoever for builds, relies on borrowed powers, and only gets invited for their 5% magic debuff.
Examples:
Sub Rogue eats you for breakfast
Any hunter eats you for breakfast
You tickle Warlocks
Mages permanently CC you and can’t die
You tickle Shadow priests
WW monks global you
And the list goes on…
At the end of the day, people who hate this class due to BFA things or something else don’t realize there are much worse things in the game to hate in PvP
