This has probably been brought up before, but survival should absolutely be a tank specialization in World of Warcraft. More tank options will always be a good thing, it would help hunters get more love in group content, and integrating abilities where your pet intercepts/absorbs damage as defensive CD’s would be very synergistic. Also, maybe I’m wrong, but in my experience, it feels that survival is a very under-represented specialization in the hunter community.
How about: no thank you.
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This right here^^^
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Nah. Putting yourself in harm’s way isn’t exactly conducive to one’s survival. The fantasy of survival confuses me, but they’re not tanks. I picture either someone in the Mad Max wasteland, or a hunter from Bloodborne.
Survival Hunter would have gotten more love if Blizzard brought back the old Survival Hunter talents back In Retail. In which SV Hunter is the Number 1 Hunter spec in MOP Classic.
Real Hunters uses range weapons and not only melee weapons.
Request denied.
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So, survival? The only hunter spec to use both?
Yes, always have been and always shall be.
I like that survival is going to be dual wield… but to me… Beast mastery is the real melee spec, remember Rexxar in War 3?
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It absolutely should have been. But sadly I think that ship has sailed, and we must move on.
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Tank-Healer hybrid. It’s in the name: Survival.
The more enemies punch Survival Hunters in the face, the more aoe healing they do. You know, from all the punching. Everyone in the party will stack near the Hunter to bask in the glowy glowingness.
It should be a ranged spec so I don’t only have two to pick from on the class I picked because it was pure ranged
Why ? Pole arm is the ultimate survival weapon.
3 mobs jump you, pet 1 trap 1 dps 1, not rocket science.
Pole arm has desirable stats for survival and you can get lucky and have a high crit and take a mob out completely, besides , I am more comfortable dpsing at arms length, as I usually play BM.
Because it reminds me of Rexxar as melee hunter with his pets.
Polearm is indeed the best RP weapon for a survival, gives you range from your opponent to attack etc while you setup traps and bombs.
No.
Survival should have bombs removed and focus more on actual melee skills, and a 4th spec around the bombs and ranged playstyle should be made called tinker or something, to finally end that stupid toxicity thats been plaguing the hunter community since legion.
Because it doesn’t offer anything special.
BM and MM are the only specs in the game that let you use bows/guns/crossbows. If you want to use one of those weapons you HAVE to play a hunter.
Survival is just another 2 hander(and soon to be dual wielding) melee DPS in a game completely full of them. It’s redundant. It really should go back to being a ranged spec because only having 2 specs in the entire game use ranged weapons is just silly.
I LOVE playing tank classes. Literally have trouble logging into alts that aren’t tanks.
But surv? Nah, its fine as dps. (mine is surv and i would not like that to change).