What's up with every top MM playing sentinel over dark ranger?

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kinda confused unless there’s some mechanical interaction I’m missing

dark ranger has always been better survivability from what i understand

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Well, Sentinel probably matches better with their backstory, Honestly, who can work ‘Dark Ranger’ wannabe into their story?

Good back story and great mog helps with staying on top.

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this response made me think i posted in general forums by accident

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lol yeah I’m just joking. I have no idea as I’m avoiding playing hunter lately. I do like Sentinel over Dark Ranger. But…it’s kinda for backstory and RP reasons. So…okay, well there it is.

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Ya and it still does, but you really dont need more survivability as hunter atm. Class got an INSANE amoint of defensive buffs going into tww.

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They nerfed dark arrow pretty hard, it hits basically the same or less this patch as last, where as sentinel and lunar storm do 20-30% of your damage and you’re still getting killshot procs which hits harder than dark arrow. And the sentinel shield proc isn’t insignificant either

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There are a few reasons:

  • dark ranger is only better in 1v1s for the self heal, but for PVP with a healer it’s not so important
  • sentinel has the 15-sec shorter Trueshot
  • dark ranger is bugged - f.e. shadow surge does 50% less damage (old bug regression), withering fire’s additional black arrows hit/crit for 100-160K while the main one hits for 2, or crits for 3 million (this is hardly 25% as advertised by the tooltip), shadow hound damage is not shadow as advertised, etc.
  • sentinel’s circle was greatly increased and in small maps vs 2 melee they must stay inside it
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I feel like the 3 second root for any who touches you is pretty decent with sentinel anyways.

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Yep! It’s also better offensively because that root allows for better counterpressure and getting damage off than the bonus wall/healing provided by DR.

Marksman is also a class that plays to win, not play to not lose, if that makes sense.

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Sentinel is better than DR because of the additional spell modifiers to aimed shot and rapid fire on the tree. The lunar storm thing also works better now that it moves. Dark ranger is stuck in a place where it’s not going to be good until double precise headshot black arrow starts oneshotting people. There’s unfortunately nothing else in the dark ranger tree to really balance up to viability if that makes sense. Original version at expansion launch was a lot healthier imo. Auto fire on withering needed to go away because it was also impossible to balance but new withering fire kinda doesn’t do anything.

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appreciate all the feedback guys thanks!