BM Hunter - The War Within Beta bug - Important Notice

[Atheana-ragnaros]

Right now on beta, Laceration is bugged to do 70% of your crit damage over 6 seconds, rather than 5%. This results in it adding about 17-22% additional damage to our overall damage. This is why the spec did very well during the last beta raid test and also why blizz nerfed us following it. The important bit there, is if they end up fixing this bug, we need compensation, as one can simply not afford to drop 20% damage and still be fine tuning-wise. Given they nerfed Laceration without fixing the bug, we can presume they were not aware of it. This bug exists on live too but it’s only 40% on live.

There are two serious problems:
a) Laceration is bugged to do 70% of your crits damage rather than 5%.
b) That it would be a massive damage loss to have this fixed, and we would need to be compensated.

If this state is remains as it is now then BM hunter will be the worst performing spec in the game!

[Moosiee-gehennas]

They did this to BM in dragon flight as well. The spec that always seems to be getting the big buffs/reworks is survival. I think survival has had a major rework every expansion since legion.

BM hunters got their damage scaling fixed where weapon damage was not applying to pets, and we have had one rework in BFA. With a number of talent changes and such along the way. In general BM is a well-liked spec. Besides the recent nerfs, it’s a fun spec. Just not meta because they have 0 utility and really average survivability.

Generally speaking, when all 3 specs do similar damage. No one plays survival and I think blizzard knows this. So they always try and give survival more damage and try and make it more appealing to play.