So basically if their buffs worked like shamans it’s the end of the world, got it.
struggling to kill mobs in Darkshore, chimera shot hits like a wet noodle
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Imagine balancing content around level 25.
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Its absolutely baffling that that didn’t just nerf the scaling on ES and instead changed it to work like the horrible retail aoe version that nobody likes. I was level 12 on my hunter and enjoying it until the nerf, when i realized all the other runes are terrible or boring and there wasn’t anything more to look forward to with this class.
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So cool fighting warocks that instant heal to full in pvp and do insane damage, good thing they nerfed explosive shot.
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Hunters were, are, and will be, awesome.
This talk of hunters being useless is silly.
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Hunters are fantastic and fun to play and pets are amazing and fun to have and really that is all well and good and great and fantastic
However I have this joke I like to tell and this seems like a good time, sorry if it feels like rubbing salt in an open wound. Here goes:
Hunters are a mail class… They are best between the Auction house and the Bank!
Hahahaha get it? Mail as in mail armor and mail as in mailboxes like in town.
well that’s my story. thanks for your time.
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I LOL’d… but it needs more cowbell!
This is a great point. I keep getting reassured that the damage is good. That’s great. I don’t care. The changes they rushed through on day 2 made it so Hunters play exactly like they do on Era; they take the most boring, passive runes and do the same boring Auto/Aimed/Multi weave because Blizzard failed to understand how to make any compelling Hunter runes at all. Meanwhile other classes got huge gameplay improvements.
Even with Explosive Shot being OP its runes were mostly boring and non-compelling. The only saving grace was Explosive Shot meant you could ignore Aimed Shot entirely. Not anymore.
I don’t care for playing classic Hunter again because, to be frank, it sucks to play. It was good for 2006 but it did not age well. So I dropped Hunter. I have enough headaches with Blizzard’s neglect and lack of direction for Hunters in Retail and I have 0 desire to experience it again in SoD.
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Hunter plays and feels great. Open world content is trivial and they’re still over-tuned in dungeons. They’re a complete nuisance in pvp if played well.
I think a lot of people want warlock-tier brokenness like pre-nerf explosive shot and chimera to cover for their obvious skill issue.
No thanks.
Is their playstyle at all enhanced from Classic era in your view? Aside from a passive increase in DPS.
Chimera shots opens up a couple of options that weren’t there previously in pvp which is always nice.
Explosive shot is a monstrosity in dungeons and is a very fun button to press in that context.
Flanking Strike has added a good deal of burst and created some funny moments where a warrior/rogue/mage finally catches me and gets clapped by flanking + raptor.
The passives are a little more impactful than people are letting on by enabling a smoother leveling experience for marks/surv. BM is still king in the leveling world but on RP/PVP servers relying on your pet when you get ganked/gank is a non-starter.
Overall it’s a good time. It’s not wacky and off-the-wall like some of the other classes in terms of gameplay changes but it feels good.
OP, I’m pretty sure you’re a bot that posts troll threads.
This is in stark contrast to what I’ve heard from the Hunter discord.
Explosive Shot is very weak even as an AoE and requires enormous trash pulls to be worth it. Its usefulness on bosses is nil, which is what I’m mainly concerned about.
Chimera Shot is weak and was also nonsensically nerfed at the same time. It’s also a huge mana burden.
Currently the best playstyle option by far is the Beast Mastery rune which is entirely passive. Hunters are also making use of a Scorpid pet bug to inflate their DPS. Aside from that it’s the same Aimed → Auto → Multi → Auto → Auto gameplay we saw from Classic.
It’s a “good time” if you already like classic Hunter gameplay. If you prefer later expansions and wanted to see something new and innovative, there’s nothing to see.
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I know man, just stop playing that’s what imma do.
Great explanation!
Honestly as a hunter they are boring af… cringe kids just using Scorpion pets and rolling everyone… nerf scorpions with a bat and make the hunter runes a little better… like Melee hunter is trash…hopefully next phase they give some fun things for melee hunters, cuz right now its honestly play with scorpion pet or uninstall
We’ll all have our turn at nerfs and buffs. That’s part of playing an actively balanced game. Chill.
Oh I know this phase is crap for everyone, since lack of skills but seeing hunters just abuse scorpion pet is cringe… I also just want to live my Rexxar life man…Blizz cant seem to figure out how to make melee hunter work even tho it pretty simple lol
And Druids