Hello, there seems to be a complete miss with hunter balancing, specifically ranged hunter.
As we all know hunters are probably one of the worst scaling classes in classic wow. The fact that half of their abilities scale with SP and not AP is the key reason for this. its good that pets now scale with our stats, but as i mentioned, half of our toolset doesn’t gain any benefit.
Now there is probably a simple way to fix this, albeit a little boring. Adding a QoL book/rune to the game which makes the likes of our traps, arcane shot, serpent sting, volley etc scale with AP.
An idea that i had about traps specifically would be to add the AP scaling to the trap launcher rune. Makes it a little more interesting and not every spec/playstyle of hunter will use it (melee hunter comes to mind).
An idea i had about Arcane shot/Serpent sting would be to bake an interation into the Steady Shot rune, to make it more viable as its a little trash atm. For example: Each cast of your steady shot increases the damage of your arcane shot/serpent sting(not sure about serpent in this bit tbh) by xx amount, stacking up to xx times. This would add a scaling component (to a degree) without making it scale from AP. This shouldn’t be a huge issue in pvp as it would take some time/preparation to get arcane shot to actually hit hard. The more i think about serpent sting, i think it should just get a QoL book to scale.
These are a few ideas that i have had, granted they are not perfect but its a start i think. Does anyone else have any good ideas to add? lets help blizzard with qol/rune idea as they do seem to be struggling (this is not limited to hunter).
And please can we not have “shut up you got a good spec in melee hunter already, cry more”. This doesnt add anything.
Thanks for reading.