Patch notes - Rapid fire increased or decreased?

Classes Hunter
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I saw the patch notes state that rapid fire is being decreased for set bonus but increased for damage done, in general. Does this mean it’s going from 40% to 60%? See first line item - not sure if they meant decreased.

  • Hunter
    • Marksmanship
      • Rapid Fire damage increased by 20% (was 40%) in PvP combat.
      • Guardians of the Dream 4-piece set now causes your next Rapid Fire to fire 40%
        additional bolts (was 60%) in PvP combat.
      • Arcane Shot damage increased by 35% (25%) in PvP combat.
      • Chimaera Shot damage increased by 35% (25%) in PvP combat.
2

It’s a flat nerf. Rapid fire pvp bonus dmg is reduced as well as the set bonus reduced.

The melee pain train must be allowed to keep chugging along.

3

But it states its increased, literally using the word increased.

It is a nerf overall when taking into consideration the set bonus, is that what you mean?

4

It WAS increased by 40%. Now it’s only increased by 20%. It’s a nerf. The set bonus change is also a nerf from what it was prior.

5

Some basic math:

Rapid Fire is 7 shots over 2 seconds.

Lets assume its 1000 damage per shot (to make the math easier) thats 7000 damage over 2 seconds base.

in PVP it did +40% damage so 1400 damage per shot but now does +20% damage ao 1200 damage per shot.

In PVP the set bonus did 60% additional shots which is ~11 shots total, but now does 40% extra shots which is ~10 shots.

So it does 15% less damage per hit and and one less hit - it basically tunes down the burst of it in PvP and they buffed Arcane Shot/Chimaera shot.

I dont really PvP but my guess is its damage output was basically Rapidfire dead, especially with Rapid fire dropping a volley after softening up the targets with multishot - I can see how it would be insanely OP.

6

blizzard once again trying to force us into survival in pvp :roll_eyes:

7

reading is hard. its a flat nerf, its right there

8

they had to do this, rapid fire espcially against clothies was just not balanced lol, mages had no shot of beating a average mm hunter

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9

it was overnerfed actually

10

so tell me how a hunter works with locks and or anyone with dots you took away are feign death where we cant get reed of dots not you drop are dps to

11

seems they hotfixed it today. Doing the correct damage now

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12

ok thanks but how can we beat most dot classes