Hunter one shotting entire team in BG 😬

[Gomkar-argent-dawn]

Hey everyone!

Just came out of a BG with my lvl 54 SPriest, and noticed something that has made me consider rerolling to Hunter…

In short, the opponent team had a MM Hunter that seemed to posses the ability to one shot everyone on our team.

Oh excuse me… When I said “one shot” you thought I meant “he killed other players fast”…

No I literally mean “he killed players using ONE aimed shot”… No Double Tap buff or anything… He just charged a single Aimed Shot, and 80% of the time he killed whoever he was targeting…

I am well aware that Hunters are a meme, and are considered absolutely brokenly overpowered at low lvl scaling, but at lvl 50+…?? And this wasn’t the typical “overpowered Hunter”, this was so bad everyone on the team ran from him because he would kill them when getting within range.

I would love to know if that is a scaling issue? Although I think scaling should start decreasing at lvl 50+… Or if it’s because “Hunters are meta atm”? Or something else that might explain it…

I just wanna mention that I’m not here to “vent”, or because “I’m upset”. I am purely curious if this is intended.

[Vossen-argent-dawn]

@Gomkar-argent-dawn

lvl 54 SPriest

This is the problem.

[anon60296612]

I just leveled and I swear I saw a new hunter player with no heirloom oneshot everything while every other class had to use their abilities over and over. How fair is that? So you have this new isle, where rogues have to do eviscerate over and over with 5 points, and then comes a hunter and oneshots everything. Good new player experience there…

This class is always, always scaling badly at low levels. Every single expansion. From WOTLK prepatch where it oneshot people with explosive shots. To MOP Stampede oneshoting fully pvp geared players

Everytime I try getting the wrecking ball achievement on my accounts I always go for hunter, because they always twoshot people at low levels… lol.

I am not telling Blizzard to nerf hunters, but buff every other class to their levels for a good solo experience hehe.

70 pvp tho… I am glad that double tap gets removed. I am sick of doing warmode and seeing half my lifebar gone in one hit…

[Gomkar-argent-dawn]

@Vossen-argent-dawn

This is the problem.

Okay so it’s a “scaling feature” is what I’m hearing then. Then I won’t worry too much about it at max lvl.

@anon60296612

70 pvp tho… I am glad that double tap gets removed. I am sick of doing warmode and seeing half my lifebar gone in one hit…

Oh yeah I heard something about this. Guess that makes surviving easier then.

[Vossen-argent-dawn]

@Gomkar-argent-dawn

surviving easier

It will and it will make it even easier to kill hunters.

[Nicarao-ravencrest]

@Gomkar-argent-dawn

Although I think scaling should start decreasing at lvl 50+… Or if it’s because “Hunters are meta atm”?

MM Hunter is undoubtedly not “meta”, there are other specs that are better in most PvP Scenarios. But: MM Hunter can be played as a “Glass Cannon” in BGs. If your positioning, CD-management and target-swaping are on point, especially against bad-geared people (abuse 70%+hp Aimed shot and kill shots) you can out-damage almost every other class in BGs.

That is also at max level the case:

[Bubasparks-magtheridon (Bubasparks)]

Is it possible that that hunter was using like 350 weapon or smth which can be crafted and used by low levels? Or he just had better gear than anyone on that BG… Or he was just cheating. Aimed shot is not even close to be that strong…

[Shwosh-kilrogg]

MM with good gear are bg heroes.

It’s a different thing when they step into the arena and doesn’t have a battleground team to hide behind or an entire map to kite on.