The current state of ranged hunter and this Chimera Shot buff (almost back to the original 125%!) will mean that a spell power ranged hunter build will rise and become quite good. Testing already indicates that it could be competitive with melee hunter.
Will this be what makes Blizzard give stings, AS and traps AP scaling? Because that would be quite ironic.
We’ll see.
P. S. Nothing for the ranged BM hunter. We still need a huge rune overhaul for the class itself (see here and here). Plenty of runes need redesigning and balancing.
Kill Command barely does anything anymore besides trying to nuke someone in PvP with bite. Make it a 6s cooldown attack that acts as the main BM “shot” and benefits from BM and AS talents so that ranged BM can actually start to have some semblance of a rotation.
Cobra Strikes has never been used and is bugged. And so on…