Well it was fun while it lasted. Flanking Strike and Spearhead nerfed, we are no more the melee glass canon. Now we are just the melee glass window.
Bring back Den Recovery.
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The spearhead nerf is ridiculous. SV got kneecapped super hard by that.
Probably just shift towards a fury/bomb build, but doesn’t really do much.
I’m not sure but Fury feels weird since patch. It doesn’t seem to cleave as much or just dont proc at all. Not reliable. This is just a panic nerf. They had the whole PTR to see that. I can tell the lack of organization.
Why go with it in the first place if you know you gave us more damage on ST while taking away Butchery / Flanking combo, reducing our overall Bomb procs, giving more flat damage on Raptor Strike / Flanking and just straight up deleted our Pack Leader defensive. I legit thought they… thought it out. Idk
As it should be.
Yeah nerfing both spearhead and flanking that much is crazy, survival is already struggling to keep up with the other specs as it is. Love the play style but man I bet our burst damage is gonna be trash!
An extreme overnerf. Give butchery back if you are gonna delete our other 2 CDs. Survival is the most fun melee to play and is once again, not viable.
Almost like we’re being told that if you’re not RDPSing as a SV, you’re doing it wrong.
Oh when i read this i got concerned but its just pvp tuning, lol I was worried
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The hybrid playstyle is what’s make it unique and throws off most players when against them.
I know you advocate for full ranged SV, probably with the argument that it’s more straightfoward to design and SV would end up with a more reliable build. But I love the in-between dynamic.
“I’m ranged, but I can smack you with my big stick with specialized attacks if and when we get close.”
The polar opposite of the Paladin: “I’m melee, but I can smack you with my big throwing hammers even if and when we’re apart.”
The Outlaw: “I’m mostly melee, but I have simple guns that work well up to mid-range just in case you happen to get out of my melee reach.”
The SV Hunter today does have competition in the in-between dynamic market. It does beg the question which of them does it best, and whatever class toolkit we prefer. I actually don’t like Paladin in this way: Rogue and Hunter, especially Rogue, are “craftier”.
I miss old survival when it was back to back lock and load procs and tons of traps. Felt way better as a ranged spec.
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We can just single out Lock and Load. L&L was BETTER when you could get two powerful attacks CD-free and Focus-free WHILE your attack’s CD was coming off.
They made it just ONE AiS, not TWO. Post-Leg MM never really enjoyed the finest of RSV. A certain goblin Hunter of Barthilas or Frostmourne, for YEARS, has greatly salted the forums and perhaps TSL about this.
I don’t think that they should have nerfed both. Honestly the best way to go about it would just be to nerf the pet damage modifiers from pack leader specifically on the pet portion of flanking strike and nothing else.
The one shots needed to be addressed but they were a function of both stacked multipliers on pet damage and the crit damage function. Nerfing the whole quadrant of the tree makes it just suck because crit is already nerfed in PvP. There is also the function of 4pc buffed random mongooses randomly 1 shotting people, which isn’t a thing that has happened on live yet, but was definitely happening on the ptr. So maybe this is just foresight for that as well.
I don’t mind playing an off-meta spec. I do mind consistently being out dpsed by nearly everyone else.
Survival is poor now. Needs a rebuff.
No it shouldn’t both should be viable. Spear head nerf was completely unwarranted but I don’t expect much from blizzard as they’re insanely incompetent. Nerfing flanking strike alone would of put it in line and been fine.
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I don’t understand what Blizzard has against hunters. The survival damage compared to other classes is ridiculous!
Improve the damage of carnage and bombs!
dps traps are awful and MM h as lock and load procs n ow