They are worst spec in BG. They stay in back and cast aimed shoots that hit 30-40K. They need a huge nerf. I’m sick and tired low geared MM hunters in Eye or Arathi who sit next the ledge, and use 3 spells.
Aimed shot, explosive trap and Scatter shot. Brain dead spec. If hunters didn’t had SV hunter they wouldn’t have any meaningful spec at all.
The only BG I’ve seen a hunter do that was in Ashran when carrying the ancient artifact. I have an honor geared mm hunter and it might crit an aimed shot for 9 - 12k. I think. I don’t recall hitting anything amazing. Unless tier sets buff it. I wouldn’t know.
I remember those days - “The Doughnut of Death.” Mages would frost nova you, then back up into the no-hit zone between ranged and your short melee. Then they would totally unload on you and all you could do was wait for the “release” button to appear.
I actually agree.
I hit 60 on my Hunter about 2 weeks ago, got 226 ilvl from ZM gear and queued into a BG.
I felt like I was doing more than my Warlock in it’s PVP set. I was 1v1-ing geared players easily because Aimed Shot just chunks for absurd amounts and you can kite all day long.
It’s fun.
But no way is it balanced in BG’s.
The issue is PVP is balanced around 3v3 arena, and I’m not so sure it’s the same situation. LoS-ing, healers, being focused, etc.
Like for real, you attack hunter, one comes out of stealth double tap for 60K damage and arcane shot that’s it.
Or they just join the combat ofc, MM and BM hunters are brainless handicaps who can’t 1v1, with double tap rapid fire , followed by arcane or insta Aimed shot. Thats 60-70K damage. To much for class that has range.
Note to GD: Sinexes is a die-hard melee brain who thinks Survival should be the only viable Hunter spec and most Hunters are inferior for not wanting to play SV. This sort of attitude is the natural consequence of making SV melee and thus catering to such melee FOTM rerollers in the first place.
I write off any suggestion of bringing back the minimum range, let alone the 5-8 yard deadzone, as irrelevant whinging from people who have a grudge against Hunters and just want to see them become a free kill in PvP. It has no place in the current game. There are other trade-offs to being a Hunter, such as the pitiful self-healing and mitigation compared to just about every other class. The minimum range would end Hunter participation in PvP and greatly handicap them in PvE… but again I assume that’s the end goal of all people suggesting it.