Feedback: Demon Hunter (Beta)

[Demetryan-proudmoore]

Continuing the discussion from Feedback: Demon Hunters:

@Kaivax

In this thread, we’ll be testing and talking about Demon Hunters in The War Within. Look here for posts from the development team as adjustments and bugfixes are made throughout the testing period.

Please note that off-topic or inappropriate posts will be strictly removed.

The War Within Beta

All classes’ Hero Talent trees are available for testing. Please keep in mind that this is a Beta environment:

• There may be UI elements on the talent panel that are placeholder, including things like talent icons, text, or final UI art.
• Some talents may not be functioning yet, or may be marked as not yet implemented (NYI).
• Some new spell visuals and audio may still be a work in progress.
• There are some talents that are not fully tuned yet. This is expected, and we will implement tuning adjustments throughout testing.

The combat design team has two big areas of focus at this time:

• Finish work on changes to talents, especially wherever Hero Talents still need adjustments.
• Fix bugs that are blocking testing of new talents.

Working from Feedback

Alpha feedback thus far has been of great benefit to us.

Now that we are entering Beta, our focus on Hero Talent trees is shifting away from reworks and design changes and towards tuning and refining. We want to thank you so much for all the forum posts, videos, and discussions all over the internet. Your feedback and impressions have been invaluable for bringing their identities to life and making them fit into what you love about the classes you play.

We are looking forward to hearing from more of you as you get a chance to try Hero Talents for yourself. We are specifically interested in feedback or impressions on these topics:

• Hero Talents that you feel are “required” for your spec in a type of content, such as raiding or Mythic+, or that push you towards picking a specific tree. This could be due to damage profile, utility, defensives, or something else.
• Hero Talent trees that you feel are either too strong or too weak in power level compared to other options.
• Hero Talents whose functionality is confusing, unclear, or difficult to track during gameplay.
• Hero Talent choice nodes that you feel could offer more meaningful choices.

Again, Thank You

Feedback throughout the Alpha test was highly impactful on our design of the game, and we look forward to refining every class with you in the Beta. Thank you!

– The World of Warcraft Combat Design Team

My feedback is that the DH community should stop even giving you the time of day until you announce real changes for the DH. It’s not going to happen, but I hope to make clear the opinion I have of you regarding the work you have done for the DH on the way to TWW.

[Arahgon-maiev]

Very productive. Truly needed a thread for this

[Demetryan-proudmoore]

Nah, what we need is a Dev to work the class, but clearly we don’t have those, so any feedback other than pointing out that fact would be of no use.

[Protonz-frostmourne]

Havoc is hella fun

[Arahgon-maiev]

there is one of those working on the spec. your just being mad for 0 legit reason

[Demetryan-proudmoore]

look at you, then looks at the mage, the DK, the warlock and the monk, then looks back at you.

Sure

[Borfwart-illidan]

Another patch, another miserable few months of playing movement for damage meme build.

[Kairunner-tichondrius]

I got your feedback right here buddy

2 Set - Increases the Damage of Blade Dance by 20%
4 Set - Your Chaos Strike has a 25% chance to reset the cooldown of Blade Dance

Do you guys not see a friggin problem with this!? Like this is great dont get me wrong, but when I see this my knee jerk reaction is, “Now were back to a 2 button spec” because all were gonna do now is fish for BD Procs. Tell me … PLEASE TELL ME, you thought this through

[Redhotbunny-whisperwind]

Depends on the heroes tree you pick you might still want to VR Fel rush and BD for damage boosts

[Lithnor-illidan]

It’s rough but the DH community has been really civil and level headed during all of this and we’ve gotten nothing from our feedback at all. There are actual issues with the design of our hero classes (Not to mention the design of our talent trees). Literally a dps loss to take Demonic (talent that allows us to be in demon form more) if we take the Fel-scarred hero class (Which is about being in demon form and using it for damage.) This is an actual design issue among many other design issues.

The community has almost entirely given up. Everyone has been pretty laid back up to this point but it seems like we have to throw a fit to get any kind of a response since that’s what it took for other classes to get responses.

[Zomgitszite-nesingwary]

I am absolutely disappointed in my main class being so boring and broken…

The class had a lot of things right in previous expansions. now the flow of the rotation is just jarring and doesn’t feel fluid.

“Procs” don’t feel as satisfying as playing a warrior or a ret pally.

i feel like the soul of this class is now gone completely. i cant put my finger on all the issues but for me it starts with how terrible the rotation is and how lackluster some of the abilities feel. I feel like this has been starting to go down hill since having the abilities from the previous expansion thrown into the kit and just not feeling right as part of the build.

Hell reverting to the launch version of this class would be a freaking step up from the hot garbage we have now. thats pretty sad.

I hope there is a major overhaul planned for this class as i wont be playing it now for the first time since its launch