No, but you’re getting one anyway.
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Maybe the developers should just ‘ask’ us Hunter what we want to see rather than surprise us with things they ‘assume’ we want to see.
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No we dont.
I don’t see the problem with the melee hunter, a Rexxar like is a wish of a good number of hunter players, the problem is that Blizzard obviously has no idea what to do with the hunter and above all that this community of mourners incapable of managing an NPC and not used to having to make the slightest effort to kill a hunter in pvp, will never accept seeing the hunter have good results.
We should already be grateful for being 4th or 5th in terms of DPSmeter and until shortly before the news on P2, we were still seeing topics to nerf the hunter…
In short, I am not against the idea of a melee hunter, at least in the idea of a Rexxar or a Rambo-like, stealth, traps, melee and short distance. But for this some runes would have to be greatly reworked.
melee hunters refers to - you think you do but you don’t, just go play a rogue, warrior or ench sham.
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Alot of people forget that hunters are not rangers. They are masters of animals and tracking. Hunters have alot of archetypes in fantasy, from being Rangers (Marksman), Master of Animals (Beast Mastery) and many, many more. I think the Melee style of fighting alongside your pet is cool, neither of you are extremes like the others are, MM preferring no pet but BM being useless without it. You fight in tandem and supplement eachother well, neither completely reliant on the other. It’s a nice middle ground for people who like the melee playstyle but also like having pets.
Rexxar the first Hunter or beastmaster was a melee. A hunter is not necessarily an archer. Whether you don’t like the idea, that doesn’t stop it from being viable, you can still play BM or MM.
Because in this case, since when can a mage heal? A Warlock tank? A rogue tank?
Initially the Hunter’s vanilla survival tree was a melee tree. We shouldn’t forget it.
if its good and can actually compete with other melee dps such as rogues wars and ferals then yer, go for it, if it sucks and does as much damage as a frost mage currently, whats the point?
hopefully they added some stuff for ranger hunters as the 2 runes revealed are meh for us, trap one is decent for pvp but unless traps get some form of damage boost from our AP they are just a waste of mana (in pve).
Can traps at lvl 40 be used in combat?
Runes:
Trap launcher, HotL or master marksman, Chimera shot, sniper training, melee specialist
Build:
Will be MM tree for trueshot aura…
HotL or master marksman together with True shot aura and aspect of the hawk…
Here come the “nerf hunters” cry babies! 
Trap launcher will be the first gameplay change that the hunter will get in SoD, we can already welcome that.
In a way melee specialist too, if that makes a melee spec viable. It took P2 to see a change in gameplay compared to vanilla.
Hunters are pretty much D&D rangers, but rangers are ranged/melee hybrids.
Btw if raptor strike is not normalized, it’s going to be very brutal with a slow weapon. I’m hyped.
doesnt matter if its a viable spec tho, does it. ure raid will either want the melee to have TSA (MM) or they will expect u not to take the weapons from the “real” melee classes.
its never going to be good enough to keep up with those anyway. warrior will be miles ahead of everyone. feral will stay close to them. shammys will have burst that make them possible contenders when stuff is on farm and dies fast. rogues will suffer abit, but still beat melee hunters by a lot. i bet most retris will too.
melee hunter will suffer from having mana. ranged hunters will suffer from extreemly bad itemization as the gear looses points to strength. hunter will be a meme class, brought if u promise not to need on the big items over melee, and u buff them.
this is a disaster sofar. i really hope there is a HUGE surprise hiding in p2 or i dont see the class being viable
if u wanna go fantasy as a reason, rexxar is an orc, im a nelf. im not going to emulate the enemy - id like to emulate the elfish rolemodels rather, given a choice. not that any of that matters really, but it seems an odd reason for a allianceplayer.
will trueshot aura work with lion as they are both considred auras?
Relax a little; you are so overdramatic. Hunter will be fine. I have great fun, and I can’t wait to try new runes. If you are a melee hunter, it doesn’t mean you won’t shoot at all. You will do both.
yea, im sure they will realize in the nxt seven days, that itemization needs to change to only agility so the hunter can scale with his gear. cause they cant change 1 str to 2 rap on the serverside, to equalize the loss for ranged attacks.
and someone will wake up and realize expose weakness and steadyshot share the beltslot, and thats really all thats lthere for ranged hunters.
u can relax if u like. i get how its not easy to see how completely disastrous this sneakpeek and datamining is.
theres no “if” ure a melee/spitHunter, the word creeps me out, theres nothing else. u choose melee, surv/melee or bm/melee. or MM/melee if u have to tsa.
the rogues, warriors and paladins will love having more classes rolling on those big epic 2h, rogue leathers, strength items, and melee trinkets.
yea, relax. im sure nothing will happen…they will fix it…
would be brutal, and therefor probably will not be the case…
Just because there is little str on items? You don’t need to use it. It was always like this in vanilla, and I like it. Better than “I have 150 agi 200 stam hey new item 180 agi 250 sta” etc. That was boring, AF.
yea, this game is abt skillz and funz, not math at all! silly of me. that 1,8 speed bow u get, wich procs 50 strength (hunter class only) im sure is great for ranged -just an example.
Sounds fun for melee hunter. I will try it in pvp. If you are here because of try hard mix/max you wont be happy. This ride is clearly about fun not math and min/max.
i dont understand fun, yr version. being a shait dead last class is somehow fun for u?
If the class is fun, why not. I played shadow all classic and it was fun too. And it will not be that bad, relax a bit. Yeah, I dont even have a dmg meter, this time. We did BFD last night with 9m, half was there first time a main tank had lvl 16 green chest with spirit. And we cleared it.