I’ve been wanting to play a Dark Ranger since forever, but as every other Hunter out there I’m extremely disappointed with what they came up with. The fact that the tree has been untouched since it was first announced is incredibly alarming since we’re reaching the end of the development phase.
Having that said, I believe that all this Hero Tree needs visually is some updates to Black Arrow (Look at how cool they made Explosive Shot this expansion, a world of difference), Dark Chains, Smoke Screen and Whithering Fire. Technically however I’ve been racking my brain at how they could actually make the gameplay loop FUN (because more Aimed Shot charges are NOT fun). At first I thought why doesn’t it just proc Lock and Load, but that would make the proc a lot stronger for MM than it is for BM since they only get a Barbed Shot charge.
So since Explosive Shot is much more accessible in the General Tree now and it detonates any previously applied Explosive Shots. Why don’t we take inspiration from the effect of Lock and Load from back in Cataclysm: Each time Black Arrow deals damage, you have a 10% chance to cause your next two Explosive Shots to cost no focus and trigger no cooldown. We could have a really cool gameplay loop of Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire proccing Kill Shot, Auto Attacks proccing Lock and Load, and Black Arrow proccing the old Lock and Load effect!
I feel like this would be especially cool for MM, granting them some more damage on the move instead of just planting your feet and hard casting Aimed Shot all the time… Anyway, opinions are welcome!