Starts out like this
MM underperforming (most likely due to its bad design or a combo of stat availability in the game such as early expac seasons)
MM randomly gets overbuffed
MM somehow dodges an significant nerfs, damage gets moved into rapid fire
Repeat on new expansion
Not to mention the literal army of MM hunters who are solely playing the spec to abuse it in Random Battlegrounds
What’s the best course of action? Changing the damage profile to where it’s something like outlaw rogue?
less crit chance please.
in no world can you balance a class with 50% crit chance btw.
Outlaw mentioned we are so back 
Isn’t it easier to balance a class with 50% crit chance cause their damage is so consistent?
No because if each attack has 50% chance to crit 150%(feel free to correct not sure what the crit dmg value is..) more (its 50% more) dmg and you do 10 attacks.
lets say you do an attack at 1 million dmg for arguments sake.
the range of the damage those attacks can be is between 10 million dmg(0 crits) or 15 million damage(10 crits) with the following chances:
| Probability of a crit | crits in a row | % chance of occuring |
|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 |
| 0.5 | 2 | 0.25 |
| 0.5 | 3 | 0.125 |
| 0.5 | 4 | 0.0625 |
| 0.5 | 5 | 0.03125 |
| 0.5 | 6 | 0.015625 |
| 0.5 | 7 | 0.0078125 |
| 0.5 | 8 | 0.00390625 |
| 0.5 | 9 | 0.001953125 |
| 0.5 | 10 | 0.000976563 |
5 crits = 5 mil + 7.5 mil = 12.5 mil dmg @ 3.1% chance
6 crits = 4 mil + 9 mil = 13 mil dmg at 1.5% chance
not to mention in bgs with multiple marksmanship hunters in it which would increase these chances…