Who did you find that is streaming Hunter? I’ve been looking but it seems 99% of people are evokers, and I haven’t found any Hunters yet.
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That is true. I stumbled across this one: https://www.twitch.tv/sionz while I checked the page of all WoW streams on twitch for someone who was playing/focusing on hunters. He is currently live atm, streaming.
Although, I thought I saw you posting something in the interface topic on the alpha forums. Don’t you have access? As I recall, only people with access can post on those forums.
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Apparently either it’s decoupled, or it’s tied to previous beta access or something. I was in pretty early in SL alpha so I imagine I’ll be in soon, but need to wait for the time being.
If/when I get an invite I’ll be streaming, I’ll post a link here.
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Perhaps. I got in early alpha for BfA, but had to wait for beta for SL. Either way, crossing fingers^^
Please do. If so, will check it out.
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Oh you better. Else I am getting my Gilnean worgen hunting kit
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Ooo, new blue hunter post:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/en/wow/t/feedback-hunters/1279513/5
We wanted to discuss some plans we had coming in the next few builds and address a few points of feedback.
Class Tree Changes:
- Improved Mend pet reduced to 2 points for +25/50%. Also now has a chance per tick of Mend Pet to also dispel a magic effect from your pet.
- Scare Beast is no longer on a path that connects to other nodes below it, it’s a one-off thing to the side of the tree.
- There is potentially a placeholder +Agility node where scare beast was. This will be changed if it shows up in your build to something that isn’t direct throughput.
- Chimaera Shot removed from the class tree.
- Master Marksman will likely be changed to also work with melee critical hits.
- Death Chakram will likely be changed to increase all damage taken, rather than just Physical. This should make it more competitive to Survival Hunters, who do a fair bit of non-physical damage.
Beast Mastery
- Dire Pack needs to be reworked.
Marksmanship
- Double Tap is being moved near the middle of the tree.
- New bottom left talent as a selection node:
- Kill Shot now works with Trick Shots
- Some number of targets hit by your Trick Shot ricochets also have Explosive Shot applied to them.
- Legacy of the Windrunners has moved, and is consolidated down to 3 points instead of 5.
- Chimaera shot added near the top of the tree. It will once again replace Arcane Shot, and things that modify Arcane Shot will modify Chimaera Shot
- Quick Shot removed.
- Rapid Fire’s Focus generation will just be part of the baseline ability and no longer an upgrade.
Survival
- A bunch of 3-point talents adjusted to fewer points.
- A dependency problem with Frenzy Strikes needs to be resolved where you can get this talent without either Wildfire Bombs or Butchery/Carve
This is not a complete list of what will change in the next build, or even the next few builds. As more decisions are made, we’ll try to post here. As always, things are subject to change and what is there now, or in the builds to come, may not be final.
Bug fixing is also an ongoing process.
One other quick note:
Serpent Sting is intentionally low on the class side of the talent tree. If it’s up higher, it starts competing in space we have designated for utility options and starts to feel like a mandatory throughput choice. We want to put most of the actual throughput stuff past the second gate, so you have adequate points to get the utility you feel is important while playing. Moving it up higher means you would likely be getting less utility options.
edit: The note about Serpent Sting is specific to the Hunter class tree layout. Different classes have different tree layouts and where utility and throughput is scattered about.
edit2: note about Rapid Fire Focus generation in the MM tree area.
edit3: Death Chakram note in class tree area.
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These are FANTASTIC changes, especially for MM.
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Indeed.
Still holding out hope that they will move Wailing Arrow to the class tree, for both BM and MM. Glad to see that they’re reworking Dire Pack. Although, hoping that more of the feedback for BM is considered.
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Omg I’m soooooo happy Quick Shot was removed!
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Same. I would stream hunter if they let me! gotta find and tame an otter!
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IDK that moving Wailing Arrow to the class tree is really needed. For MM at least, I was able to put together this build (which is completely irrelevant given incoming changes, but I’ll post it anyway):
For M+ purposes, this hits all the important points. I could see shuffling a little of the Class Tree utility around (Born to be Wild, Natural Mending, and Camouflage [for stealth skips] would be nice, and could swap with Concussive Shot, Trailblazer, and Tar Trap, potentially even Misdirection if those aren’t needed for a given dungeon). I don’t see much need to change the MM tree at all, and I love that I can make a strong build that completely eschews Rapid Fire.
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It’s mostly that I wouldn’t want it to be a choice of throughput, but more so about the utility of the silence effect. For BM, while playing with it, I did not enjoy it one bit. It felt disruptive to the core elements of the spec, and the general flow. Obv it was very useful, but yeah…wasn’t a big fan.
For the class tree, while this doesn’t include the recently announced changes, I would like to see this for the class tree. The bullet points do cover more stuff, other than just Wailing Arrow as an addition:
those are good changes (BM changes leave a lot to be desired though Dire Pack is a start) other than the individual that was giving the feedback is notorious for giving atrocious feedback.
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Get Ye Gone Animal Companion and its accompanying De Buff.
Doing this one thing will re validate so many of our defunct throughput talents. It needs to be done before all other tuning is done.
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I’m sitting here, thinking about what they based their BM talent tree design/composition on. One of my bigger concerns is what prompted them to decide to rework Barbed Shot into only having 1 charge by default.
Background
The last time you played BM without having 2 charges of “Barbed Shot”, was back in the early days of Legion. Back then, Barbed Shot did not exist. Dire Beast was the baseline ability in its place, and you could talent into Dire Frenzy, which replaced Dire Beast.
Dire Beast tooltip in Legion:
[Dire Beast] - Instant - 12 sec recharge
Summons a powerful wild beast that attacks the target for 8 sec.Generates 12 Focus over 8 sec.
Dire Frenzy tooltip in Legion:
Dire Frenzy - Instant - 15 sec recharge(12 sec recharge – after patch 7.1.5)
Level 30 Beast Mastery hunter talentCauses your pet to enter a frenzy, performing a flurry of 5 attacks on the target, and gaining 30% increased attack speed for 8 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Generates 25 Focus.
Replaces [Dire Beast].
(In earlier iterations, the tooltips also explained how each use of the ability/-ies reduced the remaining cooldown of Bestial Wrath by 15 sec)
With Dire Beast, it was simply about using the ability whenever it came off CD or whenever you got a Wild Call proc. It did some damage, it reduced the CD of Bestial Wrath, and generated some Focus. That was it.
With Dire Frenzy, which had the Frenzy mechanic of bonus attack speed for your pet, like Barbed Shot does today. Back then, you wanted to stay on your toes for procs of Wild Call, to allow you to stack the Frenzy-effect up to max. But beyond those procs, it was the same thing as Dire Beast. If you didn’t get a proc, the Frenzy-effect simply fell off before Dire Frenzy came off CD again, like in this short video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDcGhBj0Uc&ab_channel=Michelanvalo). There was no manual way to reliably stack it up.
Looking at the BM tree for Dragonflight
Fast-forward to today, where we can see how the talent tree for Beast Mastery is designed so that you don’t have 2 charges of Barbed Shot by default. You also don’t have Wild Call to allow for additional procs, by default. And you don’t have the CDR for Bestial Wrath baked in as a default function of Bestial Wrath. In order to get it, it also requires you to pick a certain talent. If you don’t pick them, you will never be able to reach 3 stacks of Frenzy on your pet, and Bestial Wrath’s uptime will more or less be reduced by ~60-70%, if not more. It’s not exactly hard to make a build that includes none of these aformentioned effects/talents.
Essentially, you have to spend several talent points on specific talents just to get effects, all tied to specific abilities, which do so much towards enhancing the flow/gameplay of Beast Mastery, the core loop so to speak. Without these effects, the spec would most likely feel incredibly rigid.
The point with all this is that I sincerely think that there are plenty of other ways to construct an interesting talent tree for Beast Mastery, without having to pick apart individual abilities, in order to split their effects into multiple talents just to fill out the tree. Especially when many of these effects are more or less required in order for the loop/flow of the spec to feel more complete, and engaging.
I can be okay with keeping Wild Call as it is in the talent tree. However…I wrote this before in the original post in this topic. I would do this as a minimum, when it comes to keeping that core loop/gameplay flow:
Barbed Wrath - Should be reworked
The cooldown reduction for Bestial Wrath should be a default element of Bestial Wrath itself, like it is on live. Ideally, the reworked version should read something like:
[Primal Instincts] - Barbed Shot now also reduces the remaining cooldown of Aspect of the Wild by 4/8 sec, and Aspect of the Wild now increases your Mastery by -/- for the duration.
Loaded Quiver - Shouldn’t exist as a talent
Barbed Shot should go back to having 2 charges by default. Replace it with a talent that has this effect:
Increases the base duration of Frenzy by 1 second. Casting Barbed Shot reduces the remaining cooldown of Bestial Wrath by an additional X sec.
…or something like that.
I have the other notes in the OP as well, but again, those aren’t necessarily about the issue at hand. Having said that, I would love a change to the talent Beast Cleave. Something like:
Beast Cleave - Increase duration
For the sake of gameplay flow, ideally, something like changing Beast Cleave to a 2 point talent(still 75% total damage, at 2/2 points), and then adding a small tangent branch node(1 point) directly below it that does this:
[Improved Beast Cleave] - Increases the damage of Beast Cleave by 10%, and Beast Cleave now lasts for an additional 6 seconds.
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As a talent in DF? Yes! Make a passive for BM, as I’ve mentioned before.
I truly hope they’ll do something to fix it before the launch(preferably the above). Otherwise, on top of issues with previous talents, the new one “Call of the Wild” will probably be affected as well, which would be really bad.
Class Tree Changes:
- Improved Mend pet reduced to 2 points for +25/50%. Also now has a chance per tick of Mend Pet to also dispel a magic effect from your pet.
- Scare Beast is no longer on a path that connects to other nodes below it, it’s a one-off thing to the side of the tree.
- There is potentially a placeholder +Agility node where scare beast was. This will be changed if it shows up in your build to something that isn’t direct throughput.
- Chimaera Shot removed from the class tree.
- Master Marksman will likely be changed to also work with melee critical hits.
- Death Chakram will likely be changed to increase all damage taken, rather than just Physical. This should make it more competitive to Survival Hunters, who do a fair bit of non-physical damage.
Hmm…
(photo montage, not necessarily how it will look in the next build)
#https://i.imgur.com/RppQRsX.png
-Well, if anything, I would love a path to connect Keen Eyesight with Master Marksman. Considering what both of their effects are, it would be a logical path to have.
-I just put Scare Beast to the side, based on what was said in the post. It might be in a different place. I put it there to keep it in the same position, vertically, as it was before. It doesn’t naturally fit in anywhere on that side, if you ask me.
-Regarding Nesingwary’s Trapping Apparatus, ideally, it should probably be replaced with something else. But if they decide to keep it, at least rework it to where you get the effect simply from placing a trap, as opposed to the requirement of catching an enemy in a Freezing Trap.
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They commented on a CC thread that they are aware this is an issue and working on a fix, so that’s something. I agree it should be a baseline passive choice, same as Lone Wolf, both of which should be tuned to be damage neutral.
That one is easy - simply move it down one row, swap Barrage and Master Marksman, and make a diagonal from Master Marksman to Keen Eyesight. I’d also move Explosive Shot up one row so it remains connected to Master Marksman rather than Barrage.
Honestly this needs to just be baseline. It is such incredibly niche utility and at such a high opportunity cost it will virtually never be taken. The only place you use it regularly is PvP against Feral Druids or other Hunters, or in the extremely rare dungeon where there is an enemy that is a beast, is worth fearing, won’t aggro a bunch of extra stuff when feared, and you can spare the 5 points minimum to pick it up.
Since you don’t know the other team’s comp before the fight in PvP, it’s basically never worth picking up unless you were planning on getting Imp Mend Pet anyway, and for dungeons I don’t see a scenario where it isn’t a liability.
I was watching a couple PvP talent reviews and they were taking Nesingwary’s, presumably because they are trapping anyway and it lets them ignore Focus during a burst window. I would cut it down to 2 ranks though, and have it proc on any successful trap, not just Freezing Trap. Having it proc on trap placement would make it too good in PvE, and we’d be back in Soulforge Embers territory where we have to work in multiple utility GCDs for optimal damage.
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Yep, agreed.
Hmm, not exactly sure why you would do it that way. I would probably do it like in the image below. But feel free to elaborate on why you prefer it the way you mentioned.
Note that I’ve included some other things in the image as well, as per what I’ve mentioned before. They are as follows:
- Aspect of the Fox has been added in the place where we can currently find Counter Shot, to allow for the class to bring some additional utility, other than Primal Rage(which isn’t exactly a massive perk in group-based content). A lot of other classes/specs are getting additional raid/group utility, and atm, I think hunters are the only ones left out in this department.
- Tar Trap has been taken out of the tree, the intent is that it should be given to us as a baseline ability, when we level up. Same as it works currently with Freezing Trap.
- Improved Exhilaration has been moved out to take the place of the placeholder node they mentioned in the post, the one they wanted to be about utility(where Scare Beast was previously placed).
- Misdirection + Fogged Crystal have both been moved one row to the left, to where Tar Trap and Improved Exhilaration was previously placed. And, a path has been added from Fogged Crystal, to connect to the new position of Improved Exhilaration.
- Counter Shot has been moved down one row, to where Misdirection was previously placed. To make room for Aspect of the Fox.
- Wailing Arrow has been added below the new position of Counter Shot. Again, I would prefer it to be about the utility(silence effect), not damage.
- The new position of Scare Beast, is as a tangent node that extends out from the choice node for Scatter Shot/Binding Shot. I think that would be much more useful for any scenario where you would find value in picking Scare Beast.
- Keen Eyesight + Master Marksman. And lastly, You can see the path added as a connection from Keen Eyesight, downwards to Master Marksman.
That works as well.
Fair enough.
Your suggestion (which I’ve seen several times now, and I like) is a whole tree adjustment.
My suggestion is to move only those specific talents that are an issue, in the context that Chimaera Shot is being moved to the MM tree, and Blizzard has stated a plan to move Barrage so it no longer gates Master Marksman.
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I figured. I just didn’t wna include that image, which contained the other suggested changes as well, without also including a clarification. Not necessarily directed towards you^^
That it would be yes.
True. Btw, are you referring to this post?
Nimox: Barrage might be an exception to this, but Barrage is also much less mandatory as a connection point in an upcoming build.
As I interpret that, it might be that they are indeed moving Barrage. But it may also be that they’re simply adding connections/paths to circumvent that talent, for anyone who doesn’t want to use it. Or were you talking about something else that they’ve said?