I would rank marks middle of the pack for solo shuffle and both SV / BM in the bottom third of RSS.
For rated 3v3 all 3 specs are viable and fine. Marks will take big hit in both next week.
So is showing your sources for your claims.
google solo shuffle wow leaderboard and you will see Hunters are doing okay.
There are more hunters above 3k rating than rogues.
And linking potentially unapproved third party sites and getting muted is not free.
However typing âmost played class in world of warcraftâ and slapping that google button will handle it for you. Glad to help.
Hunters are doing fine
I usually just train them to the ground and they die, sometimes before even pressing deterrence
Theyâre fine, no buffs needed
Let me guess, you googled it and found gamerant (great gaming journalism known for using goood sources) which quotes statista which stated hunters at 11.3% in the us with paladins and druids at 9.7%.
But why not read more, like this:
Region
Europe, United States
Survey time period
December 9, 2019
Special properties
characters level 0-120
Supplementary notes
For this analysis, 27.94 million characters on US realms and 26.35 million characters on EU realms were recorded. The data were collected by using Blizzardâs Battle.net API.
Realm Pop: âTo get the list of characters for a realm, first we record all the characters who posted to the auction house. Then we fetch and record their guild rosters. This should cover the majority of characters on a realmâ.
Figures are rounded.
I bolded thĂŠ especially stupid parts of this atrocious analysis.
But why actually read anything if you can just make a claim, right?
They also have this great statement:
The least popular class, on the other hand, is the demon hunter which is chosen by around five percent of all players.
Which anyone could see was wildly wrong.
But hey, weâre just counting literally every character created level 1 and up to make this statementâŚ
If maybe you looked any further than ah api searches from 2019, youâd find wow analytica which last was able to do an api search in 2021 before the ah changes.
They came up with:
- Druid 11.63%
- Paladin 10.44%
- Hunter 10.15%
And more correctly, having warlock, monk, and rogue as the bottom 3, since they have historically not been classes played by the masses unlike hunters, paladins, and druid. None of which have a whopping 3% majorityâŚ
So thereâs your terrible research for a claim that is of its own merit so stupid in reference to rated play, followed up by an equally stupid âgoogle is freeâ.
But letâs make statements without providing anything to back them up. Because google is freeâŚ
Glad to help.
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If your class wants more defensives you need to trade off that damage you have in return.
?? How, what are you even talking about do you know anything about all 3 hunter spec trees? You donât trade off defensives for damage in any of the builds you always have SotF/Trap roots/SotF DR increase thereâs no trade because thereâs only really 1 build for MM etc other talents are awful.
I personally donât care about the DT removal I just am looking forward to the pet survivability buff as losing your pet is how you lose your defensives, and the buff pets are getting isnât going to be all that great.
Problem is Iâm pretty sure they arenât replacing DT with anything of note, the damage is absolutely fine as MM I agree but the defensive side thereâs no choice as they are perm locked in through the hunter tree choices, weâre a bit like Rets atm outside the burst or bubble you can flop over in 2 seconds, I think Ret damage needs to be nerfed too but I also think they need a slight survivability just like hunters.
Hunters that pretend we donât do great damage are being disingenuous or arenât all that great at the salvo burst.
Hunters that tell you we and our pets die to a gust of air are telling you the truth.
Nope.
Statsia has Hunters as the most played class in the game, with exact metric, for EU and NA since 2014.
Thanks for playing!
I feel like every expansion at the start Hunter pets start dying insanely fast and then it takes Blizzard a few months to actually do anything to buff the pet to where it doesnât die. I remember back in SL people saying the exact same things.
No, I just look at the wow official solo shuffle rating leaders and see there are more higher ranked hunters than rogues. The other non official websites simply organize the data for more detailed understanding, but the basic ratings of each spec are on Blizzardâs official pages.
BM and Survival are performing better than Marksman for solo shuffle.
They seem to be doing okay. Donât trust what you see on AWC cause that mythic bow makes a dif, but other than that they are doing fine in organized content. I think they struggle in RSS because they are pretty comp dependent, and with current design they donât feel versatile to fit in with all the random comps you can make. I think Mm double tap is what helped a lot of hunters play well in RSS.
imagine trying to use overall stats to try and prove a point⌠maybe in pve but i still doubt it but in pvp hunter is one of the least played classes every season. the only one who constantly comes in lower is monk
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But you are the one saying the reason they are least played is because they suck. And thatâs obviously not the case. They might not be as good as unholy DKs or Demon Hunters, but they are definitely doing just fine. The reason they are not played probably has something to do with managing pets with bad A.I. issues. I tried a hunter and hated the pet. If Blizzard baked the pet abilities into Marksman LONE WOLF talent so you did not need the pet, Iâd probably play the class again.
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I play a super wonky build that people try to bash on, but BM is decent except for survivability imo
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Ranged warrior that cant be interrupted or silenced and gotta be in melee to disarm?
Hunters are almost always fine lol.
Were you raised on a diet of paint chips and glue?
âGoOgLe iS fReE!â
Wow you really are basing all of PvP on âover 3k ratingâ lmao. That is fried af, you must be Semicasualâs alt.
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The pet survivability buff wasnât a real buff, the REAL buff to pet survivability is Feral bleeds and DK Virulent plague not passively melting the pet because they were nerfed. We will see if itâs enough though.
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Hunter suffers in RSS mainly because zug zugs just insta break our only forms of CCâŚwhen I see a DH glaive toss into a trapped healer, or break my scatter shot, or insta break my steel trap root itâs extremely sad.
Main problem in RSS is that CC like Hunters and Rogue blind are just insta broken.
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