Nope. Even with that, I still get slaughtered by fire mages. Any other mage spec is fine and I’d go as far to say undertuned, but fire mages beat the crap out of me. I’ve tried doing it with ranged earth shock and still can’t get them lol.
What are you on about? Melee hunter is a fantastic assassin in bgs and kills all melee in 1v1s. If it wasn’t good, no one would be playing it still. You have the option to immediately switch back to ranged.