Black Arrow Numbers after Blizzard's tuning of 30.10.24

Classes Hunter
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My hunter is 625 ilvl with 639 weapon with lone wolf buff.

  1. In my Dark Ranger spec + all kill shot improving talents my Dark Arrow deals 264k damage.
  2. In my Sentinel Spec + no talents for kill shot my Kill Shot deals 365k damage.

Maan, it feels so good to fully spec into a kill shot so it does less damage.

These tunings are very wise and balanced, but to make them complete you need to go further by removing Smoke Screen and Bleak Powder talents and instead giving Dark Ranger 2 additional talents:

  1. Dark Ranger Imprecision - reduces damage done by Aimed Shot and Rapid fire by 20%
  2. False Shot Aura - reduces damage and healing done by your raid or group members by 10%.

By doing these further tunings, you will make sure that even the most casual hunter players will never pick Dark Ranger talents.

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We had one night for dark ranger to be in a pretty good and fun spot. Fun’s over lol

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Add to that the buggy interaction of Dark Ranger and Razor Fragments, where if your regular (non-Deathblow) Black Arrow triggers a Deathblow, the very same arrow will consume the Razor Fragments buff for the bleed portion of it, yet won’t gain the 75% increased damage, aswell as making your Deathblow Black Arrow hit like a noodle due to no Razor Fragments buff.

This is such a mindnumbingly bad design as is, but they keep bloody nerfing it.

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I have just stopped reading the patchnotes. They change too often and they don’t seem to know what they are doing right now.

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