Hello I main hunter and have been a hunter main for like ever I loved the fantasy of the hunter when I first started playing loved using pets and everything I always wanted to be a archer and use pets to take my foes down. But the current state of hunter is sad I think we need more attention and the devs need to see why us hunters keep complaining.
First off the lets talk about the talent tree BM has 2 3 Point talent nodes and I think if anything you can bring those down to 2 point nodes so BM can put those points into other nodes that can enhance their class.
Now for MM they need to rework their entire class tree tbh its not fun not Appeling and no flavor its not the archer type u want when u think of a archer u think about Sylvanas and I would think most hunters would want the shadow aspect of the MM tree since they do not get pets because of lone wolf I think if they made it into like what Sylvanas does it would give flavor and want people to play the class because of how appealing the class sounds.
Now for the state of survival I think they should bring back the old aspects and not have them on cooldown for all the specs in general now how they can make survival unique from the other specs since it basically shadows Bm and a little bit of MM. They need to make raptor strike and mongoose bite 2 separate abilities where raptor strike is a AOE cleave and Mongoose a ST ability (Which already is) I love the idea of the bombs and that stuff its kinda fun and overall need to make the class tree how rexxar would be using beast close up in contact to kill ur foes.
But now for the class tree it needs a whole rework Defensives are too long and the heal is barely does any healing when ur high item in pve or Pvp. Turtle needs a buff to like 50% and dispels all bleeds. Move mending bandage to the class tree. Now for a buff all they need to bring back is aspect of the pack or maybe even a buff where all pet damage/Party damage is increased by 3% and would give hunters a reason to bring to groups. and one more thing move steel trap to the middle of the class tree not the bottom and maybe move barrage their in the replacement or a mass blead Aoe or something and MAKE ALPHA PREDATOR AND KILLER INSTINCT to the top of the tree to the side or below Kill Command and put a ST abillty or Wild spirits please bring this back into the game it was such a good AOE ( I personally loved that ability)
that is all about it if u have any ideas or proposals I would love to hear them! Also one last thing BRING BACK PET TALENTS I BEG and make the talents give like a buff to the hunter and the pet or maybe even a new ability.
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I think people would be more incentivized to read or respond to your feedback if you used more paragraphs friend
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I don’t have any issues with what you ask.
But speaking of archers, how come Warrior, Rogue, and Monk don’t have ranged specs yet? You can have a bow fighter, a crossbowman, and a zen archer. Hunter needs not have a monopoly on ranged weapons.
Please don’t compare me to Sylvanas.
I use a gun for starts. A weapon for a civilized age.
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Pretty sure it’s because they’ve figured out they don’t really know what to do with ranged weapons. Look at wands, for example. They exist but most prefer not to use them because they are problematic. Same with ranged weapons. Used to be all melee types equipped both, and they got rid of that as soon as they could, because they didn’t know how to execute it properly. And they’ve still never got quite gotten things right with hunters, that’s why survival still has ranged options even though it doesn’t use ranged weapons.
The whole class (and concept) of ranged weapon user is just a dustball, gathering crust, in an empty desert.
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Yes they have a crew of developers that’s very unenthusiastic about ranged weapons. The most “innovative” idea for the class they’ve had in the past decade is taking away the ranged weapon from one of its specs.
They need to put people in charge of Hunter design who actually like the thematics of ranged weapons.
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Funny that I was playing Torchlight last year and how the Vanquisher class exemplified the Bowzon/Trapsin concepts. That’s the sadness: said people that used to be in Blizzard North went to Runic and thus those who would be the RIGHT people to make ranged weapon use NOT a dustball in an empty desert.
I think Blizzard needs to contract Runic again on the side even if it’s just for advisory for this.
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Probably just because Ranged weapons are inherently boring and you can only do so many variations of bow attack without it infringing on design space of 2 other semi identical specs 
They could always change survival or marksman to be a gunfighter type spec. No idea how they’d go about it though. Ranged weapons wouldn’t be so dull if we could have some builders and spenders like other classes. Oh look, two arcane shots that hit harder, how fun.
Maybe let us enchant our ammo, like we were able to at one point. Maybe introduce dual wielding pistols or shotguns for close range cleave. There’s plenty they could do with Hunters. The problem is that it requires resources to unscrew our class and do it right so that its fun and flows.
I really don’t think they would give another unique weapon type to Hunters, especially a single spec of the class.