Hey guys!
I’ve been enjoying MM hunter very much this expansion. It’s literally the perfect spec for me with an ideal rotation and just a great feeling to it.
I wanted to make an alt and spend some time away from this hunter though so I don’t get burned out, but I’m not sure which class and spec to go with.
In your opinion, what’s the spec that is most similar to MM hunter? Whether it’d be melee or ranged.
Thanks!
Break it down to what MM is, simple and mobile ranged class with high burst on a 2 min CD. No other specs really similar to thay I’m afraid. All 3 mage specs aren’t very mobile, spriest is casting heavy. Balance can be decently mobile I guess. Warlocks and eles are mainly casting stuff.
Would probs say pallys the closest with wings, monstrous burst every 2 mins (obviously melee and not ranged though). Balance similar with convoke but dot management and cycling eclipses. Hunters kind of a very unique class to be fair.
Wait what? Do not tell lies please
This is a + for fire mage on icy-veins
“Very mobile and loses relatively little DPS from movement”
So you and those class writers disagree here (also combust is a 2min cooldown before things reduce it) for the other specs.
Frost only have filler abilitys with casting (from playing it so far at least only level 54 yet)
But i can not say for arcane.
Though i would not say it is that similar to mm hunter but using the distilled version you mention fire mage is prob the most similar.
fire mage is really close to mm gameplay wise i think and they got two blinks, so
fire is an improved version of mm actually imo
That literally describes 2 of the three mage specs.
Mage is very mobile, Especially frost. Fire is fairly mobile, but it’s windowed.
And you have shimmer. And Alter time. And Night Fae Soulshape (most mages do at least).
This is part of the issue with mage right now, it should be immobile but it just isn’t. A fire mage is fully mobile in his burst window.
On topic for OP; the most mobile casters are Mage (all 3 specs, it’s just not as straight forward as “walk and cast” you need to use shimmer well), Affliction (most DoTs are castable while moving, so you usually have something to do), Boomkin is honestly more mobile than you’d think (especially in M+/AoE fights with Stellar drift, you can cast everything on the move while starfall is active).
I’d avoid demonology and Destro if you want mobility.
I’m not super sure in Elemental, I think it’s fairly middling on mobility.
Shadow is pretty slow too.
I’d say Fire Mage since it’s fairly strong and matches what you asked for. If you don’t like the “keeping up with procs” aspects of Fire, Boomkin is a solid choice too. You could go Frost/Arcane, they’re not amazing right now, but all 3 mage specs are really strong now since 9.0.5.
Its important if you want to play pve or pvp.
Mage/Balance - MM (ranged, lots of roots, lots of cc, plays around burst Windows, has to kite a lot)
WW Monk/Feral/Outlaw/Assa - SV (melee, with huge mobility and great party wide utilites, also roots, stuns are similar)
UhDK, Locks - BM (pet based gameplay)
My top suggestions: Fire/Arcane mage; Feral; WW; Outlaw; UHDK
Thank you for your input everyone!
Mage seems to be the one with a lot of similarities to hunter according to you guys, so I’ll be rolling a fire mage.
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