I see they are removing reach talents from melee and removed it from survival with the new mastery if they really want us in the thick of melee hopefully they will buff the static damage reduction thru tweaking it thru out war as needed currently its at 3-6% damage reduction and since it doesn’t scale with stat points we get the benefit even if our gear is poorly stated in mastery i think this was probably the best call. But now they removed melee reach i think it will get buffed weeks into TWW.
Also its weird our melee aoe can reach 8yrd but our auto attacks and Raptor strike and Mongoose bite are limited to 5yrd melee range i hope they bake in the 8yrd range into all our melee so Exposed Flanks and Merciless Blows will get there full value even if it says it can hit 2 more targets unless all targets are stacked on top each other i think Aoe buff to KC and Raptor Strike/Mongoose Bite might be wasted.
yea but the two new aoe upgrades to single target get no range buff it makes no sense so ether taking the talent should make them 8yrds too thru the talents or it should be baked in to the melee since we are a spear class.
Until you play in full mastery in a bg or a duel, don’t underestimate the healing. 6% damage reduction is much less than the 50% healing ill get during an encounter.
If you know your Retail history, if you know that everything melee about MSV has been an utter failure, it’s not that hard to see why the ranged stuff MUST be buffed and focused on.
RSV won the war, and for a consolation prize of sorts, there’s melee stuff SVs can do if they want to. You might have noticed that a certain Barthilese or Frostmourean goblin hasn’t been around all that much.
If Outlaw is a melee DPS that can do stuff at ranged, Survival is a ranged DPS that can do stuff at melee. Neat, eh?
Except one key thing: Black Arrow. That was for the longest time an SV exclusive, and SV can’t be a Dark Ranger. It didn’t quite reprise all of its former glory, but the latter glory is going to be far better anyway.
Now that both sides are happy, one war ends and another one still wages on: the War for BM Independence. For Mitosed Hunter is our destiny…
Never forget that it was the Beastmaster Anti-Establishment that kept both SV and MM down. Now we must take the fight and lobby the hill of Irving, CA to make Beastmaster its own class. They will want to ensure THEIR spec is what gets that precious raid/M+ slot, that rating-pushing privilege.