Dark Ranger underperforms for Beast Mastery (BM) Hunters when compared to Pack Leader. To address this imbalance without affecting Marksmanship (MM) Hunters who also use Dark Ranger, I suggest the following improvements focused specifically on BM mechanics:
- Increase Black Arrow’s chance to reset Barbed Shot cooldown (Beast Mastery specialization only).
→ Barbed Shot is critical for maintaining Frenzy stacks and overall pet damage, which is central to BM gameplay. - Introduce pet-based Shadow scaling while Black Arrow is active.
→ Pets could deal additional Shadow damage to enemies affected by Black Arrow, enhancing BM’s reliance on pet output without influencing MM. - Enable pet Kill Command and autoattacks to fire a Shadow-enhanced Cobra Shot at targets affected by Black Arrow.
→ This would create a more dynamic and rewarding interaction between pets and Black Arrow for BM. - If Beast Cleave is active, Cobra Shot should cleave to all targets affected by Black Arrow.
→ This would improve BM’s cleave potential naturally without disturbing single-target tuning.