Chimera Shot, damage fluff talent, 15 second cooldown. Boring.
Would love to change it to Chimera Rounds which give us both Incendiary Rounds and Frost-Latent Rounds effects.
I hate that you put deadeye and double tap on the same row, but sort of love you for that, difficult choice. Ultimately going to depend on how Kill Shot plays.
Volley NEEDS to have that cooldown removed and placed on a passive like normal Volley, or have its cooldown reduced to 15 seconds and keep it off the GCD. difficult to justify 6 second benefit on a 45 second cooldown unless the initial damage is pretty potent. It is a Level 50 talent…
Careful Aim should be baked into the class, replace talent with a claymore mine like trap since we are looking at AOE damage tier.
[Personal]
Still really hate all of the first tier.
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Careful Aim Talent is a fun change, Kill Shot back is great, Diet Chimaera Shot as a low damage builder is kind of an insult.
Honestly pacing of the game is going to be important context however some points remains.
None of our likes/dislikes matter if the MM spec doesn’t get Scatter/trap DR split, and more damage on the move. Aimed Shot with a 2.5-3 second (with pushback) cast doesn’t work. If you make us tanky we’re toxic. If you don’t make us tanky, every melee does 3x our damage per aimed shot and eats us alive in 90 seconds.
Only middle ground if we’re not going to have meaningful Chim Shot back for good mobile burst, is to make Aimed Shot mobile now either by making it instant, or lower cast time + castable by moving, and balancing the damage accordingly while making us the squishiest spec in the game. If these things don’t change, SV and BM always remains mechanically a MASSIVELY superior spec.
All in all none of the shiny talents matter, if we’re still a meat pinata that’s not designed to take punishment, having to stand there for 2 melee GCDs to plink you with half of what you do to us in 1, we just fall over every game for no reason.
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I want the hard hitting chimera shot we had in the past that was core to MM. Not this weak BM version.
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Careful Aim is a good and general talent to choose from what I can tell. Doesn’t remove my choice for it because Barrage is on that tier now. Neither for Explosive Shot but maybe now for most Mythic + because of the AOE reduction. And depending on the situation we’ll get for Chimera Shot once in Shadowlands, it’ll only be good for those 2-3 target encounters which makes Streamline still currently better.
With that said, I do find some of the talents greater and harder to choose. Deadeye is obvious but sure hard to get your rapid fire quickly without lethal shots or that big hitting double tap and Volley doesn’t even seem any better than its last choice either because it is still weak and last for 6 seconds and on a terrible 45 sec cooldown which isn’t worth using because you’ll likely get just two aimed shots off of it, IF it is on GCD.
Bro what? It’s SO NICE to have chimeara shot back, especially if they make it do real damage like old MM. Chimaera shot did more than aimed shot in previous expansions but it was a focus spender back then instead of a generator. Having another instant nuke could actually make us threatening while moving in PvP.
Careful aim doesn’t belong on the 25 row, it should either be baseline and a new talent should be made for the level 25 row, or careful aim should swap places with volley on the level 50 row. Then you would have the option of more trueshots, more aimed shots with instant cast, or bigger hardcasted aimed shots and level 25 would be a true AoE row.
The level 40 row should be crouching tiger, narrow escape, and posthaste.
The level 30 row should be iron hawk, natural mending, and spirit bond. Camo should be baseline and work like it did in pre-legion.
Is it too much to ask for binding shot to be a stun? Maybe a PvP talent?
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