I think we can all agree that Hunter pets have become a serious problem, even after all of the hunter pet changes. The hunter pet’s are doing 90% of all damage dealt from the hunter, which is ridiculous. Here’s a picture of hunter pet damage (non crits) doing 204 damage on a 1.5 second cast time. As a NON crit. Here’s the pic of damage (there’s a space, it is safe) http s://imgur.com/B76lAxo Can we find a way to give the actual hunter player this level of damage, and bring pets to a low damage point? It feels terrible getting 1v1’d entirely by a hunter pet raid boss. Maybe buff hunter damage by 25% and make hunter pet’s do a % of the hunter’s damage? Give input here so blizz can fix it please!
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I just sheep their pet or just run until it despawns. >_>; I will say the pet damage is an issue, but it really can be easily manipulated and CC’ed.
Pet scales with the hunter, so if the hunter is in BFD gear the pet is that much bigger of a menace.
You don’t know what you’re asking for here.
If you transfer the pet damage to the hunter we WILL one shot people.
Aimed shot crits hitting for 400-500 damage is common against all the low geared people in WSG.
The only solution is to gut pets but then you end up destroying an iconic spec, Beast mastery.
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As per another thread on this forum inside wsg there is a 25% damage reduction affecting players, but hunter pets are bypassing this damage reduction, so just fix that and hunter pets should be much more manageable
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The pet damage is still outrageous
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For starters, its not REALLY a 200 dmg spell on a 1.5 second cast. It can cast 2 spells, then it takes 10 seconds to regenerate focus (or 5 seconds for each cast).
Secondly, when you compare this relative to other class runes that boosted DPS, it’s not really that much. Right now you have rogues/feral druids nearly insta killing people out of stealth openers, meta locks that are raid bosses vs melee, paladins that are ridiculous, the list can go on and on.
Third, it doesn’t do 90% of a hunters dmg. In pvp if they just put the pet on you and run then sure, but in pve pets are like 20-25% of a hunters dmg right now. I just ran deadmines/wc/RFK on my hunter back to back and my pet did 24% of my overall damage. Remember that nerfing pets just for pvp because people “feel bad” when pets do significant damage also means you are nerfing them in pve as well.
Lastly, and maybe most importantly since this seems to be an often missed point, is that most hunters are going full BM talents right now until they are fully raid geared and switching to MM. Full BM spec hunter pets have always been able to solo people in classic wow up until around the high 40’s/low 50’s.
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Cry more tears lul
It’s due to the 25% damage nerf everyone else has, but Hunter’s pets.
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It’s actually justified outrage atm. Everyone else gets 25% damage nerfs in WSG but they forgot to have it blanket effect pets. It’ll be nerfed soon, luckily!
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I’m a scrub and I was wreaking hunters two and three levels higher than my mage in WSG last night.
Perhaps you should consider gittin’ gudder?
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Lol pretty much this. Any form of CC/slow and you remove all the hunter talent points from the fight. People are just bad.
They do need to add the 25% dmg reduction to pets though in WSG. That was an oversight.
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Really? Pretty sure we had a problem with hunters a few nerfs back…
Priests a Balance druids are fine but you have a problem with hunter’s pets doing damage?
Yeah, or roots, hibernate, scare beast… or just kill it.
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Hunters are countered fine by other classes. Sheesh, not every class should be able to handle every other class perfectly. Rock / Paper / Scissors dude…
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What class counters a good hunter atm ?
The main issue is there seems to be a 25% damage debuff in WSG, but it doesn’t apply to pets. Heals weren’t touched either.
A rogue who gets the jump on them and is able to get crippling poisons and kill the hunter before the hunter and the pet meele the rogue to death lol
You must be playing retail. Hunter’s are hitting for a MAXIMUM of 105 damage. 400-500 is fake news.
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As a hunter main… please don’t nerf us. 
We are not talking about PVE here. The pet doesn’t cast once every 5 seconds either, as per damage logs. Valid opinions only please.
no…my BFD geared hunter with purple bow is doing huge aimed shot crits.
Actually deleting clothies.
Adding another 25% damage to hunters from their pet would completely break hunters damage.