Why are melee hunters being nerfed? They are not #1 damage, they are not good in PVP, and they are not getting any ranged buffs to compensate.
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Because blizzard hates hunters.
So lets assume this is a pvp burst issue because lone wolf sv melee hunter with dual wield could 1 tap people with melee flanking raptor strike all hitting in about 2 seconds (and that requiresmelee range, and sv hunter has none of the melee tools for surviving the gap closing process).
If blizzard actually cared about balancing hunters properly instead of gutting them for the easiest fix, they could have either toned down the damage bonus on dual wield rune, or changed it to haste or hit rating (both of which dont give burst but would offset damage loss on a pve fight)
They did none of that and just nerfed it. While leaving the f teir ranged hunter as f teir.
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Because mages are one shotting people in PVP while also being top dps in gnomer, therefore hunters must be nerfed…
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- spamming raptor strike to be top 3-4 dps is not legitimate game play
- melee hunters wreck face in pvp
- the nerf is justified
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they should just give Melee Hunters Coordinated Assault Rune for an on-use Cooldown to use and put it in place of either Lion Aspect or Dual Wield Rune.
Instead of the retail version of buffing Kill Command (not applicable here). Have it buff Raptor Strike instead. That way it’s a Cooldown that last for 20 seconds that gives Raptor Strike a 20% damage increase (still a nerf since we lost 30% damage already).
It wasnt just raptor strike.
It played off a priority system
Multi shot if had a target in range without having to leave melee range of primary target (goes below raptor strike in priority if at 2-3 stacks of flanking)
Flanking
Raptor
Wing clip
The only reason a mage or warlock can out dps a melee hunter is the bosses having as much armor as lvl 60 bosses. The devs decided melee is supposed to suck for an entire phase.
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Hunters are just the “whipping boy” meme class at this point.
So many nerfs from SoD day one, no other class comes close.
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Yes they are.
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yup, without gnomer armor melee hunters would be #1 without question
Melee BM will be fine.
It’s a shame that SV will see 0 play after the change and MM remains on the bottom.
They need to make heart of the lion a book spell at least for the sake of diversity and buff MM.
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yes yes what a shame
but making a spec super OP just for the sake of “spec diversity” or whatever, is not a good idea.
Look at their max, not their score.
Max shows the actual max performance it can do not the weighted average that is the score.
Hunters are 4th.
Welcome to SoD. What flavor of OP would you like to play today?
Super op? It already barely sees any play because it doesn’t provide lion and is trash in PvP compared to BM.
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Because they needed to be nerfed
All the way up until the absolute highest precentile, yes they are
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Name me 5 people you personally play with that score max every single lock out.
I’ll wait.
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Actually Warriors are number one over Melee Hunters on bosses with gimped Armor. So who’s overpowered?
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Show me every warcraft log that you personally played where this is true.
I will wait.
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