All of the venting and frustration you’ll read below (should you choose to) comes from a perspective of MM hunter, but it doesn’t mean the other two specs are in any better place. I’m probably going to condence and simplify alot of stuff to shorten an already big wall of text. It’s a vent, I’m just extremely frustrated at the lack of vision for hunter class design.
PVE - it’s fine for the most part, Trueshot is still the dumbest “burst” cooldown in the game that goes against the core mechanics of the spec, forcing you to ignore Precise Shots procs in favour of more Aimed Shots. Couter Shot is ridiculously weak, weakest kick ability in the game when it comes to interrupt duration to cooldown ratio. Pet is still plagued with dumbass AI and still capable of body-pulling mobs with broken pathfinding.
PVP - this is just painful. Two weeks of relative fun of nuking people from camo - at the time where noone had gear/armor/stamina/vers, and yet we still got nerfed, and then some on top of it. Now when everyone is decked out in vers “pvp” gear - Rapid Fire barely tickles even cloth targets. Literally the repetition of BfA launch. Lack of any stun ability hurts. Aimed Shot barely deals damage unless it 's a crit, you stand there like a bafoon with your 2.5s hardcast for a pitiful ~4.5k damage, meanwhile enemy ret throws five Judgements and you and finishes you off with a 15k verdict, or even better - a boomie decided to target you during convoke, or a rogue opens on you and takes you out in 3 seconds.
Freezing trap is still trashiest CC ability I’ve laid my hands upon - still on the same DR with Scatter Shot, ridiculous travel time, can be bodyblocked/triggered by pet, for whatever reason it’s considered a spell - so it can be reflected back at you by DH’s, or ignored completely by Warriors.
Hi-Explosive Trap and Bursting Shot fail/miss half the time, because it both of those barely knock targets vertically - enemy players usually end up traveling 2 yards away and getting stopped by obsure map geometry, even on seemingly flat grounds.
Counter Shot is an even bigger problem in pvp, especially in current season where there’s a finite spells you can actually catch/be able to interrupt, and even when you do catch a cast - hybrids start popping off heals, healers barely feel a 3s interrupt and continiue with their day as if nothing happened.
Torghast - just end me, this is an absolute worst content I’ve tackled as a hunter. The sheer bloody LACK of imagination when it comes to Torghast powers, my goodness, how are you able to keep a job after making those?! Boring, static, unimaginative “powers”, gimmicky intertwined mechanics like rooting a target/throwing a trap that grant you a whole FIVE seconds of mega-dps only to drop you on the ground like a turd once the buffs are gone. It’s unbelieveable how much literal TRASH abilities there are for Hunter:
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You can cast a fear on a mawrat and it’ll die after 3 seconds - wow, such an awesome ability.
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Your pet can instatly kill a mawrat and gain a 100% damage for ENTIRE TEN SECONDS!
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You can find PET snacks inside breakable pots that grant pitiful buffs to your pet.
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You can get a 500% damage increase for your pet during Eyes of the Beast - a literal joke.
Not a single power that would affect - Rapid Fire, Arcane/multi-shot, Explosive Shot, Serpent Sting, Volley.
The literal best run I’ve had - is where I magically, through RNG, was able to stack four or five Lens of Elchaver powers - additional magic damage on critical hits. And that thing was making up around 60-70% of my overall damage.
The only saving grace is that torghast can be ran in a group, otherwise - I’d probably never finished Layer 7 and 8 of Twisting Corridors. What a fun experience it is when a resto druid maintains 100k dps, balance druid - 200k+ dps, blood dk tank - around 150k, and then you’re rocking your 20-30k with an extreme effort, right after your Misdirection goes on a cooldown, ofcourse, because your role in torghast is a freaking support.
In conclusion - can’t wait for 9.1 or 9.2 where the design team gonna have a sudden influx of “awesome” ideas to completely change how MM works, change and re-shuffle talents and redesign how Trushot works for tenth time.
We out here.