And have nerfed it to the ground now.
The pet now scales as well as the hunter. Aka almost no scaling at all.
So you chose to ignore hunters primary era flaw that carried over to sod. Scaling is crap.
I’m playing a hunter and I played one in classic.
Lightning Breath does 90 damage. The tooltip says 36-40.
This is as a Marks hunter with no points in BM other than Hawk.
They are scaling at about 2x the damage they used to deal in Vanilla.
IDK how you can even claim that the pet scaling isn’t good. It’s extremely strong.
Next phase you get improved focus regen, so they’re going to be right back where they were spamming lightning breath if you spec deep into BM.
They’re going to be critting their tails off and going immune to CC, with more bonus damage on top of that. They’re going to have vastly improved attack speed.
This was a nerf out of necessity for next phase. Your class is still broken, it’s still OP, and the one flaw is that it’s not top DPS in raid.
Hunter is the master of the overworld, best questing class, only class that can solo farm elites 10+ levels higher than it.
I don’t understand why you think it should be the #1 DPS parsing raid class as well, are you just that greedy?
Warriors are trash in pvp right now, struggle in the overworld more than any other class, get 1 spot in WSG, and the only thing they have going for them is their raid DPS. It makes sense that they’re #1, and they need WF and several buffs to accomplish that.
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PvP and WSG are minigames.
So is raiding for 30 minutes every 3 days.
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It has about 12% rap scaling last i checked.
That isnt a lot of scaling.
Yes it does more damage now, and because we are low level with gear equivalent to close to lvl 50 greens it hits hard. But once hp scales up better with levels, its going to fall off hard.
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And Warriors are doing over 500 DPS on Sarevess. By your numbers, Hunters are dreadfully weak and need buffs, not nerfs.
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to you maybe, think outside of yourself
You clearly haven’t tested it.
Removing gear actually improves the damage of LB.
There’s no rhyme or reason to the scaling as it relates to RAP. Test it.
A single warrior has done over 500 dps on Sarevess*
A fight that rewards cleave.
This is like using Gamoorah as a barometer for caster DPS.
inb4 “Warlocks are doing OVER 400 DPS on Gamoorah! They need to be nerfed!”
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At the end of the day, Hunters are 4th on DPS, as the only pure DPS class in the game. They are substantially behind Warriors and Rogues, that can both tank and DPS, and behind Mages, who can DPS and heal. Hunters are not in a good position. And for Hunter mains, it feels bad, being on the receiving end of unneeded nerfs due to very bad players complaining about getting ganked.
It truly sucks to be a hunter right now, especially in PvP, imo. Hunters are a laughing stock. Even on my Rogue, Hunters are typically free honor.
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These nerfs will not make the class unplayable. So more nerfs are coming.
I know how to test scaling… the thing that throws your numbers off is the runes/talents.
Before todays nerf if you had 20% from talents and 30% from runes it felt like it scaled with 18% rap because the actual scaling was 12%, but with +50% (rune and talents) it is 18%.
Now the rune appeared to be multiplying after the talents so it was actually base damage done is X. X(1.2)=y then y(1.3)=z and that was how it has been calculting its multipliers so it wasnt really just 50%, closer to 55%. Then if you were an orc you would get z(1.05)=d for your final damage calc.
12% rap scaling isnt exact, but its very close to 12% specifically for lightning breath. Each pet ability has a different rap scaling based on focus cost.
All they needed to do was nerf eyes of the beast. Make it have a max range from hunter and its fixed.
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Because people were losing in PVP to them and cry constantly on the forums that they couldn’t win a fight. Hunter will probably fall back to a C tier class come phase 2. Hoping for some cool warlock runes so I can focus on my warlock instead.
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Nope, I never looked into SOD or even knew about it until 2 days before release. I shy away from game reviews and try my best to go into games ignorant so that I can enjoy the experience without someone else’s input. It wasn’t until I reached 25 and really got into pve/pvp content before I realized how busted. I rolled a rogue and main that now instead.
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Are you on drugs my guy?
Because blizzard has no idea what is going on in their own games, they don’t play it, they don’t hire people who play it, and they refuse to listen to actual players, only the casual dads matter to them.
So, the SoD team, then?
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They obviously aren’t looking at WCL. Otherwise, they would not have nerfed Hunters.
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