We need range Survival Hunters back

[Ogdenir-alleria (Ogdenir)]

This is from another thread, but would be a more possible solution to MSV and giving Hunters what they wanted as a melee option.

@Bepples-barthilas

I actually don’t think there should be a 4th spec. I guess it’s fine in an ideal world where developer time and resources are infinite, but they aren’t. It doesn’t make much sense for a DPS-only class to get a 4th spec, and frankly it doesn’t make sense for an entire Hunter spec to be purely melee at all given the established identity of the class and the miniscule audience for a melee Hunter. This is why I’ve been advocating a melee “subspec” of BM where picking a level 100 Gladiator-esque talent swaps out your ranged abilities for melee ones (e.g. Barbed Shot => Lacerate) for a damage/health boost.

BM has been in WoW lore the melee spec and would require the least amount of redesign:

Barbed Shot => Lacerate

Cobra Shot => Raptor Strike

Kill Command => Kill Command

Bestial Wrath => Bestial Wrath

Only two abilities would change to melee.

Then Blizzard would just have to take out Raptor Strike, Kill Command, and Coordinated Assault then reintroduce Explosive Shot back into MSV, so we have RSV again. I think Wild Fire Bomb fits more than Black Arrow, or give other bomb choices, like shrapnel bomb or sticky bomb, RSV core play-style should be poisons and elemental damage, not magical leave that for MM.