What do hunters want for aoe?

I understand there are a dozen things wrong with the upcoming talent trees, but I’ve noticed a trend amongst hunter players:

A number of you are unhappy with your aoe abilities.

Multi shot, barrage, volley, murder of crows… it’d be easier to list what abilities you do like.

Serpent spread

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For Beast Mastery, in addition to what has been announced so far:

  • A talent option that allows A Murder of Crows to benefit from Beast Cleave when active.

Other than that, I would say that BM doesn’t need anything else for AoE.

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Is not AOE, not sure why anybody would think it is… unless I missed something about the new DF talent tree, Murder of Crows is currently a single target DoT.

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I like MM’s AoE toolkit (live and in the spec preview), but the positioning sucks. MM doesn’t even get base Multi-Shot until level 27 at the earliest, which is very late to be introducing basic AoE functionality. It also sucks until we get Trick Shots, which isn’t until 31 at the earliest.

I’d delete Quick Shot, move Killing Blow to Quick Shot’s place, move Multi-Shot to Quick Shot’s place, move Trick Shots to Multi-Shot’s place, and shift Bullseye down one row to Trick Shots’ place, to keep center column access to Volley.

On the class tree side, I’m not going to speculate because a Blue post has already confirmed there are some path changes around the AoE abilities in the bottom right.

no wildfire cluster in sv’s tree makes me big sad
no ss spreading
carve bad

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I haven’t used Murder of Crows in a long time, but I recall it being single target. It wasn’t until I read your comment that I thought, “Shouldn’t it be an AOE based on the description?” It’s a group of crows. lol Just a random thought.

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Where the hell is Wild Spirits for Marksman? :sob:

Somethign better than we have had in the past! Hunter AOE has always been super boring or mechanically broken to the point where it almost always pulls extra trash in dungeons. I didn’t care for volley, i didn’t really like glaive toss, i dont care for barrage, and i really dont like multi-shot either.

Well there is a NPC spell virtually identical except it actually is an AOE:

Maybe they got it confused with that?

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i want a pony

no, wait, i want kill command to cleave, so i’m pleased with DF :+1:

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Oh, cool. I didn’t know about that spell.

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I want a pony with cleaving kill command…

where’s my murder horse?

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Culling - When there are at least 3 enemies with your damage over time effects within 8 yrds of your pet, your Kill Command strikes all enemies within 8 yrds.