Hunter Is SO MUCH Better Now: The War Within Hunter Rework

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The biggest needed change... You should be able to choose your pet's spec.

So with the change to Dire Beast I'm betting we lose the Dire Stable glyph. Every expansion, every rework, Hunter loses more of its customisation options, and we haven't had new ones since Legion.

I liked MoP-WoD hunter the best honestly. A lot of the Legion specs felt good during Legion, because they were new and different and had the artifacts supporting them, but every expansion since I've missed the pre-legion specs more and more. A big part of why is that many modern specs feel like they do 1000 things poorly, rather than just a few things well. Like now, casting Aimed Shot fires off wind arrows, ricochets, applies a DoT, you name it... whereas before you used to just get a lock and load proc and just shoot off an instant aimed shot. Somehow the simplier thing felt better. I'd see one big number instead of 500 small numbers I can barely read, and I felt like more of an actual ranger shooting arrows instead of a machine gun.

With survival I will take the Explosive Shot over the Wildfire bomb personally. I WOULD have liked a dual wield option like Rexar and possibly instead of a death chakram we could throw axes but eh what can ya do

Warlords of Draenor for sure. Movement that MM had with the cool trinket from Archimonde in the last tier that increased ur dmg the further you stood as well as big numbers. Loved it so much, nothing hits as the same as that spec did for me.

After playing Cataclysm classic I want original Survival hunter back.

I dont play hunter much but what I think they should do is: MM - You are your pet, give him lust when he has no pet etc., but I think he should be played also with pet. Otherwise I think he is OK. BM - You should be pet master, but pets now feel IMO like just passive DMG. Something like different pets do different thinks could be cool. Bringing back Pets with different stats and abilities that matter, for example why dark ranger have bonus shadow DMG for pet, what pet does shadow DMG? Gameplay should be about commanding your pet army and your build should not be only talents but your pet roster. That comes with instant pet summoning or you summon your secondary pets for their abilities and they should not share CD for their ability if it is not the same one. Sur - Just give him dual wielding and maybe something like DH momentum where they use disengage to leap back and do range DMG for while and charge back to do melee. For example Red Mage from FFXIV.

I have only ever mained MM Hunter, so I'm really glad to see these changes! I was scared for a hot minute there lol

Ooooh, as a new player mainint Hunter thus far, I'm very happy to see this

can't believe we still don't have survival dual wielding :(

Wait what im losing wildfire effects!?!? :’O noooooooo - i thought i was one of very few using that spec as my main casually - but turns out it was very much noticed… i hope its still fun. Can BM still have that cycle of BW activating a kill command reset cycle?

I have to wonder if we're going to see some big changes to the hero talents in the next couple weeks too... maybe they just weren't done. I could definitely see Stampede being baked into Pack Leader, for example. (And I'd love to see more of the Sylvanas fantasy tied into Dark Ranger, maybe replacing the spammable shot with something else...)

This prolly wont get much attention, but honestly.... why is wildfire bomb an ability for survival? What about bombs screams hunter-ranger. Honest question. I love the idea of playing my melee hunter, been playing a hunter since 2006, but like...the bomb feels so outta place. You are a tracker and you throw...infinite bombs out of your asscheeks? Everything how Survival plays is really fun, but I think they could just buff Butchery and give it a bleed effect (stacking?). Make Mongoose bite and Raptor Strike separate abilities that interact with each other because they were always different and speccing into mongoose bite replacing Raptor Strike feels really weird. But other than those things i think survival is great. Thats my personal wishlist for Surv. I think if blizzard can change survival like this then it could open up better tier sets for the spec.

My favorite time and style of Hunter was the Burning Crusade Survival Hunter. I always loved the job of crowd control and dps and precision misdirection pulls.

I mained Marks Hunter from WoD-Dragonflight S1 when my guild needed a healer. WoD was a fun time for hunters, I remember multistrike being a silly stat for a lot of classes but Marks hunter craved the stuff.

Why would kill shot apply Serpent sting? That's like taking a talent where Execute applies Rend for warriors, why would you spend talent points on a DoT that is attached to an execute ability? I suppose it's a raiding/mythic+ specific thing where you really need every bit of damage at the end to beat the enrage timer or something?

BM-Hunter in BFA is king. The Azerite traits Rapid Reload, Primal Instincts and Heed my Call was awesome fun.

Can anyone tell me how much priest-specific story content is in the XP? Considering that Xalatath is back, you'd think your prior relationship with knifu would come up a lot during the campaign. I'm hoping to play through the campaign as my demo lock but if there's a lot of spriest specific dialog and story content, I don't want to miss that either

Now I'm glad I'm leveling a hunter in remix, might be my new main :)