In your head perhaps.
But since neither BM nor MM plays even remotely like how RSV used to play, and since many players already playing those specs want them to remain focused on their current themes, the best solution would be to add RSV back in as a 4th spec(and thus, a 3rd ranged hunter spec).
Precisely.
This.
It still baffles me how people can go about saying “NO, don’t you dare advocate for the removal of my spec(MSV), but go ahead, change MM/BM all you want”.
And at the same time…it doesn’t.
For SL? I would say that’s a big no indeed. For 10.0? One can dream…
Anyone who wants to discuss current SV can do so anytime they want to. It doesn’t mean that we have to stop asking for RSV to come back.
Many of us are, simply because of how we no longer have access to the playstyle we liked so much.
Yes to that last part really. And to the very first sentence.
As for Explosive Shot within MM, like you said, there’s no place in MM for it(in the style of RSV that is). Not unless you change a whole lot more than that.
I agree. Luckily for us, RSV did not/would not play the same as either of the current specs we have. Different animations, different mechanics and interactions and altogether a different base damage model/setup.
Depends on who you ask.
Yep. Simply put, for a proper version of RSV to be able to exist within MM, we would essentially need MM to be as it is by it’s default core design and perhaps a select few talent choices. The rest would need to be reworked in order to fit the necessary elements pertaining to RSV in there.
In other words, it would result in 2 very bland and uninteresting “half-specs” by today’s standards.
Incorrect. Just plain wrong.
Link:
https://warcraft.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/gamescom-2017-world-warcraft-legion-patch-7-3-interview/2
In the interview with Ion, following a while after the changes, he said outright:
Representation doesn’t necessarily matter as much, I think. We knew with Survival Hunter that we were making a niche spec. It is a melee spec for a class that has traditionally being range. I think that a lot of existing hunters, they are all hunters because they want to be a range class, and so we don’t necessarily expect them or want them to feel like they should be changing; but for new players picking up that class, it is an intriguing option
What he failed to acknowledge was how, in turning SV into a melee spec, they literally forced EVERY hunter that does not like melee combat(as a hunter) to switch spec.
And with that, due to how specs were becoming so distinguished in their respective design/theme, more-so than before, they now also had completely removed a playstyle which played very different from both the other 2 ranged options within the class.
SoO is the first one that comes to mind.
Again, incorrect.
I guess you forgot about Highmaul?
Nope, BwD/BoT and TotFW along with Dragonsoul were all raids where RSV was right up there with other hunter specs on certain fights. Did it always outshine the other 2? No, but that’s another story.
Yes it has.
Only for HFC, and in Legion(although that’s beside the question here).
https://www.worldofwargraphs.com/sv/pve-stats/classes/hunter
In fact, as you can see from that graph, if you take the median of the 3 hunter specs, SV beat the other two by miles right up until they tanked it for HFC(as by how the line drops to nothing from that point on).
That’s not the version of RSV which most people are asking for to come back.
People are here refering to what we got with WotLK, and even more so with Cata and forward up until they removed it, going into Legion.