I am looking to make a new alt.
However i don’t enjoi a slow playstyle, thats why i ended up making a warrior and a demon hunter.
I like the fast playstyle. Slow is boring af.
So my question is this:
What ranged class has a fast playstyle…much like a warrior or demon hunter?
Hunter definitely sounds like it would be your cup of tea, Beast Mastery has very similar playstyle without any hardcast, from range. Survival is similar but meele and if you ever wanna try a bit of casting in the mix you can always give Marksmanship a go. Besides BM I believe there is no ranged class without hardcasting. If you don’t mind hardcasting a bit here and there Elemental Shaman and Fire/Arcane Mage might be worth a shot too.
(And by hardcasting I mean casts where you can’t move while casting.)
problem with hunter is that they have either long cast times (Marksmanship) or possible downtime (survival/beast mastery). for best mastery it’s not really downtime, it’s more of a gotta wait that second to let my cd align so i don’t waste the cdr on Kill command and such, on survival if you’re unlucky and kill command doesn’t reset you will have some downtime. But the more you gear you have the less downtime you have basically so might still be good.
Below serious raiding with long fights you will not experience downtime on a bm hunter when played correctly. I leveled 2 hunters to 120 recently and even during leveling you don’t really have a downtime. Worst case scenario is waiting one second for optimal kill command/bestial wrath/barbed shot setup but usually even those you can time to have almost no extra time(somewhere between 0.5-1 sec wait at most). Of course playing it poorly you can find yourself focus starved so if a more attention demanding rotation (barbed shot duration bestial wrath cd and kill command cd mostly) is not his playstyle then yes, BM won’t be the best for him but downtimes should not be an issue.
Fury warrior!
I always have a button to click, and the rotation feels smooth.
Ive deleted all my lvl 120s and ended up a warrior at least til the next expansion . Nothing except a DH feels this smooth
Hunter BM wise never really felt engaging to me, not tried marksmanship but it seems better paced.
Fire/Arcane mage are pretty good. But frost is slooooooooow mo mode due to ultra long cast times compared to cast times on fire/arcane skills.
Warlock destruction build has a few good skills, slow to cast though and don’t expect the void walker to hold agro for you. Just a simple fire spam as destructo will have all the mobs swarming over you. Let alone the main, slow casting destruction bolt which has a lengthy cool down. The only build where the void walker seems to hold agro is in affliction and that is not fast paced plus the damage throughput is minimal.