Let’s go ahead and bring that back, please.
You can make it an optional talent with something else, but yeah… missing it.
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Serpent sting was one of the Hunter’s original abilities. Yes- let’s bring that back.
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What exactly do you miss about it? The additionally mandatory GCD for a low-value DoT?
If you were manually casting it in DF you were doing it wrong. It still exists it’s just tied to another spell.
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How is something low-value and mandatory at the same time?
If you were shooting for an mathematically optimal rotation against a target dummy, sure.
But there are more situations in the game than that. Survival was one of the few specs in the game where it felt like you had the ability to dictate the range of your engagement, something useful in PVP, soloing, and certain raid encounters. Serpent Sting wasn’t just another DPS ability, it was a tool you could use.
Now, it’s just another name for a dot.
I understand people want maximal DPS per GCD, and that’s natural. But that’s a call to fix this classic ability, not remove it.
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I agree 100% so id want it back as castable and as a talent buff but if its utility replaced by lets say making Arcane shot with crossbow animation then in BG where there 10-20 other players defending a narrow path and charging in will have you die in 3-5 seconds cause we are built like a hunter and not a warrior we can spam Ranged CD like bombs and explosive shot and KC and arcane shot while we wait for a target to dip to 30% hp and we aspect of eagle and do a full on burst rotation from a safe range and only really melee when they come out the safety of the group or survivable encounters to me melee is just a finishing move at least in PVP. In pve it a different story.
Action economy is a big deal.
i mean its still in the tree for survival? and you don’t even have to cast it. It just passively occurs on your rap strike/mongoose strike +butchery for aoe
problem is survival is Bad at BG cause the kite kit is limited…hunter too squishy to charge in even with heals so people used it not for spreading dots but it was used when of aspect of eagle when its on cooldown and people went as far as weapon swap to use arcane shot and then they switch back in safer brawls only time you ever use melee was defending a flag or small engagements where less likely be popped dead in 5 sec.
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they should honestly make two like versions or paths of survival a more melee based and a gun and bow based one.
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They don’t have to they just need ditch aspect of eagle and put arcane shot into the rotation make it reduce KC cooldown each shot and do the crossbow animation that way we can bomb x2 explosive shot x1 then Arcane shot x2 KC x1 Arcane shot x2 KC x1 and then replace aspect of Eagle with Aspect of Tiger and we get 25% dps buff in melee range a passive that toggles on in range that way there incentive to do point blank ranged and melee for a burst of dps doing our melee bomb rotation.