Please give hunters a ranged version of the engineer bracers.
We got screwed in p2 with the belts on use not giving ranged crit. Now in p3 there is no ranged option with all options being focused on melee, or caster, but once again ranged is getting a very suboptimal choice.
Its not even hard to do, just make a mail version that gives more agility and 0 strength.
Please don’t make ranged hunter have to use a str item or a spellpower item for it…
Just use the leather bracers, wtf are you on about?
Wasted stats on str for ranged hunter. They did the same thing p2 engineers belt by intentionally leaving out ranged crit from the on use effect.
They have intentionally made ranged hunter excluded from engineering being their desired bop equipment 2 phases in a row now.
So what are the BiS bracers for ranged hunters if not the leather engineering bracers?
My thoughts are that this is a sort of strange gripe, since you’d be better off going melee anyway.
I guess the question is whether hunters will be melee for raids again next phase. And I suppose you’re saying you’d rather not.
The mail ones from gnomer that wars and pals also wear if they don’t have the WSG bracers.
7 agi/22 ap?
Wait how are those are better than 18 agility? I thought agility was way more preferred than ap for ranged hunters because of how you guys double dipped and got way more out of 1 agility than just 2 Attack Power?
The leather WSG rep Forest Stalker’s Bracers are 8 str, 14 agil, 6 stam versus the Experimental Aim Stabilizers (which have aim in their name) 7 agil, 22 AP (so that’s what? 14 ranged AP from the agil + 22 AP which is 36 Ranged AP).
Sure, if you’re melee or melee weaving then you’re not looking at only ranged AP. 1 Str = 1 Melee AP, and 1 Agil = 2 AP, some crit, and some dodge.
We’re talking about lvl 50 in this thread my dude. Specifically the lvl 50 engineering bracers, which OP has claimed aren’t going to be BiS for ranged hunters at lvl 50.
They give 9 strength, 18 agility, and 5 stamina as well as immunity to fear for 15 seconds every 10 minutes (less important for dps, I know)
So I’m trying to understand how the 7 agility/22 AP is somehow better than 18 agility. Not only do you hunters double dip on Aspect of the Lion, getting a 20% boost to agility (but NOT AP), even if you guys didn’t have that, it would still be 18 agility versus 7 agility/22 ap. So 18 agility becomes 36 AP plus crit percentage, while 7 agility/22 AP becomes 36 AP plus less crit percentage.
But also because you guys DO get 20% extra agility from Lion, 18 Agility becomes 21.6 Agility anyways, making it even better than 7 agility/22 AP.
I do not see a world in which Experimental Aim Stabilizers beat out Void-Powered Slayer’s Vambraces as Ranged Hunter’s BiS at lvl 50.
Oh OK. I haven’t looked at anything about P3 for anything yet. My bad.
Good luck with your “theorycrafting.”
I think OP is just upset that ranged hunters didn’t get their own personal version of the engineering bracers.
Meanwhile, dps warriors and paladins also didn’t get a personal version of the engineering bracers because the plate version of the engineering bracers is for tanks and has shield block on it lmao. At least the leather engineering bracers are even an upgrade for ranged hunters from last Phase. Warriors and Paladins will still be relying on WSG plate bracers for our BiS at 50.
It is what it is, in the end.
Its not just about p3 that has me (and other ranged hunters) upset.
P2 the engineer belt specifically left out ranged crit on its on use effect.
And ranged hunter is in a horrible spot at the end of p2 due to poor scaling, which still isnt being fixed based on known p3 information. Add on sub optimal gear with poor scaling and it gets even worse.
Essentially it appears blizzard is intentionally forcing hunter into melee for a second phase in a row which many hunters do not want and the least they could do is give an appearance of not doing that by making some of the bop crafted gear actually optimized for ranged hunter.
To give you an idea of how bad ranged hunter is at scaling data mining shows trueshot aura being chanhed to also give the junter an additional ranged attack power equal to the ranged attack power at a 1:1 ratio. So true shot aura will give 75 ap, and the hunter an additional 75 rap. That bonus 75 rap doesnt even add 15 dps. To a ranged hunters dps. Thats how poorly ranged hunters scale. Now add in poorly itemized gear and it just gets worse.
P2 blizzard tried to force hunters into melee, the ranged buffs they have given at the end of p2 and with what p3 is currently showing are bad at best.
To give you an idea ranged hunter is currently looking to still be 30+% behind melee in p3 even with the current datamines being considered.
Spellpower ranged hunter currently scales better than agi /rap based ranged hunter. And it is only getting worse based on known information.