The team working on SoD has been trying to push ranged weaving in Phase 4 for Melee Hunters. With new runes like Hit and Run and Wyvern Strike the idea is there, but the execution requirements to consistently pull it off without wasting too many auto attacks and GCDs are unreasonable. There are other issues such as the inability to effectively weave when fighting mobs alone which make this playstyle feel bad to play as it is now.
I do think this weaving based playstyle has the potential to be very fun and engaging if it recieves tweaks to make it more intuitive. Here are two changes to existing runes that would make this playstyle more effective without increasing the damage output.
Hit and Run:
Disengage now launches you backwards. Disengage no longer requires a target, and is not affected by the global cooldown, but its cooldown is now 15 seconds. You gain Aspect of the Cheetah’s bonus to your movement speed for 4 seconds after using Raptor Strike.
Chimera Shot (Wyvern Strike):
Pulls you into melee range with a grappling hook, and resets the cooldown on Wyvern Strike and Disengage.
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Disengage would need a shorter cooldown for that to work. 15 seconds is too long to maintain a 10 second dot., and to rotate on an ability that you’re expected to basically use once every 6 seconds.
You are correct! This is why Chimera Shot: Wyvern Strike resets the cooldown of Disengage. The 15s cooldown is there to prevent it from being problematic for ranged kiting in PvP.
Wyvern Strike → Disengage → Chimera Shot would be usable every 6s!
I agree! My brother is a hunter main and we have been discussing this since phase 2. Basically just disengage and harpoon, it could all be under the same hit and run rune. It would make the class feel more engaging to play and really open up the hunter toolkit without being too overpowered.
Hi.
Here’s a link to the PTR feedback forum.
I genuinely hate melee weaving, Just let me play melee pls.
I will be severely disappointed if this goes ahead as is.
I’m so incredibly disappointed by the lack of creativity regarding hunters that I don’t really care about SoD anymore (nobody asked but yes I cancelled my subscription).
They wanted to make survival relevant, the spec with mostly defensive talents, and instead of finally giving hunters a tank rune they force us into wyvern for dps while all the rest is still pretty much useless for DPS (maybe it changed, I only looked at the first ptr changes and stopped caring).
Also they keep killing BM and never fix bugs like pets not getting the pvp health buff and DR.
So yes I can play ranged MM, while I enjoy it it’s nothing special or exciting.