Ever since the initial rework, the numbers on DR have been wild, but mostly the spec is plagued by an insane amount of bugs tracked by the hunter discord.
We had only a single bug fixed and it just so happens to be the one that made DR viable but that’s fine. Bugs need to be adressed. We still have none of the bugs that hinder us fixed, we’ll have the damage of BA nerfed next reset because of “overperforming???” which it almost seems is based on the data before the BA hotfix. A lot of people in the hunter discord you ask despise playing Sentinel and would rather change spec or class than play it for one more day. I am a diehard MM fan and I’d rather play the severely undertuned and heavily bugged build than look at the dumb bird one more time.
The patch has been a disaster on bugs and balance alike, it might as well be the worst patch in modern wow when it comes to the complete absence of QA and ignored feedback. The 78€ AH mount is a perfect cherry on top after witnessing the state of the game this week. Please for the love of god, at least acknowledge the absolute buggy state of the game and the specs and give us reassurance that it is being worked on. Why did you rework DR in the first place if you don’t care about it being played?
I think there can be either (or both) of 2 reason: staff shortage or mere incompetence.
Despite good general new design of DR, tuning is absolute garbage, all of the talents and abilities are severely undertuned except for Black Arrow, which used to be overtuned before. Now they nerf Black Arrow by 60% but buff 2 very weak AoE abilities Bleak Powder and Shadow Surge.
Seeing jdotb on twitter mentioning that the money from the AH mount should go to new hires to actually playtest the stuff and a random blizz employee chimes in that “the game isnt so buggy wdym” speaks volumes. The constant layoffs are to blame but holy I’m starting to think that the people left actually may be incompetent. I need to know if a single person on the team ever played MM post legion.