At this point of SoD, Hunters are the only class that can server only one role, DPS. Yes I understand they can melee or ranged dps, but they can not do either of them at the top. They are out parsed by many classes in both of those dps spots, and the other classes that are beating them are also able to serve other roles like Heals or Tank.
Hunters are SO CLOSE to having the needed things to be able to Tank. We are getting a rune that gives us 20% dodge, we already have Aspect of the Monkey and the survival tree could easily be turned into a tanking heavy tree. All that really needs to be done is to take taht 20% dodge rune and add to it that while in Aspect of the Monkey, hunters threat is increased and half of pets threat transfers to the hunter and Distracting Shot becomes a melee ability that forces the target to fight hunter for 3 seconds.
Or, if hunters are not going to get another role besides dps, at least let us be the top dps. It is just outright insulting for a class that can only do one thing, to not be the best at that one thing.
I don’t think any class can be out-parsed by any other class, unless I’m completely oblivious to what parses are. As far as I know, parses are in comparison to others of the same class, and often spec’ed the same or similarly.
I thought in phase 1 that eyes of the beast tanking or similar would be pretty cool, but people freaked out about AI outsmarting them, outplaying them, and just being all around better than them in PVP, so I don’t think they’ll do much in the way of fun stuff with hunter pets going forward.
I kind of liked the way they were going with hunters in P2, giving a sort of Frost DK-esque Obliterate, and was thinking maybe they’d continue down that path, but again… they seem to back out of many of the interesting paths they could take with hunters, well because… complainers man.
i seriously would love to see a hunter heal spec. they got mend pet already, add rune of mending to change it to mend and allow moving channeling. make them a real beam healer not that monk garbage.
ap scaling.
and give them a 1m cd that balances hp between you and the target. just straight up give them lifebinder from hots alexstraza
Please give hunters the ability to tank. Make a tank rune that changes up aspects aspects to give a spin on stance dance, and try to make it beneficial to swap back and forth between pet and hunter for tauntable mobs :). I understand there would be a lot more to it but I think it would be a lot of fun to tank on a hunter.
