The lock and load nerf is completely unacceptable. Hunters have been flip flopping specs every phase and it’s getting old.
Ranged hunter and melee hunter both finally feel good, although melee hunter still needs considerable buffs to be viable. The nerf to lock and load is short sighted, uncalled for and nothing shy of unacceptable.
Nerfing a rune because people get blown up in pvp is ridiculous. Pvp is hot garbage in sod anyway - the team is way too small to be able to balance pve and pvp separately, and I’d like to think the majority of the community is aware of, and accepts that fact.
Tldr; revert lock and load nerf - look at bwl logs. Hunters are not viable in p5.
They have reverted zero hunter nerfs…It’s over…
At this point is kinda ridiculous, what they should do is to give us a full BiS Melee hunter gearset/weps/trinkets and all enchanted to justify this bs.
Or just delete the class altogether since they clearly have a lot of issues with hunter being the only class that has no hybrid builds.
Damage was perfectly fine, not even top dps and we are still getting nerfed just because some people cry on the forums non-stop, like it’s nuts.
If what’s on PTR right now is what we are getting then this means they forced us to swap from range to melee 4 times in a row each phase, like what are we even talking about here? and yeah I said forced because melee hunter was and still is super trash at the start of P4. You have to be insane if you think this is a fine thing to do on a mmorpg.
Not only that but all our runes are trash besides the meta ones, like hello?
No it’s a perfectly fine nerf. You have been OP for a few phases now just like shamans. It’s a welcomed change by most of the community. If you dont like it then try another spec out or reroll ? or you could stop playing if it’s such a big deal for ya! Hope you have a great day Dopamine! 
It’s interesting that people seem to think “viable” means “#1 top dps” and as soon as they drop from that #1 spot, they cry “UNVIABLE!!!”
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shutup an bring my lion buff boi
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They are! mhunter buffs and legendary(epic) swords that are the classic equivalent to cata daggers!
Anyways cant believe Rhunter is going to middle of the pack(balanced spec) What a shame unplayable!
Man they are crazy if this isn’t just a testing ground thing that they will revert after they see it murdered our chance to compete as a pure dps class. Please, for the love of god blizzard revert the change.
What I meant is that they should give us a full gear set for making us swap 4 times in a row from ranged to melee. Like it’s funny that melee is going to be meta when no one rolled on melee items, don’t you think?
I mean you do not have to swap into melee I get the sentiment though
Ranged is looking to end up between middle and upper-middle
But it is funny how absurd they are making melee hunter feeding the people that only like to play top specs I agree
Especially screwing over the FOTM players they should double down and do rogue since they wanna do that as well
Even tho I would agree on that “you don’t have to swap”. They did deleted Melee hunter off the logs by nerfing it and making it the worst spec in the game when it was a top 1 build. So they did 100% forced us to swap, that’s if you want to be competitive, but if you are not trying to be, then yeah you’re fine even tho to me if you are not doing your best, you’re not really playing the game in the first place.