In light of recent interviews on mandatory class specs, revert binding shot

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This is absolutely the most lukewarm take I have ever seen in my entire life. I apologize for being brutish on this but your assumption that hunter is good and that it just requires us to be skilled doesn’t fly. This is not a skill issue problem. It is a data problem. Please see below.

Data Driven Feedback for Hunter Talent Trees for 10.1.5 and Beyond

Over this past week I took a look at every DPS specs tree, the amount of talent nodes they had, and the quantity of nodes that required more than 1 point investment. The results somewhat shocked me—SV and BM are very egregious outliers when it comes to both quantity of talent nodes and nodes that require more than one point. TL;WR: The Hunter spec talent trees need some TLC compared to other DPS trees in future content patches for Dragonflight. I believe this information really shows that th…

Data Driven Feedback for Hunter Talent Trees for 10.1.5 and Beyond

Moving on to our Ranged friends, that data can be found here. [image] As you can see, Beast Mastery is suffering from many of the same problems of Survival’s tree. It has a very few amount of total talent nodes offered to it as well as many nodes costing more than one point to fully invest in. Beast Mastery is also unfortunate enough to be one of the two specs in the game to still have 3 point nodes on the tree. As mentioned above, this gives the …

Hunter is bad currently because it’s baseline tree and spec tree are outdated and extremely restricting compared to other specs(Please see comments about multi shot requiring 3 talent points baseline and survival having 7 “increase damage of x”). AND THEN even after that it brings nothing comparable to raid to warrant it being there.

I cannot stress this enough. It is not bad because hunters are a technical class and we (AS AN ENTIRE COLLECTIVE HUNTER PLAYERBASE) just have to hit buttons well enough to make it work.