I haven’t looked into SoD much, but all of the runes proposed look straight boring at best and nonsensical at worst, especially since the talents seem to just be basic Classic talents.
The entire reason Explosive Shot is a fun ability is because Lock and Load exists. Without Lock and Load, it’s just another instant damage button you press every 6 seconds. In the current runes, Chimera Shot and Explosive Shot are identical and you will just pick the one that does more damage.
It’s the same thing with Serpent Spread. Serpent Spread is fun in Cataclysm BECAUSE SERPENT STING HAS INITIAL APPLICATION DAMAGE AND MULTISHOT HAS NO CD. It gives your Multishot some extra oomph because you can spam it and SV’s mastery gives more damage to magical damage. Why the heck would I care about putting a 6s DoT on 3 targets? Especially when in Classic there’s literally nothing for you to do in 3+ target situations in the first place. What, do you think I’m going to volley with the pitiful Classic damage scaling? No, I’m going to be tab+serpent stinging anyway BECAUSE THERE’S NOTHING ELSE TO DO.
Every single chest bonus is just a passive gain on stats, there’s nothing there. It’s boring. Woah cool 5% crit who cares, amazing wow 10% more stats, 15% more damage but no pet so I probably lose 15% of my damage and it limits the other runs I can use wow so fun.
Don’t even get me started on the melee abilities. Flanking Strike, melee the enemies AND INCREASE MONGOSE BITE/RAPTOR STRIKE DAMAGE BY 10%?? Do you have any idea how little damage Mongoose Bite does and how convoluted it is to make it active? In absolute full Naxx40 BIS in Classic with a 2h weapon, MONGOOSE BITE DEALT 380 DAMAGE. 6 second cooldown and can only be used after dodging, at the level we’ll have this rune, Mongoose Bite will be rank 1 and it will deal TWENTY-FIVE FLAT DAMAGE. NO, THIS ISN’T A WEAPON SWING + 25 DAMAGE, IT IS TWENTY-FIVE DAMAGE.
Just get a single person that plays Hunter on the development team, please.