I have played Marksman hunter all three phases in SoD. Even when it wasnt strong, I always felt useful because of trueshot aura, and I had a nice spot in melee groups getting leader of the pack from feral druids. Now raids are going to bring one hunter with lion that gives lion to everyone - what place does a marksman hunter have? Trueshot aura now gives ranged attack power only… which is only useful for ranged hunter. So the utility of going marksman is entirely gone. Please change this
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Just another way to further nerf warriors.
They gave the melee attack power to heart of the lion. so the one hunter in the raid will give the melee ap to everyone, and no other hunters will be invited
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BIG mistake!!! Both hunters need to be able to provide raid buff utility!! All Warriors can do battle shout!
trueshot aura should never have impacted melee 
it’s based on the priestess of the moon’s trueshot aura from warcraft 3, and, as the name implies, it only buffed archers and other ranged units.
Hey!!! I have a bow too!!! Unbelievable how selfish hunters are. They want all the best melee weapons over melee for stat sticks, but don’t want their buffs to effect you… 
Crazy to post in a thread by a hunter asking to keep their melee attack power buff lmao
Night elf priests should be able to use a bow
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Priestess of the Moon spec… that would be so awesome
My only thoughts on this, if they don’t invite you its because your skill lacks to be a good dps. Right now range hunters are doing great and even with the hunter changes, they impact melee only with minor buff of utility and rotation with its cloak rune resourcefulness.
Of course, the one downside of this is that we will no longer be in the melee group and depending how many shamans are in the group, we may not get grace of air totems which would suck. However, melee hunters no longer have to go marks to gimp their dps and be a buffer for melee and another melee will now get wild strikes since its a waste for range hunters.
I agree that ranged hunters are great right now, but a big part of that is the utility they bring to melee groups. If you’re the person putting a high level raid together and you already have a hunter in the raid, what is going to motivate you to bring another? Trueshot aura only giving ranged attack power is virtually useless unless you’re buffing a beast master ranged hunter, and every other dps is going to bring utility of some kind. There is just no justification to bring multiple hunters to a raid anymore
And with 40 man raids around the corner, finding a spot in a raid where only 1 of the 40 is a hunter is going to be a nightmare
Now thats over reaching to come to a conclusion. Even with guilds for 20 mans, they will have more than one hunter. And we do have some utility, frost and ice traps. It may not be much, but it something. If you’re going for PuGs, you are likely to get into a group because of your dps. Guilds and PuGs want to down raids and as long as you do the mechanics and still keep up dps, you’re likely to get invited or stay in the raid especially for 40 man.
What 40 mans?
Either way it’s usually 2 melee 2 casters (including healers)
No one ever makes a ranged group unless you are a melee Raidlead that doesn’t want more melee competing for ur weapons or the game is dead and pickings r slim
being able to do consistent physical ranged dps is utility as well for fights like onyxia anyway
Yes, one fight for all of classic…