It's weird that Kill Shot on Survival requires a melee weapon, but Serpent Sting does not

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Serpent Sting uses the same animation, and you can use it regardless of what weapon you have equipped.

It’s pretty weird that one requires a melee weapon, and the other does not.

ESPECIALLY because the exact same spell can be used in MM/BM with a ranged weapon.

This is not a balance concern, since Survival should rarely ever be using ranged weapons, but it’s really weird if you do want to swap while questing or something, that I need to have a spear equipped to pull out my crossbow for a kill shot.

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It’s one of the things Blizz did to ensure SV stays melee with the introduction of Arcane Shot back to the base class. SV also does 50% less damage with their autoshoot.

The fact that Blizz felt the need to do that at all when melee would likely still have more damage with its current design should say something of its own about the spec to Blizz.