it’s roughly a 12% damage nerf and ~1% damage buff from chimera
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As a long time hunter player I’d have no issue with them distributing power from my pet to my gun, it’s more fun. Not sure why you’re hugging your pet so hard, why is phase 1 DPS that important to you to not look at the bigger picture down the road?
I agree with that. But by doing so, then hunters will be back to burst dmg machines in pvp and people will complain just the same. Id be happy with more dmg going to hunter, and that is exactly what lone wolf is “supposed to do” But they nerfed it from SoD beta to launch so its laughably bad.
The only class you just listed that deserves to compete with Hunter is Mage.
The rest are hybrids
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Indeed but that’s life as a hunter unfortunately, I think Lone Wolf will shine a bit more next phase but probably still needs a buff.
Lone wolf needs to do something else to create fun new gameplay. Increase from its 15% to say 18 or 20, and have it either remove dead zone or allow traps in combat. This would boost both survival, melee, and ranged specs and really distinguish them from a BM build.
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“They’re changing the meta for thee, but not for me!”
–Some fury warrior, probably, circa 2024.
Jesus thats actually garbage lol.
In Classic Hunter is a glorified buff with Trueshot Aura. But Warriors also get that, and Warriors at 60 pump much harder than a Hunter. There is really zero reason to bring a Hunter in any 40man raid until probably Blackwing Lair when they can learn Tranq shot from the item looted in Molten Core. It’s going to end up being the same here, why bring a Hunter to any raid when you can just bring Warriors and Paladins with kings? The damage from the runes won’t scale at all with how little damage they already do, it’s kind of a lost cause for Hunters at 60 and it always was. Atleast with the BM Rune Hunters had a Glimmer of hope because maybe their pet wouldn’t get AoE cleaved in two hits by raid bosses at 60, but it seems like Blizzard is going away from that idea.
So Hunter will just have to sit AFK giving everyone trueshot with the pet AFK next to them in every raid basically because the damage is trash on bosses compared to basically every other physical damage class.
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The hunter tears are so great to see “Waaaah my pet can’t solo every class in the game anymore. We are useless!”
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I know, I’ve played it. I simply don’t care about that, I play to PvP and have never had issues finding groups cause no matter what position they’re in there will still be hunter loot in the raids. Your issue is only truly apparent with the sweatlords which most people do not play like. Hunters are not going to have problems getting into groups.
No but it will just fall right back into the same old boring classic meta of Warriors Warriors Warriors and more Warriors when it comes to PvE. People were hoping for a change in SoD, whether it be shifts in top dps meta or shifts in meaningful playstyle for classes. Hunter itself seems like it’s just going to be that “cast aimed shot weaved with multi shot while having pet sit afk next to hunter for the entire boss fight”.
Pretty sad that PvP really is effecting PvE and raiding so harshly. And if you think this is the end of peoples complaints about Hunter pets killing them it won’t be. There will be more nerfs and more +5% buffs to useless abilities until Hunter is just Classic 60 Hunter.
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wow, great logic 
that means priests should have an aura around them that heals all allies for 9999 health every second. no mana cost of course.
I am once again asking you to apply even the smallest amount of common sense to Lone Wolf.
You have 6 more runes to go, you’ll be fine.
Please make the Lava Lash rune work with Two-handed weapons. Shamans who like this type of gameplay didn’t see any improvement.
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You actually saw it disappear lol. At no point is two-handed going to compete with getting 10% free hit chance to both melee and spells, and then yeah on top of it, lava lash. 
If I wasn’t so busy complaining about lonewolf, I’d be asking why they cursed shaman with a rune that took away as much as it gave.
I said we’re dual-wielding. 
– Blizzard Staff, on Shamans, again…
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10% damage nerf + 30% less focus regen still makes its
20% damage + 50% regen focus, Ive barely noticed anything with my farm and damage ontop if you actually put in points in Beast mastery spec like you should you get, with the BM rune your pet can have that damage back with 10% extra damage from unleashed fury and endurance training but you would know that if you actually paid attention to your talents and didnt make believe that these nerfs were unreasonable
insane the hoops hunters will go through Yall should be malding about having no unique skills/runes but have no problem just doing the same cookie cutter BS that you could do in Era
this is a quick scroll through this thread and there have been threads every single day calling out different runes for hunter that are either underperforming or are straight up garbage.
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They know that, however they have a narrative in their head and anything that goes against that is ignored.
They have zero empathy, and just can’t imagine someone else caring about anything other than the numbers on the screen. So probably warrior mains