My MM fantasy is that you stop trying to reimagine the hunter fantasy. Just stop it. Please. Give the SV hunters their dual wield weapons and stop trying to be smart.
We went from three ranged specs with a pet, to two ranged specs with a pet, and now they are trying to shrink it down to one ranged spec with a pet. Why do they need to take our pet away to make these changes.
It breaks my heart.
Hunter just needs a 4th spec at this point to satisfy everyone in the MM crowd
this marksman can be the sniper they keep trying to push, and the 4th spec can be a mobile archer with a pet for people who’re upset with marks losing its pet
You forgot to add they are gonna force a pet on you. An eagle they said which gives me the vibe they are going to choose for you what it looks like. Same with the little crossbow survival is forced to us.
They keeps forcing things on this class without giving it the free will to choose. I stopped playing it cause its become a “You don’t have a choice and you’re gonna like it.” which is alarming.
Which is funny to me because we have systems in the game to fix stuff like this
Why not let you transmog the dinky crossbow/pistol as sv to a bow gun or crossbow?
Why not let that animal companion slot in the stable be the hawk pet for mm?
Cause for some reason they lack foresight which is the silly reason REXXAR the beastmaster is now survival for some reason.
Seeing it in action is really going to be the way to tell if its a good thing or a bad thing for me. I primarily play without a pet as MM anyway, so I don’t think it will change much for me. I don’t care about the fantasy. I just care if its fun.
Also, I was half asleep when I read it, but it seemed like there was a huge focus on Explosive Shot in the rework, didn’t it?
For me, having the pet is the fantasy. If it’s bad for raid, fine. I still want the option when I’m solo. It doesn’t hurt anybody. I farmed a rare cat that would work with MM, and now they want to take that away. I want the choice to play the fantasy I established for my hunter in the past 20 years, not the fantasy of some developer who was still in diapers when I started playing.
Yeah, I get that for some people, cosmetics are the most important thing. I get too bored with that too quickly to let it be a driving force in my enjoyment.
That’s not really the full story. I farmed the cat and I’ve played for years with it at my side. It actually feels lonely without it. Yeah, it’s just pixels, but that’s how it feels. I don’t get that feeling in group content, but I do when I’m running around solo. It’s one of the main reasons I like pet classes.
I do get it. The change is probably heavy handed and they could think up another approach to it. I ran with same spirit beast for years. Still use it, actually. Since the day it released. For me, not much is different right now but I can see losing a pet I have been with since the start being a no go.
then I’m lucky you’re not a WoW developer
Then BM/Pack Leader and leave MM alone. I love these changes and im eager to try them out.
What if I told you that there was not one, but two specs that allow you to run around with your favorite pet? Nah… you probably wouldn’t believe me.
I feel punished for HAVING to take a pet for some utility because of how utterly broken pet pathing is and always has been. I’m not happy about them taking petless intimidation away, let alone taking stuff like lone wolf away. MY class fantasy is going petless. I shouldn’t be forced to take a pet as a MARKSMAN hunter.
People keep saying to play different specs as if they’re not completely different playstyles. I’m an altoholic - I have like 54 characters on my account right now. I try everything, but there are some specs that just don’t get my focus, because they’re not as fun to play for me. BM and MM feel totally different, and Surv is melee, not at all comparable. MM has a fun rotation, with cool abilities that we want to continue to be able to use with our pets.
Nobody wants to force anyone into using a pet when they don’t want to. What we want is for them to come up with some way to do this that doesn’t take away either our beloved companions or our beloved abilities.
People are tired of the dated pet control system, it’s pathing, and controls are obsolete. MM hunter mains have been petitioning to get the pet removed from MM for over a decade now, if someone wants to play a ranger without the need of the clunky pet system, let them do it.
There are several specs in the game revolving around pets and minions. I think it’s a great thing for MM to get a unique pet-less system that still fits the WoW hunter archetype. Having all the utility the pet had jammed into it, forcing MM hunters to run pets for the amount of time they have had to was ridiculous.
Honestly, they need to either revamp the whole pet system entirely or just scrap it in modern WoW. It’s being held together by tape and staples just mountains of spaghetti code that has been piled on top of itself for two decades now with very little change or update over the years.
That’s what they said they deleted my main spec years ago. They said MM would play like ranged SV. It wasn’t even close. We all got funneled into the dumpster fire called BM.
The play style of MM is finally near what they promised back then. It’s as close to ranged SV as it’s ever been, and I feel like I’ve finally found a home again after all of these years.
I have no desire to repeat that.
This year you will turn into Lego-less with Hawk-Tuah and you will like it.
2027 they’ll turn BM into an Evoker style short range healer that uses wands. Fantasical beasts, we’ll have found them.
I can’t even bring myself to be annoyed with them and their changes anymore.