I like how you said this, then quoted where I said my exception which answers this but completely glossed over it, instead saying “yeah well warriors will have runes.” Yeah, no duh, so will hunters and since I’m feeling pretty daring with these gambles, I wager Rogues, Mages, Priests, Druids, Shamans, Warlocks and Paladins will also have new runes in the next phase. Not just warriors!
I mean, they only had to add two buttons to quadruple the complexity compared to Vanilla hunter, not sure what your point is. Also them being more complex compared to Vanilla doesn’t make them complex objectively. Hunter is still one of the three easiest classes in Dragonflight, and that isn’t because hunters got some difficulty or clout, it’s because Blizzard made classes even easier like Demon Hunter which also coincidentally can basically play itself to success regardless of player skill or competence. Maybe it’s because “Hunter” is in the name that they felt compelled to make it as noobfriendly as possible.
After the pet nerfs, if you cannot kill a pet that is a skill gap… Not sure what else to say.
The other option is hamstring the pet and kite back for help. It will get focused down by teammates in about 3 seconds and then the hunter is pretty worthless.
This is absolutely true. it’s so non-complex the complexity is removed w simple macros to make everything 3 buttons again.
also it should be mentioned that hunter skill comes into play w kiting and weaving, not button rotation. adding additional complexity here would add to the already high skill floor hunters have but also add potential raid viability, something hunters are seriously missing sans beast mastery updates – which again relies on broken npc ai to compensate for lack of scaling…
I kinda wish they wouold rework the Bm rune so that it would give access to a unique pet ability that fits what those pets are used for. This way we could see the damage an stat boosts from bm get reduced, but still get some interesting an fun aspects added to the pets via the rune.
I really hope blizzard does this. Imagine the seething of this forum when they get what they ask for. The pet being worthless and the hunter doing 50% more damage. On my 99 parse for my hunter, it’s almost a perfectly even 50/50 split between pet and autoshot/multishot. If they boost hunter damage by 50% people will begin crying about getting 1 shot by aimed shot.
it was world pvp and the pet was taking half the damage I am normally doing to mobs and was basically tickling it vs it taking chunks out of my life… how is it a skill issue if they have the same armor as tanks and do more damage than the hunter? I ran a dung last night were the pet was doing 2/3 of the dps for the hunter which was actually using abilities? Sounds like the armor scaling is really out of wack
the spec is “beast mastery” so no it does make sense that the pet does that much damage relative to the hunter. easy to counter too if you’re not a noob. i kill them all the time on my druid by just hibernating the pet then going to down on the bandwagoner who usually barely understands how to play the class.
dont worry next phase all these trashcans will go back to their 1 button warrior and rogue mains. the only annoying thing about season of discovery is that it gives these mouth breathers time to bandwagon.