Revamping Hunter runes

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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Hi Guys, right now we lost the possibilities to have changes for hunter this week, so I am proposing some new changes for the next reset.

Regarding Hunter melee, we can agree that the spec was too strong but is also extremely RNG, so I 'd propose a change to Flanking Strike rune:

Flanking strike: You and your pet deal simultaneous instant 100% melee damage. Afterward, your Mongoose Bite and Raptor Strike deal 10% increased damage for 10 sec, stacking up to 3 times. Raptor Strike reduces the cooldown on Flanking Strike by 8 seconds.

This way we could keep the three stacks always active, and we could keep the nerfs we received to dual weild specialization, granting a true sense to the rotation trying to keep the buff always UP!

Kill Command: Give the command to kill, the pet deals a damage equals to 200% of its Attack power. Each 10 focus point spent by the pet, the cooldown of the spell is reduced by X secs.

We can agree that Kill Command is a BM Rune, and scales well with ranged BM ( which is pretty lacking in DPS ), the new feature helps to mitigate the difference between wind serpents and cats, so more focus is spent faster the CD will decrease. Of course flanking strike should be better for melee than Kill Command. Now the question could be if the kill command should be like in Cataclysm where the pet charges too towards the target, or the pet just hits if already in melee.

Steady Shot: A steady shot that causes 60% ranged weapon damage. Cast time is the same of attack speed.

Steady shot, which is born in TBC time, had the swing time of the ranged weapons already pretty close to 3 secs, while in classic most of the weapons can be really really fast. I find no shame in being still and casting perfectly steady shot auto shot in this way.
The faster the weapon like gurubashi arena bow the faster you shoot but faster you lose mana for example, but you can the rotation with other spells like chimaera shot, actually chimaera shot and steady shot don’t fit too well, and this would work well for future Runes and systems.

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Oh, this again?

  • Move BM to chest, move Cobra Strikes to Belt. (replace melee specialist)
  • Any crit should proc Cobra Strikes, not just shots.
  • Remove Lone Wolf and move Melee Specialist to its place.
  • Remove Lion as a rune and turn it into a skill book replace it with a rune that makes your pet do a flip.

ashdl

  • Kill Command should be an execute ability, 15 sec CD. You use it on a target with 20% health or lower then it critically hits with a bonus 100% crit damage.
  • Serpent Spread should be replaced by Sting Spread, all stings will now hit 3 targets and all scale higher with your INT acting as spell power (normal spell power also scales them). If you use Chimera Shot when this rune is active then it procs ALL active stings BUT consumes them rather than refreshing them. The disarm chance is drastically reduced when AOE’d.
  • Sniper Training, change it so standing still 1 sec = 2 crit chance for a max stack of 5.

asdh

  • Chimera Shot needs its original 125% damage back and an update to Viper’s proc to make it more worthwhile. (I’d probably just turn it into a silence (the AOE version with Sting Spread would have its silence reduced from 5 sec down to 2 or maybe even 1.5 sec)
  • Replace Carve with Harpoon & Disengage
  • Explosive Shot should be treated like a trap and benefit from any trap related talents or it should give a debuff to the enemies called Shellshock that has 30% to daze with each explosion and if dazed twice then it turns into a stun instead.
  • Chimera Shot and Explosive Shot should both scale with RAP AND Spell Power.

wobld

  • Steady Shot is a trash ability, get rid of it, it was never good. Its sole purpose was to synergize with talents or procs and it doesn’t do anything like that in SoD, get rid of it and give us a proper ability like Bursting Shot or Silencing Shot.
  • Invigoration is useless with Viper Aspect, get rid of it. There’s no reason to have 3 mana refund abilities (Viper aspect, viper sting with Chimera and Invigoration)
  • Dual Wield doesn’t account for 2 handed, bad rune design, replace it with something else.
  • Expose Weakness is a tier set bonus and hella boring, give us something else.

Ultimately I’d remove:
Steady Shot
Invigoration
Dual Wield
Expose Weakness
Lone Wolf
Heart Of The Lion (skill book instead)

and replace those trash runes with runes that actually suit our specs and synergize well with us.

Until Hunter’s runes see a massive overhaul I’m staying far away from this class and will continue my SoD journey on some alts instead. It’s very clear that there are no Hunter mains on the dev team and they have no idea what they’re doing for Hunter runes, specs or tuning. I spent the majority of P1 complaining about how awful the runes were. It shouldn’t take this long for a dev team who don’t know what they’re doing to take the feedback and apply it properly. So either they’re not listening or think they know better. Either way it’s pure incompetence.

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However good your ideas are, Blizzard doesn’t care and will only do what suits them, that is to say the minimum so that you continue to pay for the WoW subscription.
They had the introduction to P2 to change the faulty runes abandoned by almost all players or modify inconsistent locations. They did not do it.

Despite the total weakness of the MM spec, still no buff seen, not even the return of Chimera shot at +125% damage. Even explosive shot could return to the original.

It’s no longer incompetence at this level, it’s pure dishonesty, Blizzard is a company filled with the choices of incompetents or rentiers.

There’s not much more to expect, save your money for P3, unsubscribe, that’s all you can do if you’re expecting change.

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Pretty much. But I enjoy Tank Lock so eh.
I wouldn’t keep playing on a Hunter tho.
The class’ runes are just badly designed all around and the fact that they haven’t addressed this yet means it’s probably never happening.
Still, should point out the flaws every once in a while.
I don’t expect anything to change but if it does I want to make sure it’s steered in a correct direction.