Not hunters. We are around 6 depending on runes and maximizing dps.
Raptor strike, wing clip (fishing for wild strike procs, if no wild strike don’t use) flanking strike, multi shot, serpent sting(only with abundant mana), arcane shot (again excess mana), replace arcane with aimed shot if MM and use on CD, and then if not using bm rune chinera shot.
And hunters mark, but that doesnt really count.
Then you could consider pet management 2 abilities (attack/follow) if you leave everything on auto cast, you could manually cast some abilities. (This would be useful for bursting adds that have to die fast so pooling pet focus before adds spawn for a little more burst)
People don’t understand the playstyle of a good hunter. I’d add to this that you can stop auto cast on pet ability in certain situations ( such as murloc boss) to build focus for next phase etc. While watching your shot and melee timers for weaving with flanking and raptor while managing the yes simple, ranged rotation. So essentially 6-8 actions depending on the player, that are cycled along with pet position and player position management.
Now that is not to say its “hard to play” Its just very engaging, and for me, its more fun that playing a rogue or warrior which has much simpler gameplay in my opinion.
In PVP, I run survival spec and catch people off guard with my meta changeup. People dont know what to do when a 2300 HP hunter runs at them full speed to smack em in Melee. Its not all BM sitting at range, there is other gameplay for pvp that is strong AF and breaks the meta.
Regardless, we just get nerfed and nerfed. Id rather love to see the other playstyles get a boost if pets are getting nerfed.
Make Flanking buff double the length of time and reduces Raptor stike mana cost 20%
Make Lone wolf 20% dmg buff, cancels dead zone, allow traps in combat.
Bring Chimera back to 125%
Boom. Now you have interesting gameplay that can be built around MM and Survival.
this absolutely confirms that the devs do not play the game, but just listen to the loudest voices on the forums. unless it comes to premade bgs… they are fine with that.
Same with 99% of players. The average player would never even consider downloading some bs for pixel perfect performance on classic content. Cause it is absolutely uncalled for.
Which is my point. For the 5% of hunter sweat lords. I get it. Y’all can be pissed and unsub. But for the rest of the 99% of the player base we chillin.
Why would I ever S key AWAY from a hunter? That would be insane. Hunters are easy to kill this phase. It’s just the pet that does some wild dmg.
I’m mad because I was hyped to play hunter and see cool runes. I’m mad because all hunters are used for is heart of the lion and was scorpion now it’s serpents. I was hype to play hunter but he is a mat farmer till they get some interesting game play.