Blizzard… you had two classes with a single dps spec each that was performing decently. Neither class was top tier, though they were close behind boomkins, mages, and locks in raids and rogues in keys.
Then you nerfed them both in the middle of a patch cycle after people had invested tons of time into their characters and after raid teams were built around those characters. Now these two classes have 4 of the bottom 7 dps specs… and all of their specs are in the bottom 30% of all dps specs.
So, what gives? Is this a “we’d rather you not play demonology” thing? Is this a shameless money grab to get FotM chasers to reroll mage or boomkin? Are the devs just unaware of the nerfs they’re making?
The easy fix is to roll back the nerfs or to undo the first round of nerfs applied at the beginning of the expansion. Now is the perfect time… the FotM chasers have already rerolled so you have their money, and the people who are quitting over this still probably have some time on their account… might be able to keep their sub money.
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Seconded, the people in charge of balance are 
Buff fire mages and balance druids. Class/spec balance has always been a clown show with Blizzard.
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“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
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Forcing people to re-roll FOTM has generally been how Blizzard makes money
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Hahah, nice. Though Hanlon’s Razor’s applies to malice and, really, that quoted bit is more of an accusation of greed.
Malice might apply more to their treatment of Demonology 
Fix them: they too much mobility.
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I held off being a FOTM player UNTIL Shadowlands. The initial state of some specs were just so bad that you absolutely had no real choice but to pick the best spec with the best covenants.
The disparity between best and worst specs is so large right now (even after countless rounds of buffs), that I’m fully a FOTM chaser now.
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So… mage or boomie?
It’s kinda the most-asked question on the hunter discord these days.
What does this even mean?
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You can’t go wrong with either. I would go mage, personally.
Boomies are good but the clickbait style “DPS rankings” charts often over-inflate the Balance Druid’s position due to the Council fight.
Well is time to nerf mage and boomy and let another be FOTM now. I say SV hunter, HDH and Demo lock this time.
I played survival hunter since Legion
we had our time in Nighthold and Uldir
Here’s hoping for next tier
Pure DPS class need to perform well vs hybrid class since they can only DPS. Right now hunter is just not good at anything. Please fix it
Thats not true, currently mm has the best niche for pulling half a dungeon and feigning death so everyone else dies.
Joke is on you. BM does that better if they try. Pet can get one half the dungeon, the hunter can spec into barrage to get the other half!
I miss old SV, and I really wish any of our specs were decent. After last week’s nerf to MM, hunter is really lacking overall with several weeks before we can expect fixes.
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I absolutely agree they should rollback Hunter. I’m seeing more BM hunters now because of this change, which is not good.
dang, i’m rusty on my intentional throwing meta. I always thought peak game ruining was speccing into barrage and spamming it in every direction.
i think monk was only nerfed if you actively used the “clip FoF with another attack while the clones are still FoFing” tactic.
i didnt know about that trick and my monk seems to be doing about the same dmg. didnt notice much damage difference with the crane related changes.
im guessing only the pro monks on top of their game actually noticed anything 
See, you can do that as BM while also having your pet go and attack enemies you may be unable to reach.
Be sure to misdirect your healer. Make sure mend pet is up and when your pet gets some mobs angry, have it play dead. The mobs will try to go on you instead thanks to mend pet threat and you can FD to get them onto your party.
Note: I do not condone these sorts of shenanigans.