I used to love the old school hunter gameplay where you had a pet for agro and a few ranged abilities with a dot or something. I see survival is now a bomb (?) fantasy or something? Beast Mastery talents suggest you will be dealing with… more than one pet. Marksman with the pet talent sort of looks like the default option but the talents while leveling all seem to just want to spam the rapid fire ability, which looks ridiculous.
Am i missing something? This class used to be a bit more “grounded” but now doesn’t seem to support the basic “archer with a pet” fantasy in the slightest.
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you can just play mm with a pet. it’s exactly what you want? there isn’t going to be 20+ years of retail development to have a contemporary spec just be focused on 1 pet and 2 ranged shots. however, if that is your preference there is classic
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not sure, it’s there on the bnet and i’m sure there are many other people like you that prefer that sort of thing. it won’t be as active as retail for sure, but there you go
MM with pet is actually really quite solid for open leveling, since Unbreakable Bond makes it stronger/more durable than a SV pet or (initially, at least) either one of the Animal Companion pets alone for ST (minus the Kill Command damage and Mastery effect).
Less fun, imo, than the “hassle” of actually kiting stuff yourself, but that’s basically only a thing playing Remix with the open world on heroic mode and purposely leaving some Sands unused in your bag to not mow everything down anyways. /shrug
MM or BM with single pet option
BM with single pet option has just a few ranged abilities with dot while pet holds aggro and feels like old school hunter
“The old school Hunter gameplay”? Where the Hunter and their pet form a partnership, with both having specific tasks they must perform, for the most part individually, for the partnership to be a success?
Old school ,where as if a Hunter and pet WERE a consistently successful team , they were likely very well traveled. A Hunter and pet can go anywhere on Azeroth. and come back alive. Old school, where the pet holds the aggro and the attention of the mobs, while the hunter keeps their distance and kills them? Old School Hunter, With a pet that can be PLAYED. how boring. and hard. Not much glitter either. Things have been dumbed down to almost mid eighties. Still though,. a Hunter w Pet can get around w/o kissing armoured backside.