The first youtuber I see not talking crap and being objective and real regarding our main Spec, bringing some “Little changes” we will/might have during 9.1
Yet that doesn’t really solve the issue or other issues but I’m sharing mostly as I finally found someone who doesn’t make our spec look 100 times worse than how it actually is in the eye of the non SV players.
Well, it is quite objective and every statement is supported by facts.
However i would like to talk about spec overall design instead of performance(that is not too bad neither too good).
We are melee hunter, we need abilities that reflect that and we also need more weapons alternatives(e.g. dual wield).
Developers made a first giant step into creating a melee spec, then stopped and let us in between: poor single target damage, inability to stay close to the target because of lack of defensive utilities, heavy pet need
It’s a flawed hybrid with lack of proper direction. Personally i like the hybrid style since it’s something different from most other specs in the game. However our buff is rather weak compared to some other classes. Our DoT lack proper damage and can easily be dispelled in allot of pvp situations. AoE i believe we do well in pve(Hardly play pve so not sure) Our defenses are lackluster and on long cd’s. Being able to kite as an SV is nice but unfortunately most, if not all classes have gap closers and some even more then one and being a spec that relies on going into melee range requires us to be even more careful then the other two specs, so some proper defense and/or better ways to escape combat would be welcome imo. As it is now i believe that sv hunter might be the hardest spec to play in pvp next to sub rogues.