Suddenly, my aimed shots are hitting for 25k now, 30k crits. A week ago they were hitting for 50k-60k with 100k crits. The damage nerf to us said 4%, that math doesn’t check out.
To put it in perspective, my killshot damage is approx. 4% lower than last week. And the damage on killshot was similar to my aimed shot, until the recent changes.
Anyone else having this issue? There’s no reason aimed should hit for the same amount of damage that arcane shot is hitting for.
Update: Just looked at the description of aimed shot and it says “40k dmg.” This is 100% a bug, as it’s not even critting for 40k dmg. To add insult to injury, my aimed shots are now averaging 18k. Less than a non crit version of basic, unbuffed arcane shot.
No sir. Same target and all of my other shots are within the same range. I see what you said, Maddoxxz. And that also makes sense. But as I stated, my AS went from 75k-105k down to 18k to 30k. There is no reasonable explanation for this. Same exact target and my killshots hit for 50-90k now. My arcanes are hitting for 20-40k. My arcane is averaging more damage each strike than my AS. It has to be a bug, right? I cannot fathom what else it could be. I have multiple recordings of it, too.
I am shelving my hunter until this is fixed. And I’ve mained hunter for 15 years. But I really hope this is fixed.
Aimed Shot deals Physical damage, so you have to take the value in the tooltip and subtract ~35% for the correct value, due to armor reductions.
40x0.65=25(k), roughly.
75x0.65=48(k), roughly.
Sounds about right.
Having said that…
This indeed does sound like they messed up the math somewhere. You’d think that, when they say “all ability and pet damage” they’d make the adjustments through the general aura modifiers, but if only AiS has been affected like you say, then perhaps, in addition to the general aura, they made some miscalculation/typo and made changes specifically to AiS as well, even though they shouldn’t have. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Having said that(2), if they messed up this big on AiS, we would probably see a whole lot more players coming on here to comment on it.
Read your topic which you linked to above here. It sure does sound like a screw-up somewhere. Have you managed to reproduce the bug/identified what causes it?
I noticed in your topic you mentioned arenas, and switching specs. Does it occur when you zone in to an arena match(and remains in effect after you’re done in there), or does it happen straight as you swap your specs? Or does it happen as you swap your weapon?
So, straight as you swap your spec? I assume you haven’t tried swapping to SV, and then swapped back to MM again without changing any gear or attacking anything(?).
^ This. I swimming my damage, I lost 3k-4k, was already trailing DH/Monk/Rogue. Suspending game time I guess… Nobody cares and can’t get my money back so I see it as this will continue.
I’m sorry for y’all, but I’m glad to hear it’s not isolated to me. I hope today’s patch addressed it, but I don’t know if they are even aware.
I also agree that it’s frustrating to not have been hotfixed quickly. It’s an enormous bug. I submitted a report about it. We will see if they respond. The more of us that post and comment about it, the more likely we are to get it fixed.
Edit: Ghorak- I hear where you’re coming from on the damage mitigation. But as you noted, other factors remove that from being the cause.
And I have begun to see a lot of hunters responding here, in addition to creating their own threads.
Lastly, I also think it’s possible that it’s a piece of gear or scaling that is causing this issue. Then again, why would it only effect 1 of my abilities. My Killshot and Arcane are hitting within similar ranges to what they always have. Yet aimed shot has dropped immensely.
They must have fixed it because today the tooltip shows 44k and I’m hitting for 47k non crit on the dummy. Steady shot however shows 9.5k and I’m hitting for 6k on the dummy.