Survival feels great, but ST?

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Amazing changes for survival in new beta build. The rotation feels so much more smooth with adding focus cost to Flanking Strike and Bombs.
It’s a lot of AoE and cleaving options in the new talent tree, but I feel it lacks a bit on single target.

Spearhead’s bleed gives a 30% increased crit chance (and 30% more crit damage with Deadly Duo talented), for 10 sec. What if Spearhead’s bleed could also trigger Mongoose Fury at 3 stacks. 1 min cooldown.
Mongoose Bite and Killer Companion swap places, the same does Coordinated Assult and Fury of the Eagle. Some talent ideas to go with Spearhead:

  • -Spearhead bleed makes Mongoose Bite deal additional x% damage per stack of Mongoose Fury
  • -Flanking strike makes your next 2 Raptor Strike/Mongoose Bite to deal x% more damage
  • -Spearhead weakens the target making Tip of the Spear x% more effective
  • -(From Legion) Fury of the Eagle deals x% more by each stack of Mongoose Fury.
  • -Fury of the Eagle extends the duration of Spearhead by x seconds.

Mongoose Fury is an interesting mechanic introduced in Legion, but lost it’s charm from BfA and onwards. Let it shine again.

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Just a stupid take from me but is ST just a number tuning issue
They should tune it that SV doesnt lagg of ST damage and if cleave happen good for us

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What they need to do is a switch for the main cooldown triggering the hero talents and the mentioned switch between Fury of the Eagly and Coordinated Assault. PAck Leader would work perfectly with Spearhead for the trigger, and a Spearhead/Fury build could be really nice, because of their synergie (Spearhead gives increases crit andc rit damage while Fury profits from both heavily).

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Spearhead would work perfectly with Pack Leader indeed. Let’s hope there is still some hunter dev time to make adjustments other than tuning.

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I think that in general mongoose and spearhead are simply put boring talents. Mongoose requires us to spam a lot. Now, with weaving for Tip and reversed changes, this will make mongoose even worse. I would scrap this talent all together tbh and try to focus more on what they are trying to make SV - a mad bombardier with explosions everywhere.

Spearhead I think will always be worse than current CA + FotE. Maybe if we could nerf it a bit, but make it a non-gcd talent we could line it up with CA. It could be fun interaction for ST where you have a very strong CA every two minutes.

So I would change Spearhead to 2 minutes CD, non-GCD ability, and maybe 20% instead of 30% crit bonus. Bleed would stay the same.

That way we can line it up with every other CA and have a powerful burst on ST.

Please, remember that this is just an idea, someone smarter who knows how to calculate balance would have to check if it makes sense or not.

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