New BIG changes for hunter

Brakyn-barthilas · September 26, 2024, 4:34am

20th Anniversary Update PTR Development Notes

HUNTER

Hero Talents

Dark Ranger

Extra Black Arrows fired from Withering Fire will now apply their periodic effect.

Bleak Powder damage increased by 100%.

Shadow Surge damage increased by 100%.

Black Arrow damage reduced by 10%.

Black Arrow’s periodic effect is now tracked on personal enemy nameplates.

Beast Mastery

Basilisk Collar damage bonus reduced to 2/4% (was 5/10%).

Kill Command damage increased by 20%.

Multi-Shot damage increased by 300%.

Serpentine Rhythm damage bonus per stack increased to 25% (was 15%).

Maximum stacks for Serpentine Rhythm decreased to 4 (was 6).

Serpentine Blessing duration reduced to 8 seconds (was 10 seconds).

Serpentine Blessing pet damage bonus increased to 8% (was 6%).

Training Expert is now a 1-point talent.

Dark Ranger

Extra Black Arrows fired from Hunter’s Prey will now apply their periodic effect.

Phantom Pain’s damage sharing effect increased to 8% of Kill Command damage (was 5%).

Marksmanship

Nerub-ar Palace 4-set bonus updated – Consuming Precise Shots increases the damage of your next Aimed Shot by 20% (was 10%).

Nerub-ar Palace 4-set bonus no longer stacks (used to stack 2 times).

Razor Fragments is now a rolling periodic.

Master Marksman now benefits from Unnatural Causes.

Dark Ranger

Phantom Pain’s damage sharing effect increased to 8% of Aimed Shot damage (was 5%).

Survival

Fury of the Eagle now consumes a stack of Tip of the Spear when the channel begins, and the damage bonus will persist for the duration of the channel.

Merciless Blow’s periodic damage now benefits from damage modifiers and can critically strike.

Spearhead will no longer go on cooldown if the pet is out of range.

Some new changes today for the PTR 11.0.5

Seems the nerf to basilisk collar will be a slight single target nerf if I’m not mistaken? But overall an AOE buff since it’ll buff kill cleave. The multishot damage buff is…interesting…