Upcoming Dec 6 updates

[Ettsa-tichondrius]

Here are the upcoming hunter changes for Dec 6.

@Kaivax

Hunter

• Steel Trap damage has been reduced by 20%.
• Explosive Shot damage has been increased by 15%.
• Barrage damage has been increased by 15%.
• Marksmanship
  • All damage increased by 10%.
  • Heavy Ammo now causes Trick Shot ricochets to deal an additional 25% damage (was 10%).
• Survival
  • All damage increased by 5%.

[Buckshøt-kiljaeden]

MM about to be even more disgusting in world pvp.

XD I love it.

[Whispyr-aegwynn]

I am loving marksmanship! Given I only migrated from a rogue and fury warrior pre-patch, I cannot imagine how good it must have been before this with folks complaining. I know we don’t have great survivability, but with easily acquired 334lvl PVP gear, a 80K sniper shot followed by 60K aim shot and 50K kill shot, with burst shot bringing up the rear, makes world PVP such fun!

[Dactill-barthilas]

Its frustrating because MM needs a rework and instead of doing any good work on the spec they will just make the damage OP to make up for it.

I would prefer a better spec over just getting buffed so people get by on it. I am holding out blizzard does a rework in 0.1 like they did for shadowpriest in bfa.

@Whispyr-aegwynn

I am loving marksmanship! Given I only migrated from a rogue and fury warrior pre-patch, I cannot imagine how good it must have been before this with folks complaining. I know we don’t have great survivability, but with easily acquired 334lvl PVP gear, a 80K sniper shot followed by 60K aim shot and 50K kill shot, with burst shot bringing up the rear, makes world PVP such fun!

Im glad your having fun but enhancement shamans are doing 250k instant elemental blasts atm and i have seen screencaps of 400k elemental shaman burst.

[Whispyr-aegwynn]

Yikes! That might explain some of the instances when I “randomly” incinerated…

[Shadowaxe-mannoroth (Shadowaxe)]

Interesting on steel trap damage. Most take it for pvp, its a little harder to incorporate in in a rotation for PvE. I will run with it to see what this damage nerf is about for the reset.

Another 5% for SV. I think that may get it there. Damage is not bad, but as I gear, I do notice we are behind some classes.

[Eristra-tichondrius]

The explosive shot damage buff is clutch.

[Jackalswind-eonar]

Hmm, no notes about weapon inclusiveness for all shots(Shot-based attacks) for SV spec. C’mon Blizzard, it’s not hard–not even for indies–to change a few lines of code…

[Rohart-stormrage]

Steel trap is currently being taken as a dps increase in ST builds, according to hunter discord and sims. This change is probably so we don’t feel obligated to take a clunky talent because it’s the numerically optimal one.

[Koth-dathremar (Koth)]

So do we think that the Explosive Shot buff will mean that BM can replace Death Chakram with Explosive Shot instead? I hope so, hate Death Chakram.

[Shadowaxe-mannoroth (Shadowaxe)]

I see. I had figured as much. I do use ST in my pvp and Tyrannical build, but since I been learning M0 and doing dungeons, I have not tried it out. Sad that they are nerfing it, but the buff to explosive shot is nice.

[Petstore-thrall]

It’s just terrible