Even MM hunters take BM rune because chimera shot costs 12% of base mana. After the nerf, all top hunter parses are running 5/11/0 with Aspect of the Lion / Sniper Training or Flanking strike / Beast Mastery
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That is true except that I put in that the damage should also be modified based on what speed our weapon is. Hell to me to make it worth it to dw as melee hunter make mongoose strike hit with both weapons, with the same fact of the damage being modified by the weaponâs speed. The other option is to make mongoose strike a melee chimera strike like ability that refreshes our current sting on the target, serpent sting is the only sting so far but for mana issues we could see using viper sting later on in levels.
Its already like that, pet does 30% of marks damage from memory
yep, I was talking about the spreadsheet the dude said he was making
What could be interesting is instead of kill command buiffing the damage of special pet abilities like lightning breath, maybe it reduced/negated the cd as well as the cost to use the special abilities. Hell that could be a better way of overall making kill command work is that it gives a smaller damage buff to normal pet attacks, but make it that they can spam them much quicker an more during the buff duration from having the cd/gcd an cost for them reduced.
Is also trash as it doesnât scale. Thatâs the problem with classic hunter. SoD could have fixed this, but theyâre hopeless
Except that they would have to have that rolled into a rune to change or add scaling to it, as they really canât change it client side given that sod is using the era client (atleast as it seems). As such have to look at how to change it, or making it more viable/appealing to use outside of a baseline change to it directly.
They canât change that client side but they can change pet scaling? Itâs all bs because theyâre lazy.
I imagine thinking chimera shot was a good idea when it does 85% weapon damage and is modified by an ability that doesnât even scale.
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Yeah because the issue was not the pet, but how it was interacting with kill command an beast mastery. So the change was confined to how they interacted with those two runes.
Neither of those runes state anything about introducing hunter stat scaling into the pet. Also pets scale without those runes. All damage calculations are done server side, otherwise people could hack their client to apply whatever they want.
Itâs literally excuses to be lazy and earn as much $$ off of as little effort as possible.
MM actually does solid damage, but itâs so incredibly mana inefficient you can only use it if you group you do BFD with has very fast kill times. It is viable though, if the fights short enough
Id like more done with melee hunter. While i noted melee hunter seems to be doing fine numbers wise it hardly ever feels good without frequent flanking strike resets