Why are you beefing up hunters and then nuking them. I don’t understand the rationale, of beefing, then nuking them a week before. it’s just so odd. not sure why balancing is like this. It really shouldn’t be this hard. you’ve had 20 + years to perfect this. Why can’t you just keep us like A/S tier (i.e. mages/locks and ret palys. They are ALWAYS A/S tier. they never go up and down that hard like hutners do)
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Chuckles in shadow priest
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It’s like one of those tower drop rides, would be kind of boring if you only dropped from like 6 feet in the air.
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It’s kinda net-neutral if you think about the buffs.
I don’t get why there are such big swings in balancing. just doesn’t make sense to me. Any person in a profession with 20+ years experience should be a veteran. This is just god awful bad tuning.
Hunter is one of the specs that will never be allowed to be strong because it’s often perceived as ‘easy.’ Whenever Beast Mastery deals top damage, the WoW community goes into a frenzy.
Rogues face a similar situation—whenever they achieve good damage, the WoW and streamer communities flood the internet with countless videos claiming they’re overpowered.
Paladins, on the other hand, rarely face such outrage. For example, Paladins and Shaman have been S tier Tank/Dps for months now …no outrage.
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That’s why it’s happening before it hits the game no?
Ret paly is much easier than hunter. Why are they allowed to be S/A tier. They get battle res, plus 2 buffs, plus LoH, plus SAC/FREEDOM, bops, dispells…
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Rets getting a buff!
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Perception is a big factor. Blizzard bases its balance changes on community feedback, so if top streamers are complaining about Hunters, Blizzard will nerf them. However, top streamers won’t complain about Paladins because it’s one of their favorite specs, meaning it will never be nerfed as much as Hunters or Rogues.
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Paladins are one of the safest specs in the game; they will never be unplayable because the community would go into a frenzy if they were lower than B-tier. It’s just the reality we live in.
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god what a crappy way to balance specs.
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I rerolled from Monk to Paladin for my tank after making Monk posts for few weeks in October.
I didn’t struggle for the first few weeks but I noticed I was getting less invites even on my Brewmaster. Never ran into issues after swapping over.
The ‘chosen’ class for sure 
. Then when the buffs came it became cracked beyond belief.
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Thats easy to answer. Ret had been a meme spec for multiple expansions in a row while hunter has been top of the charts multiple expansions in a row.
Seriously people who complain about ret suck. That said i hope hunter does well this patch.
You are sitting here complaining about balance happening on PTR. Which is exactly where it should be happening.
You are also complaining about tier lists.
And to top it off. You are complaining that hunters are not just automatically one of the best at everything.
Like…not a lot of sympathy here.
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hunter usually suffered from not scaling well… now they scale to well.
Balance patches always go up and down less your a dps monk
They won’t let BM Hunter be too strong because there is no other reason to play anything but BM Hunter. They have 100% uptime and 100% mobility, they take a dump on everything Blizzard does mechanically.
I’ve accepted the fact that BM will always purposely be tuned down just because of it’s uptime niche it has. They will never let it be too good, that’s how you know where this company is at in terms of how out dated the classes are, they literally have to hold hunter back because it’s too far ahead mechanically.
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compared to shamans? lauughs! Also- Every melee clas has near complete 100% uptime as well.
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Lol… cap.
That is the biggest lie I’ve seen on these forums in months. If i could give you a jester award i would rofl.