Why the heck would they make you choose between explosive trap and intimidation, makes no sense except for them trying to make us less kitable. Plus why do we have to use a point for scare beast when SL it was a base taken FOR ALL SPECS. Mr Holinka the “unpruner” is pruning again 
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Why does SV have Aimed Shot?
Blizzard likes players to think they have more options when they are just really limiting them.
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I’m beyond frustrated. Literally only reason I play this game is to play as a Hunter, If I can’t do that I’m just gonna unsub.
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Or why does Spearhead, which buffs the damage of your pet and give mongoose bite a DoT affect, why does it make you charge to the enemy??? My pets damage is increased so I prolly want to spam Kill Commands and range Mongoose bites with Aspect of the Eagle, but in order to do that I have to blow my disengage right after popping my Major damage buff CD???. What good is disengage when EVERY OTHER CLASSES HAS MULTIPLE MOBILITY OPTIONS AND MOST OF THOSE OPTIONS HAVE CHARGES…
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The hunter talents are making me really regret that 6month sub+expansion pre order. Not excited for the expansion anymore.
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I spend most of my time pvp’ing. Right now MM feels horrible imo. Even at 70, it doesn’t feel much better to me (I am in the beta).
I like what they did to push up sustained damage with bleeds and wind arrows and all that (I think they’re cool consistent mechanics) but we basically don’t have a burst damage CD outside of double tap and with all the enhnaced mobility in the game, we’re easy to catch and kill. The way MM is designed right now its either a broken 1 shot or a dead spec in PVP.
tldr; I am beyond disappointed with the talents.
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MM hunter has been trash all of Shadowlands and Dragonflight is SL 2.0 why are any of you suprised.
It only was good when we got legit 25% single target buff in the broken tier set that we knew wouldn’t last.
Also even with this damage mm is the easiest dmg to shut down in the game outside perhaps arcane mage. IF you w key them they die instantly and disarm stun los etc shut them out completely.
Even when I played in top 1% of MM hunters (Top 20-30ish for a whole season) that was not even close to R1 because it didn’;t have stun now it has stun but no dmg and no binding shot which was the best part of mm.
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tar trap can root if talented. take the pvp talent diamond ice and you can now freezing trap and it cannot be dispelled and does not break to dps. intimidation stuns them. you have binding shot to root them. concusive shot slows them. You can also get steel trap as well. Maybe try some of this out and you will have better luck kitting.
it can (its called Entrapment) its a 4 sec root, that breaks on damage and only triggers when the trap is triggered. Def more useful than SL tar trap
Cuts the duration to 5 seconds and now you can’t trap healer (half the time you trap a pet) but yea, its an option… not a great one but its an option.
Intimidation requires a pet (which is at odds with the lone wolf talent for MM [my fav spec], hence my complaints about talents) and binding shot doesn’t root anymore, its a dispellable 3 second stun with a 5 yard range.
Concussive shot with the PVP talent is really really nice still BUT it has a cooldown and doesn’t effect Charge, Roll, Flying Serpent Kick, Vengeful Retreat, Felblade, Hunt, Heroic Leap, Harpoon, Fel Rush, etc, etc, etc and anything that removes snares dispels it, like Fade, Vengeful Retreat, Bloodrage, Fade, Death’s Advance, BoF, Spirit Walk, etc, etc.
I’m not trying to say we don’t have tools or that they can’t be utilized but the kiting toolkit is mediocre when combined with our lack of self healing / damage mitigation and our need to stand still to aimed shot. Our talent tree just doesn’t seem to address any of these points to a meaningful degree and in some cases actively works against itself.
Every class I’ve tried has its pro’s and con’s but the Hunter talent trees stand out as especially horrible to me. /shrug
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In PvP, you’re better off running with a cunning pet with either the slow or debuff rather than LW. If you’re in a battleground you could probably get away with LW, but otherwise a cunning pet is the way to go (the creepier the better 
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I didn’t say we couldn’t kite, I said less kitable, and also said having to use a talent point for scarebeast was stupid or having to CHOOSE between explosive trap or intimidation is stupid
Yeah in a 1v1 situation… Arena and Battlegrounds all of these tools are useless. Yeah let me waste DR on a 3 second stun… Let me spec talents out of my preferred playstyle just to get a trash steel trap that can also be broken by damage. Yeah let me use a PRECIOUS PvP talent point to make my already hard to land stun, somewhat useful…
Who supplies you your Copium? I really need some… I’m so angry about what they’ve done with Hunter talents I’m ready to commit violence.
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It really is a mess.
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I feel like they need to move talents around because we’re spending points on stuff we really shouldn’t have to.