This is absolutely untrue.
It is VERY evident you’re making stuff up as you go along.
It saw a lot of play throughout all patches of Cata and MoP. It has nothing to do with the tier sets. It was just usually a solid spec that people liked to play.
Damn someone should have told the Hunters who brought SV to multiple world first kills at the start of Cataclysm…
It wasn’t as good at MM in FIRELANDS. Even then it still saw decent representation. The buffs going into 4.3 were overkill and made the spec the best by far.
In mists it started with extra 10% damage, and saw most play because another 27% damage to explosive
Crazy because the nerf affected PvE way more than PvP. The “well deserved nerf” was in fact the removal of a core part of what made the spec function in PvE (Improved Serpent Sting) in a patch where it was already screwed because they took away the spec’s cooldowns in WoD only to create a legendary that massively preferred specs with 2 minute CDs.
It’s not that. It’s just that you’re painfully obviously making things up as you go along to support a failing argument. You have a history of being dishonest and being called out on it.