Blizzard, please add tranquilizing shot to marksman. You added lots of dispellable buffs to dungeons, you also added a dispel ability to many pets. These are really good things, pets have utility and add depth to the class, but marksman seems to be design to not use a pet.
I’d like to suggest adding tranquilizing shot to marksman, but requiring the “lone wolf” buff to use it. It would help MM retain the utility of the other hunter specs. I’d also like to suggest adding an option to switch between the damage reduction ability and primal rage abilities while using lone wolf.
These changes would make marksman better when running Mythic+ content. As it stands now, I can’t imagine running a dungeon as anything besides beast mastery. Giving up bloodlust and a dispel seems like too much to sacrifice, and running a pet with MM seems like it’d be a little too much sacrifice in damage.
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All utility should be on the Hunter, not the pet in my opinion. This is a perfect example of this, there was no reason to put this on the pet.
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Has it’s pros and cons as is. Being a pet ability effectively removes it from the gcd, and we can use it while incapacitated ourselves.
On the other hand, it’s a melee range ability AFAIK, and pets are both slow and stupid … by the time my nether ray reaches the target the need has often passed.
So yeah … I’d definitely like this back. Even if it was just with lone wolf.
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I can’t really see an argument against it. We already have conc shot + the option of a pet that can slow. Where’s the harm of tranq shot? Not to mention, with the recent gutting of damage for bm at least and lack of it for MM, having twice the purge would actually improve hunter utility by a wide margin.
On the topic of having only available with lone wolf, I’m not against that either, but I’d like to add an MS tied to aimed shot as well.
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Every time i read posts like this, i get angry at the endless pruning trying to get the game down to where it will work on consoles and mobiles.
I miss the days when we have all stings and traps, conc, tranq etc… i miss it so very much.
And i wholly agree lone wolf should get more variety of pet skills, we did in the past, like we had choices of effects to ammo… i hate that all this is gone
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Lone Wolf has a pretty steep opportunity cost when it comes to utility. With the attention MM is getting, it’d be nice if LW’s kit was touched on as well.
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When Lone Wolf is up, some of several pet utilities need to be on the hunter:
Tranq Shot
Mortal Strike (on Aimed Shot, preferably)
Blood Lust
These would be the bare minimum necessary to make LW not a large utility sacrifice for Marks.
Honestly with the state of MM pvp/arena now, I’d say add Tranq Shot to the base kit anyways. Double dispel (with a pet) would be a unique advantage and a plus for the spec.
Add baseline Camo for some additional pvp needed escape or opening attacks and that might get the spec through to 9.0
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Now that Marks is more playable, I really hope they give us tranq shot back.