Huge PVP increase for hunter in P2. Traps in combat and you can even launch them.
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@cursor macro. In combat traps is broken OP lol what were they thinking??
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Taps will the new cry for wanting to nerf hunters . Because of this new rune , i’m already planning by cookie cutter spec for my hunter . Blizzard just need to add snake traps and my hunter will be complete once more .
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im more excited to be able to run up to someone and press raptor strike more than once every 6 seconds.
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Flanking strike will work well with BM hunters . The only problem i see is not having enough Strength, agility , and stamina gear for a melee hunters. In which melee hunters need all 3 stats in order for melee hunters to be successful.
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It was needed though imo.
Warriors with Warbringer coming online in P2, Rogues with ShadowStrike, Druids in general being stronger. They needed the ability to use their traps to kite with the new tools other classes have that let them sit in melee on the hunter. That or only play BM/melee hunter and hope that works out after lvl 25.
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I was looking at BM / trap hunter spec for more cc . Adding more points into wingclip talent .
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Honestly, survival is looking really fun for PvP. I wanted to go MM with BM on the side but with trap launcher and traps in combat and melee getting a nice buff for when people do get in your deadzone… Pretty excited about Hunter PvP now, I was worried they would not be as viable in P2 with how good melee will be at sticking to you with their new tools.
It’s going to be sick in battlegrounds tossing a trap into the enemy group with 5/5 entrapment, will be very disruptive.
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There’s no way this doesn’t get nerfed. I’m sorry, but no one is going to enjoy a meta where you have multiple hunters in every match blanketing every inch of every AB node, Warsong tunnel, etc. with frost traps + entrapment.
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I mean, it has a 8 sec cooldown and only one of each type at a time. Is this worse than multiple ice mages?
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because hunters have been broken are have continued to be broken this entire time?
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Melee hunters don’t need str. Agility gives 1 melee ap per point, and gives dodge/crit. There is no scenario where str should be prioritized over agility for a hunter.
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Alas, Warbringer was too good to be true. It seems I shall end up Hunter food regardless…
I can see them maybe adding a 50% extra cool-down on traps that are launched if it gets too out of hand, but it’ll be funny in the weeks after launch to watch the montages of people getting sniped by a frost trap and eating an aimed shot to the face 
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yes. im thinking of swapping and giving it a shot for phase 2 leveling. just got hydra last night and already hit like a truck!
Yeah… the in combat portion is gonna have to be nerfed.
Aimed is very mid due to bad scaling but the instant 3s cd raptor will be incredible with a very slow weapon like pendulum of doom if it’s not normalized. It may become the age of melee hunters.
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I’m really excited about the two runes announced for the hunter. I’ve played all of P1 strictly as a melee hunter and it was ok but not as much fun as I wanted. With the trap and raptor strike change the melee hunter is much more fleshed out.
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I would be shocked if it wasn’t normalised. Although, that would certainly make the forums very angry after they got blown up by a lucky chain of raptor-flanking-resets, and it is always funny when the forums are angry. So go ahead Blizzard! I welcome our new Melee overlords!
They would need to make a new ability with a new formula. If they don’t it’s going to be interesting for sure.
BM is just gonna be outright better for melee. You’re trolling if you spec into survival talents for melee. Base melee kit with good gear + a god tier pet is gonna run circles around someone spec’d into full survival. We won’t have nearly enough AGI to make the 15% increase worth it.
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