Oh I know! It’s why I believed beastmaster spec shoulda been the melee one.
Honestly at this point it’s cos Beastmastery was made to be literally THE most accessible class/spec possible for players. Even back when they had to buy ammo etc. Playing keepaway and having a pet to tank stuff, being able to stay mobile and fight so positioning isn’t as crucial, all plays into that. Switching it to melee where there’s much more personal responsibility for positioning and survival is just tossing them into the fire.
I guess we could do a spec name switch but it’s gonna confuse people either way.
Well that means they wanna hold onto those old pillars they said they would let go of of they wanna grasp at the past of this class and spec like that. They need to let go.
Honestly people say a 4th spec would help and I’m starting to feel inclined to agree since they can’t figure out how this class works and they are trying to cram several characters into this class that used a ranged weapon and melee weapon. Look at the weapon skills. We can use fist weapons and axes and swords, one handers and yet we can’t with how the class/spec is being half-baked as is. THey don’t know what to do with it and it feels like it’s forever stuck in an alpha phase.
Then they keep trying to focus on a theme, current version they are trying to make all the specs work around explosive shot. They can’t make up their minds and now they wanna stick you with an eagle you’ll most likely not get to change the look of and half your abilities will be the eagle. They hyper focus on one thing WAY to hard.
Again i can go on and on and point out every mistake they have made along the way and keep mucking this class up ever rework. But i’m tired.
He’s ranged tho
He uses 2 axes. He gets into melee a lot in wow but if he has to hit things at range he hurls axes at people. He hurls axes in heroes of the storm so he is that hybrid build that blizz wants survival to be right now. Again they don’t play into the javalin/axe throwing hunters from the past. Hunter is trying to be to many things in one package. If a 4th spec would fix a lot of this classes problems I’m for it. Imagine it a tank spec that can dual weld one handers.
rexxar is classed as a survival hunter in the legion order hall, so he is in fact a survival hunter
In hearthstone lol
every other iteration he dual wields axes. They retconned him to be survival in legion
bm def should’ve been the melee spec back then, it kinda shows with the fact SV just copies alot of bms mechanics like kill command and CA (bestial wrath like burst)
And heroes of the storm :
And wc3 :
So he has ranged attacks in all versions ? And his animation is throwing which is also by definition ranged ?
no. its about surviving. traps, bombs, makeshift weapons and utility, blending into your environment.
bm is exotics and pets.
these debates are and always will be silly
yeah, if bm whiner babies get to have their way why not us