All the changes lately make me think the folks working on SoD didn’t play back in vanilla - which is fine, it was made over 20 years ago. Or even classic era for that matter.
Sub 30 was always the Hunter’s time to shine dps wise, then it falls off and you are a utility class in end game for a few odd jobs, but you can do cool stuff like solo kite hard quests, farm dungeons in a unique way and have a whole epic quest around solo Kiting skill. It was fine and fun. Hunter had its place and it felt unique.
SoD seems to be about providing a new way to play classes and find new ways to be unique but the latest nerfs make it feel like 1. We should feel bad for capitalizing on our 20 year reign as sub lvl 30 S tier and 2. We need to just play the Era meta while everyone else gets a new take on things.
Everyone mad at hunter now won’t feel bad for us when they can top charts by clicking one button later on.
So, since we know hunter falls off at end game, and everyone seems uncomfortable with the pure dps class being at the top because it uses a pet (pocket npc), I’d just suggest some more effort go into non dps uniqueness for hunters. More tameable pets, more pet interactions that reward pet management and timing in boss fights, low level epic quests like Rok to do, things to discover that only hunters can do, companion pets only hunters can get. I donno - something.
If the community doesn’t want to see the pet class at the top, give us other things in the world to go do that can only be experienced by hunters. Let us be the explorer of the world. Or at end game, give us some spinning plates to manage with pet movement/attacks/coordination with our shots etc in boss fights that have the POTENTIAL to be top dps if you are really good.
Either/or, but at this rate we will just be playing era meta and be B tier at 40 and D tier at 60 - but with no unique differences in play style. Warrior/rogue/mage will always be at the top in classic. We can’t change the core of the game, but we can add enough flavour for everyone to enjoy.
whats really going to hurt is wind serpent is bis for pvp still but the lowest mob with level 4 lightning breath is vale screecher at lvl 41 which means bm is going to be forcibly cat in pvp and we die to anything wearing mail and above. i tried to raise awareness of this in another post but people don’t care about the very dark future ahead of us.
Hunter has no future and I have no hope. I’m a complete Hunter doomer, total Hunter removal is the only option. The developers don’t play Hunter, and never have, there has never been a more “revamped” class in the history of WoW. Even on retail, they have never known what to do with it. Also we probably have the most bugged runes, on top of our runes making no sense. If all the bots weren’t playing Hunter and inflating our population count, we’d be the least played class by a massive amount.
Blizzard has had a bad track record for a long time now when it comes to the hunter class they don’t know what they are doing and it falls to the poor random unlucky dev to work on the class since the hunter class has no dev unlike the other classes and no dev plays hunter.
I think there is a major dissonance between the class fantasy perceived by hunter players and the rest of the community.
I personally view hunters as more of a “friendly park ranger” archetype. Their role should be to help the raid navigate the wilderness with their tracking abilities, and use their beast lore ability to explain the various fauna found through Azeroth. To that end, having a weapon feels very ancillary… I don’t see why hunter damage is such a big deal, given their identity is encapsulated by this support role.
Did you look into the future of SoD to see proof of this? Did you see the new runes and patch notes not yet released to have the information to prove this statement as fact?
This is not era this is SoD. Things are much different here than era already. Nobody knows anything about hunter will play out in future phases. Doomsaying this early only makes people look stupid.
We can see that arcane shot, serpent sting, mongoose bite, immokation trap, and wing clip have 0 rap scaling as they did in era. We can see aimed shot and multi shot have idential scaling as before.
With this we can infer that as of now with available information, hunters will struggle more and more to keep up because of the scaling issues we know we alreary have.
Historically hunters have always started strong but fall off.
Aspect of the hawk, static rap buff. Hunter mark, static rap buff.
It does not scale. This issue has plauged hunters since vanilla and beyond.
