i mean the chances are low that any dev will ever read this but i just try.
So Blizzard said they wont have any class/specc with anything exclusively to this class/specc. Thats why i thought Paladins also got BR and Tabalugas also got BL/Hero, to open up space for classes to pick and not stick to those who have BR/Hero before DF.
So why did Blizz remove our BR again ?
Mass Grip is exclusively to Blood DKs
My suggestion to this is add a talent in the Hunter Tree → Graviton Trap
Graviton Trap/Bomb
CD 1.5 Minutes
Pulls all Minions in 20 Yards Range to the Trap knocking down all enemies caught
in the trap after 1s.
That would make Mass Grip not exclusively anymore while still having to talent into it.
After this talent would be a connection to another talent
Partikal Expanse
Expands the partikel around the Hunter reducing the CD of Graviton Trap by 30s.
By the way, I think in some beta the survival Harpoon was straight up a Death Grip, but they decided against it, thereby keeping Death Grip exclusive to DKs.
Harpoon pulled the enemy to you on the Legion beta but changed last minute.
I guess the only “mass grip” trap we have is tar trap with the root talent.
It’s absurd they removed it. Obviously massive groups chaining it together with multiple hunters is an issue, but they didn’t have to remove it completely when a very simple solution would have fixed it: apply a debuff similar to Sated for BL and make it match the CD for the spell. No more cheesing it and we get to keep a useful party-beneficial spell. Instead, Blizz has only removed party-wide utility after utility from hunters over the years, to the point that all we do now is do damage and nothing more.
Right now we basically bring nothing unique or even useful to group content apart from BL, but then we have to sacrifice a defensive (from Tenacity pets) or do crap damage as Lone Wolf MMs unless they waste precious seconds during pull to dismiss; and why take a hunter for BL when you have more beneficial options like Dracthyr (movement buff) or Mage (intellect buff)?
They should bring back Aspect of the Fox. Give us something that makes it worth bringing us along to group content; as it stands now, our low survivability, mediocre to barely passable DPS, and general bad stigma about our class that’s existed for years makes us very undesirable for content, especially M+.