Hunter runes are in a very bad state.
Tko above me has the right idea. I wrote some feedback to re-balance all hunter runes and at the same time better balance BM so that the damage component is active and requires input from the player, instead of being fully passive.
You can check it here if you like: Feedback: shift passive damage from BM runes to active damage to balance pets
Aside from that, they need to keep expanding the melee role for hunter. Mongoose Bite is still useless so right now you just use Raptor, Flanking and then spam Wing Clip to pray for WF procs.
If they had removed HotL and made it baseline without the personal stat boost and created a chest rune for melee instead that fixed MB and Counterattack, melee would’ve been way better off.
Apart from that, I want more pet families to be competitive and families in general given love, or we’ll keep going with the same ones used in vanilla and classic in 2019. My feedback post contains links to previous suggestions on hunter pets so do read that too, if it fancies you.
Hopefully, P1 runes are re-balanced and P2 runes are good so that we don’t have to go through this awful state again.