I love MM! I think it’s the most fun PVP spec in the game right now.
Here are my reasons why I enjoy it so much and think it is the best spec:
Has the most number of skillshot abilities (abilities that are not targeted at an enemy) of any spec in the game, including the other 2 hunter specs:
Freezing Trap
Tar Trap
Explosive Trap (talent)
Flare
Sentinel Owl (talent)
Volley (talent) - MM only
Bursting Shot - MM only
Barrage (talent)
Binding shot (talent)
I find this very unique and I love this kind of playstyle.
(Most people think barrage is the definitive noob ability, but actually it’s very good in arena vs double or triple stealth teams, because it isn’t targeted and you can usually destealth all 3 of them with it in the opener and deny saps and cyclones.)
You have the highest range in the game - baseline, but also even more after using Sniper Shot.
You get to shoot through walls - although technically all 3 hunter specs can, BM has very little value and never uses it, and SV only uses it to harpoon through walls to land a trap. But with MM you can get insane value from owl and finish games. Most of my wins in arena come after having used sentinel owl (to finish somebody behind pillars, or to kick the healer behind pillars and thus help land a kill)
You can move while shooting, and can even disengage while shooting without breaking the rapid fire channel. This I also find very unique.
You can start the game with no pet and call the pet after the opener for the defensive value and mortal strike pressure, depending on circumstances. This allows you to min-max your damage at a measured risk. I like this playstyle a lot.
For all of these reasons, I think MM is very unique in the age of homogenization and is such an enjoyable spec to play.
Meta changes every patch, buffs and nerfs come and go, but the playstyle remains.
Back in TBC if someone wrote this , the community would have taken this as April Fools Day patch notes .
But the above is a reality and not a joke .
How far we have come .
Mistweaver used to be the only healer with a stance system.
Serpent stance disabled your melee attacks, and Crane stance disabled your healing abilities.
In addition to that, it also had a combo point system with Chi - again, completely unique as well for a healer.
Mistweaver used to be the most unique spec in the game.
Not anymore.
i wouldnt call trapping or non target based abilities as skillshot when theyre just point and aim
the real skill is between the ears not tied to some abilities or classes, its when every pver says “pvp is scripted” and proceed to press fade insta some hunter harpoons them or comes hover over them to see if they can provoke out an reaction, once he see the fade he drops trap instead using abilities on cd and making it obvious and “scripted” like pve people like to claim pvp being when there obviously is alot more to it like human factor with all its variables and the possibility to outplay, this is not spec or class specific and definitely not only mm specific
MM needs it’s damage to be lowered and some armor piercing mechanic so it’s not gatekeeping Cloth and Leather wearers but dealing damage to plate and mail.
Skill Shot means a spell with an indicator. It doesn’t mean it requires certain skill. It’s a term from MOBA games.
yes and how exactly are those mm specific were my point which i made with my post which you seemed to completely have missed, as the op specifically stated that it has the most skillshot abilities, last time i played my sv i had the exact same tar traps and freezing traps and whatever all he listed as mm specific “skillshots”
personally on the matter of skill i think mm takes really little of any, but like i said the real skill is between ears and not tied to specs or abilities so anything goes
Ok I get it but what’s the point of this argue. What is your goal? What do you try to achieve by making him wrong. Who cares if MM has skill shots or not.
well the topic he made about mm was that its most unique pvp spec in the game because it has all these hunter specific abilities he listed like freezing trap and tar trap and the like, so i kinda found the whole post stupid
and because i personally dont think mm requires much skill i made my personal opinion known related mm from the association from the skillshotting and i also pointed out that skill in the end is not something hunter or any ability mechanic tied thing but between ears like the examples i said from hunter gameplay related this “scripted gameplay” i keep seeing everyone mentioning about, which it aint, not if person has any brain
yep i still dont read challenger for life so cant read your replys to me im afraid, kinda got my fill of witnessing the ammount of posts on every bot related topic from one person trying to spread his delusional takes about people not cheating or botting in this game, i also am not fan of big derailers who keep commenting out the sake of commenting or just trying to argue moot points cause they are annoying people in general, but the main reason being that i just dont care read stupid or challenger for life which in my opinion is the same thing
yes, were on agreement its one of the braindead specs of hunter after bm
but like i said skill in the end is between ears so anything will require it even if the spec is braindead in my opinion which mm really is
its very noticeable when it comes to mm players, but then if you watch someone like jellybeans they use the entire toolkit of the spec compared to these braindead mms who use maybe half and all which only read as some dmg abilities
i find sv fun cause you can make wa to track something like flayed or frenzy and use abilities like remove bleed from yourself or teammates or your pet if the enemy were smarter with his flayed shot usages, or when you see enemy sending doomwinds or the likes on your teammate and you disarm the shaman, i havent seen mm players do any of this yet as they cant
as unrelated fun note related shuffle which i put very little value on and related mm, the last game i left as healer had a mm that stood still during all the coolies from warrior and sp with PI all going on him till he finally at 30% decides to press turtle for no reason as I had gave guardian on him and then with the turtle he pressed disengage and then i left, as cba. he literally could had scattered or disengaged when the coolies were popped but he just stands there casting aimed and then he wastes turtle and disengage simultaneously and also overlaps with healer coolie
