Spell power hunter is the new ranged meta

My Grace of Air totem (4% melee crit) will cry deeply for you.

Still changing lion wouldn’t affect you in the slightest.

It would make you that much stronger in comparison. (You know… like in PvP?)

Tell you what, you can have it as a book, if it does not affect/buff you at all.
Have a good one

Much stronger?
The only viable pve build is melee BM and that wouldn’t change anything… Only give us some fun options.
Detaching the aura from the 10% self buff wouldn’t change anything, BM would still pick the 10% stats. But at least it would make lone wolf playable. Are you that scared about lone wolf builds with +10% stats in the open world???

Lone wolf hunters are far from a menace in pvp right now.

Imagine caster’s reaction XD

You didn’t even look up the right spell.

That 40% scaling is currently bugged to be 80%, and will improve to 96% in the next patch.

This is currently pinned in the hunter discord:

“Chimera shot makes serpent sting double dip on spell power
It’s currently at 80% and will jump to 96% with the buff coming
It seems to be simming close to melee builds.
Will it last or will it get nerfed? No idea
Is the sim updated? Yes
Bis list? TBD
Would I personally recommend you go and start taking caster gear? Not really”

According to them, sure.

10% Extra stats and 30% extra damage doesn’t sound obscenely powerful to you?

the +4 All stats chest enchant is widely coveted, but 10-20% extra stats is just lame I guess…

Be warned that MS>OS

Spell power hunters sim at the same level or higher than melee right now. Caster gear is MS for them.

Now hunters can buy soj

Yeah, there was a distinct difference in output though.

Like having 250 spell power in vanilla but nearly 3k in tbc.

Considering how trash lone wolf builds currently are, my answer is a no.

Not even as a rune. Just make it a castable buff like Paladins have.

New sims are out. SP Hunter is about equal with melee but pushes ahead with a PI.

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About #5: Shaman is already suffering because of agility on mail gear. It is by far the worst stat (Even Int is more important for your shamanistic rage now). Shamans need strength. Since both classes share the armour type I believe that Attack power is a good compromise. You can also look at rogue gear for agility.

Spell hunter is back

Oh really, shamans are rolling every single piece of hunter gears tho…

Hunters have been rolling need on everything in the game since day 1. That’s nothing new.

That’s literally only the DoT portion. Not the actual ability.

Keep trying.

Then the answer needs to be 2 sets itemized towards their respective classes with the tokens. There is no need for a compromise when tokens exist. Itemization shouldn’t default to just go get the leather pieces in SoD.

The gear is only a partial issue, the runes are what is driving a majority of the underperformance for ranged. The scaling issues of hunter are still ever present and none of the runes do anything to correct that.