Have you given any actual feedback on the ptr forum or are you solely going around harassing people who are? For that matter, have you even gotten on the ptr and tried it? Because there are a lot of fundamental issues with the new MM’s whole design.
MM already didnt use pets unless to BL… Otherwise you played the superior pet specs BM or SV who with pets did better dps and their pets were better tanks.
You all care about a specs useless pet usage way too much. Also it is better because now we dont have to waste talent points on a baked in ability.
The slow cast time of aimed shot and an entire talent tree dedicated to making it usable, making a huge number of talents mandatory. That’s presumably why they got rid of wailing arrow and barrage as well. Because they didn’t have enough space left.
The need to double stack streamline, for which we only have a limited number of ways of generating stacks, so you regularly find yourself stuck with just one and forced to fire a weaker, slower aimed shot.
The rng of spotters mark.
The fact that the means of applying spotters mark, precision shot, is one of those limited number of ways of gaining streamline stacks. So you regularly find yourself in a situation where you have two streamlines and a precision shot, and you have to choose between using the aimed shot without spotters mark, and then using your precision shot to start the stack again. Or overstack a streamline for the chance at a spotters mark.
Auto shot being two seconds slower, which drastically cuts down how often we get lock and load.
This is WoW. In WoW for the last 20 years all hunter specs have one common thing left. They could all use pets. Everything that defined a hunter for the majority of it’s life is now going to be pushed into one single spec. Hunter is no longer a class at that point. It is taking over BM. The main spec should be changed to different name and they should make a tombstone ingame for the first class in wow to be removed.
Plenty of MM players use pets. There’s content outside of m+. There’s also people who only use lone wolf in m+ because they made lone wolf do more damage. And otherwise they use their pet.
I get that, but someone with old pets that I’m attached to also realize times change and heck. There are 2 other specs if I really want pets.
But this is surv going melee or combat going outlaw kind of thing.
People will be upset for a bit and acclimate.