Nice nerf xD. KEKW.
Explosive shot does 3x less damage than my auto.
No trap in combat, no feign death, I guess it’s Season Of 1-day-quit.
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So not literally?
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Yes, they nerfed it by like 70%… they nerfed the single target damage and made it AoE, which was absolutely not needed, as hunter already got a lot of AoE spells… 
My 7 lvl shaman now does more damage than 15lvl hunter in green items - gg.
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Hunter damage is joke right now. Some good geared healers better dmg than you
As per usual Blizzard display they have absolutely no clue how to do class tuning.
I switched to Chimera Shot which even though it’s nerfed still does about 2-3x the damage of Explosive shot now. What a joke, to change a class this heavily just 2 days after launch is fundamentally bad for the players.
They should’ve nerfed damage on ES by like 5% at a time to see if they reach a reasonable damage output, instead the crippled the class.
From really good to 
in the span of 2 days.
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Remember that there was no PTR. They’re winging it as they go along. It’s been up 48 hours and the first fixes are being applied. How quickly exactly should the tuning cycle be? Did you want everything to be finetuned before launch?
Well first, u gotta collect some data, then evaluate them, then come up with a meaningful changes, then apply them and test them – that the result is what u wanted, and then release them to public.
That cannot be seriously done within 2 work days aka 16 hours and thats my opinion as a fellow game designer…
As the rune was not game breaking, the fix was not needed asap and they should have taken extra time to think it through.
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Wait. So hunter cant 2shot mobs anymore?
The amount of hunter tears is fabulous
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I expected Explosive shot to be nerfed, not crippled. If they are gonna do a day 2 patch it should be adjusting the % not completely altering abilities.
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Just wait until your class gets nerfed into the ground patch note after patch note.
It is fundamentally bad game design.
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Not even playing that game. Jokes on you, my boy.
Well, I’ve created a Hunter after the nerf. So I didnt try “old” explosive shot. But I can’t say, that I’m dealing bad damage. I’m still having no problems levelling, very low down time and decent amount of damage from melee weaving + shots. Maybe you are not taking everything you can from your class?
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I love how everyone think Hunters didnt know it was OP and needed a nerf.
Ofc we did, HOWEVER, when blizzard balances 1 thing its either buffing it to the ceiling or sending it straight to the basement. THERE IS NO INBETWEEN.
Explosive shot only needed to be reduced in single target dmg, they have completely ruined it now.
Also, Shamans can one shot with lava burst, so why is that not nerfed 
“I cant kill mob on single shot, I cry 
“
Well, you see, it’s hard to get used to something that’s balanced when you got to have an attack that did more than 400% weapon damage every 6 seconds at 30+ yards for a few days. The poor things might now need to use Chimera Shot or something…
They nerfed that too
Not nearly enough to warrant complaining in the least. Call me when it’s at 15% - 25% attack power, is melee and has zero additional effects like Quick Strike. Maybe then you will have an actual reason to complain.
Still does more damage than starsurge.