Maybe adding 18,000 more damage to the 600,000 damage Sniper Shot isnt super necessary. But I’m no Dev. I’m sure they have pvp balance as the goal.
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3% ?
why not 300%?
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da hell man
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won’t the 3% mm buff cancel out the cloth armor buffs?
and the fire mage buffs are just bait to get people to queue up as mage fodder for target practice lol
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Holy priests must be the only class/spec working as intended. We never get buffs or nerfs.
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Delicious.
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it could have been a 0.00003% buff and people would still be upset. the issue is that the bg playerbase has been asking for MM to be nerfed for almost 4 seasons in a row now, a minor buff is blizzards way of giving us the middle finger without actually saying anything direct.
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Or nerf the brainless melee cleaves like yourself first then you can nerf hunters. until then in every form of arena or pvp in general if you focus the hunter they cannot kite you and they die instantly especially if more than 1 melee are sitting them.
MM has problems in arena because arena has limited space and LoS to hide behind. there is nothing like that in an open field of a bg, and thats where the problem is.
People gonna re-roll fire mage and then drop it after a week when they realize it’s still a glass cannon just like MM.
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Some resto druid love! Mana efficiency is still on my wishlist!
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I almost feel like trying it.
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they just have no data as you are the only player in the entire world…of warcraft that plays holy priest in pvp
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Hmm - I guess we Holy Priests in pvp are just fine then…
My Holy Priest brother just a word of advice…You really ought to Faction Change over to FORSAKEN!!!
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Everyone but random bgs.
It’s by all objective measures in PvE and ranked PvP a garbage spec. It’s among the least played in literally all forms of the game blizzard actually cares about.
And being the least played spec on one of the most popular classes (that has a hated spec within its own class in sv)? That says just how bad it really is.
It’s just really good in uncoordinated play because of range, instant burst, and camo. Sniper shot helps it, but marks has always owned random bgs.
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until you get to bgs where MM will be 15-25% of most team rosters sometimes even more. and you don’t even need that many, 2-3 coordinated hunters can just dominate a BG because there is 0 counterplay to having multiple hunters simultaneously hit you with snipershot from 75 yards away.
understand that most of the BG community was expecting to see a nerf to or even the removal of sniper shot all together, a buff to MM damage is blizz giving us the middle finger.
and while you might think it doesn’t matter, people will still play BGs when they don’t want to play arena because of inflation or class balance issues. and a lot more people play BGs than arena on a daily basis regardless of any variables.
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I’m not saying anything specific to arena vs bgs.
I’m saying mm is an objectively bad spec in every aspect of the game except for random bgs.
Blizzard is not going to tune the spec for one subset of the player base when it is by all measured data an unplayed spec everywhere - raid, m+, and all rated PvP.
It has and always will do well in randoms. That’s been true for all of wow. Marksman excels in the uncoordinated random bg environment.
If you nerf marks because of bgs, the spec will go from bottom 3 in all areas to absolute zero playability everywhere.
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I don’t know about that. My fire mage been farming other communities since forever.
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balancing around 3s does not mean they get to ignore massive balance issues in modes other than 3s. they don’t need to keep bgs as balanced as 3s, but they do need to keep an eye on outliers which they aren’t doing and haven’t been doing all expansion.
removing snipershot wouldn’t disrupt any other game mode and would bring a massive outlier back in line in bgs.
hypothetically, if the game were perfectly balanced, in a 40 man roster you would see nearly 1 of every spec. so when you see 10-15 hunters in every game sometimes over 20, then you know players are picking that class for a reason and it needs to be addressed.
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