I mean I agree that pets are doing too much, ideally I’d like to see the melee & ranged runes do a bit more with the pets scaling less with power (don’t love that pets are making up like 60% of the dmg - pet + auto shot is like 85% of dmg). But I don’t think it’s a tremendous priority anymore… hunters have been toned down and I’d say there are bigger priorities:
Mage AOE pulling is bonkers - the healing coefficient should be toned down for AOE OR there should be diminishing returns on AOE damage over a reasonable* amount of targets (*debatable what’s reasonable).
Most casters do a tiny fraction of the damage of Rogues, Warriors and Hunters. Boomkins seem to be doing pretty good, but Warlock damage, Mage single-target damage, Shadow Priest damage, Elemental sham damage are all very sad.
I’d prefer they focus on bringing up those lagging significantly behind and toning down the ability for one person to solo 50 mobs at once rather than tweaking a class that isn’t even an outlier anymore.
I don’t get why people keep brining up mages in these hunter discussions. Yeah there are a couple of big pulls that mages can do IF they have the best gear and they are highly skilled and have spent hours learning how to do the pulls. It’s not as easy as they one or two videos on youtube make it look. So we are talking about maybe 1% of the population who can do this successfully.
This has no impact anywhere else in the game. In fact mages are significantly weaker in just about every other aspect of gameplay. So if you want to make a tiny use case into some larger point for balance purposes, I think you’re barking up the wrong tree.
They should just take the retail/BM concept of cobra/steady mixed with an active ability like kill command. If you have to stand still to cast we won’t be overpowered in PVP and MM will revert to being the go to PVP spec.
The best PVP spec should never be the best PVE spec.
What do you mean? They’re able to get 20% additional focus regeneration for their pet from the BM talent tree which almost offsets the 30% nerf. On top of that they get faster attack speed, faster health regeneration, a 3 second stun from intimidation and the worst one, bestial wrath which makes it immune to CC. They need to do some serious adjustments to the BM rune by completely getting rid of the additional % of damage & health or the focus regeneration.
Hunters start strong, end poorly. You’ll just have to wait a little bit. Maybe don’t engage hunters in PvP until they fall off or you learn how to counter them.
If they removed Hunter pets this same OP would be posting this same thread. At this point people should be getting flagged for trolling.
If Hunter’s pets are still too strong… the problem might be you. I haven’t ever had a problem or died to a Hunter’s pet. They have been a joke for a while now and after today they are pointless.
Or you have really bad gear/do not understand how to play the game. Simple as that.
Absolutely man. Everyone’s celebrating and thinking that the current nerfs completely solves the issue but it doesn’t. It’s so absurd how strong pets are.
