So just leveling my first MM hunter since the change.
It is far more fun than I thought it would be.
Some may complain about the bird, but honestly? I barely, if ever even notice it 90% of the time.
I notice the effect on the enemy healthbar more than the bird. Even the sound effect is so quick I tend to not register it half the time.
For someone who has been wanting MM as a true ranger/sniper spec for years, I’m quite happy. Dark ranger talents are quite great as well. Some may complain about the shadow beast thing, but personally, I don’t care if it lowers my damage a small bit, I took the other talent. I want a ranger and by god I will have it.
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Are you an elf? Or human?
Because yeah the bird fits your aesthetic if you are one.
As a gnome/goblin or orc or undead hunter, well it might clash. And that’s what folks are annoyed about.
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I think its lazy and they should have had themed variants but I still cant recall what it looks like because its so fast I never see it when Im actually playing.
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it’s gonna be my next one if there’s ever another monk to replace mine lol.
dont wanna make the homies lose 5% phys damage because i wanna pew pew lol
already switched one hunter to BM (even though I dislike it), might end up switching the other 3 max level hunters I have over as well because I hate the new MM hunter. They have no decent AOE
ive seen some vidyas were they do over 20mil dps in that first cinderbrew room.
aoe cant be that bad heh
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I love MM I have played it for years and I think this is the most fun in M+ it has ever been! Not only is the damage really good but so much clunk is gone. No more getting a pet out and dismissing it to lust, no more death chakrams, no more ignoring precise shots. If they made hunter’s mark work like monk/DH buff and did … Something … With explosive shot I would probably never play any other spec. I also wouldn’t mind kill shot not taking up a required talent point for MM as I don’t want that.
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they didn’t do the pulling to get that though - you only have multi shot to pull more than one mob and that is just terrible
You have to talent pretty heavily into aoe talents to have decent aoe with MM at the cost of ST. A kinda hefty cost at that. Most specs don’t have this flaw. Most can grab one or two talents and have the aoe they need without losing so much ST. It’s not an issue unique to MM but it is an issue MM has all the same and Blizzard should fix that. Talent builds shouldn’t be so rigid that you have to stop and switch between builds depending on whether or not you’re killing trash or a boss.
I agree with you. One thing that would be an amazing change for MM, is to make both trick shots and hydra baseline. I feel our ST is pretty average, maybe even good, in the sentinel M+ build (and obviously great with the dark ranger build) but the 2 target is really disappointing outside of volley.
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I feel as though I missed something. I was on my hunter a few weeks ago and still disliked it. When did they mess with it? I clearly haven’t been paying attention lol
Have they added anything yet to make bleak powder work with aspect of the hydra? Because that was a really annoying oversight.
My mm hunter has been semi-benched this xpac. The gameplay just feels odd. Will try to bring her out more this week.
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Uh what?
You’re doing something majorly wrong to think we don’t have aoe.
so what AOE do you think MM hunter have to pull mobs in world content?
I tried MM in Delves yesterday.
It’s fun I’ll admit, used Dark Ranger. Bleak Powder is a neat AoE component, she’s only 615, I may consider filling out the vault.
Dunno if I’ll fully invest in gearing her but time will tell.
Umm, Explosive Shot and Volley?
I do love my MM. The changes were a net positive. I roll a single target focused build (I know DR is better for single target but I don’t like the DR vibe nor the Headshot build) and it does real chunky work.
I wish Killshot had a place without all of it’s talents but that is my one complaint.
As mentioned above if you aren’t a Elf or a Human none of the flavor really works. Guuah sure wouldn’t use eagles, lunar magic or any of the nonsense DRs use. I have the flexibility to play around it but I can only do so much.
Outside of that? Yeah, MM is a blast.
Explosive Shot is a weird one for me, I’m still not over the range SV iteration I guess lol.
How are you going to use volley when the mobs are all over? Volley works AFTER you have pulled them but for pulling mobs in world content it doesn’t and explosive shot is not a puller either.
I used to use barrage and could tag and m/d 10 plus mobs to my hunter.
Explosive shot
multi shot
Volley
Arcane shot
???