When are reworking survival back to cata/mop? The new version since legion has been the most underplayed and underutilized spec in the game. The only time I can remember it being played largely was in shadow lands s3 and fated due to a broken tier set. With the sustainability changes to hunter it may be better but I believe it’s mostly play style that sees it so underplayed. Please look at bringing back a ranged dot based spec back for hunter as melee survival hasn’t cut it since legion.
Tldr fix survival back to catc/mop standard of play.
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Which statistic are you using? It might be underrepresented right now because the tier set is literally worse than the season 3 tier set. Yes it was very commonly played in shadowlands s3 and s4 when survival was strong, that’s obvious. People play what is good and what they like.
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My thoughts on Survival / BM Hunter just before they went ahead and remade Survival is that, while thematically different and even mechanically to some extent, the actual rotation you used was pretty much exactly the same, but you swapped the spec-specific abilities with each other on the actionbar.
I think if they wanted to go back to old Survival NOW, it would fit, since BM has since been reworked as well and is more of its own thing now.
But that’d also be a massive slap in the face to the people who actually LIKE the new Survival. It has been around for nearly 8 years at this point. It’s not about reworks at this point. Don’t try to get it reverted. Go for a 4th Hunter spec instead (4th being old Survival, or at least based on it). Might be a bit odd having 4 specs and they’re all pure DPS, but whatever.
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bm is the only ranged who dont need to cast anything
why dont they bring old survival back and make bm the new melee spec? also rexxar is bm and melee
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I miss MoP version Blink Strike, Bite and Stampede for Beast Mastery Hunters. The dmg was sick!
I just leveled a survival hunter in remix. It is fun, I’ll admit. But its identity is a mess. I have a melee weapon equipped but they have so many ranged attacks again. It just feels like such a cop out to call it a melee spec. It doesn’t feel like that’s what they want for it.
Nah I like it the way it is no other class lets me chuck bombs and hookshot around like some maniac its awesome.
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Go into raider io and look at keys done at all level. At the +10 point there isn’t enough to even qualify a point of a percentage.
Not exactly good for one’s survival though.
Yes, as we have established, survival is bad right now and people play m+ with specs that are powerful. So many people played survival the meta spec when survival was meta, that is consistent now that survival is not meta. Low participation in high m+ doesn’t justify the deletion of a playstyle that many people enjoy. Yes I am aware that is exactly what happened to rsv and why I will support no other solution besides fourth spec rsv.
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Please no. I do not want to have to drop the spec. I like Mele Survival. I prefer it. Marksman and Current survival are my favorite hunter specs. Make Survival ranged again and I have Zero reason to play it anymore.
I like melee survial, but taking lunge away is a low blow. If any spec should keep increased melee range it’s survival.
Especially at 10+, that is going to be the case as people who have their portals and achievements are literally only playing to push their personal score for a sense of achievement, or pushing for the top 0.1% title.
That said, it’s crazy that their tier set is still not fixed.
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In my ideal world survival becomes ranged and BM becomes melee. As it should always have been.
Yeah I’m not a fan of BM so that would still only leave me with Marksman. All changing this would do would ruin a perfectly good spec for me.
Even when its strong it’s less played than the 2 ranged specs, and usually the lowest spec in the game
Your ideal world is to completely change two specs instead of one spec? That’s not exactly a winning play either.
It’d also cram all but one of the unique quirks available to Hunters onto a single spec.
I hear you. But if I were given the choice of my ideal rework for those specs and keeping this one for you, internet stranger, I would choose the thing that I want.
Besides, you’ll love my new melee beastmaster. I promise 
If it involves constantly yeeting animals at people and summoning multiple beasts you can keep it.