And the majority of it is because of what they did to the spec in Legion. It’s not fun to play. Mechanics are awkward, and why would you ruin a spec with a rework like that? It was completely unnecessary.
Even if Blizzard were to give Survival Hunter major buffs, nobody would know if it was OP, because nobody plays the spec anymore. Give us old Surv back.
I have barely played the spec in BFA, but it seems fine to me. It seems more in line with what survival used to be going back to vanilla.
The spec it’s self plays fine as long as you have goose bite
The problem is goose bite is a talent when they should have built the spec around that
It needed a rework on its talents more than anything and getting some passives added
And duel wield
And yeah making it OP for a patch would have helped it’s numbers, it’s a very fun spec for those who know how to properly abuse it
They need to just admit their mistake and put it back to old school ranged SV. I’m guessing a bunch of people would play it then.
No thanks.
I like current surv. It’s a very well designed spec.
Mongoose needs to be baseline though. Not sure why it isn’t.
I haven’t tried survival since Legion, but I REALLY enjoyed the combat engineer vibe.
that’s a joke right?
the hunter I was leveling in wod hasn’t been touched since legion prepatch.
She’s been sitting there gathering dust.
I wish it was.
That’s on you.
The spec is overall well designed however it still needs work
They could add like 3 changes that would completely fix every issue with the spec but blizzard didn’t at all touch it when they needed to refine the spec they just made
I just dont undestand what they were thinking when they made it melee, as if we didnt have enought melee classes and specs already, and only one archer/shooting class. It clear most people who play hunter do it for the archer fantasy.
Basically this. ^^
So according to you I’m in charge of spec reworks.
Which I’m not. I fail to see your point.
That’s not what I said at all.
The fact that you haven’t played your hunter since legion is on you.
i had an amazing time in MoP with survival hunter. that was one of the most fun i had in pvp in all my years of wow. then…they did this…
So not playing my hunter since Legion because the one spec I liked got reworked into something that isn’t fun IMO is on me?
Okay. Again, I don’t work at Blizz.
I played this hunter the whole way through bfa so I guess I picked up what you put down
Suvival has a significant ranged component as well. It’s certainly not a pure melee.
How about no… I swear to god, those entidled alliance players…
Because A) the class started as a hybrid melee class, and B) about half the notable hunter archetypes/heroes in WoW are actually meleers.
Honestly, I think it’s awesome that hunters get such massively different playstyles offered under a single umbrella. I’d hate for it to go back to milquetoast “three pew pew versions, pick gun or bow, shoot, loot, repeat.” I mean, I don’t want to be a mage or a warlock, thanks.
Ranged survival was fun, but current survival is also fun. I wish they would just make it a two spec class, and make Beastmaster the melee spec with the beast talents, and Marksmanship the ranged spec.
Give Marks some old school survival skills and call it a day.